Israeli Blockade of Gaza Causing Contaminated Water, 25% of Illnesses and 12% of Infant Deaths
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2019-12-17
Pro-Israeli flacks have painted all 2 million Palestinians in Gaza as "terrorists" because Hamas dominates the politics of the Strip. (Photo: Tijen Erol) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/12/17/israeli-blockade-gaza-causing-contaminated-water-25-illnesses-and-12-infant-deaths?cd-origin=rss

Soldiers Shoot A Palestinian Teen Near Bethlehem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-12-17
Israeli soldiers shot, on Tuesday evening, a Palestinian teenage boy near Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers shot Hamza Khaled al-Hreimi, 16, in the thigh, before abducting him, and took him to an unknown destination. They added that a Palestinian …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-shoot-a-palestinian-teen-near-bethlehem/

Netanyahu's Rival Announces Candidacy to Oust Israeli PM
teleSUR, jg-la | telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-17
Veteran Israeli politician Gideon Saar has officially launched his candidacy to remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as head of the Likud Party amid growing support. | RELATED: | UN Renews Agency Helping Palestinian Refugees in Defiance of US | Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving leader, but has been weakened by accusations of corruption t…
telesurenglish.net/news/booming-netanyahu-rival-launches-party-leadership-challenge-20191216-0020.html

Female Journalist Placed Under Administrative Detention for Four Months
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-12-17
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that, on Monday, the Israeli authorities issued an administrative detention order for a period of four months against female Palestinian journalist Bushra al-Tawil, 26, who was detained last week at her family home in al-Bireh, the Palestinian News and Info Agency reported. …
imemc.org/article/female-journalist-placed-under-administrative-detention-for-four-months/

Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian At Erez Terminal
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-12-17
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday evening, a Palestinian man at Beit Hanoun (Erez) terminal, while leaving the Gaza Strip. Media sources said the Palestinian, Ahmad Emad Odah, was granted a permit from the Israeli side to leave Gaza and head to the West Bank on his way to Jordan, however, …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-abduct-a-palestinian-at-erez-terminal/

Palestinian Car Repair Shop for Second Time in Three Months
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-12-17
Israeli forces, on Monday, demolished a cave in the village of Deir Razih, southwest of the city of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. Soldiers also razed the flooring for a car repair shop, and in the process destroyed several vehicles …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-car-repair-shop-for-second-time-in-three-months/

Palestinian Foreign Ministry: Settlers Involved in Attacks Against Palestinians Must be Added to Terrorist List
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-12-17
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry, on Monday, called on world governments to place Israeli settlers involved in attacking and terrorizing the Palestinian civilian population in the occupied territories on their terrorist lists and ban them entry into their countries, the Palestinian News and Info Agency reported. In a statement, it said …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-foreign-ministry-settlers-involved-in-attacks-against-palestinians-must-be-added-to-terrorist-list/

Israel Demolishes Family Home Near Bethlehem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-12-17
Israeli forces, on Monday, demolished a Palestinian-owned house in the town of al-Khader, south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, under the pretext it was built without a permit, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. Hasan Breijieh, from the anti-wall, anti-settlement committee in Bethlehem, said that …
imemc.org/article/israel-demolishes-family-home-near-bethlehem/

How Britain dresses up Crimes in Israel as "Charitable Acts"
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-17
When is a war crime not a war crime? When, according to British officials, that war crime has been given a makeover as a "charitable act". The British state is being asked to account for its financial and moral support for a UK organisation accused of complicity in the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/how-britain-dresses-up-crimes-in-israel-as-charitable-acts/

Israel's Gaza Blockade Is Killing Infants
Juan Cole | truthdig.com | 2019-12-17
In the Gaza Strip, a fourth of illnesses and more than a tenth of infant deaths, as well as many other problems, are tied to the blockade.
truthdig.com/articles/israels-gaza-blockade-is-killing-infants/

But Mr. Trump, Is Israel Lovable?
Sheldon Richman | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-17
Speaking before Sheldon Adelson's Israeli-American Council the other day, Trump took a shot at Jewish Americans who he says don't "love Israel enough." "We have to get the people of our country, of this country, to love Israel more," Trump said.
counterpunch.org/2019/12/17/but-mr-trump-is-israel-lovable/

