YOUR THOUGHTS MUST REMAIN FREE

September 30, 2020 at 11:13 (Associate Post, Civil Liberties, Corrupt Politics, DesertPeace Exclusive, Palestine)

Fear not, for the law and the facts concerning Palestine are on our side! And that is why Zionists fear nothing but the truth and want to prevent any discussion! By all means one wants to prevent their meager and transparent claims from being exposed.

Pete Seeger- Die Gedanken Sind Frei

Thoughts on the Day of Atonement Yom Kippur

As long as the thoughts are still free

By Evelyn Hecht-Galinski

The Day of Atonement Yom Kippur on 27./28. September 2020 is, as always, a day without reconciliation with the Palestinians, which is therefore, as always, only about reconciliation with oneself and one’s own crimes. Especially in these times of Corona, hatred of Russia and hatred of Turkey, you have to speak the truth, also when it comes to the “Jewish state” and the illegal Jewish occupation of Palestine and we may face new laws that try to keep trying to elevate the Jews philosophically and to put them on a pedestal of uniqueness and particularity, restrict freedom of expression, dumb us down with media unity,

Lost all feeling for international law and statutes?

If the representatives of the Israel lobby and their willing helpers in politics and the media have their way, we should all be made anti-Semites. The only problem is not the legitimate demonstrations against Trump’s “Jerusalem decision” with the illegal transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but it is the political climate, led by Central Council President Schuster, his “recipient of orders” , the anti-Semitism commissioner of the federal government, Felix Klein, with his demand on Europe and Germany to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the “Jewish State”. The chutzpah of this representative of the Jewish religious community in Germany, with which he so shamelessly openly calls for a breach of international law, is speechless! Do these “Israel lobbyists” feel not bound by the German Basic Law or, as the well-known mouthpiece of the “Jewish State”, have they lost any feeling for international law and laws? It is an affront to the German government, which must immediately and resolutely reject this request, since it does not correspond to the European criticism of this unlawful procedure.Apparently, the Merkel government is afraid of an appropriate answer that could tarnish the celebrations just celebrated for the 70th birthday of the founding of the Central Council of Jews. it does not correspond to the European criticism of this unlawful practice. Apparently, the Merkel government is afraid of an appropriate answer that could tarnish the celebrations just celebrated for the 70th birthday of the founding of the Central Council of Jews. it does not correspond to the European criticism of this unlawful practice. Apparently, the Merkel government is afraid of an appropriate answer that could tarnish the celebrations just celebrated for the 70th birthday of the founding of the Central Council of Jews.

Also because of this behavior, Schuster need not be surprised if Jews outside the “Jewish State” are made responsible for Israeli politics. It is precisely the Central Council and other organized Jews who, as staunch supporters of the Israeli occupation regime, are perceived as quasi “side ambassadors”. In addition, there is chutzpah, Judaism and Zionism, so that they can use this clever but transparent move to denounce anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism.

Land without people and people

If you do not see these connections, President Schuster, and if you see the burning of the Star of David as a visible symbol of the illegal occupation of Palestine burning Israel’s “right to exist”, then you can no longer help. They lack any spark of empathy for the population of Palestine, which has suffered from the arbitrary occupation for decades. Either you lost this feeling as a descendant of racially persecuted people, or you never had it.Finally, we should never forget that the Palestinians are the last – innocent of the Holocaust – victims and sufferers of the Nazi regime and its effects to this day, because their land was, and is still being, stolen, hundreds of thousands of people displaced, ethnically cleansed and in a Gaza genocide and the Gaza lockdown, which continues to this day, by air, Water and land, taken as good as all viability. Thanks to the hypocritical policy of the so-called “community of values” with no prospect of an end to the illegal occupation and a separate, free, democratic state, the so-called “two-state solution”, which the “Jewish state” is known to have neither wanted nor ever, is propagated wanted how to make peace with the Palestinians. It just wants the land without the people and the people. like making peace with the Palestinians. It just wants the land without the people and the people. like making peace with the Palestinians. It just wants the land without the people and the people.

Now Schuster is also calling for a change in the law that makes the burning of pseudo flags and flags a criminal offense. It should be stopped in its arrogant zeal and recommended that it be better first to deal with international law and human rights. The focus is not on the right of the “Jewish state” to exist, but rather the long overdue termination of the illegal occupation and the long overdue recognition of the right to exist of Palestine, a state with a capital Jerusalem.

Merkel in particular, as a “Christian Zionist with a firm grasp of the Bible”, should follow the Gospel of Luke and not be afraid and react appropriately.But she is so busy trying to ensnare the more than controversial nationalist “Kremlin critic” Navalny. Who else will a visit by the Chancellor in the “State Hospital” Charité take part? It seems as if the Russian patient is also “Merkel’s patient”! (1)

Mossad poisonings

Let’s compare that with the attempted murder of Israeli Mossad agents of the Palestinian politician Khaled Meshaal on September 25, 1997 in Amman, the capital of Jordan. The blatant attack on the life of the then 41-year-old head of the Hamas Politburo sparked a diplomatic dispute that threatened to destroy the newly signed peace agreement between Jordan and Israel. The crisis ended with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu having to make a series of humiliating concessions and handing out the antidote. If the federal government had brought this admirable Palestinian freedom fighter and resistance fighter for the freedom of Palestine to Germany at the Charité. or would Chancellor Merkel have visited him “privately”? Hardly likely, because while Russia “critics” and guests of state are courted, legitimate fighters against the Zionist occupation regime who are being murdered by the Mossad are viewed as “terrorists”! The double standard in the western “values” community is that simple. (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

It is also not surprising that among the nine small US-dependent states that voted for Trump’s Jerusalem resolution in the UN, there was also Guatemala, whose President Morales unfortunately followed the US and wanted to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem . However, it did not bring him any luck, he was disempowered and is now in asylum in Argentina. In this context, I would like to remind you that Israel was known to be a willing arms dealer to the dictatorship of the time to destroy the indigenous population of Guatemala. “Israel’s well-documented role in the dirty war of Guatemala, which left more than 200,000 dead, has not been brought to justice.” Another specialty of the “Jewish apartheid regime” is exporting its tried and tested weapons. That was the beginning, which found its disgusting completion with the mendacious UAE agreement, it is really only about enormous arms sales. We can vividly imagine what this means for the future, war and destruction, hunger and misery. (7)

Central council president called for upper limit

Schuster also plays a more than dangerous role in the refugee crisis, because he took the CSU position of an “upper limit” very early on and never tired of warning against allegedly “imported” Muslim anti-Semitism.We have long seen the effects of hatred of Islam and the mood towards Muslims. Schuster is adopting an AfD position and making the “Gauland!” In contrast to the Christian representatives, who behave much more moderately, the Central Council of Jews and other Jewish officials play a more than dangerous role that only fuels prejudice. In the meantime we are experiencing an unrestrained hatred of Islam, right-wing extremism and xenophobia, led by the AfD, the party that otherwise stands so upright on the side of the Jews and the “Jewish state”.

