Amnesty International last week made clear that it advocates for the arrest of Israeli government officials on UK soil in the fight against apartheid. — The powerful recommendation came during a meeting hosted jointly by Amnesty International (AI) and the Hastings and Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HRPSC) at the White Rock Hotel where AI representative Garry Ettle presented the findings of their report published in February: ‘Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: A Cruel System of Domination…

For the first Samaria Film Festival [Northern West Bank], Miri Regev showed up as a bride on her wedding day to celebrate the victory of her nationalistic time in office. But that isn’t the only problem — all the filmmakers who took the stage and accepted the awards and refreshments took part in the whitewashing of Israeli apartheid. — By Nirit Anderman (Translated by Sol Salbe) Freedom of expression, human rights, equality. Oh, how much do the people in the Israeli film industry like to wave these values around. How proud are they that the local industry sanctifies those values. How angry are they at BDS supporters who do…

Responding to the announcement by the US State Department regarding the assassination of Palestinian-American journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh — July 4, 2022 With respect to today’s announcement by the State Department — on July 4, no less — that a test of the spent round that killed Shireen Abu Akleh, an American citizen, was inconclusive as to the origin of the gun that fired it, we are incredulous. There…

By Orly Noy (Translated by Sol Salbe) So in the end I cracked and listened to Yair Lapid’s debut speech as prime minister which appears in Shani Littman’s excellent column in Haaretz this morning, I admit it, I’m human. Littman beautifully illustrated Lapid’s character as Israeli politics’ answer to musician…

There is reportedly not much public enthusiasm for the normalization with Israel in UAE — Excerpt from article by David Rosenberg • Haaretz June 2, 2022 For all the fanfare around the formal signing of the free trade agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, businesspeople and investors have been moving forward at a far faster pace than diplomats and trade officials. …

The Culture of Impunity and the absurdity of Israel investigating itself. Israel’s IDF soldiers shoot to kill, then they investigate themselves and find that they did nothing wrong, or it was only by mistake! — By John Brown (Translated by Sol Salbe) Last night (27th May), IDF gun-totters invaded the Palestinian town of al Khader and shot dead a 15-year-old youth, Zeid Ranim. The police and IDF spokespeople’s versions varied from initially suggesting the youth threw a Molotov cocktail, to later saying that Molotov cocktails…

Investigation of Sheerin Abu Akleh’s death, CNN — By Rogel Alpher (Translated by Sol Salbe) Haaretz • May 26, 2022 Anyone who cares about investigating the truth in the event of the death of Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh should welcome the broadcast of the investigative report on CNN. This is a worthy professional attempt to get to…

Her name is Shireen Abu Akleh — By Elias Khoury (Translated by Tony Maron) اسمها شيرين أبوعاقلة Shireen, the brave and noble journalist, who we followed to Sheikh Jarrah, Bab al-Amud, Jenin, Old Jerusalem and Mayar, to read in her voice and words the alphabet of love and defiance. Shireen, the Jerusalemite girl whose shyness and humility…

How unreceptive, arrogant, cruel and stupid it must be, to be able at all to think (not to say actually carry out) about hitting coffin-bearers with batons at a funeral procession. Still, there is no cloud without a silver lining. Now, hopefully, the world will finally realise who we really are. [Israel is] an abominable colonialist state. — By Kobi Niv • (Translated by Sol Salbe) There was nothing in Shireen Abu-Akleh’s funeral that would have justified the police presence, certainly not in such a massive way, not the intervention in the funeral procession, and certainly not the beatings suffered by the coffin bearers. But “they started it.”