Calling the Faithful to Freedom!

“Let us be very clear. The Republican attacks on Ilhan Omar have nothing to do with keeping Jews safe. Nothing. This is about … sending a threat to leaders who speak out for Palestinian rights” — Jewish Voice for Peace Action: GOP House Members Oust Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee (Mondoweiss) “The kinds of…

“Why launch a devastating incursion, targeting militants yet harming countless civilians, when that method has been proven to exacerbate rather than contain violence?” Because that is result Israel desires: The Myth of the ‘Cycle of Violence’ (972 Magazine) Israel: Collective Punishment Against Palestinians (Human Rights Watch) Palestinians Face Removal as Far-right Israel Vows Expansion (AP)…

Among the devastating facts that “Suarez can back up with hard evidence his assertion that ‘most victims of Zionist assassinations (i.e., targeted killings of specific individuals) were Jews’”: Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea (WRMEA) “The conference unanimously agrees that Al-Shabaab, ISIS and other like-minded groups have deviated from…

In the apartheid state, Palestinians property rights and educational rights are easily ignored … Palestinian Farmer Ordered by Israeli Soldiers to Uproot Olive Saplings on His Land (Palestine Chronicle) Palestine: Education Hit by Flagrant Israeli Violations, Says Rights Group (Middle East Monitor) … and political rights are next on the chopping block: Israel Far-right Coalition…

“Roth himself … [calls] on the university to take a stronger stance in support of academic freedom with regard to criticism of Israel—particularly for those who do not have the public profile he does” … Harvard Changed Its Mind on Ken Roth—Not on Allowing Free Speech About Palestine (The Nation) … and the drafter of…

”The Netanyahu government’s vindictive measures are not new, but are only more intense variations of Zionist and Israeli policies that have existed since the 1910″: Israel’s New Government Is Zionism Unveiled (New Arab) Erdogan’s departure would have consequences for Ukraine, Syria, NATO, and, of course, Turkey: What an Erdogan Loss in Turkey’s Presidential Election Would…

It is illegal to deport a native for even an actual crime; Israel’s willingness to deport people for exposing human riots violations demonstrates the criminal nature of the state: Deportation Punishment for Activism Against Israel, Hammouri Says (Aljazeera) Judge says that when the only way to avoid Christian services is to return to your cell,…

If doctrine does cannot explain the Hamline controversy, racism might: National Muslim Civil Rights Group Voices Support for Former Hamline Professor (MPR News) National, Local Muslim Groups Differ on Hamline University Response to Art Dispute (Star Tribune) The Review: The Hamline Scandal Is an Onion With Many Layers (Chronicle of Higher Education) The Role of…

Human rights activists, Palestinian Alumni of Harvard Kennedy School, and Kenneth Roth himself speak out against HKS’s “support for Israeli state-sponsored violence and apartheid”: Harvard Faces Outcry for Rescinding Post to Ex-Head of Human Rights Watch over Criticism of Israel (Democracy Now) Harvard Kennedy School Palestinian Alumni Call for the Resignation of HKS Dean, Reinstating…

Homes, wells, young people, the PA, its own Arab citizens, and a PTA are among the targets of the apartheid state: Israel Orders Demolition of 5 Homes, 3 Wells in Masafer Yatta (MEMO) Two Youths Injured by Live Bullets During Confrontations with Israeli Soldiers in Jordan Valley Town (Wafa) Israel’s Hardline Govt Revokes Palestinian FM’s…