middleeasteye: Early on Sunday, Israeli forces stormed al-Aqsa Mosque for second time in 48 hours, assaulting and blockading Muslim worshippers inside prayer halls while clearing the way for Israeli settlers to enter the Jerusalem holy site.
We take a look at the history of Israeli incursions at the mosque and how Palestinian rights are repeatedly violated
Read my story, but, please don't cry cuz I love life.
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I am Muhammad Zakarneh, a Palestinian child, aged 16. I have a kiosk on the sidewalk where I sell tea and coffee to passersby in the industrial area of Jenin, and because we are in Ramadan and
we are fasting, the kiosk was closed. I went wandering around on a bicycle, in order to pass the time until breakfast came.
Suddenly, an hour before breakfast, a special force stormed the city of Jenin with the aim of assassinating the brother of the martyr Raa'd Hazem.
And when they failed to achieve their goal of committing their crime, they decided not to leave Jenin without committing a crime. I was in the face of them, so they hit me with their car while I was on my bike, and they fired a dumdum bullet at me from the pistol of one of the
Colonial Violence ls the Norm": lsrael Raids
Al-Aqsa Mosque, Injuring 160+, Arresting
Hundreds
At least 19 were injured around occupied Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday after a violent crackdown by lsraeli police cleared out worshipers from the compound. It was the second raid since Friday, when Israeli police used rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas on unarmed
Palestinians, resulting in the arrest of more than 300 and at least 1 58 injuries. This latest violence in Jerusalem comes as the holy days of Ramadan and Passover overlap. Meanwhile, Western media has been describing the attacks as "clashes" and using other obfuscatory language
“...the prevailing view in the British government both before and during the First World War was that ‘Zionism was merely a tool of the German Foreign Ministry’ [Walter Laqueur, A History of Zionism, p. 143]. As Sir Ronald Graham wrote to Arthur Balfour shortly before the latter
issued his famous declaration, ‘We might at any moment be confronted by a German move on the Zionist question and it must be remembered that Zionism was originally if not a German Jewish at any rate an Austrian Jewish idea.’
... [Cited by David Fromkin, in A Peace to End All Peace, p. 296].
Under-Secretary of State Arthur Zimmermann felt compelled to respond formally to Zionist demands in a 15 June 1915 letter to Rabbi Jacobus of Magdeburg. Although less committal than Balfour would be in his letter
Budanow wiederholte auch die Forderung der ukrainischen Regierung nach Waffen aus Deutschland: "Wir brauchen Artilleriesysteme - darin ist die deutsche Armee besonders stark", sagte der Generalmajor. "Und leider brauchen wir Panzer, weil wir sehr große Verluste an gepanzerten...
...Fahrzeugen hatten."
Mit den Waffen wolle die ukrainische Armee die besetzten Gebiete befreien, sagte Budanow. Dazu zähle er auch die 2014 von Russland annektierte Halbinsel Krim.
jewishvoiceforpeace: This is blatant foreign interference in US academia — reinforced by a member of US Congress and granted audience to by the university itself.
The Israeli government’s attempt to prevent Kylie Broderick from teaching her course
on “The Conflict over Israel/Palestine” is alarming, even by the standard of censorship and repression around Palestine on campuses — a standard set by firings of professors, cancellations of webinars, prosecutions of students, and the maintenance of public blacklists.
Once again, we are seeing false accusations of antisemitism, and the false equation of “Zionist” and “Jew,” used to help the Israeli government avoid accountability for its oppression of Palestinians.
Swipe left to read Kylie’s sharp and principled comments on her experience and