No Israelization of Germany

The “Jewish State”, which denies the Palestinians their legal right of return and expels black refugees to their home countries, has forfeited any right to be recognized as a role model. But President Schuster does not deal with these issues, but prefers to paint a glorifying picture of the “Jewish State” and thus calls for an “Israelization” of Germany, which we cannot allow. The countless Mossad murders, on the orders of the respective Zionist regimes, were never of importance for the hypocritical community of states, because according to Zionist standards they only served “self-defense and security” for the “threatened” “Jewish state” and were tolerated, even supported. (8) (9)

The Mahler song of the “persecuted in the tower” with the text “The thoughts are free”, at the end of this text I see a representative symbol for the persecuted friends in Palestine. (10)

I would like to thank my many Christian-Palestinian friends in occupied Bethlehem, Beth Sahour and Beth Shala, as well as in occupied Jerusalem, Gaza and all of Palestine and explicitly to my friend Mazin Qumsiyeh, with whom I have a long-standing friendship and for his book “Canaan : A common country. Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ”, published by Zambon-Verlag, I was allowed to contribute the foreword. An important and highly recommended book that I want to remind you of again. (11)

Fight for a free Palestine

For me, Mazin Qumsiyeh is always a shining example and role model for socio-political work in illegally occupied Palestine. His whole life has been dedicated to the struggle for a free Palestine and, like me, he works for a state of Palestine. On behalf of the many courageous Palestinians who put up resistance at the risk of their lives.

Palestine a sad symbol of ongoing Zionist occupation

Palestine 2020 in Corona times is a sad symbol of the ongoing Zionist occupation and the arbitrary separation of families from Gaza and the rest of occupied Palestine. If it was previously possible to travel from Gaza to Ramallah or to Bethlehem, this is now becoming impossible due to the increasing harassment of the Netanyahu regime. In this way, frustration and hopelessness are consciously promoted, which actually has only one purpose, namely to force the Palestinians, Christian or Muslim, to give up and to help “Eretz Israel” and the “Greater Israel” that has always been planned to achieve a “final victory”. After 72 years of ethnic cleansing and occupation, 75 years after the end of the war, it is time to reconcile and stand up for freedom. Unfortunately, we are further away from that than ever! Do not be afraid.

Footnotes:

1 https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=65272

2 https://www.mopo.de/news/politik-wirtschaft/rassistische–rechtsradikal–homophob–nawalny–die-dunklen-seiten-des–kremlkritikers–37373234

3 https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/osteuropa/politik/nawalny-kritisch-klimeniouk-100.html

4 https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/krisen/id_88652664/alexej-nawalny-angela-merkel-besuchte-kreml-kritiker-persoenlich-in-der-charite.html

5 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200925-remembering-israels-botched-attempt-to-assassinate-khaled-meshaal/

6 https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/2020/der-navalny-fake/

7 https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-01/evo-morales-ex-praesident-bolivien-ruecktritt-wahl

8 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200925-remembering-israels-botched-attempt-to-assassinate-khaled-meshaal/

9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations

10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTvmpuqA9XM&list=RDiTvmpuqA9XM&start_radio=1&t=0

11 https://www.beck-shop.de/qumsiyeh-kanaan-gemeinsames-land/product/15484915

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PALESTINE IS NOT A VIRUS …… IT MUST NOT BE TREATED AS ONE!

March 18, 2020 at 13:23 (Associate Post, Civil Liberties, Collective Punishment, Corrupt Politics, DesertPeace Exclusive)

With the powers of mass surveillance of Corona-infected Israelis and Palestinians, Netanyahu has shamelessly used his own interests to hostage a people and trample on civil rights.

Zionist Surveillance Terror in the Time of Corona

By Evelyn Hecht-Galinski

There are few states like the “Jewish” that shamelessly try to undermine all democratic rules to allegedly defeat the corona virus. What could be better for Netanyahu than using a virus to equate it to terror. It quickly makes clear where the supposed terror comes from: it is the Palestinians.

While the Zionist regime has left no stone unturned for decades in order to limit the freedom of movement of the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza, to torture them at checkpoints, to block them off at will and to deprive them of all rights, the corona virus has come to him Law.

“Part of a war”

Almost identical to French President Macron, who spoke in his pathetic “Sun King” speech on Monday evening about a “war” in which France is against the virus in order to justify the drastic measures he has announced, Netanyahu also spoke of an “invisible enemy” against whom he is fighting as “part of a war” to defeat Corona.

Emergency regulations enable all suspicious citizens to be monitored

Trying to curb the expansion of COVID-19 to stop the spread is more than understandable and important. However, the choice of means decides what is still justifiable and compatible with democratic standards, whether a state and its leadership can still be perceived as democracy. Finally, the emergency regulations mean that the Israeli regime will be able to monitor all suspected citizens. So far, it has been almost exclusively the Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza concentration camp, and after the second intifada intensified by all means, such as drones, as well as hacking and blocking their accounts in social networks.

Surveillance state based on Orwellian model

With the powers of mass surveillance of Corona-infected Israelis and Palestinians, Netanyahu has shamelessly used his own interests to hostage a people and trample on civil rights. These are emergency laws that allow the domestic secret service Shin-Bet to monitor infected Israelis, as well as use technological means that do not stop at snooping, that allows unlawful detection, and also show no respect for credit cards and privacy, and therefore smartphones uses to brutally spy on cellular data for purposes of “national security”, with all subscriber data, location data, as well as payments and transactions of all kinds, without judicial approval. All of these methods have long been familiar to the Palestinians under Zionist occupation. Let us not pretend, despite all the assertions, it cannot be ruled out if everything works so smoothly and effectively that this total surveillance seamlessly, even without “emergency”, leads the “Jewish state” into an “eternal surveillance state” based on Orwellian model transformed.

Supposedly infected people are considered criminals

Under the guise of the pandemic, all supposedly infected people are considered criminals who are treated by all means. However, Corona is neither a war nor an intifada, but a civil emergency that does not justify monitoring citizens with all technical means and illegally invading their privacy. In combination with camera surveillance on streets, the regime has for years successfully tried out not only online but also real spying on citizens. It is not for nothing that the “Jewish state” is the first country to openly admit to using these technologies. However, what the “Jewish state” celebrates here has only indirectly to do with “fighting the virus” because the citizen is seen as a virus. The attempt to justify also fails miserably,

The majority of Israeli citizens reject these measures, which go beyond what other countries do. Great criticism can be ruled out, where demonstrations and gatherings of more than ten people are prohibited and the parliament (Knesset) does not meet, thus avoiding any political discussion such as in Germany.