Former Tory chair condemns a right-wing columnist's 'bigoted' article that calls Islamophobia 'bogus'
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2019-12-17
Ex-Conservative chair Sayeeda Warsi has condemned an article by Times columnist Melanie Phillips. Warsi urged Jewish people in Britain to join her in criticising the piece, which featured in the Jewish Chronicle. The former Tory chair said she was saddened by what she called the "bigotry" and "rank hypocrisy" in the article, asking where is the "solidarity". | Islamophobia is a myth?: | Warsi — who has been at the forefront of trying to g…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/12/17/former-tory-chair-condemns-a-right-wing-columnists-bigoted-article-that-calls-islamophobia-bogus/

Aung San Suu Kyi Denies Burmese Genocide of Rohingya at The Hague
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-17
Burma's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has asked the U.N. International Court of Justice to drop the genocide case against Myanmar, formerly Burma. Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent over a decade fighting against the Burmese military, which she is now defending. Last week, Suu Kyi appeared in person at the court to dispute the charges and called the allegations of genocide against Rohingya Muslims "incomplete and misleading." The Burmese military killed and raped thousands of Rohingya and f…
truthout.org/video/aung-san-suu-kyi-denies-burmese-genocide-of-rohingya-at-the-hague/

Actions planned to 'Abolish sanctions!'
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2019-12-17
New York Organizers from New York-based anti-war, anti-racist and anti-imperialist organizations and defenders of human rights gathered at the Solidarity Center Dec. 14 to plan an ongoing campaign against Washington's use of economic sanctions, calling such sanctions the "equivalent of war." The planning meeting of about 40 organizers showed what . . . | Continue reading Actions planned to 'Abolish sanctions!' at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/12/44924/

‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚ÄãThe issue-less impeachment: the corporate democrats stand for nothing, so they impeach for nothing
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2019-12-17
The corporate Democrats are effectively exonerating themselves and their Republican brethren of the full spectrum of lawlessness that is everyday politics in the belly of the racist, imperial beast. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/12/17/%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bthe-issue-less-impeachment-the-corporate-democrats-stand-for-nothing-so-they-impeach-for-nothing/

Dublin's anti-racist march for peace emphasizes 'no room for hate' in Ireland
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-17
The Irish government launched a public consultation earlier in October to strengthen the country's existing laws regulating hate speech and hate crimes, and the right wing forces have opposed the move.
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/17/dublins-anti-racist-march-for-peace-emphasizes-no-room-for-hate-in-ireland/

One month of fascist coup in Bolivia
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2019-12-17
The civic-military, right-wing, US-backed coup d'état against the democratically elected Bolivian President Evo Morales, which installed a fascist and racist dictatorship of the right-wing usurper Jeanine Añez, completed a month on December 10. In this video, we explain the developments that have occurred in Bolivia after the coup.
peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/17/one-month-of-fascist-coup-in-bolivia/

Mass protests erupt against Modi-led Indian government's Hindu supremacist agenda
wsws.org | 2019-12-17
Demonstrations against the BJP government's Hindu supremacist "Citizenship Amendment Act" continued yesterday, spreading to cities across India.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/17/icaa…

The So-called "China Threat": NATO and America's "New Cold War" on China
Jenny Clegg | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-17
The powers that be in the US are now viewing China as a deadly rival in a duel for global supremacy. Their aim at the summit was to draw their European allies into their China containment strategy. This was made …
globalresearch.ca/nato-us-new-cold-war-china/5698056

Trump's Executive Order on Anti-Semitism Attacks Free Speech, Palestinians, and Jews
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-12-17
Dima Khalidi discusses the legal and civil ramifications of President Trump's executive order adopting the controversial IHRA working definition on antisemitism, defining Judaism as a race or nationality, which would threaten free speech on US campuses, sow divisions among US Jews, and criminalize the BDS movement. TRNN Video & Transcript …
imemc.org/article/trumps-executive-order-on-anti-semitism-attacks-free-speech-palestinians-and-jews/

South African Communist Party looks at rebuilding alliance with ANC
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2019-12-17
The South African Communist Party (SACP) provided the African National Congress (ANC) with key support during the struggle to end apartheid. As a member of the Tripartite Alliance, along with the ANC and the COSATU trade union federation, it has partnered with the ANC in governing South Africa since 1994. And with some 319,000 members …
peoplesworld.org/article/south-african-communist-party-looks-at-rebuilding-alliance-with-anc/

