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As appalling as Israel’s violence against education, trade, and fishermen may be … Palestine: Children Flee as Israeli Forces Demolish West Bank Elementary School (Middle East Eye) Israel Imposes Closure on Jenin, Blocks Movement of Goods (Palestine Chronicle) Israel Navy Opens Fires at Palestine Fishermen (Middle East Memo) … things are about to get worse:…

Israeli demonstrators shout “I’m proud to be a racist” and “You should all be in camps,” and a former Israeli police chief says suspicion of Ethiopians is only “natural”: This Is How Black People Are Treated in Israel (Mint Press) Somali-American Muslims withdrew their request in deference to their neighbors, but still do not know…

Understanding Israel’s cruel response to a nonviolent protestor … A Palestinian ‘Lioness’ Sets Her Record Straight (972 Magazine) … can help explain why it won’t join “80 states, including the US, UK and France” opposing attacks on civilians … Israel Refuses to Sign Deal on Preventing Attacks on Residential Areas (Middle East Monitor) … and…

Neither schools nor the autistic are safe from Israel’s war on children: Israel’s Relentless War Against the Children of Palestine (Palestine Chronicle) Israel to Demolish Palestine School in Masafer Yatta (Middle East Monitor) Autistic Palestinian Teen’s Killing Casts Spotlight on Israel Tactics (BBC) A mother complains “Plainclothes forces shot my child. That is it” ……

Shouldn’t Elon Musk’s “free speech absolutism” apply to on-the-ground reports of Israeli crimes? Twitter Suspends Palestine Online Account (Middle East Monitor) Twenty-one “detainees have been charged with security-related offenses that are punishable by death” … More Protesters in Iran Have Been Sentenced to Death as Political Unrest Continues (CNBC) … but propaganda that thousands of…

As the UN asks the ICJ for an opinion on Israeli human rights abuses, the occupier state is angered by Ukraine’s lack of hypocrisy on illegal occupation: ‘A Breakthrough’: UN Committee Votes to Request ICJ Opinion on Israeli Occupation (Middle East Eye) Israel Angered as Ukraine Backs UN Resolution Seeking ICJ Opinion on Occupation (Palestine…

As the U.S. and Israel object to a U.N. request for an ICJ opinion on Israeli human rights practices … Fourth Committee Hears Support for Referring Question of Palestine to International Court of Justice for Advisory Opinion (Reliefweb) … the settler/soldier onslaught continues: Israeli Forces Arrest Dozens of Palestinians in Attack on Jenin (Tasnim) Israeli…

As the tacit acceptance of the Israeli electorate’s embrace of open fascism by some American Jewish leaders embarrasses Biden and many Jews … Biden Officials Were ‘Very Upset’ with U.S. Jewish Leaders for Silence on Ben-Gvir (Mondoweiss) Israel: Ben-Gvir ‘to Demand Harsh Conditions for Jailed Palestinians’ in Coalition Talks (Middle East Eye) Israel’s Ascendant Far…

“Pakistan will lead a bloc of more than 100 developing nations insisting on compensation for the irreversible harms of climate change” at COP27 … At COP27, Flood-battered Pakistan Leads Push to Make Polluting Countries Pay (Washington Post) … while the Egyptian government hopes the prestige of hosting the conference will distract international public opinion unjust…

Caricature, “misrepresentation and absence of research” used to deny AIPAC’s work to ensure that “no one in a position of power deviates from the Israel line”: Mead Book Illustrates Lobby’s Clout While Striving to Deny It (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs) The scholars find the IHRA definition of antisemitism is “problematic. Vague and incoherent”…