The Israeli Trumpess

29/10/16, Gush Shalom גוש שלום http://zope.gush-shalom.org (Israel)

Uri Avnery אורי אבנרי

WHAT WILL Donald Trump do if he loses the elections in a week and a half from now, as most polls indicate?

He has already declared that he will recognize the results -- but only if he wins.

That sounds like a joke. But it is far from being a joke.

Trump has already announced that the election is rigged. The dead are voting (and all the dead vote for Hillary Clinton). The polling station committees are corrupt. The polling machines forge the results.

No, that is not a joke. Not at all.

THIS IS not a joke, because Trump represents tens of millions of Americans, who belong to the lower strata of the white population, which the white elite used to call "white trash". In more polite

Estamos en 2016. Digamos adiós al sionismo de una vez por todas

28 10 2016, Rebelión http://www.rebelion.org (Mexico)

Noam Rotem

972mag

Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por J. M.

Actualmente el sionismo es la valla que rodea al pueblo judío, otorgándole supremacía sobre las demás personas de esta tierra

El Estado de Israel es un estado sionista. Todos nosotros, los graduados del sistema educativo israelí lo sabemos. El primer ministro del primer gobierno de Israel lo dijo, Ehud Barak lo dijo, incluso el primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu lo ha dicho. Esta declaración se puede encontrar en nuestros planes de estudios e incluso en el plan de estudios del ejército de Israel. Todo está bien, pero en ninguna parte he sido capaz de encontrar una definición formal

Brazil’s MST begins solidarity olive harvest

25 October 2016, Alternative Information Center http://www.alternativenews.org (Israel)

Written by Alternative Information Center (AIC)

A delegation from Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement joins the harvest to help Palestinian farmers pick olives and resist Israeli violence.

The Landless Rural Workers Movement, or Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), sent its yearly delegation to Palestine for the olive harvest in solidarity with farmers in the West Bank.

MST is a mass social movement in Brazil formed by rural workers and those who want to fight for land reform and against injustice in

B'Tselem's response to Prime Minister's attack

17/10/2016, B'Tselem בצלם http://www.btselem.org (Israel)

In solidarity with the B'Tselem Human Rights organization, targeted in a vicious campaign by the Prime Minister as by Netanyahu's satellites in the media and political system. we publish here verbatim the press release issued by B'Tselem Spokesperson Amit Gilutz.

B'Tselem's response to Prime Minister's attack: We will continue saying the truth in Israel and abroad; the occupation must end.

Unlike the Prime Minister and his slander, we believe that the Israeli public is worthy of meaningful discussion of the occupation. And, contrary to the complete overlap the Prime Minister establishes between the occupation and Israel, we insist on saying loud and clear: the occupation is not Israel, and resisting it is not anti-Israel.

The opposite is true. At the U.N. Security Council on

I love Miri Regev

October 2, 2016, +972 http://972mag.com (Israel)

By Alon Mizrahi*

I have never met Miri Regev, but it feels like I have known her my entire life. I grew up, like her, in a place where we were constantly reminded that some people are worth less than others.

I don’t know Culture Minister Miri Regev. I have never met her. But I have been surrounded by women and girls like her my entire life. And I think I know exactly what she thinks and how she feels.

Like myself, millions of others don’t know Miri Regev in the slightest, and yet just the mere mention of her name brings up strong feelings, for better or for worse. And this is because Miri Regev fits perfectly into the Israeli category that is not political by nature: if this is a script — and it is a script, lest you have any doubts — Miri Regev is the Moroccan girl from the periphery to whom rich, condescending, Ashkenazim do not take kindly. The girl who, as she stands

Chomsky y Shapiro alaban papel de BDS en solidaridad con Palestina

16 agosto 2016, BioBioChile http://www.biobiochile.cl (Chile)

 

El anuncio de Israel, a fines del mes pasado, de construir de nuevos asentamientos en Cisjordania y ampliar otros en Jerusalem, generó condenas en Europa y Estados Unidos, pero estas parecieron generar tanto efecto, como las sucesivas resoluciones de Naciones Unidas que exigen el término de la ocupación.

Por Roberto Manríquez*

Mayor debate provocó la desaparición de Cisjordania y Gaza en el Google Maps, un error que fue reconocido por la compañía, que admitió que borró ambas denominaciones, aunque por razones que no explicitó. Sin embargo, como parte de su defensa Google afirmó con sencillez que “las quejas no tienen fundamento (puesto que) nunca hubo una etiqueta de Palestina en Google Maps”.

