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Activists for Palestinians Updated 2024-07-15 Max Blumenthal   Hedges, Chris Ritter, Scott  https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/scottritter , https://scottritter.substack.com/ , 2023-11-10  CONGRESS WON’T DEMAND A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA, SO ACTIVISTS ARE FIGHTING TO FORCE THEIR HAND   Israel’s devastating campaign of collective punishment against the people … Continue reading →

Abraham Accords Updated 2023-11-25 2023-10-23 What the Abraham Accords Got Wrong   The Palestinian issue could not simply be wished away, and the signing of the pacts created a set of contradictions that fueled the tensions that erupted October 7.  Trump’s … Continue reading →

2023-10-24 What really happened on 7th October? https://new.thecradle.co/articles/what-really-happened-on-7th-october Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas … Continue reading →

Hakeem Jeffries -Democratic House Minority Leader Press Releases Updated 2023-11-24 https://democraticleader.house.gov/ 2023-11-07 JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR PRESS RELEASE Washington, DC – Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement marking one month since the horrific events of … Continue reading →

South Africa Undated 2024-04-06 2024-02-14 AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Arabs Divided on ICJ Ruling   The liberal Arab camp thinks the ICJ ruling will lead to a peaceful settlement of the Palestinian question, while the popular camp has lost faith in international organizations, … Continue reading →

Semitic People Updated 2023-11-22 Antisemitism – Wikipedia   From the outset the term “anti-Semitism” bore special racial connotations and meant specifically prejudice against Jews The term is confusing, for in modern usage ‘Semitic’ designates a language group, not a race. In … Continue reading →

Palestine’s Partition Updated 2023-11-22 2022-11-17 The racial logic of Palestine’s partition        The partition of Palestine was first proposed more than eight decades ago. It remains a consensus international approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Why was Palestine the only settler-colonial context … Continue reading →

Osama bin Laden Updated 2023-11-22 2023-11-21 Destroying History to Preserve an Illusion    On April 9, 2016 Consortium News published an article, republished last September 12, “Why Americans Are Never Told Why,” that sought to explain why the historical context surrounding … Continue reading →

Mandatory Palestine Updated 2023-11-22 2014-09-29 Mandatory Palestine: What It Was and Why It Matters   The idea of a mandatory nation, using the common definition of the word, is an odd one: a country that’s obligatory, something that can’t be missed … Continue reading →

London Conference of 1946–1947 Updated 2023-11-22 London Conference of 1946–1947 – Wikipedia    The London Conference of 1946–1947, which took place between September 1946 and February 1947, was called by the British Government of Clement Attlee to resolve the future governance … Continue reading →