Israeli Occupation

Israel approves plan to displace Negev Bedouins
A photo of Al-Araqib in the southern Negev, one of many Bedouin villages not recognized by Israel. (MaanImages/Eva Pilipp)
 
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israel approved a draft law on Monday to implement a plan which will displace thousands of Bedouins in the Negev desert, an Israeli rights group said.

 South Africa Ambassador rejects gift from Israel, condemns “replication of apartheid”
 
JNF certificate presented to South African Ambassador Ismail Coovadia.(BDS South Africa)

The plucky professor and the last bigoted democracy
In a just world, the Israeli president would be arraigned at the ICC (Courtesy Palestine Chronicle)
 
By JAMAL KANJ
ISRAELI president Shimon Peres is hosting in Jerusalem this week a presidential conference called “Facing Tomorrow”. Its theme is the “human factor and its role in shaping our tomorrow”.

Failed ‘Hasbara’ insults just bounce off Alice Walker


by Stuart Littlewood
 
Hasbara has become a dirty word, thanks to it’s dirty practitioners and the dirty job they are trained to do.
It’s a Hebrew word for Israel’s sophisticated public relations machinery that’s set up to cynically justify the Jewish entity’s crimes and to create for Israel a ‘brand image’ completely at odds with the ugly truth.

Walker Tells the Truth, the ADL Avoids It
Author, poet and activist Alice Walker Photo: Wikimedia Commons
William A. Cook
“… the ADL blasted Walker for describing Israel’s actions toward the Palestinians as “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” “crimes against humanity,” and “cruelty and diabolical torture”(Haaretz June 18, 2013).

“We Destroyed Arab Villages To Create Our State”, Retired General Said

 
 
by Saed Bannoura

President of international war crimes tribunal may have worked to shield Israelis from prosecution
Theodor Meron, President of the United National War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague
 
by Alison Weir

UN justice champion Richard Falk targeted (again)  

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Israel to Expand two Settlements with 0ver 1,000 New Housing Units
Palestinian protesters wave the national flag as their comrades climb Israel’s controversial separation barrier during clashes with Israeli security forces following a demonstration against Israeli settlements and its separation wall, in the West Bank village of Nilin near the Jewish settlement of Hashmonaim on 31 May 2013. (Photo: AFP – Abbas Momani)
 

 Richard Falk Will Not Be Another Richard Goldstone
US professor Richard Falk addresses participants during the Istanbul session of The World Tribunal on Iraq, June
Clovis Maksoud for Al-Monitor