Sobre el papel crucial de Estados Unidos en el destino de Palestina, planteamos vía correo electrónico consultas a dos prominentes defensores de los derechos humanos de los palestinos, al reconocido intelectual Noam Chomsky (Boston) y al documentalista Adam Shapiro (Nueva York), ambos ciudadanos

Israel's liberal paper whitewashes the disappearance of Yemenite children

August 13, 2016, +972 Magazine http://972mag.com (Israel)

By Orly Noy*

In the 1950s thousands of babies, children of mostly Yemenite immigrants to lsrael, were allegedly taken away from their parents and given up for adoption to Ashkenazi families. Now an investigative report by Haaretz reveals dozens of Ashkenazi children also disappeared, arguing that the crime was not racially motivated.

On Friday morning, Haaretz readers woke up to find that the newspaper had decided to dedicate its lead story to a piece titled “Dozens of Ashkenazi Babies Mysteriously Disappeared During Israel’s Early Years.” The article, written by Ofer Aderet, was labeled as an exclusive investigatory piece that tells the story of Ashkenazi families whose children disappeared during

¿Cuánta tierra palestina se comen realmente los asentamientos israelíes?

12 agosto 2016, Rebelión http://www.rebelion.org (Mexico)

Ben White

Monitor de Oriente

Independientemente de su tamaño relativo, o incluso su destino en un futuro acuerdo de paz, los asentamientos de Israel en Cisjordania, en la actualidad, constituyen una grave y sistemática violación del derecho internacional y los derechos humanos. Son parte fundamental de un sistema de apartheid.

El gobierno israelí y sus partidarios rutinariamente minimizan la importancia de los asentamientos en Cisjordania como obstáculo para la paz con los palestinos. Un ejemplo reciente de esto vino de un portavoz de la Agencia Judía, que tuiteó: “Las comunidades judías en Cisjordania ocupan menos del 2% de la tierra; es decir, más del 98% de Cisjordania no contiene residentes judíos en absoluto”.

¿Es esto cierto? ¿Exactamente qué parte del territorio palestino ocupado (TPO) ocupan los asentamientos de Israel?

1. Lo que omite la cifra del 2%.

Los que citan la cifra del 2% rara vez aclaran que esto se refiere únicamente a la zona urbanizada de

Israeli Deputy Defense Minister on Tisha B’Av: “We’re not Ashamed. We Will Rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount

August 14, 2016, Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם http://www.richardsilverstein.com (USA)

By Richard Silverstein*

Today was Tisha B’Av, one of the most solemn days of the year for observant Jews.  It marks the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE.  It is the day on which the Book of Lamentations, which commemorates the fall of Jerusalem, is recited in every synagogue in the world.

But in Israel, the firebrands of Israel’s most right-wing government ever aren’t in mourning.

They’re rejoicing at the prospect of rebuilding the Temple.  They have High Priests in training who are learning the ancient sacrificial rites at the Ateret Cohanim yeshiva in occupied East Jerusalem.  The Temple Institute, which is

The Future belongs to the Optimists

13/08/2016, Gush Shalom גוש שלום http://zope.gush-shalom.org (Israel)

Uri Avnery אורי אבנרי*

IF I were a cartoonist, I would draw Israel as a length of hose pipe.

At one end, Jews are flowing in, encouraged by anti-Semites and a large Zionist apparatus.

At the other end, young disappointed Israelis are flowing out and settling in Berlin and other places.

By the way, the numbers entering and leaving seem to be about equal.

FOR SOME weeks now, I have felt like a boy who has thrown a stone into a pool. Rings of water created by the splash get larger and larger and expand more and more.

All I did was write a short article in Haaretz, calling upon Israeli emigrants in Berlin and other places to come home and take part in the struggle to save Israel from itself.

I readily conceded that

My name is Tair Kaminer and I was recently released from prison

10 August 2016, Alternative Information Center http://www.alternativenews.org (Israel)

Written by Tair Kaminer

 

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After spending 155 days in Israeli prison, Tair Kaminer reflects on her decision to refuse serving in the Israeli army. She is the longest serving female conscientious objector in Israeli history.

I sat in jail for 155 days. I sat in jail because I decided I wasn't prepared to serve in the army. I was not prepared to serve in an army that oppresses the Palestinian people, an army that allows our government to preserve the fragile security situation in the western Negev, an army that participates in besieging Gaza, an army that every day defends settlers by violating Palestinian rights.

My choice not to serve was essentially very personal. I don’t know

Right Wing Israeli Rapper ‘The Shadow’ Joins Ruling Likud Party

August 11, 2016, Forward http://forward.com (US)

Naomi Zeveloff

Yoav Eliasi, the Israeli rapper known as “The Shadow,” has suggested on his Facebook page that Israel should castrate dead Palestinian attackers in order to deter Muslim “martyrs” who believe they will meet 72 virgins in heaven. He also said that medical teams responding to terror attacks should “cut out the organs” of dead Palestinians for transplant in Jewish bodies.

