According to UNRWA, the population of Gaza numbers around 1.9 million, of which 1.4 million (73%) are refugees. In what amounts to collective punishment and the denial of basic human rights, Israel denies freedom of movement to the inhabitants of the enclave, including the refugee majority, who are prevented from travelling within their own homeland. The Zionist regime‘s military forces come and go there, as they please, of course. This year, Israel had already made 18 incursions into the territory before a single missile had been fired from Gaza. Accompanied by reconnaissance aircraft, the invading Israeli forces laid waste to Palestinian land and agriculture. From 1 January until 14 April, there were no Palestinian missile-firings towards the Green Line and, when they did finally begin, the total of Israeli Gaza ceasefire violation attacks had already reached 315.
On the morning of the day the present ceasefire was agreed (21 May), the body of a three-year-old girl was recovered from under her home, destroyed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City‘s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood. Up to and including 26 May, another 19 bodies were uncovered under the ruins caused by Israeli air strikes. Two more people died of their air strike injuries on 23 and 24 May.
Incursions aside, as Haaretz journalist Noa Landau notes: “Israel is present in almost all aspects of life, as far as the residents of Gaza are concerned, including permission to wear camouflage-patterned clothing, or hiking boots (defined as “dual-use goods”, which can be used for military purposes). Even foreign journalists (and Israelis of course) are not allowed to cover what is going on there as they wish.”
Oh and, with regard to Israel’s one-sided view of so-called Gaza ceasefires, the Zionist regime simply couldn’t wait to return to ‘normal’. The very next day after the ceasefire announcement, on 22 May, and knowing that the mainstream news media would keep quiet, Israeli gunboats opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats, at sea off Khan Yunis. Three days later the Israeli Navy did the same off Gaza City and again the following day, off al-Sudaniya. Of course, Israel’s inhumanities only seemed to increase in the Occupied West Bank, especially in East Jerusalem, during and since its recent aerial blitzes on Gaza.
The world community has an urgent duty to defend the shamefully betrayed Palestinian people. It is imperative that Israel and its leaders be brought to account for their glaringly obvious war crimes.
‘This Is the Price of War’: Israeli Newspaper Publishes Photos of All 67 Palestinian Children Killed in Gaza Onslaught
“Conversations around Israel/Palestine are changing in Jewish communities across the globe,” said rabbi and author Abby Stein. “It’s about time.”
Human rights advocates and journalists applauded the Israeli newspaper Haaretz for its “unprecedented” cover story Thursday—one featuring the photos and stories of 67 Palestinian children killed in the latest bombardment campaign by the Israel Defense Forces.
“This is the price of war,” the headline read.
The article came a day after the New York Times published its own extensive account of the youngest victims of Israel’s most recent 11-day offensive, in which the IDF frequently targeted residential areas of Gaza, known as the world’s largest open-air prison.
Haaretz’s focus on the children killed in Gaza was especially noteworthy, said author and Brooklyn College professor Louis Fishman, considering the newspaper’s “readers also send their children to fight in Israel’s wars.”
“This is unprecedented,” Fishman tweeted.
While Haaretz leans to the center-left editorially, Israeli’s mainstream media has traditionally not covered the Palestinian casualties of the IDF’s military campaigns and the Israeli government’s violent policies, said journalist Khaled Diab.
As Diab tweeted, previous attempts by organizations in Israel to publicize the human cost of the IDF’s assaults have been repressed.
Haaretz’s front page represented “a bold move,” tweeted journalist Saima Mohsin, adding, “Will it make a difference?”
Others on social media took note of the unprecedented cover story. [Tweets in main link, below]
“Conversations around Israel/Palestine are changing in Jewish communities across the globe,” tweeted rabbi and author Abby Stein. “It’s about time.”
As Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angell wrote last week in The Guardian, since Israel’s 2014 50-day assault on Gaza, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, rights advocates have “seen the growth of a small but committed Jewish anti-occupation movement [and] the last week and a half have brought an even larger circle of the community to a place of reckoning.”
We’ve seen Jewish politicians, celebrities, rabbinical students and others speak up loudly for Palestine. We’ve seen a powerful display of solidarity from Jewish Google employees, asking their company to sever ties with the IDF. At Jewish Currents, the leftwing magazine where I am now editor-in-chief, we asked for questions from readers struggling to understand the recent violence. We’ve been deluged. These questions taken in aggregate paint a striking portrait of a community at a turning point.
