Occupation

100 Jewish Lawyers And Judges Call On Israel To Halt Annexation Plans

July 3, 2020 Days of Palestine. Resist! Annexation, Israel, Occupation, Palestine

Palestine Legal joins widespread international condemnation of Israel’s annexation attempts in the West Bank and highlights legal resources for protesters participating in Wednesday’s Day of Rage against annexation in the U.S. We recognize that this is the latest move in 70+ years of Israel’s efforts to annex — or fully colonize — Palestinian land. We also recognize that the failure of international law to protect Palestinians or hold Israel accountable further highlights the importance of grassroots efforts to resist Israel’s colonization and ethnic cleansing plans, including mass protests. We share an incomplete list of actions around the U.S. organized by Palestinian communities and their supporters:

Palestinian Citizens Of Israel Protest Land Grab In Negev Desert

June 23, 2020 Lubna Masarwa and Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Middle East Monitor. Resist! Israel, Jewish National Fund, Occupation, Palestine

Hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel protested on Monday in the Negev region to denounce the Israeli government policy of house demolitions and evacuation orders in the village of Khirbet al-Watan. Marwan Abu Frieh, a coordinator and field researcher for the Adalah human rights centre in Israel, told Middle East Eye that Israel’s Jewish National Fund (JNF) and the Israel Land Authority (ILA) were planning to plant hundreds of trees on lands from five Bedouin villages, including Khirbet al-Watan, which had all received demolition orders and faced the displacement of thousands of residents "in the name of developing the area". Demonstrators started marching from Khirbet al-Watan and ended in front of the courthouse in Beersheba, carrying banners accusing the JNF and ILA of forcible land grabs, displacement of Palestinians and discriminatory practices.

Thousands Of Palestinians Protest Against Israeli Annexation Plan

June 23, 2020 Al-Jazeera. Resist! Annexation, Israel, Occupation, Palestine

Thousands of Palestinians have rallied in Jericho to protest against Israel's unilateral plan to annex large swaths of the occupied West Bank and Jordan Valley. Monday's gathering was also attended by dozens of foreign diplomats, including the United Nations peace envoy for the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, and the European Union's representative, Sven Kuehn von Burgsdorff. British, Chinese, Russian, Japanese and Jordanian diplomats were also at the rally. Citing the presence of the dignitaries, Al Jazeera's Nida Ibrahim said: "Palestinians hope that by doing gatherings like this, they would pressure the international community." "They want the foreign diplomats to [speak] to their countries to pressure Israel not to move forward with its plan," she said from the Jericho rally. "They want these countries to tell Israel that they are going to impose sanctions."

July 1: Call To Action To Confront Israeli Annexation, Free Palestine

June 16, 2020 Samidoun. Organize! Annexation, Israel, Occupation, Palestine

We know that many Palestinians in exile and supporters of Palestine are, like Samidoun’s members, engaged in the uprisings and mass mobilizations taking to the streets to confront anti-Black racism and demand the defunding and dismantling of police and other structures of oppression. Confronting Israel’s annexation plans – fully backed by U.S. imperialism and inspired by Zionist racism – also comes as part of the global fightback against racism, colonialism and imperialism. Israel’s crimes are backed by $3.8 billion in military aid from the U.S. each year as well as unlimited diplomatic, political and “security” support from Canada, the European Union, Britain, Australia and other imperialist powers.

From Occupation To ‘Occupy’: The Israelification Of US Domestic Security

June 12, 2020 Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. Educate! Israel, Occupation, Police abuse, Police violence

The Israelification of America’s security apparatus recently unleashed in full force against the Occupy Wall Street Movement, has taken place at every level of law enforcement, and in areas that have yet to be exposed. The phenomenon has been documented in bits and pieces, through occasional news reports that typically highlight Israel’s national security prowess without examining the problematic nature of working with a country accused of grave human rights abuses. But it has never been the subject of a national discussion. And collaboration between American and Israeli cops is just the tip of the iceberg. Having been schooled in Israeli tactics perfected during a 63 year experience of controlling, dispossessing, and occupying an indigenous population, local police forces have adapted them to monitor Muslim and immigrant neighborhoods in US cities.

Netanyahu Pledges To Build 3,500 Illegal Homes In Key West Bank Area

March 3, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Israel, Nationalism, Occupation, West Bank

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday his plans to authorize the construction of some 3,500 new illegal homes for Jewish settlers in one of the most sensitive areas of the occupied West Bank. "I have given instructions to immediately publish for deposit the plan to build 3,500 housing units in E-1," Netanyahu said in a speech, describing the first phase of a planning process, adding that "this had been delayed for six or seven years."

Profiting From Loss: How Business In Illegal Israeli Settlements Continues Unchecked

March 3, 2020 Staff, Jonathan-cook.net Educate! Israel, Nationalism, Occupation, Palestine, Profits

After lengthy delays, the United Nations finally published a database last week of businesses that have been profiting from Israel’s illegal settlement activity in the West Bank. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, announced that 112 major companies had been identified as operating in Israeli settlements in ways that violate human rights.