In Taiwan, for example, digital surveillance was used to prevent the spread of the epidemic, but in a different way. The Taiwanese government has issued specially designated phones for suspected cases to prevent surveillance of citizens’ private phones. However, Taiwan is also not an occupation country that has imprisoned millions of Palestinians and robbed them of their country and their rights. Will you be able to trust the promises of the Attorney General, who will only endorse this surveillance if the information gathered is destroyed after 30 days? More than questionable in a country that has proven for decades that it is ready not to care about democratic rights. Everything is fatally reminiscent of Gestapo / Stasi methods! (1) (2)

Unpleasant enemies of all terrorists

How the Netanyahu regime takes advantage of a law from 2002, which was heavily criticized when it was introduced, and which stipulates that “threats of terror, sabotage, espionage and the uncovering of state secrets” allow everything and all data on a large scale Authorities and intelligence agencies are unprecedented. Everything is justified with the “anti-terrorist struggle”. According to Haaretz, Zionist secret services boast that, thanks to years of practice, they are well trained to differentiate between “terrorists” who threaten national security and “innocent” civilians. This farce is a “Zionist gag”, after all, for Israeli secret services and politicians, the Palestinians, their supporters and other unwelcome enemies are all terrorists.

Netanyahu is abusing the virus

So what could be better for Netanyahu than presenting himself with unlimited surveillance and complete isolation as a conqueror of the corona virus, which he, like friend Trump, wants to have under control. He misuses the virus to distract from his personal state of emergency and to present himself as an indispensable “doer”. (3)

You cannot break right to commit wrong

If the “Jewish state” completely seals itself off in order to keep the infection rates low, that would not in itself be grounds for criticism, but if all fundamental rights are then undermined, then this cannot be justified. You can’t break right to commit wrong and worse, be praised and taken as a role model.

Netanyahu profited from the corona crisis

That the corruption process against Netanyahu was postponed to May because of Corona is a godsend and makes him one of the profiteers of the Corona crisis. Even if “opposition leader” Gantz was commissioned by President Rivlin to form a government, this does not testify to democracy and hope. In fact, Gantz has refused to coalition with the Jewish-Arab United List. He and his statements on further Gaza attacks, the support for the annexation of the Jordan Valley for “security reasons” and his numerous war crimes as head of government have been disqualified as Netanyahu. Both belong to the International Court of Justice in The Hague as war criminals. He’s not facing corruption charges, but he’s not a candidate for peace either,

With us, too, we can only trust that, despite all the drastic measures that await us in the coming months, democracy will be preserved. According to the standard, Austria also seems to rely on “Israeli surveillance methods”. It is to be hoped that this time there will be no “connection” between Germany and Austria, as we have seen in reverse. (4)

So as German / European citizens we only have to fight racism and Islamophobia for democracy, freedom of expression and our rights, even in times of Corona.

Our common goal: stay healthy so that we can continue to fight.

Footnotes:

(1)
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/coronavirus-israel-democracy-fights-its-life-time-netanyahu-spies

(2) https://taz.de/Handyueberüberwachung- Gegen-Corona-in-Israel/!5672043/

(3)
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000115828957/mobilfunker-a1-liefert-bewegungungsstroeme-von-handynutzern-der-regierung?ref=article

(4) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/coronavirus-weltweit-1.4830581

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NEW RULES, NEW HYPOCRISY ON SPORTS FIELD

January 16, 2020 at 12:45 (Civil Liberties, Hypocrisy, Sports)

A new list of restrictions against political speech or gestures was released on Thursday by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

John Carlos, right, and Tommie Smith, center, raise gloved fists in protest at the 1968 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo)

John Carlos Responds to the New Olympics Ban on Political Protest

The 1968 Olympian points out the hypocrisy of new rules against any political demonstrations on the field or medal stand.

By Dave Zirin

Olympic athletes competing in Tokyo have been put on notice. They are there to be seen and not heard. A new list of restrictions against political speech or gestures was released on Thursday by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The move is as arrogant as it is censorious. Any athlete who may have planned to take a knee like Colin Kaepernick, or raise their fist like John Carlos or Tommie Smith in 1968, will have to think again. Make a gesture of solidarity with your oppressed brethren in your home country as 2016 Olympian Feyisa Lilesa did and you could find yourself ostracized.

The actual punishments for political speech are opaque but threatening, the IOC saying that such will be determined on a “case by case basis.” In the official statement, Olympic organizers write:

The unique nature of the Olympic Games enables athletes from all over the world to come together in peace and harmony. We believe that the example we set by competing with the world’s best while living in harmony in the Olympic Village is a uniquely positive message to send to an increasingly divided world.

This is why it is important, on both a personal and a global level, that we keep the venues, the Olympic Village and the podium neutral and free from any form of political, religious or ethnic demonstrations.

There is something particularly ironic about the fact that the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) just admitted John Carlos and Tommie Smith into its Hall of Fame last November, 51 years after they raised their fists on the medal stand in 1968. The ceremony was meant to be a celebration of reconciliation and a tacit acknowledgment by the USOPC that it was wrong to ostracize the two runners. This new ruling sends a hell of a message that the “Olympic movement” wants to absorb the protest into the past and criminalize it for the present and future.

I spoke to John Carlos on the phone and, as one might expect, he was livid. Here’s what he told me:

This is nonsense. They’re way out of line with this. They’re trying to take people’s rights away and it’s ridiculous. They are saying that they don’t want politics at the Olympics but this is a political move. The silencing of people is political. We all love the Olympics but I’m not sacrificing my humanity to win a medal. Every time they go to different nation for a different Olympics, are you going to tell me that the choice of the country isn’t politically motivated? I ain’t buying that. The athlete should be able to make a statement on that medal stand. They are not disrespecting a flag. They are using their time to do what they think is right. They are trying to save lives. No one has the right to take away what’s inside you or silence what you want to say.

I asked Carlos how he squares being inducted into the USOPC Hall of Fame and then given this anti-political crackdown. He said:

It shows that if you stand with it, you’ll be accepted in time. But people have to have the courage to step up. I’ve done mine. I’ve been stepping up and living by the truth of that gesture for 51 years. It’s time for that next generation to step up and show their moral character…If you think all is fine, and you go to the Olympic Games with your mouth zipped, you’ll find you’ll regret it.

The brazen contradiction is of course that the Olympics are already political from top to bottom. They are political in the host country, where the head of state makes the argument that the Olympics will benefit the country economically. Government leaders also inevitably argue for national unity in support of the games, no matter how much debt is accrued, how much militarization is demanded, and how many people are displaced. The games are are political for the sponsors who use the Olympics to hawk their products, in a process one could call “sin washing.” Sponsors like McDonald’s—which pushes the utter opposite of an Olympic diet—sell their wares and benefit from the warm glow emitted by the Olympics. The games are political for the environment, which suffers a gigantic global footprint during the course of the Games. And in this era of political athletes, there is of course something political about an edict that aims to shut them down.