For anyone familiar with Israel’s notoriously extreme “talkback” culture — in which online comments sections spiral into hateful discourse — Eliasi’s comments might seem

Israeli journalists silent as their Palestinian colleagues are jailed

August 10, 2016, +972 Magazine http://972mag.com (Israel)

 

By Noam Rotem*

Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal has been in custody without charges put in administrative detention for nearly four months. For the most part, his Israeli counterparts have remained decidedly silent.

(Palestinian journalists protest in solidarity with their colleague Omar Nazzal, who was put in administrative detention in late April, April 29, 2016. (Flash90)

The Union of Journalists in Israel made an appeal this week for solidarity with investigative reporter Sharon Shpurer, who was sued for libel by Urban, a real estate development company, after she revealed on her Facebook page that it was owned by a convicted human trafficker.

The union’s call to collectively foot the NIS 1.7 million bill, in the

Lieberman Compares Iran to Nazis, Iran Deal to Munich Pact…Again

August 6, 2016, Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם http://www.richardsilverstein.com (USA)  

By Richard Silverstein

Lieberman: “This is what we’ll do 

to Khamenei if we get our hands 

on him!” (Jonathan Sindel/Flash90)

Over the past few days, a tempest has been brewing after Pres. Obama defended his Iran nuclear agreement by correctly noting that the entire Israeli defense and intelligence leadership acknowledges that it has improved Israeli and world security. This apparently angered defense minister Avigdor Lieberman, who couldn’t

Israel es un Estado perverso

5 Agosto 2016, Rebelión http://www.rebelion.org (Mexico)

Gideon Levy

Haaretz

Dejen de vivir en la negación

Después de hablar del nacionalismo y el racismo, el odio y el desprecio por la vida de los árabes, el culto a la seguridad y la adicción a la ocupación, la victimización y el mesianismo, todavía hay que agregar otro elemento, sin el cual no se puede explicar el comportamiento del régimen de ocupación israelí: la maldad. La maldad pura. La maldad sádica. El mal por el mal mismo. A veces, es la única explicación posible.

Eva Illouz describió sus señales (“El mal ahora”, edición hebrea de Haaretz, 30/7/16). Su ensayo, que cuestiona la idea de la banalidad del mal, considera al grupo nacional como la fuente del mal. Usando el concepto del filósofo Ludwig Wittgenstein, ella encuentra un “parecido de familia” entre la ocupación israelí y

Евреи Украины выступили с открытым письмом против героизации Бандеры и Шухевича

03.08. 2016, Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

Новости  

Лидеры 29 общин и общественных еврейских организаций Украины обратились к общественности страны с открытым письмом против попыток искажения ее истории и героизации лидеров националистов Степана Бандеры и Романа Шухевича.

"Мы хотим выразить серьезную озабоченность и выразить недоверие настойчивым попыткам искажения нашей общей истории, которые в последнее время предпринимаются активистами под эгидой Украинского института национальной памяти (УИНП). Это относится, в частности,

Apartheid, fascism – but mostly colonialism

7 August 2016, Alternative Information Center http://www.alternativenews.org (Israel)

Written by Michel Warschawski*

Struggling against Israel as a fascist or apartheid state must be a part of an anti-colonial struggle that Jews themselves participate in.

 

Fascism, apartheid

My friend and comrade Eli Aminov sent me a text that he wrote titled Fascism or Apartheid. In his piece, he argues with an article recently published in Haaretz and written by Professor Zeev Sternhell, a leading expert on European fascism. Sternhell’s article warns of fascism in Israel and convincingly demonstrates local developments reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s. In response, Aminov argues that the term “apartheid” is key to understanding contemporary Israeli society.

If we use the term “fascism” in its broadest sense rather than its classical definition – which assumes that a strong working class threatens the capitalist system and consequently must be destroyed – then Sternhell, Avrum Burg and others who use the term are right: in the past decade the radical right wing regime has employed violent means to thwart all opposition. Such means include passing anti-democratic laws, employing tactics of

An interview with Tallie Ben Daniel

28 July 2016, Alternative Information Center http://www.alternativenews.org (Israel)

Written by Alternative Information Center (AIC)

 

The problematic equation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism hasn’t stifled student movements for Palestinian human rights at U.S. universities. 

Tallie Ben Daniel is the Academic Advisory Council Coordinator for Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). She completed her PhD in Cultural Studies at UC Davis in June of 2014 and is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Gay Capital: San Francisco, Tel Aviv and the Politics of Settler Colonialism." Ben Daniel talked to Molly Dubrovsky, the editor of alternativenews.org, about student movements on U.S. campuses campaigning for justice in Palestine. 

MD: What sort of obstacles are activists against Israeli occupation facing on university campuses in the U.S. today?