In Israel the Haaretz front page appeared to touch a nerve, garnering at least one outraged response from Oded Revivi, head of the Efrat Regional Council in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, who said Haaretz’s article was evidence that “people pity the wrong mothers.”
On social media, Mairav Zonszein of the International Crisis Group said rather than the “price of war,” the Haaretz front page specifically shows the price of “Israel’s “continued military rule, dispossession, discrimination, and violence.”
Linked article
The two videos Tom Feeley has included sums up the twisted minds of the supremacist Israeli expansionists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56553.htm
Ireland Condemns Israel’s actions: “Israel is acting illegally!”
The [Irish] Government has backed a Sinn Féin motion describing the building of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories as de facto annexation.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said during a Dáil debate on the motion that “we need to be honest with what is happening on the ground and call it out” as “de facto annexation”.
He added that Ireland is the first EU country to state this and it could be a message to the global community.
The Minister echoed the comments of Sinn Féin foreign affairs spokesman John Brady who said “we are baldly stating that Israel is acting illegally under international law”. Read more at this link
Link Correction:
Irish Times, Coalition backs motion re building on Palestinian land
‘Inescapable Hell’: Euro-Med Releases Report Documenting Israel’s Violations in Gaza
A new report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from May 10-21 was released today by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.
The report concluded that the International Criminal Court (ICC) must hold the Israeli leaders and soldiers accountable and not allow them to enjoy impunity.
Titled “inescapable hell”, the report examined the Israeli army’s violations during its recent military attack on the blockaded Gaza Strip.
The report was based on field research and documentation by Euro-Med Monitor’s team during and in the aftermath of the military attack, where dozens of field interviews and serious violations were documented.
Statistics support the report, which presents day-by-day documentation of the Israeli attack, including violations such as mass killings and premeditated killings by deliberately targeting citizen gatherings and vehicles.
The Israeli forces also targeted children, women (including pregnant women), people with disabilities, paramedics, medical facilities, and media and educational institutions.
Over the 11 days of the attack, the Israeli air, land, and sea forces carried out a massive military attack on the Gaza Strip, the fourth since 2008. They dropped tons of high-explosive bombs, leaving hundreds dead and wounded.
The attack caused massive destruction to the infrastructure, civilian objects, and homes, many of which were bombed with residents inside. Many families were wiped out altogether.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the attacks killed 254 Palestinians, including 66 children, 39 women and 17 elderly, and injured 1,948 others. The number of wounded reached 2,212, according to Euro-Med Monitor’s field count.
The report monitored the bombing and destruction of civilian objects, including residential neighborhoods, towers, homes, institutions, civil society organizations, government headquarters, religious facilities, and infrastructure.
The Israeli air raids also destroyed or damaged power, communications, and internet networks as well as many other economic facilities.
The report highlighted the worsening humanitarian situation because of the Israeli military attack, and the mass displacement of about 120,000 Palestinians from their homes within the Gaza Strip. In addition to the collective punishment, it contained on the Strip’s population of more than two million people.
Israel has committed grave violations of the rules of international humanitarian law, including the principles of distinction, proportionality, military necessity, and special protection in armed conflicts.
The legal conclusions of the attacks and their consequences and effects confirm that what Israel did may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. This was exemplified by the bombing of houses whilst their inhabitants were still inside and the indiscriminate bombing.
“ICC should include these practices in its investigations it finally decided to conduct into previous violations, work seriously to hold Israeli leaders and soldiers accountable and not allow them to escape punishment,” Euro-Med Monitor said. Read more here
It is Hamas who are in the business of “denial of basic human rights” for the people of Gaza.
They torture and kill their opponents within Gaza. They won’t hold elections. They indiscriminately target the civilian population of Israel with unguided missiles.
Stop the Gabyesque propagandist lines. It doesn’t take much research and reading to find out the truth about Palestinian elections.
“With deceptively edited videos and dubious allegations, the Israel lobby has manufactured an antisemitism epidemic to turn the media’s gaze away from dead children in Gaza.
Following an 11-day assault on the Gaza Strip in which the Israeli army killed over 220 people, including more than 65 children, and days of videotaped rampages of Jewish extremist mobs against Palestinian people and property inside Israeli cities, Israel lobbyists in the US and Canada have launched a carefully coordinated public relations campaign to deflect outrage.