Athletes Take A Knee Against Israel’s Occupation

March 1, 2020 Dave Zirin, The Nation. Resist! Athletes, Israel, Occupation, Palestinians

In August of 2016, quarterback Colin Kaepernick began his NFL season by kneeling during the national anthem in protest of racism and state violence. He purposefully chose the space of the anthem to raise the issue of the gap between what this nation promises and what it delivers. It was a powerful, iconic act that inspired athletes from a variety of sports to do the same. From the pros to college, to high school, to even middle school, athletes were inspired to take a knee less to lend their solidarity to Kaepernick than to protest racist police killings where they lived. In the tradition—and the extension—of this movement, two volleyball players from Brooklyn College went to one knee before a game this week against Yeshiva University.

Pompeo: US Rejects UN Database Of Israeli Settlement Companies

February 19, 2020 Staff, Aljazeera.com Educate! Corporations, Israel, Occupation, United Nations

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said the US government would not furnish any information for a database of companies operating in the occupied West Bank that the United Nations' human rights office released, and said the compilation hurts efforts in the Middle East. "The United States has long opposed the creation or release of this database," he said in a statement.

After 18 Years of US Occupation, Poll Finds Zero Percent Of Afghans Thriving, 85 Percent “Suffering”

January 4, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Afghanistan, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Occupation, US Imperialism

Since the 2001 occupation of Afghanistan began, fighting has not stopped, destroying the country and leading to the U.S. spending an estimated $2 trillion on the war. American polling firm Gallup has found that Afghans are the saddest people on earth, finding that nearly nine in ten respondents are “suffering,” in their own words, with zero percent claiming that they are currently “thriving.” When asked to rate their life out of a score of ten, Afghans gave an average answer of 2.7, a record low for any country studied. Worse still, when asked to predict the quality of their life in five years, the average answer was even lower: 2.3.

Issawiya — The East Jerusalem Neighborhood At The Forefront Of Occupation

December 28, 2019 Miriam Deprez, Mondoweiss.net Educate! Israel, Nationalism, Occupation

It’s been six months of unrest in Issawiya. Excessive police brutality and indiscriminate daily raids by Israeli forces with no justification have left residents of the East Jerusalem district exhausted – and there is no end in sight. “What’s been happening is very violent police raids, by very violent policemen who lack any values,” Ahmad Adam Masri, an Issawiya local described of the campaign that residents say is the most brutal and prolonged in living memory. “What goes on in the alleys of Issawiya is oppression, is suffering, is injustice and we’ve been tolerating it for six months.”

In Israel’s Attempt To Deflect ICC Prosecutor’s Call To Probe War Crimes, It Admitted To The Occupation

December 23, 2019 Noa Landau, Haaretz.com Educate! Isreal, Nationalism, Occupation, Palestine

In a contemporary take on the historic declaration "Um-Shmum" – a Hebrew expression of disdain for the United Nations attributed to David Ben-Gurion – Israel has been cooking up a follow-up that could be dubbed "Hague-Shmague." Hague-Shmague posits that the institutions of international law are no more than a redundant nuisance, biased and even anti-Semitic, and should have no clout over the lives of Israelis. This derogatory thesis has been adopted by the State of Israel since its inception, even though it was international institutions that led to its founding.

Israel’s Case Against Human Rights Watch Reveals How Its Normalizing West Bank Land Theft

December 14, 2019 Miko Peled, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Israel, Land, Nationalism, Occupation

The Occupied West Bank — In November 2019, following a long legal battle, Israel revoked the work visa and deported Human Rights Watch (HRW) director Omar Shakir. According to HRW, Israel argued that the state, “revoked the work visa of Shakir, a United States citizen, in May 2018 on the assertion that his advocacy violated a 2017 law that bars entry to people who advocate a boycott of Israel or its settlements in the occupied West Bank.” HRW claims that this is not true and that the organization does not call for the boycott of Israel.

No Repeat Of US Military Occupation Of Haiti

December 10, 2019 Marilyn Langlois, Resumen-english.org Educate! Caribbean, Haiti, Occupation, US Imperialism

Intensifying protests led by popular movements in Haiti, calling for the resignation of corrupt, US-supported President Jovenal Moise, have persisted for over a year in spite of violent repression and killings of demonstrators by government death squads, bringing day-to-day business to a standstill. At a forum last week in the Dominican Republic entitled Destabilization of Haiti: Issues and Challenges, Guatemalan diplomat Edmond Mulet, who has a problematic history in Haiti, appeared oblivious to the people’s demands and to the fact that humanitarian suffering is brought on by abuses of the US-backed leadership...

Norman Finkelstein: Fatou Bensouda Has Done Everything In Her Power To Prevent An Investigation Of The Israeli Crimes By The ICC

December 3, 2019 By Slava Zilber, Ahtribune.com Educate! Gaza, Israel, Nationalism, Occupation

Norman Finkelstein: As you know, Israel has been occupying Gaza since 1967, which is more now than a half-century. Israel has imposed an illegal, immoral, and inhumane blockade on Gaza since January 2006, and Gaza is rapidly becoming - it might have already become - physically an unlivable space. Now, it’s important to keep in mind that the population of Gaza is more than half children. And 70 percent of the population consists of refugees and children of refugees and successive generations of refugees.

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