I reached out to Jules Boykoff, author of four books on the Olympics, including the forthcoming NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Beyond. He said:

The IOC’s edict, as laundered through its Athletes Commission, brims with hypocrisy. Athlete activism emerges from overlapping systems of injustice. To deny athletes the right to express their thoughts and feelings on the political injustices that wrack the world today reeks of authoritarianism, which is political in itself. This policy is a slap in the face to the exciting zeitgeist of smart, savvy athletes who are not willing to check their brains in at the Olympic door.

One thing is certain. As long as athletes are willing to confront their fear and risk punishment to speak their truth, this issue is going nowhere.

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AS IF WE DIDN’T KNOW ….. ZIONISM IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

October 23, 2019 at 13:13 (Associate Post, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Collective Punishment, DesertPeace Exclusive, zionism)

Why are the Palestinian rights, which also include a legal and UN-approved right of return to their stolen and occupied homeland, portrayed here as a terror that threatens Israel and its right to exist? This is a crime that, like the National Law, restricts even more the rights of all minorities and has as little to do with democracy as Zionism.

Zionism is a Crime Against Humanity

Evelyn Hecht-Galinski

When AKK, the new German Minister of War, Annegret Kramp-K (n) arrenberger, made her inaugural visit to the “Jewish State,” Israel’s security was the German raison d’etre. She was so motivated by her attachment to the “Jewish state” that she particularly pointed out that her first trip abroad, outside the EU, was going to Israel, that she was consciously choosing to speak in Israel as a privilege. According to “boss” Merkel, who in 2008 had already made the German state rationale for the security of Israel a “matter of the heart”. Even then AKK words should have made us deeply worried – their words of recognition to Israel, how to learn from Israel in terms of defense and cybersecurity.

Israel’s reign of terror

What we learn from Israel is how an apartheid state has managed to become a victim of the Holocaust, building a reign of terror over the illegal occupation of Palestine, which is unique in the world. As Netanyahu once said when it came to US support, the Jewish lobby in the US is so strong that we can expect support again and again.

In fact, this support, which is supported by all parties in Germany – supported by the lobby – has become official and uncritical policy. While Jewish settlements, war crimes and crimes against international law are being promoted as “self-defense” to actively support this small, allegedly only enemy-threatened country, the systematic destruction of Palestinian infrastructure and life here is virtually unnoticed or philosemitically ignored.

AKK as an Israeli combat drone

So, if AKK demands a “security zone” for Syria, why has not it made this demand to Israel, which almost daily violates sovereign rights and airspaces through drone surveillance and attacks? Why are more than questionable Kurdish fighters supported, but Palestinian resistance fighters defamed as terrorists? Because the “Jewish state” and the Israel lobby are massively pursuing this “whispering policy” and have German philosemitic functionaries firmly in their hands?

When AKK emphasized responsibility for the present and the future during her visit to the “Jewish State” out of historical guilt and presented this as a “personal” obligation in the spirit of hope and friendship, she was actually aware of how she was doing so International law and human rights trample? While AKK as CDU chairman and “Minister of Defense” sought to profile themselves on all “waves” in order to finally position themselves for the chancellorship.

Her request to intervene in Syria and to demand an international security zone in the Syrian territory to Turkey seemed to her the opportunity for the “liberation blow”. When she brashly styled and styled on ZDF on Monday night and acted like Merkel’s model in the red blazer – but still with a cross around her neck – one could almost see how the prospects for German military cooperation and leadership inspired her. AKK, which made itself such a self-important “combat drone”, wanted to see their initiative as an important contribution in view of the difficult humanitarian situation in northern Syria. AKK wanted to position itself internationally to take control, so as not to let Russia and Turkey alone to cooperate. While she probably already dreams of that “her” Bundeswehr troops will intervene there, she knows very well that the Bundestag must decide on it. We do not know whether it will come back to the UNO decision on German actions, but with this kind of politicians this is quite conceivable.

Right-wing extremist friendships

While she briefed her colleague AA-Maas about her plans and said that she was surprised, and that she sees “still need for discussion” in the proposals and considers it too early for such considerations, you can not be sure how he and the SPD will finally decide when it comes to the “Gro / Ko” sausage? After all, it is precisely this Foreign Minister in terms of the “Jewish State” so connected with the views of the CDU colleague. Had he not announced his deep attachment to Israel during his visit to Israel, since he had gone into politics because of Auschwitz, building up a friendship with a far-right former colleague? With Ayeled Shaked, who did not hesitate to make their election campaign with reference to this “friendship”?

In fact, Maas actually complained about Israel’s “exclusion” by the UN in May and that it did not behave correctly towards Israel. Indeed, the “Auschwitz Minister” actually vowed to strengthen Jerusalem’s position in foreign policy to end this “painful and unsatisfactory” state, to strengthen Israel’s present and legitimate interests, and to block any attempt to delegitimize or isolate the “Jewish state”. to prevent. So what else can we expect from these politicians, who continue to side with an apartheid and occupied state that knowingly disregards international law and commits war crimes of the worst kind?

Of course, what Israel is allowed to do when it comes to Turkey is very different. A violation of international law will only be punished and sanctions will only be demanded if it is allegedly committed by Russia or Turkey. Let us be relieved that the US is withdrawing from Syria. But they will have trouble stationing these “great Trump’s troops.” Already dismisses the Iraq and do not want to have these troops in the country, after all, one has enough experience with US war troops made.

Syrian refugees: product of criminal Zionist power politics?

But my big worry is that the “Jewish deputy” is already clenching his hooves, waiting to intervene in Syria to kill two birds with one stone: to weaken Assad so that he no longer has any claims on the illegally occupied and Golan Heights, which belongs to Syria. To eliminate Iran definitively and to blow it completely out of Syria. Was not it Israel, which from the beginning put the fray on Syria, Lebanon and Iran, to fire the fire as a fire-accelerant. Are not the many Syrian refugees today and the Palestinian people in Lebanon a victim of this criminal Zionist power politics?

If we had not had Turkey, which took away the millions of refugees, we would be even more stupid. Merkel would not do anything without the Turkey agreement. Israel in particular is a master in refugee creation and then rejects it. (Except for Jewish people) This is one of the reasons why AfD and the Zionist regime work so well together. The fight against Muslims connects them. The rise of right-wing extremists worldwide has made Zionist politics even more powerful.

Kramp Karrenbauer and Merkel should take care that they do not take over if they make big foreign policy. Neither Russia nor Turkey will take a long look at these “AKK games”. If now also the “left” Katja Kipping Erdogan and Turkey threatens and even calls to freeze his accounts, then the incompetent ladies trio is complete.