Having failed to successfully defend massacres of entire families in their homes and the deliberate demolition of civilian residential towers and media offices in Gaza City, the US Israel lobby and the Israeli government it advocates for have manufactured an epidemic of antisemitic violence with the goal of portraying American Jewry as the true victim of the crisis.”
– Max Blumenthal.
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/24/gaza-slaughter-israel-lobby-antisemitism/
I cant understand why Briscoes continue to sell Israeli products.
“The War on Truth”
Israel is not only trying to stop the spread of accurate information during its assault on Gaza by bombing press offices, but also through a campaign of disinformation.
For example, last week, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a video on Twitter which he claimed showed Hamas firing rockets at Israel “from populated areas”. As the BBC stated, the clip was actually filmed in Syria in 2018 and had nothing to do with Gaza. Twitter later labelled the tweet as “manipulated media”.
Beyond sharing demonstrably “fake news”, the Israeli government is also trying to manipulate the international and domestic public opinion by persistently peddling the false narrative that Hamas is the aggressor in the conflict, that its military is doing everything it can to avoid civilian “casualties”, that it is merely defending itself against “a terrorist organisation”, and that the current escalation is not a direct result of its illegal occupation. Read more here
“We’ve been occupied for more than 70 years. A ceasefire is not enough.”
‘Left Voice’ interviews a Palestinian nurse from the West Bank.
Excerpt:
Q: What is your message for what people in the United States or other parts of the world can do to continue to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle?
A. I was thinking about it all day. There are so many things.
The history is clear. It’s obvious who is occupied and who is the occupier. This is not a war. Israel has the most powerful army in the world and the Palestinians have nothing, only their hands. I think the encouragement and support from people all over the world can give them power. And it’s better than any weapon that any country can provide to anyone and better than any funding. This is something that will last forever.
Read more
This is all truly a breath of fresh air. To see how utterly the narratives of the likes of Gaby have disintegrated in the face of the commitment to justice for Palestinians brings a lot of relief and joy to me. With this level of understanding of the plight of Palestinians, we can be sure that the life of the apartheid state of Israel is very close to termination.
Kia kaha!
Three Gaza medics outside what remains of the wider medical facility/ Covid testing centre (also Red Cross, Red Crescent and much more were in the building complex, – bombed) at this Youtube link
These medics describe what happened, with on-screen translations as they speak.
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel narrative management is getting incredibly desperate and brazen:
“Before the Gaza ceasefire last week Israel managed to deliberately blow up over 20 offices for Palestinian media outlets, as well as the tower hosting the international outlets AP and Al Jazeera.
“The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today,” AP president and CEO Gary Pruitt said in a statement after the building was destroyed.
Which, of course, is the whole idea: for the world to know less about what happens in Gaza. The Israeli government has a decades-long history of threatening and targeting journalists in order to exert control over the public narrative about what happens under its rule, and as that narrative slips from its grip we are seeing this pattern ramp up with greater and greater aggression.
“Rather than reduce the cruelty, the Israeli government keeps trying to reduce accurate news coverage,” author and activist Norman Solomon writes. “The approach is a mix of deception and brutality. Blow up the cameras so the world won’t see as many pictures of the atrocities.””
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/525165-israel-narrative-management-palestinian/
Here is another Irish politician, Richard Boyd Barrett, taking on their Israeli Ambassador just two weeks ago:
Irish politician destroys Israeli Ambassador
Richard Barrett speaks to the Israeli Ambassador face-to-face.
How would you describe the look on that man’s face?
The Israeli Ambassador’s response in no way resembles “dignified reserve”. Rather, he visibly collapses in on himself.
A “Ceasefire”?
Or, a licence to commit acts of terrorism.
Firing on people at worship – Here in AO/ NZ that is terrorism.
Yet one regime carries it out regularly with impunity.
And as of now, NZ continues to maintain diplomatic relations with that terrorist regime.
This from CommonDreams:
Just hours after a cease-fire agreement paused Israel’s latest bombardment of the occupied Gaza Strip, Israeli police forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday and fired stun grenades, rubber bullets, and tear gas at Palestinian worshippers and demonstrators, an attack that observers worried could undermine the nascent truce.
