#nowaytotreatachild Webinar December 2019
Strategy on getting Congresspeople to sign up to support H.R. 2407 the Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act.
Let’s support local interfaith work through FOSNA
FOSNA has two events that we of C-J Allies can support – Susan Landau. Friday, December 13, at 6 pm at Germantown Mennonite Church 21 W Washington Ln, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19144 Join us for lunch on Saturday, December 14, from 12:30 to 2:30 pm. We’ll be discussing interfaith work with Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faith organizers. …
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Israel to annex 25% of West Bank
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’d go ahead with a plan to annex the Jordan Valley, which lies within the Palestinian West Bank and makes up around 25% of their territory. Piece includes a discussion of a non-binding Congressional vote on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Mondoweiss has further commentary on that.
A case study in propaganda vs reporting
A Jewish friend of mine who posts a lot on Facebook and includes plenty of criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu, but who rarely mentions Israel vs the Palestinians, posted this piece the other day: House resolution supports Israel’s right to defend itself Well, okay. Hard to argue with a country defending itself. That seems …
Western news media presents widespread death and destruction as precision strike
A member of Islamic Jihad was assassinated in Gaza, but it wasn’t done by a clean, neat, surgical strike, as coverage by Western media suggested. It was instead a brutal strike that resulted in 32 Palestinians killed and over 80 wounded. A most disappointing response to the Israeli violence was offered by Nickolay Mladenov, the …
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Bahaa Abu al-Atta, an Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza killed
20 have died and 70 are injured. The violence began overnight on Monday when Israel launched airstrikes in both Gaza and Syria, targeting senior leaders of the Islamic Jihad group, prompting a barrage of rocket fire from Gaza and concerns that Israel was restarting its practice of targeted assassinations of Palestinian political figures. This was …
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