A state that disregards international and human rights must have no right to exist

When it comes to Jewish concerns, all “values” are nullified, and all that matters is the security and existence of a “Jewish state,” which as a state that disregards international and human rights, has no right to exist , As long as the existence of a Palestinian state and sovereignty of this people is not supported, the “Jewish state” can not be supported. However, we are further away than ever. Also elections will not change anything in Israel nothing.

If outgoing EU Commission President Juncker prides himself on not having one of the world’s 60 or so ongoing wars taking place in Europe, that is very “pleasant”, but covers up an important fact that we are making a lot of money on these wars and pursue their own economic interests. Oil fields and natural gas must be protected, that is the maxim of “economic values”, the basis of geopolitics. Has not Israel been trying for some time to profitably exploit the huge oilfields on its doorstep?

If the final goal of the Federal Government is the new military strength, ever higher arms spending and arms sales, perhaps with the “ultimate goal” of horror and the stationing of nuclear weapons, then it is time for us to defend ourselves against it as German citizens Contribute to politics.

When human rights statements degenerate into phrases …

If the European Union pretends to defend human rights and speaks of values to be defended, but all these “values” become phrases, then it is overdue that finally a rethinking takes place and the “Jewish state” as an apartheid state and illegal Occupying power is treated. As long as millions of Palestinians are deprived of their rights to live in dignity and freedom, and Germany does not face historical and contemporary responsibility, as long as we, who criticize Israel and support the Boycott Disinvestment Sanctions Movement (BDS), become criminals Anti-Semites should be made and the freedom of expression should be silenced, as long as it pays to stand up for it, especially in Germany!

Yes, I support the statement by Turkish President Erdogan that “Zionism is a crime against humanity”.

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A STUDENT WITHOUT A VOICE

September 5, 2019 at 15:42 (Academic Freedom, Civil Liberties, Palestine)

It’s clear that Ismail Ajjawi will not have the same right to speak out freely as his Harvard classmates enjoy. He will have to be exceedingly cautious about joining student demonstrations in favor of Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), for example.

In short, Ismail Ajjawi will not have the college experience that he deserves. And neither will his classmates.

The US allows in the Harvard student of Palestinian background it deported, but he will not be able to speak out freely like his classmates

James North

The Harvard student of Palestinian origin who the U.S. deported before he could start classes has been allowed back in, but it’s clear that a news blackout now surrounds the shocking episode.

Ismail Ajjawi, who lives in Lebanon, was turned back on August 23 after U.S. immigration officials at Boston’s Logan airport examined his social media accounts. Ajjawi told The Harvard Crimson that the officials found nothing in his own postings to object to, but they disapproved of what some of his friends had said.

Harvard obviously used its influence, and Ajjawi was admitted on Monday, in time for classes. But today’s New York Times article includes no statement from him, and no more details about the disturbing original deportation beyond the first report in The Crimson. It is a safe assumption that his attorney and other advisers suggested he stay below the radar.

The Times did include an intriguing paragraph:

Mr. Ajjawi has said that he wants to become a doctor and that he is nonpolitical. His lawyer, Albert Mokhiber, described him on Tuesday as a Palestinian refugee who had attended United Nations schools in the refugee camps of Lebanon.

Set aside the question of whether an exiled Palestinian raised in a refugee camp can ever truly be “apolitical.” It’s clear that Ismail Ajjawi will not have the same right to speak out freely as his Harvard classmates enjoy. He will have to be exceedingly cautious about joining student demonstrations in favor of Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), for example. He will need to monitor his social media accounts — not just what he posts, but what his contacts have to say. He may have to speak guardedly to classmates, even though many of them will doubtlessly have questions about Israel, Palestine and the Mideast generally.

In short, Ismail Ajjawi will not have the college experience that he deserves. And neither will his classmates.

Ismail Ajjawi, photographed in his home near El Buss refugee camp, Lebanon. He achieved a top eight score in the Official Lebanese Baccalaureate (IB) examination across Lebanon and ranked number one for the whole south region. (UNRWA Photo by Abeer Nouf)

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SETTLERS STEAL MORE THAN LAND FROM PALESTINIANS

July 9, 2019 at 14:06 (Civil Liberties, Illegal Evictions, Israel, Just Plain Disgusting, Palestine)

Nearly 250 left-wing activists who donated money to help a Palestinian family in East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood may discover that their money has ended up with the right-wing group Elad, which seeks to evict the family.

Funds Donated to Palestinian Family May Go to Settlers Trying to Evict It

The group Elad, which has been trying for 25 years to get the Siyam family to leave their home, has put a lien on donations to their cause

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CONCENTRATION CAMPS …. HERE AND THERE

June 25, 2019 at 14:28 (Civil Liberties, Collective Punishment, Repeating History)

Since last week, a media storm has been taking place over Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez use of the term “concentration camps” to refer to the detention camps for immigrant families on the country’s southern border.

We need this language, we need these comparisons to wake us. While some may be offended by the language, the reality it addresses is often far beyond the imagination.

Concentration camps – at the US border and in Gaza

Jonathan Ofir

Liz Cheney led the assault against AOC, tweeting:

Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.

MSNBC’s anchor Chris Hayes also called to moderate the tone:

Last comment on this: “concentration camp” is an extremely charged term and I get why many people are, in good faith, uncomfortable with its application for Godwin’s Law purposes among others. So let’s just call them “detention camps” and focus on what’s happening in them.

AOC wasn’t introducing this rhetoric herself. She had in fact credited an article from Esquire, published a week earlier (June 13th), titled “An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That’s Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border”. The article cites Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, who says that “We have what I would call a concentration camp system, and the definition of that in my book is, mass detention of civilians without trial.”

Several days before that, Jonathan M. Katz had written in the LA Times a piecetitled “Call immigrant detention centers what they really are: concentration camps”.

So this discussion has been going on for quite a while, but AOC brought it to the fore. It has fortunately brought a serious discussion concerning the virtue of language as a means of raising moral associations. Thus the suggestion that AOC is simply being callously anti-semitic is now openly challenged in her defense, both in the Forward as well as The Atlantic.

AOC is calling to attention the appalling situation in these camps. But, she isn’t the first person to make a similar claim.

A few years ago, Israeli Haaretz journalist Amira Hass, said at a talk in Duke University:

Let me be blunt: Gaza is a Huge Concentration Camp.

At that event, Hass was asked whether that comparison was not taking it “too far”. She answered:

I was deliberately provocative. Usually I don’t use this term. I use “largest detention camp.” I did want to use it now. If you separate the term from the history then it is, it is a camp where people are concentrated. Of course it does not lead to extermination. It does not lead to Auschwitz. But I don’t often hear this remark because I usually don’t use the term “concentration camp.” But it is a huge camp, where people are concentrated and are not able to leave and are not allowed to have people coming in. And I think we also have to disassociate ourselves, to know to learn, to disassociate ourselves from the immediate associations that we have from The Holocaust — so as not to be under the dictatorship of our memory and of our history, The Holocaust, when we use terms. We have the right to shape the terms, the association to the history of Nazism and to adapt them to the content they reflect. I don’t say it’s Auschwitz. If I say it’s Auschwitz, if I said Gulags, it would have been wrong terminology. But it is a camp, a huge camp, where people are concentrated. We have to free also our metaphors from the yoke of the comparisons.