Following Friday prayers, many Palestinians remained at the Jerusalem compound—one of Islam’s holiest sites—to celebrate the cease-fire deal, which came after Israel killed more than 230 people in Gaza and displaced tens of thousands.
Reporting from the ground in Jerusalem, Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan said that Palestinians “were singing and chanting when a contingent of the Israeli police [stationed] next to the compound came into the compound and started using crowd control measures that they use all the time.”
“They started firing in that crowd in an effort to try and disperse them,” Khan added.
The Israeli raid injured more than a dozen people, according to Middle East Eye.
“Israeli apartheid doesn’t stop,” the Institute for Middle East Understanding tweeted in response to the raid.
Full article here
Its going mainstream:
“The latest round of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians ended in the usual way: with a cease-fire that left Palestinians worse off and the core issues unaddressed. It also provided more evidence that the United States should no longer give Israel unconditional economic, military, and diplomatic support. The benefits of this policy are zero, and the costs are high and rising. Instead of a special relationship, the United States and Israel need a normal one.
Once upon a time, a special relationship between the United States and Israel might have been justified on moral grounds. The creation of a Jewish state was seen as an appropriate response to centuries of violent antisemitism in the Christian West, including but hardly limited to the Holocaust. The moral case was compelling, however, only if one ignored the consequences for Arabs who had lived in Palestine for many centuries and if one believed Israel to be a country that shared basic U.S. values. Here too the picture was complicated. Israel may have been “the only democracy in the Middle East,” but it was not a liberal democracy like the United States, where all religions and races are supposed to have equal rights (however imperfectly that goal has been realized). Consistent with Zionism’s core objectives, Israel privileged Jews over others by conscious design.
Today, however, decades of brutal Israeli control have demolished the moral case for unconditional U.S. support. ”
– Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/27/its-time-to-end-the-special-relationship-with-israel/
Bernie Sanders weighs in:
““Israel has the right to defend itself.”
These are the words we hear from both Democratic and Republican administrations whenever the government of Israel, with its enormous military power, responds to rocket attacks from Gaza.
Let’s be clear. No one is arguing that Israel, or any government, does not have the right to self-defense or to protect its people. So why are these words repeated year after year, war after war? And why is the question almost never asked: “What are the rights of the Palestinian people?”
And why do we seem to take notice of the violence in Israel and Palestine only when rockets are falling on Israel?
In this moment of crisis, the United States should be urging an immediate cease-fire. We should also understand that, while Hamas firing rockets into Israeli communities is absolutely unacceptable, today’s conflict did not begin with those rockets.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56545.htm
And why is the question almost never asked: “What are the rights of the Palestinian people?”
Bernie called it, right there.
Sea-change:
‘NYT’ puts faces of 60+ slain Palestinian children on front page, at last
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/nyt-puts-faces-of-60-slaughtered-palestinian-children-on-front-page-at-last/
Middle East Christians denounce state-sanctioned violence in Gaza and Jerusalem
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/middle-east-christians-denounce-state-sanctioned-violence-in-gaza-and-jerusalem/
UN to launch inquiry into ‘systematic discrimination’ in Israel and Palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/27/un-rights-body-debates-systematic-discrimination-in-israel-and-palestine
From that Guardian link, re-posted here:
However, according to the resolution, the UN agency called to urgently establish a commission to investigate all “violations”, not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel.
The commission would investigate “all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict, including systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity”.
In her opening remarks, Bachelet said the Gaza violence was “directly linked” to protests in Jerusalem that began weeks beforehand, which she said were met with “a heavy response from Israeli security forces”.
She said two factors led to the escalation – the imminent eviction of Palestinians “under forced displacement” in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah; and Israel’s use of “excessive force” against Palestinian protesters, including at the al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.
The UN Investigation is also covered by the ABC-AU:
The United Nation’s top human rights body will launch an international investigation into potential “war crimes” committed during an 11-day conflict between Israel and militant group Hamas in Gaza.
The 24-9 vote, with 14 abstentions, capped a special Human Rights Council session on the rights situation faced by Palestinians…
The UN resolution, which will almost certainly go unheeded by Israel, calls for the creation of a permanent “Commission of Inquiry” — the most potent tool at the council’s disposal — to monitor and report on rights violations in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
It would be the first such COI with an “ongoing” mandate.
