https://yewtu.be/watch?v=nx1xkxiDPhk
#repression #JulianAssange #freespeech #pressfreedom #Israeli #military #Palestinians #BDS #US #perpetual-war #militarism
#webinar #rogerwaters #davidswanson #toddpierce #q-a #freeassange #wikileaks #war #peace #music #art #activism
This series explores how #Israeli #academic institutions uphold state structures of #colonialism and #apartheid, drawing examples from seven different Israeli accredited #Universities. In 2004, the #Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of #Israel (PACBI) called for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Academic #boycott is one tactic of #solidarity with Palestinian #academics and students who are denied fundamental rights under Israeli apartheid, including the right to #education.
https://www.visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/academia-apartheid
In recent years, up to 1 million #Israelis have left to live in the United States, many of them among #Israel’s most enlightened and educated citizens.
Within Israel, human rights campaigners, intellectuals and journalists — #Israeli and #Palestinian — have found themselves vilified as traitors in government-sponsored smear campaigns, placed under state #surveillance and subjected to arbitrary arrests.
The Israeli educational system, starting in primary school, is an #indoctrination machine for the #military.
The Israeli army periodically unleashes massive assaults with its air force, artillery and mechanized units on the largely defenseless 1.85 million #Palestinians in #Gaza, resulting in thousands of Palestinian dead and wounded.
Israel runs the Saharonim detention camp in the Negev Desert, one of the largest detention centers in the world, where African immigrants can be held for up to three years without trial.
The #colonial project has poisoned #Israel, as feared by its most prescient leaders, including Moshe Dayan and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by a #right-wing Jewish extremist in 1995.
Israel is an #apartheid state that rivals and often surpasses the onetime #savagery and #racism of apartheid South Africa.
Its democracy — which was always exclusively for Jews — has been hijacked by #extremists, including current Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu, who have implemented #racial laws that were once championed mainly by marginalized fanatics such as Meir Kahane.
The #Israeli public is infected with racism. “Death to Arabs” is a popular chant at Israeli soccer matches.
Jewish mobs and vigilantes, including #thugs from right-wing youth groups such as Im Tirtzu, carry out indiscriminate acts of vandalism and #violence against #dissidents, #Palestinians, Israeli #Arabs and the hapless African immigrants who live crammed into the slums of #TelAviv.
Israel has promulgated a series of #discriminatory laws against non-Jews that eerily resemble the #racist Nuremberg Laws that disenfranchised Jews in Nazi Germany.
The Communities Acceptance Law permits exclusively Jewish towns in Israel’s Galilee region to bar applicants for residency on the basis of “suitability to the community’s fundamental outlook.”
#evil #colonization #colonialism #genocide #Palestine #HumanRights
Since 1948, #Palestinians have heroically mounted one #resistance effort after another, all unleashing disproportionate #Israeli reprisals and a demonization of the Palestinians as terrorists.
But this resistance has also forced the world to recognize the presence of Palestinians, despite the feverish efforts of #Israel, the #UnitedStates and many #Arab regimes to remove them from #historical consciousness.
The repeated #revolts, as Said noted, gave the Palestinians the right to tell their own story, the “permission to narrate.”
During the #Nakba in 1948, #Palestinian #refugees lost some 4.6 million dunums of #farmland, which the #Israeli state quickly appropriated for Jewish-only agricultural settlements.
The Ongoing Nakba continues to take a heavy toll on farmers, fishers, and pastoralists across #historic #Palestine.
In besieged #Gaza, 35% of agricultural land is inaccessible due to Israeli #military measures.
In the #occupied #WestBank, 63% of agricultural land is under complete Israeli control in Area C, with #Palestinian rural communities in Area C being some of the most vulnerable to Israeli policies of forced #displacement.
Israel’s wall cuts off more than 10% of the West Bank, forcing thousands of Palestinian farmers to constantly petition Israeli authorities for permits to access their own land beyond the wall.
https://www.visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/food-sovereignty
#violence #evil #colonialism #colonization #apartheid #genocide
One of the central tenets of the #Zionist and #Israeli #colonization is the denial of an authentic, independent #Palestinian #identity.
During the #British control of #Palestine, the population was officially divided between Jews and “non-Jews.”
“There were no such thing as #Palestinians … they did not exist,” onetime Israeli Prime Minister #GoldaMeir quipped.
This erasure, which requires an egregious act of #historical amnesia, is what the Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling called the “politicide” of the Palestinian people.