This is a very useful answer for the debate concerning AOC and the border detention camps.

Hass says she was being deliberately provocative – but that’s not a crime. In fact, it can be a sound moral consideration, to use language which you know is loaded with historical associations – it is precisely that power which wakes people up from their complacency. At the same time, as Hass notes, it is also a question of being able to free our minds from that “yoke of the comparisons” – that is, to be able to make the comparison without it necessarily implying an equation, as for example to Nazis etc.

Gaza has become unlivable. One needs to soak in these terms and repeat them to oneself. Nearly two million people are living in an unlivable concentration camp. They have been herded there already in 1948 (over 70% of Gaza’s residents are refugees), and they are repeatedly targeted for protesting their incarceration – even when they protest it with absolutely no arms, they get shot with lethal ammunition.

We need this language, we need these comparisons to wake us. While some may be offended by the language, the reality it addresses is often far beyond the imagination.

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‘HUSH’ IS THE NEW LAW IN ISRAEL

July 19, 2018 at 15:47 (Censorship, Civil Liberties, Corrupt Politics, Israel's Shame)

Israel can now ban critics of the occupation from giving presentations to school children, according to a law passed Monday night by Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Known as the“Breaking the Silence” law.

Image by Latuff

Israeli law bans former soldiers and critics of the occupation from speaking in schools

Yumna Patel

The bill was submitted by the right-wing Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s party and states individuals and groups that seek to “inflict harm upon IDF soldiers” are barred from entering educational institutions “when this activity is of a nature that undermines state education goals, or is such that endeavors to inflict harm upon IDF soldiers who are a consensus in Israeli society.”

The legislation specifically targets the the left-wing Israeli group Breaking the Silence (the organization’s name was in the official working title of the bill) which collects and publishes testimony from former Israeli army soldiers about the military’s human rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

The group regularly conducts tours inside the West Bank city of Hebron as well as lectures in Israeli schools.

One of the law’s clauses expands the reach to prohibit persons or groups who “initiate legal proceedings outside Israel against IDF soldiers for an action carried out in the course of their military duty.”

Haaretz reported lawmakers added this section in an eleventh hour amendment. It impacts people like Hagai El-Ad, the director of the left-wing Israeli NGO B’Tselem, which was the subject of previous legislation to strip human rights groups of the tax-exempt status.

In 2016 El-Ad asked members of the UN Security Council to sanction Israel for its settlement activity. Because of that speech, El-Ad will likely be prohibited under the new law from giving lectures inside Israeli educational institutions.

B’Tselem spokesperson Amit Gilutz told Mondoweiss he plans on ignoring the law. Gilutz said he is “certain all of our outreach activities to the Israeli public will continue regardless of this or another law. It is our basic duty.”

In a joint statement released by B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence, El-Ad responded,

“Control over the Palestinians requires control over Israel’s perceptions. Controlling Palestinians involves incessant violence, and the attempts to address Israeli opposition to this violence requires oppressing those who oppose and labeling them ‘enemies from within’,” El-Ad said. “When the occupation will finally end, this piece of legislation will not be worthy even of a footnote.”

In protest of the law members of Breaking the Silence took to the Knesset on Tuesday where they held a lecture for Israeli students. Ynet reported from event, quoting from Ido Even-Paz, the Breaking the Silence activist who led the session, “[T]he Breaking the Silence Law is only the harbinger of the actions being taken to silence opposing voices,” adding that “similar laws that will pass in the future will only raise the barrier against anyone who dares to resist. Now it requires us to be brave and fight.”

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IN PHOTOS ~~ WOMEN MARCH TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

January 22, 2018 at 09:24 (Activism, Associate Post, Civil Liberties, Corrupt Politics, DesertPeace Exclusive, Photography, Women)

Women’s March 2018: Thousands of Protesters Take to the Streets

(Click HERE to see report from NYT)

Here are scenes from the March in New York City

Support for Ahed Tamimi was there in full force

Photos © by Bud Korotzer

AS PEOPLE PEELED OFF THE MARCH MANY HAD TO WALK BEHIND TRUMP’S HOTEL AS THEY DID SO THEY PLACED THEIR POSTERS ON THE BACK OF HIS BLDG

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MLK SPEAKS OF THE NECESSITY OF NONVIOLENT GADFLIES

January 16, 2018 at 15:11 (Activism, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Corrupt Politics, Israel's Shame, Nonviolent Resistance, Oppression, Palestine)

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth. . . . we must see the need of having nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men to rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. So, the purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

A symbol of resistance for all of humanity

What MLK’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ tells us about Ahed Tamimi in a cold Israeli cell

James North and Philip Weiss

In recent weeks, several people have said that the liberal indifference to Ahed Tamimi’s detention in an Israeli prison for slapping an occupying soldier on December 15 is reminiscent of the white liberals in Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, written in 1963. Today, you can give yourself no better political lesson than rereading that inspiring document of the American movement for freedom.

King’s letter is an explanation of the need for “direct political action.” King addresses a group of white liberal ministers and rabbis who have said they’re against segregation but times are changing, so why do “extremist” black clergy have to risk a backlash with provocative demonstrations? King answers that time is neutral and won’t do anything on its own; blacks have waited for hundreds of years for some modicum of justice and learned that the privileged will never give up privilege without pressure. White businesses promised to remove humiliating signs directing blacks to segregated water coolers and bathrooms and never followed through, and meantime anti-colonial struggles in other countries have outpaced American change, and inspired blacks to dream of an equal future.

We need to ratchet up political tension so as to precipitate a crisis, King explained:

[T]here is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth. . . . we must see the need of having nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men to rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. So, the purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

Liberal ministers and rabbis were a bigger obstacle to this process than outright racists, King said, because they defused that tension among progressives with “lukewarm acceptance.” In the distant past the church had ended infanticide and gladiators’ fights to the death, but now the church was ineffectual. King warned:

It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo [as to]. . . be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. I meet young people every day whose disappointment with the church has risen to outright disgust.

Some whites had walked in black people’s shoes and understood the “urgency of the moment,” King said, but the moderate ministers were blindly supporting order, however unjust.

You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping “order” and “preventing violence.” I don’t believe you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its angry violent dogs literally biting six unarmed, nonviolent Negroes.

And he warned that the black community now includes many nationalists who advocate violence against Jim Crow.