The commission is also to investigate “all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict” including discrimination and repression, according to the text.
Amid signs that the resolution would pass, its authors added more teeth to its language with a late revision on Wednesday.
The revised text calls on states to refrain from “transferring arms” — the recipients were not specified — when they asses “a clear risk” that such weapons might be used to commit serious violations of human rights or humanitarian law. Read more
Worth reading over on Kiwiblog is Meet Hamas.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2021/05/meet_hamas.html
So make no mistake. Hamas hates Jews. They want to kill Jews. They want to destroy Israel. This is not a territorial dispute. This is anti-semitism on full display. And anyone who takes their side, is siding with outright hatred of Jews,
Ah, So it has nothing to do with the 400,000 Palestinians who were driven from their homes before the War began in May 1948, the (minimum) 25 massacres of civilians and the further 600,000 driven out by 1967 because they were not Jewish – at the hands of a well armed invading force claiming ownership despite not believing in the book of myths underpinning it nor speaking Hebrew or Arabic, the languages of the land for centuries.
Nothing to do with a 50 year brutal occupation that, in just the past couple of decades has killed at least 2,172 Palestinian children.
Nothing to do with the fact that, by all International Law and conventions, Palestinians have the right to return to their property that Israel refuses to even discuss and the right to resist occupation…
– it is because they have an irrational hatred of Jews.
If whatever institution is currently treating you has a library, I suggest you take up a History book or two. Not only will it improve your understanding, it could well assist your condition by bringing you back to some semblance of reality.
Of the two “sides” (the word given), guess which one is welcoming an outside/ UN investigation into violations and the possibility of war crimes?
And which “side” is bitterly opposed to any such investigation?
Hint: The latter is not Hamas.
Killing children lost its electoral magic? :
“A coalition of Israel’s opposition parties have announced they have reached an unlikely agreement and now have the votes to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest serving leader.
Naftali Bennett, former defense minister for Netanyahu, and opposition leader Yair Lapid will lead the opposition parties under this new agreement that would split power in a “unity government.” Bennett would take over as prime minister first, and then Lapid if they are successful in pushing Netanyahu from power.
“We could go to fifth elections, sixth elections, until our home falls upon us, or we could stop the madness and take responsibility,” Bennett announced on Sunday, adding that this “unity government” is needed to save Israel from its “tailspin.””
https://www.rt.com/news/525234-israel-netanyahu-opposition/
Crash!:
https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w960-q80/upload/e4/ce/85/shutterstock-1139861468.jpg
If you can put up with Katie Halper’s “nails on the blackboard” voice, Norman Finklestein’s take is worth it:
https://youtu.be/7UVHMQyfQjw?t=6254
I have tried to time the vid to catch Max Blumenthal’s final remarks then Norman comes on and is joined by Aaron Matte. Well worth taking the time to listen through to the end.
Here is Rashida Tlaib addressing US Congress, re: the imminent unconditional billion dollar (NZ $s) arms sale from the US to Israel: Rashida Tlaib addressing US Congress
Ilhan Omar addressing US Congress about the $billion arms sale to Israel: Same video at 2 minutes in
Incredibly, as bombs were destroying medical centres, emergency relief and humanitarian centres in Gaza, including the only Gaza Covid testing facility as well as the Red Cross, the Red Crescent and USAID, … while this was going on the social media giants censored or blocked Palestinians!
From the Independent:
Users trying to share information from conflict zones saw posts taken down without explanation, through moderation policies campaigners say are ‘clearly biased’
There has been a “dramatic increase” in the censorship of Palestinian political speech on social media over the past two weeks, during the period of intense fighting between Israel and militants in Gaza.
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have all been used by Palestinians to share information from, among a variety of areas, the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah where families face eviction.
However the report from 7amleh, The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, shared exclusively with The Independent, argues that social media companies’ moderation attempts and codes of conduct have resulted in numerous citizens’ accounts being taken down.
It comes in the context of huge criticism surrounding the Israeli government’s military decisions, which include displacing 52,000 Palestinians via air strikes, causing the deaths of numerous children, bombing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera building, and, on social media, the bizarrely flippant tone of its Twitter account. Read more here
NOT IN MY NAME!
Lo b’shmi. “Not in my name.” ~ Women of Jerusalem
Times of Israel
Hundreds of Jerusalem women took to Facebook last week posting selfies of their faces and hands held up to the camera, with the words Lo b’shmi, “Not in my name,” scrawled in ink on their palms.
