The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda, has announced that Israel will soon be investigated for war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza. Excessive use of force in the 2014 attack on Gaza and the continued building of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in the West Bank were both cited …
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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.
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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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 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 …
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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