Khalidi writes, “The surest way to eradicate a people’s right to their land is to deny their historical connection to it.”
Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern #Arab studies at Columbia University, in his book “The Hundred Years’ #War on #Palestine: A History of #Settler #Colonization and #Resistance, 1917-2017” has meticulously documented this long project of colonization of Palestine.
His exhaustive research, which includes internal, private communications between the early #Zionists and #Israeli leadership, leaves no doubt that the Jewish #colonizers were acutely aware from the start that the #Palestinian people had to be subjugated and removed to create the Jewish #state.
The Jewish leadership was also acutely aware that its intentions had to be masked behind euphemisms, the patina of biblical legitimacy by Jews to a land that had been Muslim since the seventh century, platitudes about human and democratic rights, the supposed benefits of colonization to the colonized and a mendacious call for democracy and peaceful co-existence with those targeted for destruction.
'Immediately after the death of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Wednesday morning during an Israel Defense Forces operation in Jenin, #Israeli leaders and spokesmen went into the traditional self-righteous routine. Senior figures, #hasbara people and a few volunteer #journalists were quick to scatter accusations and hints about #Palestinian responsibility for the tragic incident.'
And what about the fact that Israelis should not have been in #Jenin and not in the #WestBank at all? Even not according to the #Oslo agreements..
#IDF #Palestine
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-al-jazeera-reporter-s-death-in-the-court-of-global-opinion-israel-has-already-lost-1.10796715?fbclid=IwAR128w3XLoa_m_SiPV825lRg0be0Fd4N-ua5D9yFuQLsU6xTMYAvBxScz9g
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In 2002, the #Israeli High Court of Justice clarified #ConscientiousObjector status. While #refusal to serve based on one’s #conscience is legal, it is very difficult to prove. What is not legal is “selective refusal,” which is based on #opposition to government policy regarding specific #military or #political actions (e.g., #occupation). Other disallowed categories include “absence from service without permission,” with a maximum #punishment of three years, and desertion, which carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison and a permanent criminal record. There is no statute of limitation. Being out of the country is not an acceptable excuse. Citizens can be arrested upon return.
The procedure for declaring #ConscientiousObjection status goes through military channels. It is handled as that of a #soldier refusing to obey orders. On the scheduled day of military induction, a person declares that s/he refuses to enter the military compound based on conscience. The person is sent immediately to the Military Conscience Committee. Usually, the panel is not convinced of the conscientious objector argument and the young person goes to military #prison for 10 to 15 days. Afterwards, they reappear in front of the committee. The process repeats itself and the young man or woman is returned to prison to work and think further about their decision. This process repeats over and over, with some spending months in prison. Finally, those who do not change their minds are commonly referred to the Medical Corps to be declared mentally unfit. Some agree to military service in noncombat positions. Those who prefer to quietly avoid this prison process entirely will find a doctor or psychiatrist who is willing to have them diagnosed as mentally or physically unfit previous to the induction process.
#Lithuanian National #Cyber Security Centre #analysis shows the #Chinese #Communist regime is working with #Israeli #government on #censorship through Chinese #smartphones.
Why would the #CCP want to #censor "The Organisation for the #Liberation of #Palestine" unless it had been requested to do so on behalf of the Israeli state?
For the record, I don't personally take a position on the Israeli / Palestine affair, but I do take a position on censorship, the CCP & the #collusion of #world governments in the imposition of censorship.
#CyberSecurity #lithuania #freedom #freespeech #freedomofspeech #communism #authoritarianism #godgivenrights #naturalrights #humanrights #USA #UK
www.nksc.lt/en/reports.html
www.nksc.lt/doc/en/analysis/2021-08-23_5G-CN-analysis_env3.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0Ag8TiL9U
https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/529787-kristinn-hrafnsson-rt-going-underground/
#goingunderground #AfshinRattansi #KristinnHrafnnson #wikileaks #editor-in-chief #publisher #journalism #espionage #pegasus #spyware #leaks #nso #israeli #software #global #surveillance #julianassange #assange #us #extradition #detention #dropthecharges #humanrights #violation #freeassange #weareallassange #RichardMurphy #uk #taxes
Published on 15 Mar 2015
Memory day for #RachelCorrie planting #olivetrees in #Qaryout (Nablus). The soldiers attacked palestinians preparing the food. Two kidnapped, one of them and another one unconscious. The soldiers shoot live ammunition.