Their posts, in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, included the following text:
Women from all sectors are saying: Not in our name.
From the horrible events we are witnessing these days, we choose life and say no to violence.
We call on all of you to join.
This evening, together, we raise our hands to say *Not in my Name*
#NotinmyName
#Jerusalemitessaynotoviolence
#ProtectLife
From that link:
“In the midst of the hate and violence that’s exposing itself from every side… I’m convinced that we’re the majority. The majority that believe in humanity. I believe that there is also love, patience and hope…
“It was really about this feeling of despair, of a silent majority,” said Zion Mozes, who works in a special education kindergarten. …
“For years, I have felt like I have nothing to say because it’s so complicated, but it’s so clear that all this violence is done by men and that we, as women, live in a different way. We have something to say here — with our bodies and voices we can say something else.” …
“It gives us hope that it’s not only the extremists but also our voices that matter. I want to bring hope into this situation for myself, for our kids, for our neighbors.”
Documentary examines anti-Semitism, and its affect on Israeli and U.S. politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shx_l5LT0ro
Defamation (השמצה) is a 2009 documentary film by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Shamir. It examines antisemitism and, in particular, the way perceptions of antisemitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics. Defamation won Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Yoav Shamir was born in Tel Aviv in 1970. A ninth-generation Israeli from Tel Aviv, he is the son of two elementary school teachers. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a BA in History and philosophy. He obtained a MFA in cinema with honours. He served as an Israeli soldier in the Israeli-occupied territories.
Shamir’s films have received awards from independent film festivals including Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Best International Documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and the Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
At about 58 minutes in, you can hear Uri Avnery. (A rare opportunity to hear him, one of the last times.)
Re: (Are Israelis) fighting anti-Semitism?
Or, are they fighting criticism of Israel/ Israeli policies.
“None of them fight anti-Semitism. They fight criticism of Israel.
These are two totally different things.”
“In America hardly any anti-Semitism exists. It’s a myth. There is none.”
“The phenomenon called anti-Semitism only exists in the Israeli media, and in the minds of the Jewish big shots of the world who make a living ‘fighting anti-Semitism’.”
OMG!
Just as I got to that section, – just as i was transcribing Uri Avnery speaking, YouTube cut me off!
It has stopped the tape/ vid at 1.31.26 (mins in) and a black screen covers it with a big exclamation mark in a circle making a stop sign.
The words now read: “The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences”.
There is no option to say, eg, “That’s okay by me- I want to hear what he has to say!!!!!!!!!”
WHICH I DO!
And now I cannot.
What BS Censorship crap is that.
Sorry for the block/ bold – That was not intentional. It was meant to be the first sentence of that lot, only. I did not take time to check the html.
That said, – of all the violent and offensive videos that run freely on YouTube, they choose to censor a renowned Peace Activist (who is no longer here to speak directly for himself). I don’t have words for this.
I have just posted a comment about what has happened – YouTube…
(Taking deep breaths and calming self down…)
And now, by some odd synchronicity, which I do sincerely believe is unrelated, GMail has locked me out of my mail account until I provide them with some more information about myself…
Which they state they require for “third parties”…
They say it’s “the law” that I provide them with this if I wish to access my emails.
My emails include all my bills to pay, etc etc – important stuff which, if I delay on, will cost me (money that I don’t easily have).
What the hell is going on?
It cuts deep, that I cannot hear Uri Avnery speaking.
He had sent words of encouragement to a group of us who were a bit distraught when following a ship that tried to reach the Palestinians – It was carrying Anne Wright, for one, – when the IDF attacked them. They landed on the ship and took it over, using their weapons.
‘The Landscape is Shifting’: Over 35,000 rally for Palestine in DC on Memorial Day weekend”
https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/the-landscape-is-shifting-over-35000-rally-for-palestine-in-dc-on-memorial-day-weekend/
Whilst I doubt this march will influence the current officeholders in Washington, indications are that the next couple of elections there might be interesting.
Palestine is coming into fashion.
A rare coincidence of trend and justice.
Said it before, the only solution is Hamas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de9CTUDg8Kc&list=PLYYjmDOgIyozkn0DFLkDimtaD7R7zPk6e&index=4
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