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Israel quietly disappears West Bank land

Israeli settlers are the foot soldiers of the state and its expansionist policy ( Mohammed Nasser APA images) As Israel’s genocide in Gaza enters its tenth month, its settler-colonial project advances relentlessly across historic Palestine. The UN Human Rights Office is sounding alarm bells over Israel’s accelered land theft in the occupied West Bank, exacerbated […]
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Israel Targets Palestinians from Land and Air in West Bank

Mourners carry the bodies of four Palestinians killed by an Israeli airstrike late Tuesday during their funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams, near Tulkarm, Wednesday, 3 July (Mohammed Nasser APA images) At any other time in Palestinian history, the West Bank’s resistance to Israel’s lethal military raids and colonial encroachments would […]
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Fanon Goes to Palestine

Decolonization is always a violent event. – Frantz Fanon From Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, I substituted Palestine and Palestinians for “colonized” and Israel and Israelis for “colonizers.” For the Palestinians, to be a moralist quite plainly means silencing the arrogance of the Israelis, breaking (their) spiral of violence, in a word ejecting them […]
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Genocide in Gaza, AGI, Age of Hebrew Bible
Gulshan Khan, photojournalist in Johannesburg, reports: “What we are seeing in Palestine today is a hundred thousand times worse than what we experienced in South Africa.” Facebook . com (Aljazeera English): 63 Journalists Have Been Killed in Palestine–56 of them in Gaza, since October 7, 2023–short video–June 13, 2024 ***** “Israel, the establishment of Israel […]
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Citibank Finances the Colonization of Palestine

Financing Jewish settlements in Palestine is financing the usurpation of Palestine, the oppression of Palestinians, allying with apartheid, and prioritizing profit over people. The post Citibank Finances the Colonization of Palestine first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Did you donate to send food to Gaza? Think again
“HUNGER CATASTROPHE IN GAZA – DONATIONS NEEDED” cries Mercy Corps. “URGENT: STARVATION IN GAZA: ALL GIFTS MATCHED FOR GAZA” shouts Rescue.org. These and many other appeals from international relief organizations have motivated untold numbers of compassionate and generous souls to open their purses. You may be among them. If so, you may have thought that […]
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Academia is only as free as powerful donors allow it to be

Anyone who imagines there is something resembling academic freedom in the US, or elsewhere in the West for that matter, needs to read this article in the Intercept on an extraordinary – or possibly not so extraordinary – episode of censorship of a Palestinian academic. It shows how donors are the ones really pulling the […]
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Biden’s “Red Line” Continues to Move to Allow More Israeli Atrocities in Gaza
For some time, President Joe Biden has claimed that there are limits to US support for Israel, that he cares about the loss of Palestinian life and that certain Israeli conduct (e.g., an invasion of Rafah, an Israeli-designated “safe zone”) would result in the loss of US backing. The events of the past weeks have […]
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The Future of UNRWA and Hamas in Gaza
Peter Ford has an extensive career in the UK Diplomatic Service, including serving as UK Ambassador to Bahrein and then Syria. He then served for many years as Special Representative to the Commissioner General of UNRWA – the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. In this interview, he discusses the background, importance, and how Israel […]
