Consortium News | August 29, 2018 TO: The Media FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: Support for Brennan Far From “Unanimous” As former members of the intelligence community, we feel compelled to add our voice to the public debate surrounding President Trump’s revocation of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. This action is […]
Photo: Protest demands release of Palestinian women prisoners. Via Wattan TV Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network – August 29, 2018 Seven Palestinian women from al-Khalil have been jailed by the Israeli occupation, with many held in intense, torturous interrogation for many weeks. The Israeli Shin Bet intelligence agency is now attempting to market these arrests […]
French-Palestinian activist Salah Hamouri [salah_hamouri/Twitter] MEMO | August 25, 2018 The Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris has pointed out that a year has elapsed since the arrest of French citizen Salah Hamouri by Israel. France is still concerned about his administrative detention, which has been extended until 30 September, said a spokeswoman. […]
IMEMC | August 22, 2018 Israeli Authorities released a Palestinian journalist from the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday evening after forcing him to pay a fine, in addition to preventing him for working in his profession for two months. The journalist, Ala’ Rimawi, was abducted, along with three other reporters, on July […]
Sputnik – August 22, 2018 Prisoners in 17 US states are striking on Tuesday, August 21, on the anniversary of the death of Black Panther prison organizer George Jackson. Inmates are engaging in work stoppages and hunger strikes, among other methods, in a bid to push for better conditions, more rights and an end to […]
Wikimedia Commons/gloucester2gaza By Ron Forthofer | Boulder Weekly | August 2, 2018 The illegal Israel blockade of Gaza begun in 2007 and the three major Israeli attacks on Gaza since then have created a living hell for Palestinians there. In 2006, before the siege was implemented, Dov Weisglass, senior advisor to then Israeli Prime Minister […]
If Americans Knew On August 9, 2018, Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed Enas Khammash, 23, and her 18-month-old daughter Bayan. Enas was nine-months pregnant with another daughter, whom she had named Hayat, Arabic for “Life.” U.S. news media paid little attention to these deaths, rarely even reporting their names. Virtually all framed their news stories […]
IMEMC News – August 5, 2018 The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a teen died, Sunday, from serious wounds he suffered on the first day of the Great Return March procession, on March 30th, which also marks the Palestinian Land Day. The Health Ministry said the teen, identified as Ahmad Jihad al-Aydi, 17, from […]
Dr Swee Ang (Picture courtesy if Islamic Human Rights Commission) By Stuart Littlewood | Veterans Today | August 4, 2018 Malaysian-born Swee Ang is the first female Orthopaedic Consultant appointed to St Bartholomew (‘Barts’) and the Royal London Hospitals. In the 1980s and 1990s she worked as trauma and orthopaedics consultant in the refugee camps […]
And the list of monstrous crimes against human decency just got even longer By Stuart Littlewood | Dissident Voice | August 3, 2018 How revealing! How ironic! It is Jeremy Corbyn’s misfortune to be surrounded by witless blabbermouths whose unbridled remarks are a gift to Israel lobby propagandists. And while mainstream media in the UK […]