Forensic Architecture's First Exhibition in Palestine: Problematic Language and Non-Daring Positions
Rana Anani | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-17
What strikes me most in the first exhibition of Forensic Architecture in Palestine, is neither the cases investigated, nor the findings, but the sophisticated technology used in the work, its aesthetic, and above all the problematic use of language. Installed at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah, Violence, Fast and Slow occupied three halls on…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/17/forensic-architectures-first-exhibition-in-palestine-problematic-language-and-non-daring-positions/

US military under fire for commemorating WWII battle anniversary with photo of Nazi war criminal
rt.com | 2019-12-17
Several US military social media accounts are taking heat online for sharing a colorized image of convicted Nazi war criminal Joachim Peiper, who led a unit that killed dozens of unarmed US POWs during the Battle of the Bulge. | The photo was shared by the official accounts of the Department of Defence, the Army's 10th Mountain Division and the XVIII Airborne Corps to kick-off a photo-series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory. | | The accompanying text from the now-deleted post was written from the perspective of the Nazis. | "The others were confident. They believed in der Führer.
rt.com/usa/476099-us-military-nazi-war-criminal/

Josh Gordon suspended by NFL yet again for one more bout of drug abuse
rt.com | 2019-12-17
Josh Gordon just can't stay clean. The 28-year-old Seattle Seahawks receiver was informed Monday by the NFL that he has been suspended indefinitely after violating league policy on performance-enhancing and recreational drugs. | This is the fifth time in his NFL career that Gordon has been suspended for drug use. He had previously been suspended during playing stints with the Cleveland Browns and New England Patriots. | Gordon had been released by the Patriots earlier this year, and he was signed by the Seahawks shortly thereafter. | He has been considered one of the most talented receivers in the league becau…
rt.com/sport/476115-josh-gordon-suspended-by-nfl/

"A Spectacular Fall from Grace": Aung San Suu Kyi Denies Burmese Genocide of Rohingya at The Hague
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-17
Burma's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has asked the U.N. International Court of Justice to drop the genocide case against Myanmar, formerly Burma. Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent over a decade fighting against the Burmese military, which she is now defending. Last week, Suu Kyi appeared in person at the court to dispute the charges and called the allegations of genocide against Rohingya Muslims "incomplete and misleading." The Burmese military killed and raped thousands of Rohingya and forced more than 700,000 to flee into neighboring Bangladesh in a brutal army crackdown in 2017. Gambia brough…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/17/aung_san…

Head of UK Israel Lobby Group Announces Gov't Plan To Ban Boycotting Israel
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-12-16
After an election dogged by the weaponization of anti-Semitism, the victorious UK conservative party has announced a new legislative push that would prevent the public sector from working with any individual or organization that supports a boycott of Israel's government.
mintpressnews.com/uk-conservative-ban-boycott-israel-bds/263510/

These Democratic Insiders Want to Keep the Party From Moving Left on Israel-Palestine
Alex Kane | thenation.com | 2019-12-16
These Democratic Insiders Want to Keep the Party From Moving Left on Israel-Palestine…
thenation.com/article/democratic-majority-israel-dmfi/

IPS Bars Entry of Winter Clothing as Palestinian Detainees Suffer Harsh Winter Conditions
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-12-16
The Palestine Prisoners Centre for Studies has called on international humanitarian and human rights institutions, foremost of which is the Red Cross, to exert pressure on Israeli Prison Services (IPS) to provide winter clothing and covers desperately needed during the severe cold season. The spokesperson for the Centre, Riyad Al-Ashqar, …
imemc.org/article/ips-bars-entry-of-winter-clothing-as-palestinian-detainees-suffer-harsh-winter-conditions/

Illegal Israeli Colonists Attack A Palestinian Home With Live Fire
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-12-16
On Monday, several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists, squatting on private Palestinian lands, attacked a Palestinian home with rounds of live ammunition, and stones, in Jeet village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. Ghassan Daghlas, A Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activities in northern West …
imemc.org/article/illegal-israeli-colonists-attack-a-palestinian-home-with-live-fire/