TBD: Anti-occupation activists on university campuses – students and faculty – are facing quite a few obstacles, but notably, those haven't hampered the struggle for Palestinian human rights – the movement grows by the day. The largest obstacle is

Jewish, Palestinian activists try to build a cinema in Hebron

July 15, 2016, +972 Magazine http://972mag.com (Israel)

 

By Dahlia Scheindlin*

As soldiers and settlers look on, dozens of foreign Jews join Palestinians in the segregated city of Hebron try ‘to make the unbearable a little more bearable.’ Police detain six Israelis among the group, prevent others from even joining.

Foto: Activists with the Center for Jewish Non-Violence 

clear brush from the yard of the would-be cinema as 

Israeli soldiers and settlers look on, Hebron, July 15, 

2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

The streets in the Israel-controlled section of Hebron were sunny and silent at 9 a.m. on Friday. The Palestinian shops on the main streets were all shut, as most of them have been for over 20 years. Jews were home preparing for Shabbat.

On a sloping street rising through the Tel Rumeida neighborhood where, in April, a Palestinian stabber was wounded, then executed, there is a small commotion. A scattered group of Israeli soldiers, blue-uniformed police, and a few local Israeli settlers are hovering around a battered fence, peering inside as if

Netanyahu and Son Investigated for Using False Passport, Money Laundering Via Panama Account

July 16, 2016, Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם http://www.richardsilverstein.com (USA)

By Richard Silverstein*

Winston Churchill said after one of the earliest Allied victories during WWII: this is not the end, not even the beginning of the end.  Rather it’s the end of the beginning.  I think we’re more advanced in the case of Netanyahu.  We may have just entered the beginning of the end of his seemingly endless reign over Israeli politics.

Israeli social media has lit up with news of a new investigation of Bibi Netanyahu, his son Yair, and the PMO’s former chief of staff, Ari Harow.  This story has not yet been reported by an Israeli mainstream publication and

Yair Lapid’s Destructive Conspiracy of Silence for Israel

13.07.2016, Tlaxcla http://www.tlaxcala-int.org (Mexico) Tlaxcala, the international network of translators for linguistic diversity

Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי

All Israelis who break the silence about the occupation and other crimes are doing their patriotic, human and moral duty. That’s why the Yesh Atid leader is so afraid of them.

The discussion on the occupation can only be held abroad. Such a debate requires the existence of a free democratic society where people know what’s going on. So the discussion can’t be held in Israel, just as the discussion on the Yazidis can’t be held in Iraq and the discussion on gay people and journalists can’t be held in Russia.

 

Breaking the Silence activists hold signs saying 'this is what the occupation looks like' at a rally against incitement, Tel Aviv, December 2015. Photo Moti Milrod

Under Israeli rule live two societies that are incapable of holding a discussion on the occupation. There’s the Jewish society that lives in denial and repression, knowing nothing and not wanting to know anything; and the Palestinian society that

Ben Ehrenreich Throws Stones at Conventional Wisdom About Israel

July 8, 2016,  פֿאָרווערטס Forward http://www.forward.com (US)

Sheerly Avni

 

In the classic American film noir “Out of the Past,” the wayward mob mistress and the private eye hired to drag her back home are, inevitably, flirting in a casino in Mexico. “Is there a way to win,” she asks, sultry and musical, pretending that she’s talking about the gambling tables. “No,” the doomed chump answers, “but there is a way to lose more slowly.” It’s hard not to read “The Way to the Spring,” journalist Ben Ehrenreich’s deeply reported new chronicle of Palestinian life and resistance in the West Bank and Hebron, with those dark words in mind. The men and women he grows close to lose almost every battle they fight — beaten down by Israel’s infinitely superior military force and the expansion of Jewish settlers operating with apparent government approval. And despite or, he might argue, because of his Jewish heritage, Ehrenreich makes no bones about siding with the losers.

 

 Courtesy of Ben Ehrenreich

Simple Pleasures: The daughter of artist 

Eid Suleiman al-Hathalin playing ball on her birthday.

The book has already been both lauded for its impassioned writing and criticized for the author’s explicit sympathy for his subjects (sometimes within the same review). Sheerly Avni spoke with Ehrenreich by phone from his home in Los Angeles, just as he was packing for a trip to the Palestinian Festival of Literature.

Sheerly Avni: You lived in the West Bank and spent some time there on and off, for about three years. How much did the amount of time you spent there impact your understanding of events?

Ben Ehrenreich: I know a lot of Americans and Europeans who visit the West Bank either as reporters or with delegations and return home filled with optimism and hope because they’ve met all these great and inspiring people who are engaged in inspiring acts of resistance. But actually living in the West Bank gives you a very different