The analogies of King in the Birmingham city jail to 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi in an Israeli jail are many. Occupied Palestinians have waited decades for justice as other struggles in the world have been successful. Palestinians have long been promised sovereignty and never gotten it. “Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber,” King writes, but Palestinians have seen their lands robbed year after year with no enforcement mechanism from the world. Many in the Palestinian community now advocate violence. But in their little village the Tamimi’s are part of a non-violent struggle against a violent occupation.

Ahed Tamimi caused tension– and a “crisis-packed” situation– when she slapped the soldier in her tiny village of Nabi Saleh on December 15, just hours after her cousin was maimed by another Israeli soldier.

But her weeks in jail are greeted with indifference or contempt by leftwing Israelis and American liberal Zionists, who tell us there must be equal sympathy for the Israeli soldiers and the Palestinian children. While the U.S. press writes articles about Tamimi’s choice in clothing, suggesting her encounters were staged. These people rationalize Israel’s brutal policy of a “managed conflict” forever with “lukewarm acceptance.”

Some will say, what about Ahed’s slap? Wasn’t that violent? It was not. Violence entails the possibility of producing injury to another. Tamimi’s slap of a towering, heavily-armed soldier was merely an insult, and a resonant one. “We must see the need of having non-violent gadflies.” (And as for throwing stones, even the New York Times Magazine has justified that as a legitimate response to occupation).

King’s letter is a challenge to the indifferent who rationalize the status quo. Moral people — church people, political people — must either take action or support it, he said. Geography is no barrier. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” is the most ringing line in the letter (which one of us used as an epigraph in his book againstSouth African apartheid).

Today we revere King for precipitating radical political change in the U.S. and sacrificing his life to do so. The letter speaks to all who cherish the hope of ending other injustices. It is NOT meaningful as a nostalgic signpost of a huge battle our society won 50 years ago. It is ONLY meaningful as a signpost for what actions we should take today.

King ended his letter with a prayer. It is consciously a spiritual statement. Birmingham 1963 is the “eternal now“ of the letter, and the message passes from King’s soul to the reader right now. It addresses the struggle we all feel inside ourselves: It calls to the idealistic and motivated parts of our nature that see a way to address injustice, and against the lukewarm, timid despairing acceptance we feel in the face of huge odds.

For people who care about the Middle East, the letter can have only one meaning, to look on the lives of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and to hate the occupation and anything that rationalizes it. King tells us to be with Ahed Tamimi in her cold cell, and fight for her freedom.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was released from the Birmingham jail after 11 days. Ahed Tamimi, 16 years old, is still in an Israeli jail — 27 days later, and counting.

Here is the last speech made by Martin Luther King Jr. …..

“I may not get there with you. But we, as a people, will get to the promised land!” He was shot the next day.

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THE MAKING OF THE PALESTINIAN MANDELA

January 15, 2018 at 13:23 (Civil Liberties, Collective Punishment, Corrupt Politics, Israel's Shame, Nonviolent Resistance, Occupation, Oppression, Palestine)

Portrait of a boy with the flag of Palestine painted on his face

Recently, the struggle for Palestinian human rights gained international attention surrounding a new icon of resistance–16 year old Ahed Tamimi. While in the West Bank in late 2016, Abby Martin interviewed Ahed Tamimi about her hardships and aspirations living under occupation and it becomes clear why her subjugators are trying to silence her voice. Her brother Waad and father Bassem also talk about their experiences with Israeli soldiers harassing their village and targeting their family. In this exclusive episode, Abby outlines the Tamimi family’s tragic tale and unending bravery in the fight for justice and equality in Palestine and how the story of their village of Nabi Saleh is emblematic of the Palestinian struggle as a whole.

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The proud Father …..

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SPANISH POLICE BRUTALITY CAUGHT ON VIDEO

October 31, 2017 at 13:34 (Civil Liberties, Dictatorship, Spain)

Spanish Police Brutality 1st October 2017 Catalonia Full Compilation

Image by Mike Flugennock

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IN TOONS ~~ NO FREEDOM FOR CATALONIA

October 29, 2017 at 08:53 (Associate Post, Cartoons, Civil Liberties, Collective Punishment, Democracy, Spain)

Franco’s ghost rears its ugly head in time for Halloween

Images by Carlos Latuff

OUR VOTES MATTER NOT

ALL WE WANT IS INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy invades Catalonia on the back of a tank

And finally, from Israel

‘THE ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST’ (HA!)

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TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE PALESTINIAN WAY

October 1, 2017 at 09:58 (Associate Post, Civil Liberties, Palestine, Poetry)

A poem about Truth and other thoughts from Palestine

TRUTHS

By Mazin Qumsiyeh

Truths became fragile outcasts
drowned refugees denied even their pasts
or those refugees silenced
by Zionist media murdered
Orphaned and denied futures
Tortured and robbed of cultures
kept behind ghetto walls
taboo subjects in conference halls
truths sinking?
rapidly shrinking?
becoming nameless?
faceless
powerless
mentionless
lies multiply?
occupy
people’s minds
flash that blinds
polarising
colonizing
calcified hearts
broken in parts
Standing with the persecuted truths
we are hunted by mean untruths
But it is our solemn option
to offer orphan truths’ adoption

Though numerous… all lies end
Truths return and never bend
truths humble and meek but remain here
loud for those who want or wish to hear
you can see them, hear them, taste them
feel them and know them
In helping a hungry child smile
in walking the extra mile
in a shared simple meal
in every emotion we feel
in a sparkle in a student’s eye
in the pain that we cry
in a lover’s embrace
in a friend’s grace
in generous giving
in gracious receiving
in never tiring
of true loving

I wish that the US and the Western governments take care of their people in
need.  Instead of legislating to help Puerto Rico, the Israeli occupied US
Congress is trying to be an even more obedient "house slave" for the
Zionist masters by imposing more penalties on Hizballah (Lebanon) and Iran
and pushing for yet another devastating war (just like they did in Somalia,
Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Libya). Bernard Levy, the Jewish Zionist instigator
of the mayhem in Libya was in Northern Iraq building Zionist relationships
with the Kurdish region and instigating for dividing Iraq like the Zionists
did in Sudan. Other Zionists pour illegally acquired money in illegal
Jewish settlements and the largest terrorist organization in the world -
the Israeli army. Dividing the world and creating hatred and wars has been
a key pillar of global Zionist machinery for decades*. It is the old
colonial strategy of divide and conquer. As always many reject divisions
while some fall into this trap. Time to look in the mirror and time to turn
the tables. Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria are waking up. China and
Russia are finally showing some backbone. Even new understandings and
alliances are being forged against the wishes of the puppet masters. For
the sake of humanity, it is time to end the hate, the divisions and
conflicts.  The key to peace will be from here in Palestine. Once the
notion of a sectarian ("Jewish") state is abandoned, we transform to a
state of all its people, secular and democratic. It would have the ripple
effect of peace throughout the Arab world. Radical Islamists trying to
imitate Israel by having an Islamic state will no longer have a footing or
an excuse.