Historic 1974 Boston March Against Racism commemorated
Phebe Eckfeldt | workers.org | 2019-12-16
Boston Dec. 14 — Today marked the 45th anniversary of the 1974 March Against Racism in Boston, when 25,000 people came out to say, "No to Racism" from around the country. Workers World Party held a forum here this afternoon to commemorate this important anniversary. 1974 front page on Boston . . . | Continue reading Historic 1974 Boston March Against Racism commemorated at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/12/44899/

Candidates slam labor lawbreakers at Iowa Teamsters Forum
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-12-16
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa–In his strongest language yet, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., castigated GOP President Donald Trump for racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, exporting his own firm's jobs, and even for hypocrisy about undocumented people. Sanders's blast came in his closing statement before an overflow crowd of 700-plus Teamsters and family members at a …
peoplesworld.org/article/candidates-slam-labor-lawbreakers-at-iowa-teamsters-forum/

He spent 36 years in prison because he stole $100 in cash and $4 in food stamps. Now Willie Parker is free
Will Tucker | splcenter.org | 2019-12-16
It was pouring rain the day Willie Parker left William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility after 36 years in prison.
splcenter.org/news/2019/12/17/he-spent-36-years-prison-because-he-stole-100-cash-and-4-food-stamps-now-willie-parker-free

SPLC STAFF VOTE TO UNIONIZE
splcenter.org | 2019-12-16
splcenter.org/news/2019/12/16/splc-staff-vote-unionize

Protests across India against new Hindu chauvinist Citizenship Act
wsws.org | 2019-12-16
Protests have erupted across India against the Citizenship Amendment Act, which the ruling Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party rammed through parliament in just four days last week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/16/inca…

Trump's Executive Order on Anti-Semitism Attacks Free Speech, Palestinians, and Jews
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-12-16
Dima Khalidi discusses the legal and civil society ramifications of President Trump's executive order adopting the controversial IHRA working definition on antisemitism, defining Judaism as a race or nationality, which would threaten free speech on US campuses and sow divisions among US Jews, and criminalize the BDS movement.
therealnews.com/stories/trumps-executive-order-on-anti-semitism-attacks-free-speech-palestinians-and-jews

UNRWA Signs $20.7m Agreement with Qatar
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-12-16
The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) signed an agreement today, under which the State of Qatar will contribute US$ 20.7 million to support the access of Palestine refugees to basic services in Syria. With …
imemc.org/article/unrwa-signs-us-20-7m-agreement-with-qatar/

What's scarier than racists and Russian trolls on Instagram? Why, 'Russian-influenced racist trolls,' of course!
rt.com | 2019-12-16
The mainstream media censors have hit a brick wall smearing their quarry as "racists" – the overused term no longer packs much of a punch. To really work up a good scare, they're calling the erstwhile racists "Russian-inspired." | The 2020 US election is just around the corner and social media is crawling with wrongthink, according to the Daily Beast. This time, it's not Russian trolls – it's worse. The Russian trolls' ideas have infected so-called "American neo-confederates" and created an unholy hybrid of racist Russian trolls who are unstoppable by the usual mass-deplatforming solutions used to wipe out ent…
rt.com/usa/476046-russian-influenced-racists-instagram-trolls/

'Linked to white supremacy': Paper celebrating Google's quantum computer SOUNDS RACIST, say SJW scientists
rt.com | 2019-12-15
A Google computer recently achieved "quantum supremacy," performing a calculation that'd be impossible on a regular machine. Some scientists are up in arms — not at the breakthrough, but because "supremacy" sounds vaguely racist. | Put short, a quantum computer developed by Google managed to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world's most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years. The research paper on the calculation is published in Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal…
rt.com/usa/475957-google-quantum-supremacy-computer-racist/

Indigenous Bolivia Ready to go to War Against Fascism
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-14
Bolivia, December 2019, three weeks after the fascist coup. It is devilishly cold. My comrade's car is carefully navigating through the deep mud tracks. Enormous snow-covered mountain peaks are clearly visible in the distance. The Bolivian Altiplano; beloved, yet always somehow hostile, silent, impenetrable. So many times in the past I came close to death …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/indigenous-bolivia-ready-to-go-to-war-against-fascism/

