Palestine

By Mitchell Plitnick
November 9, 2024

Mitchell Plitnick is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy. He is the co-author, with Marc Lamont Hill, of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. Mitchell’s previous positions include vice president at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Director of the US Office of B’Tselem, and Co-Director of Jewish Voice for Peace.

By James North
November 10, 2024

What to Know About the Attacks on Israeli Soccer Fans in Amsterdam (New York Times, 2024-11-08)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/world/europe/amsterdam-israel-soccer-fans-attacks.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.ZE4.xu73.WY4VRFbygmPZ
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With a certain amount of the Israeli #Maccabi (hooli)fans’ violence described, and yet this headline…

“What happened before the game?

“Street disturbances began Wednesday night, a full day before the match, after Maccabi fans began arriving in Amsterdam.

“The authorities in Amsterdam said supporters of Maccabi had taken down a Palestinian flag from a building. A video posted to social media and verified by The New York Times shows men climbing a building to tear down a Palestinian flag while others nearby shout anti-Arab chants…“

“Peter Holla, Amsterdam’s police chief, said that on Wednesday night Maccabi fans had burned a Palestinian flag in Dam Square,… and had attacked a taxi; 10 people were detained, mostly on charges of disrupting public order…”

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#FakeAntisemitism

Japanese Military Industrial Complex supporting IDF, concealed

https://kolektiva.social/@youranonriots/113443201503687965

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Israeli air strikes damage Lebanese University buildings in Beirut (Middle East Monitor, 2024-11-09)

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241109-israeli-air-strikes-damage-lebanese-university-buildings-in-beirut/
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“Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburb Friday night caused severe damage to some buildings at the Lebanese University, state media reported, Anadolu Agency reports.”

“The Rafik Hariri campus is one of the largest complexes of the Lebanese University, housing many of its faculties, including science, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, and others.”

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22315448

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Arun Gupta
Nov 08, 2024

By Huthifa Fayyad and Areeb Ullah
Published date: 8 November 2024 08:35 GMT

Brett Wilkins
Nov 08, 2024

Israel’s tech sector has always had a close relationship with Silicon Valley, with funding for its start ups coming from venture capital and US ‘Big Tech’. With some employees at the tech giants protesting the involvement of their companies, could this relationship be in trouble?

Presenter: Anelise Borges Guests:

• Hasan Ibraheem - Former Google employee
• Paul Biggar - Tech For Palestine founder
• Bella Jacobs - BDS Tech Campaigns Co-ordinator

from New York Times
Opinion - Guest Essay
by Peter Beinart
Nov. 7, 2024

Sanya Mansoor
November 7 2024, 3:33 p.m. ET

By Nader Durgham in Dhour al-Choueir, Lebanon. Published date: 6 November 2024 16:47 GMT

Matthew Sledge
November 6 2024, 1:47 p.m.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22208294

Niraj Warikoo
Detroit Free Press
November 6, 2024 updated 10:03 EST

Source

It is in Arabic, so you might want to translate it

Matt Sledge
November 4 2024, 1:56 p.m.#

Jake Johnson
Nov 04, 2024

Brett Wilkins
Nov 04, 2024

https://t.me/pflpgaza1/14794

Press release

🔴The Popular Front calls for a boycott of the Democratic and Republican parties and stresses the necessity of not voting for advocates of genocide and supporters of colonialism.

• The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine calls on the free people of America, especially the supporters of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian and Arab communities, and the organizations of blacks and minorities, to boycott the Democratic and Republican parties in the American elections scheduled for tomorrow, which share clear colonial goals aimed at exterminating our people and strengthening the Zionist settlement project.

• These two parties were directly involved in the ongoing war of extermination against our Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, and they never concealed their blatant bias in favor of the occupation, and their continued support for its racist policies that target the existence of our Palestinian people and uproot them from their land.

• The positions of the two American parties reflect an explicit adoption of ethnic cleansing, and legitimize the Zionist crimes and massacres against our people, through financial, political and military support for the Zionist entity; the statements of the symbols of these parties also seek to beautify and justify their imperialist policies that adopt a colonial language, which sees the Palestinian people as an obstacle to their alleged “civilizational project”, and their election campaigns ignore the horrific crimes committed daily against Palestinian civilians, especially women and children, in an attempt to cover up the true face of the occupation and legitimize its crimes.

• The Democratic and Republican parties also continue their attempts to attract the support of Zionist lobbies and influential people, in efforts that aim to strengthen the policies of mass displacement and organized repression against the Palestinians.

• In this context, the Popular Front renews its explicit call to all honorable people in American society not to vote for these two parties that use American tax money, which is sucked from the blood of the American people, to support the Zionist genocidal regime.

• The Popular Front sees boycotting these two Zionist parties in tomorrow’s American elections as a moral stance no less important than any other form of solidarity with the Palestinian people and the rights of oppressed peoples. It is also an effective means of struggle to expose the falsehood of American slogans that speak of freedom and human rights. The United States, through its political tools, is trying to exploit these concepts to justify its crimes and consolidate its hegemony over peoples, without caring about the rights of the Palestinians who are subjected to the most heinous types of crimes.

• Finally, the Front considers that the boycott of the two parties is a clear internal message to the American administration and the international system around it that those who collude in shedding the blood of our people and displacing them should not receive the votes of the free people of the world and our communities, who refuse to be contributors to their election or false witnesses to their criminal policy in power.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media Department 4-November-202 4

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/149349

Here's a link to the paper referenced by the article. Not sure why it wasn't included with the article. Anyway, this chart stood out to me:

Don't believe or respect anyone who says the White House is working on a ceasefire deal. This administration has clearly been working on just the opposite.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22130019

A report by Brown University’s Watson Institute reveals that since the beginning of the war, the US has spent more than $22 billion on military aid to Israel - from weapons and equipment to the deployment of aircraft carriers. Israel receives more U.S. military aid than any other country and is uniquely able to use that funding to spend on domestic goods.

The total amount of American aid since the start of the war is about NIS 85 billion ($22 billion) based on an average exchange rate by the Bank of Israel over the past year. Most has been delivered but about $5.2 billion will only arrive next year. According to official estimates from the Bank of Israel, the total cost of the war is estimated to be about NIS 250 billion ($65 billion), including around NIS 118 billion ($31 billion) for military costs including army operational costs, replenishment of military equipment, ammunition, and logistical support. Therefore, by a simple calculation, the U.S. has been funding about 70% of the war effort.

In this episode of Centre Stage, our guest is John Mearsheimer, a political scientist and influential scholar in international relations who’s best known for his theory of offensive realism.

Mearsheimer talks to Al Jazeera’s Rawaa Auge about the wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Lebanon and how global and regional powers support and arm the belligerent parties. Mearsheimer also weighs in on the 2024 US presidential election, and the minefield that is US foreign policy.