US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel denounces racistposter campaign 
trying to silence truth tellers [In my opinion they should
sue these racist Zionists for defamation]


The Palestine exception to free speech


EDWARD SAID writing in 1993 with amazing foresight telling the truth that
should be read by all who had the Oslo delusion (“two state” road) then and
those who still have it now


*Ex-CIA official: America's Jews Are Driving U.S. Wars

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IN PHOTOS ~~ SUPPORT FOR ‘THE DREAMERS’ CONTINUES TO GROW

September 13, 2017 at 09:26 (Activism, Associate Post, Civil Liberties, Deportations, DesertPeace Exclusive, Photography)

On Sept 9^th, once again, 4,000 DACA demonstrators flooded New York City’s Columbus Circle across from Trump’s International Hotel.

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IS REMOVING HATE SITES FROM THE WEB A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY?

August 29, 2017 at 15:06 (Civil Liberties, Democracy, Opinion)

I say NO! It PRESERVES Democracy!

Obviously, I’m NOT a LIBERAL

Stormfront has been described by the anti-hate group Southern Poverty Law Center as the “murder capital of the internet”. The group pointed out that “registered Stormfront users have been disproportionately responsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since the site was put up in 1995. In the past five years alone, Stormfront members have murdered close to 100 people.”

Stormfront: ‘murder capital of internet’ pulled offline after civil rights action

Web.com pulls support for one of the oldest and largest neo-nazi hate sites following campaign by Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

One of the oldest and largest neo-nazi sites on the internet, the white supremacist chatroom Stormfront, has been thrown off the open web by its hosting provider.

As of Tuesday morning, Stormfront.org was unavailable, with the site’s domain registry recording that its hosting provider Network Solutions had issued a “hold” on the address.

Stormfront’s removal comes a week after a letter, informing Network Solution’s parent company Web.com of the neo-nazi site’s infractions of the its usage policy, was sent by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights organisation formed at the request of John F Kennedy in 1963.

The group, which has been writing to Web.com repeatedly since early July, repeated its request of the company to take “immediate action” against Stormfront.

Becky Monroe, the director of the group’s Stop Hate project said: “Since its creation, Stormfront has been consistently recognised as a site for racial hatred … a representative sample of posts on the site refer to interracial couples by slurs, share racist caricatures, or otherwise dehumanises minorities by referring to them as ‘creatures’ or ‘ethnics’.

“It is clear that Stormfront’s reason for existing is to advance hateful racist ideologies in undeniable persistent violation of the acceptable use policy of Web.com.”

The letter closes by giving a deadline of August 28, the same day Stormfront lost its site.

“Especially in the wake of tragic events in Charlottesville and the spike in hate crimes across the country, Stormfront crossed the line of permissible speech and incited and promoted violence,” said Kristen Clarke, executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

The move follows the downfall of the Daily Stormer, a far-right news site which was dropped by multiple service providers after it published an article smearing the victim of a far-right terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Eventually, the site was forced to move to the so-called dark web due to the lack of companies willing to work with it publicly.

As with the withdrawal of the Daily Stormer’s domain by GoDaddy, the decision of Web.com to pull its support for Stormfront will likely prompt a game of cat and mouse for the site, as it attempts to re-register its domain name with new registrars, many of whom will also choose to refuse to serve the forum.

Don Black, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who has operated stormfront.org since 1995 said that he was seeking counsel and that: “I can switch to another domain, but it might wind up the same way.”

It will also prompt a new round of debate over just how critical private companies are to free speech on the internet – even when the free speech is on the part of white supremacists and neo-nazis.

“This is a really terrible time to be a free speech advocate,” Jillian York, director for international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation told the Guardian on Monday.

Web.com did not reply to a request for comment.

SOURCE

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IN PHOTOS ~~ THOUSANDS STAND (KNEEL) IN SUPPORT OF NFL PLAYER’S RIGHT TO DISSENT

August 27, 2017 at 10:19 (Associate Post, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, DesertPeace Exclusive, Photography, Racism)

White players kneeling during anthem a nightmare for NFL

(click on link to view video)

Political sports writer Dave Zirin speaks at the New York City rally in support of Colin Kaepernick’s protests during the National Anthem.

www.espn.com/video/clip?id=20437731

On Wednesday August 23^rd, people gathered at the offices of the National Football League [NFL| in Manhattan NYC. By some accounts 3-4 thousand people attended. The rally was in support of quarterback, Colin Kaepernick who refused to stand for the Star Spangled Banner prior to the beginning of the football game but instead choose to kneel rather than pay homage to the flag that represents the racism which is so prevalent against the Black population in the United States, especially in the murder of Black people by police, a crime that goes unpunished. As a result of his doing this Kaepernick has not been picked as a team player on any of the NFL football teams for the coming season. At this point many other players are also ‘taking the knee’, including young people on college and high school teams.

The rally included a broad array of many civic and community activist organizations, the speakers demanding that Kaepernick be given the opportunity to play. If not a boycott of the games and the sponsors of the NFL was demanded. The speakers did not limit the issue to Kaepernick but discussed the broader struggle against white supremacy which projected itself so violently in Charlottesville with fascists parading with torches and proclaiming, “You [Blacks] will not replace us” and “Jews will not replace us”. One of the many speakers was Dave Zirin [sports commentator for the Nation Magazine] who spoke of the Palestinian struggle to great applause as he pointed to the fascist/Zionist Jewish Defense League across the street demonstrating against this rally. Another speaker was Linda Sarsaur, who is one of the organizers of the Women’s March the day after Trump’s inauguration, a Palestinian activist in America who is subjected to the Islamaphobia so prevalent in the United States. She noted in her speech “if you are not ready to put your life on the line for freedom then take the word out of your mouth”.

The rally ended with everyone holding the hands of the people next to them as a minister said a prayer asking for justice. Several important issues were addressed at this event – Colin Kaepernick’s punishment for exercising his 1^st amendment right to freedom of speech, the racism increasingly prevalent, and the power of money, in this case in the hands of the team owners, to do whatever they want in disregard of the people. Certainly a fact of life in all areas in the USA today.

Also see THIS report from The Nation

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ECHOS OF McCARTHYISM IN THE ANTI BDS CAMP

August 14, 2017 at 09:24 (Activism, Civil Liberties, fascism, Israel, Palestine)

Image by Carlos Latuff

“All human beings deserve human and civil rights, including the Palestinians,” Waters said. “And we’re winning it. This is why they want to silence me, this is why they call me an anti-Semite and this why they don’t want me on Charlie Rose or Stephen Colbert, speaking.” (FROM)