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ISIS Militants & Israel Effectively Join Forces In Besieging Gaza

Islamic State militants are wreaking havoc near the Sinai peninsula where they are doing Israel’s work of terrorizing Palestinians and preventing goods from reaching Gaza.

December 29th, 2017

By Electronic Intifada

ISIS Militants & Israel Effectively Join Forces In Besieging Gaza

When Rami Fawda heard that the Rafah crossing was finally due to open, his reaction was one of relief mixed with anxiety. The relief was because the 44-year-old engineer lives in Ankara, Turkey, where he has worked for 13 years and needed to get back. He had come to Gaza in the

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New York Times distorts reality of Israel’s apartheid walls

Isabel Kershner, writing in The New York Times, claims the “aboveground fences and sections of concrete wall [that] run along and through parts of the West Bank” are “a legacy of Palestinian suicide bombings during the second intifada.” But she fails to note many observers’ contention that due to the fact 85 percent of the barrier runs inside the occupied West Bank, Israel’s construction of it appears to be far more of a land grab than anything to do with security.

August 22nd, 2017

By Electronic Intifada

New York Times distorts reality of Israel’s apartheid walls

Isabel Kershner, writing in The New York Times, recently misrepresented the reality of Israeli-built walls and the fact that it is Palestinians enclosed by them and not Israelis. Establishing that she spends far too much

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How The Israel Lobby Manufactured UK Labour Party’s Anti-Semitism Crisis

Although Labour’s membership has grown since Jeremy Corbyn’s victory, he has been under constant attack from right-leaning politicians within the party. In an attempt to weaken his position, some of his critics have manufactured a “crisis” about alleged anti-Semitism.

April 29th, 2016

By Electronic Intifada

How The Israel Lobby Manufactured UK Labour Party’s Anti-Semitism Crisis

Last year, socialist stalwart Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of the UK’s Labour Party by a landslide. Since then, there has been a steady flow of claims by Israel’s supporters that Corbyn has not done enough to combat

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How Israel Makes Money From Blockading Gaza

A new report released by UK-based Corporate Watch brings the voices of the Palestinian farmers and agricultural workers to the debate over how the BDS movement can best resist Israeli exploitation of their land and labor.

March 31st, 2016

By Electronic Intifada

How Israel Makes Money From Blockading Gaza

EI -- Palestinians whose livelihoods are forcibly enmeshed in Israel’s economic

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Almost 50,000 Sign Petition Calling For Israeli Executioner Of Injured Palestinian To Receive Medal

An online petition calling on Israel to give the soldier a medal has received almost 50,000 signatures.

March 28th, 2016

By Electronic Intifada

Almost 50,000 Sign Petition Calling For Israeli Executioner Of Injured Palestinian To Receive Medal

EI -- A new video shows an Israeli soldier shaking hands with a settler leader just after the soldier was filmed apparently executing an injured Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of

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Outrage Over Israel’s Gaza Massacre Drove Iceland’s Capitol Reykjavik To Back BDS

“The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement all over the world is becoming stronger because we know how boycotting goods has influenced other states like South Africa,” Björk Vilhelmsdóttir told The Electronic Intifada by telephone from Reykjavík.

September 18th, 2015

By Electronic Intifada

Outrage Over Israel’s Gaza Massacre Drove Iceland’s Capitol Reykjavik To Back BDS

(EI) -- The City of Reykjavík has decided to boycott Israeli goods. The city council in Iceland’s capital voted by a 9-5 majority on Tuesday to bar Israeli products from official purchases as long as

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Rights Group: Israel Used “Disappearance” Of Soldier As Pretext For Killing Spree Of Palestinians

Israel’s response to the disappearance of the three Israeli teens was one of “shooting at anything and anybody,” according to an analysis published this week by the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq.

February 27th, 2015

By Electronic Intifada

Israel used the “disappearance” of a soldier in Gaza as a pretext to kill 225 Palestinians over a three-day period last summer, a new study suggests. On 1 August last year, the Israeli military reported that one of its lieutenants,

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