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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.

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Relatives of Palestinian Muhammed al-Aqraa, who was killed in an explosion in a smuggling tunnel at the border between Gaza and Egypt, mourn over his body in his family house during his funeral, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. Palestinian officials say an Israeli pre-dawn airstrike has killed several Gaza residents and wounded five others in a smuggling tunnel along the border with Egypt. The bombing appears to be the first to target smuggling tunnels since the 2014 war between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

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 summer to see his family, for only the second time since he first

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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.

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Palestinian men walk past a section of Israel's apartheid wall to cross the Qalandia checkpoint on their way to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, on the fourth Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Friday, July 10, 2015.

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 time in an Israeli milieu and too little in occupied Palestinian territory, she flips reality by penning, “Challenged by

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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.

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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 anti-Semitism. This has only accelerated in the lead-up to a major test for Corbyn, the UK local elections on 5 May. Even

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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.

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EI -- Palestinians whose livelihoods are forcibly enmeshed in Israel’s economic system are often used as human shields against the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. The frequent accusation made by critics is that boycotts of Israeli businesses, especially settlement businesses, will hurt the very Palestinians that BDS activists

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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.

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  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 Hebron. The video has emerged as Israelis, including top leaders, are rallying around the accused killer. Abd al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif was

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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.

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APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians

(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 Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory continues. The decision has been welcomed by Palestinian rights campaigners and drawn anger from

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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.

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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, Hadar Goldin, had gone missing in the Rafah area, close to Gaza’s border with Egypt. Israel’s response was one of

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