May 2022
Israeli court approves mass forced transfer of Palestinians Marie Clare Murphy EI 05/05/2022 Israel’s high court approved the forced expulsion of more than 1,000 Palestinians from eight villages in the Masafer Yatta area of the southern West Bank overnight Wednesday.If Israel carries through with the forcible transfer, it will be one of the single largest expulsions of Palestinians since it occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967.
It will also be a war crime, despite the creative legal analysis put forth by the Israeli judges who signed off on the decision and who may be liable for prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
Read more: Israeli court approves mass forced transfer of Palestinians | The Electronic Intifada
“Settling” the remainder of Jerusalem ARAB 48 Mondoweiss 09/05/2022
The Israeli plan to register East Jerusalem lands, which was formally made into a government decision under the title “Decision 3790 Narrowing Socioeconomic Gaps and Promoting Economic Development in East Jerusalem” threatens the remainder of land in Jerusalem, as Israel plans to register all occupied East Jerusalem land through a committee supervised by the Ministry of Justice. The committee’s work is scheduled to end by the end of 2025. . . . . . , the registration of lands could be, effectively and irreversibly, used to advance Israeli settlement, which would lead to the confiscation of vast land from East Jerusalem, which then would be officially registered as State land.
Read more: How Israel aims to ‘settle’ the remainder of Jerusalem – Mondoweiss
Hell of Israeli detention R Khella & M R Mhawesh EI 11/05/2022
Numan, 50, has now been imprisoned at Israel’s Nafha prison for nine years. He has 11 years remaining on his sentence. The prison, located 40 miles south of Beersheba in the desert, is “considered one of the most harsh and severe of the occupation prisons,” according to Addameer. It is a facility designed to “subject [the prisoners] to gradual death and to isolate them.
Read more: Families, prisoners recount hell of Israeli detention | The Electronic Intifada
Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral attacked Mondoweiss editors Mondoweiss 13/05/2022
Israeli police forces in occupied East Jerusalem attacked the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, on Friday afternoon, beating funeral goers and firing sound grenades into the procession.
The attack on the procession began as mourners began to move Abu Akleh’s casket from the St Louis French Hospital in Sheikh Jarrah, to the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Virgin where the funeral and prayer service will be held.
Read more: LIVE: Israeli police attack Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral in Jerusalem – Mondoweiss
‘Shot dead in targeted attack’ by Israel, CNN investigation concludes Philip Weiss Mondoweiss 24/05/22 The CNN investigation reviewed a 16-minute video shot by Salim Awad, a 27-year-old Jenin camp resident.
His video captures the moment that shots were fired at the four journalists — Abu Akleh, Hanaysha, another Palestinian journalist, Mujahid al-Saadi, and Al Jazeera producer Ali al-Samoudi, who was injured in the gunfire — as they walked toward the Israeli vehicles. In the footage, Abu Akleh can be seen turning away from the barrage. The footage shows a direct line of sight towards the Israeli convoy.
Imprisoned human rights lawyer submits case to the ICC Yumna Patel Mondoweiss 19/05/22 In a new submission to the International Criminal Court, jailed Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hammouri called on the court to bring urgency to its investigation of war crimes committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory. In his submission, Hammouri, who was re-imprisoned by Israel in March, details years of harassment and abuse by the Israeli government for his human rights work.
Read more: Jailed Palestinian human rights lawyer submits case to the ICC – Mondoweiss
Israel uses 16 year old girl for human shield Tamara Nassar EI 21/05/2022
“Bullets were being fired at the military vehicle from all directions,” Ahed told DCIP.
“I was trembling and crying and shouting to the soldiers to remove me because the bullets were passing over my head,” Ahed added. “But one of them ordered me in Arabic through a small window in the military vehicle, ‘stay where you are and don’t move. You’re a terrorist. Stand in your place until you say goodbye to your brother.’”
Read more: Jenin fiercely resists Israel’s constant attacks | The Electronic Intifada
EU punishes Palestinian cancer patients to please Israel Ali Abunimah EI 27/05/2022 The European Union is making Palestinian cancer patients suffer as part of a campaign to appease the Israel lobby in Brussels. It is doing so by withholding some $230 million in funding that was already committed to support Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation. The payment has been delayed since last year “as the European Union continues to condition the release of the money on specific changes to Palestinian school textbooks,” the Norwegian Refugee Council stated on Tuesday.
Read more: EU punishes Palestinian cancer patients to please Israel | The Electronic Intifada
Hundreds injured as Palestinians demonstrate against ‘flag march’ Yumna Patel Mondoweiss 29/05/2022 Israel’s flag march, an annual display of right-wing Israeli nationalism and anti-Palestinian racism, took place on Sunday afternoon, stoking tensions in Jerusalem and across the occupied Palestinian territory. Israeli media reported that Sunday’s flag march was the largest in years, with an estimated 70,000 Israelis participating in the parade.
Read more Hundreds injured as Palestinians demonstrate against ‘flag march’ – Mondoweiss
‘A small, arrogant, violent, wicked nation’ and a ‘Jewish mutation’
Mondoweiss 31/05/2022
Israeli English speaking daily, ‘Ha’aretz, runs two articles attacking Israeli Zionism as a hateful dead-end, urging the world to take action. The authors’ scathing words would never make it into an American [or UK – Ed note] newspaper. Contemporary Zionism is a “Jewish mutation,” Amira Hass writes in despair. While B. Michael writes that Zionism has created a “small, arrogant, violent, wicked nation” of “Jew-oids” who have taken the “wicked parts of Judaism and turned it into the essence.”
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UK Comment
Union of Jewish Students: the voice of Israel? David Miller EI 06/05/2022
The Union of Jewish Students in Britain claims to represent “all” Jewish students but a close reading of its constitution reveals it is unable to do so. . . . All of these details about the UJS strongly suggests it is formally a Zionist organization which is not open to Jewish students who are non-Zionist or anti-Zionist. . . . According to the UJS constitution only Jewish students “whose aims are in accordance with the objects of the union” are eligible to join the UJS.
Read more: Union of Jewish Students: the voice of Israel? | The Electronic Intifada
Scottish government is silencing Palestinians Yvonne Ridley ME Monitor 24/05/2022″The Scottish Government’s adoption of the problematic IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of anti-Semitism limits that freedom by protecting the state of Israel from democratic critiques of its widely recognised apartheid structures.
“Responding in part to the question of the IHRA definition, Lord Bracadale’s 2018 Review of Hate Crime Legislation accepted the case put forward by Palestinians and others that legislation should not protect ‘political entities’ since that could lead to the ‘curtailment of freedom of expression and freedom of political debate’.” In their letter, the signatories demand that the Scottish Government should act on the findings of Lord Bracadale’s hate crime review which it commissioned.
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