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CIA cites Israeli court ruling to “justify” torture program
Originally published at The Electronic Intifada The CIA repeatedly cited an Israeli high court decision to justify torture, according to the long-awaited US Senate report on the agency’s torture...
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“Liberation for all”: Why Palestine is a key issue on the streets of Ferguson
Originally published at The Electronic Intifada “As a person who supports Israel I was glad to see that there were no signs and conversation about Gaza at all,” said St. Louis-area rabbi Ari Kaiman...
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Killing 40 civilians in one go is “reasonable,” says Israel army ethicist
Originally published at The Electronic Intifada Since the Israeli army killed more than 2,200 Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip last summer, including more than 500 children, a dedicated army of...
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Podcast: Journalist Dan Cohen on What He Saw as Gaza Endured Deadly Winter Storm
Selfie with the greatest threat to Israel. pic.twitter.com/kJXtNrmdB1 — Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) January 5, 2015 On this year’s first episode of Unauthorized Disclosure Kevin Gosztola and I speak with...
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Sixty percent of global drone exports come from Israel — new data
Originally published at The Electronic Intifada Israel has supplied 60.7 percent of the world’s drones since 1985, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. As a...
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Israel “directly targeted” children in drone strikes on Gaza, says rights group
Originally published at The Electronic Intifada Israel deliberately targeted children in Gaza last summer, according to a new report by Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCI-Palestine). Of...
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Israeli-trained police invade Baltimore in crackdown on Black Lives Matter
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada For the second time in less than a year, an American city was transformed into a hypermilitarized police state to subdue growing resistance to anti-Black police...
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PolitiFact denies Israeli ties to Baltimore police despite evidencete
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada PolitiFact, the Tampa Bay Times’ political and media accountability project, has refused to issue a correction to an article that wrongly denies, against all...
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The Nation magazine’s shameful history of aiding ethnic cleansing in Palestine
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada In 2005, Palestinian civil society implored people of conscience around the world to stand up for justice by honoring its call for boycott, divestment and...
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Obama gives $1.9 billion in weapons as welcome gift to Israel’s racist...
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada The Obama administration approved a $1.9 billion arms sale to Israel in recent days as “compensation” for the US nuclear deal with Iran, which the Israeli...
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Will Israel’s “whiff from hell” weapon be used to crush US protests?
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada US police departments are interested in procuring the foul-smelling skunk water that Israeli forces routinely use on Palestinians, according to The Economist....
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ADL honor for St. Louis police ahead of Ferguson anniversary sparks outrage
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is honoring the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) on 31 July, just days ahead of the first anniversary of the...
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Israel threw stun grenade at 11-year-old — Human Rights Watch
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuses Israeli forces of subjecting detained Palestinian children to chokeholds, beatings, strip-searches and forced...
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Israeli leaders lit the match that burned baby Ali Dawabsha
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada The savage burning alive of 18-month-old Palestinian baby Ali Dawabsha in the occupied West Bank village of Duma has elicited energetic condemnations from...
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St. Louis police bought Israeli skunk spray after Ferguson uprising
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada Three months after Ferguson erupted in protest over the police killing of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department...
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Podcast: Under siege, Palestinian refugees endure typhoid, famine and...
The population of the Palestinian refugee camp in Yarmouk, on the southern outskirts of Damascus, was once around 200,000 people. A brutal siege by the Syrian regime and an occupation by fighters from...
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Palestinian lives don’t matter to US media
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada As Israel ramps up its deadly attacks on Palestinians, mainstream US media outlets are actively concealing the alarming displays of genocidal racism emanating...
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Israeli leaders exploit Paris attacks to justify atrocities against Palestinians
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada Since Islamic State operatives killed nearly 130 people in a series of attacks across Paris on Friday, Israeli leaders have rushed to exploit the carnage to...
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US cops trained to use lethal Israeli tactics
My latest at The Electronic Intifada: US police officers are being tutored by Israel on how to employ the tactics that have brought death and serious injury to huge numbers of Palestinians in the past...
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Bernie Sanders and the question of Palestine
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada At a March 1988 news conference endorsing Jesse Jackson’s candidacy for president, Bernie Sanders blasted Israel’s brutal treatment of Palestinian protesters as...
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