Trump's 'Anti-Semitism' executive order fights anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism
Saul Kanowitz | liberationnews.org | 2019-12-14
Early this week, the Trump administration issued an "Anti-Semitism" executive order defining Judaism as more than a religion.
liberationnews.org/trumps-anti-semitism-executive-order-fights-anti-zionism-not-anti-semitism/

From Facebook as govt tool to Israeli lobby in US: Lee Camp dives into 25 MOST CENSORED STORIES of 2019
rt.com | 2019-12-14
Did you know that Big Pharma denies Americans access to affordable drugs or that slavery is still a thing, even in the US? Those and other stories were shushed in the media, but Lee Camp is here to fill in the gaps. | …
rt.com/usa/475920-facebook-israel-amazon-slavery-camp/

Weekend Read: Amid Alabama's prison crisis, the voices of the people living through it should be heard
splcenter.org | 2019-12-13
For years, Alabama's prison system has been under a microscope. Harsh sentencing laws coupled with chronic underfunding have led to horrific conditions for people behind bars.
splcenter.org/news/2019/12/13/weekend-read-amid-alabamas-prison-crisis-voices-people-living-through-it-should-be-heard

Anakbayan-USA holds 3rd congress
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-12-13
Los Angeles, CA – On November 30, Anakbayan-USA had their Third Congress, with more than 200 members from 12 chapters across the country in attendance. They learned lessons on solidarity, talked about the economic situation in the United States and reported back on the progress being made on a national and local level. | Anakbayan-USA had three national organizations they invited to speak on their "International Solidarity" panel: the Palestinian Youth Movement, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and National Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | CISPES and PYM spoke on bridging the gap…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/12/13/anakbay…

Suspects in Jersey City Attack 'Expressed Interest' in Black Hebrew Israelites, Authorities Say
Hatewatch Staff and Rachel Janik | splcenter.org | 2019-12-12
The two suspects in this week's deadly attack in a Hasidic neighborhood in Jersey City, New Jersey, held views that reflected a hatred of Jewish people and law enforcement, New Jersey's attorney general said Thursday.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/12/12/suspects-jersey-city-attack-expressed-interest-black-hebrew-israelites-authorities-say

"Elected by Donors": The University of Cape Town Fails Palestine, Embraces Israel
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-12
It was a scandal of the highest caliber. On November 23, the Senate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa was practically bullied to reverse an earlier decision that called for the academic boycott of Israel. While the story may seem relevant in South Africa's political and academic contexts, in reality, it …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/elected-by-donors-the-university-of-cape-town-fails-palestine-embraces-israel/

Thursday's Daily Brief: South Sudan floods, Somalis leave Yemen, LATAM economic slowdown
news.un.org | 2019-12-12
In today's Daily Brief: Flooding could push millions in South Sudan into humanitarian crisis, Somalis return home from war-torn Yemen; historically low growth in Latin American and Caribbean economies; UN's top court will deliberate on Myanmar genocide accusations; and alpinism's classified a "cultural treasure".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/12/1053411

The 2020 Election Promises Record Turnout
Bobby Hoffman | aclu.org | 2019-12-12
Due to high levels of enthusiasm and interest, election experts are predicting record-setting turnout rates in the upcoming 2020 election. In anticipation of this historic election, the ACLU, volunteers, and supporters of voting rights across the country have been advocating for state legislatures to adopt policies that improve registration, the voting process, and ensure that more citizens are eligible to participate. | This year, no state made greater improvements to the registrati…
aclu.org/news/voting-rights/the-2020-election-promises-record-turnout

Hebron Plan is Israel's Reminder to Palestinians that Settler Power knows no Limits
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-11
US President Donald Trump told thousands of Israel's supporters at a rally in Florida at the weekend that some American Jews "don't love Israel enough". It is certainly troubling that a US president insists a section of his country's citizens — the Jewish population — be required to love a foreign state. But then Trump …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/hebron-plan-is-israels-reminder-to-palestinians-that-settler-power-knows-no-limits/

Interim President Karen Baynes-Dunning issued the following statement on Tuesday's shooting at a kosher market in Jersey City, New Jersey
splcenter.org | 2019-12-11
splcenter.org/news/2019/12/11/interim-president-karen-baynes-dunning-issued-following-statement-tuesdays-shooting-kosher

Trump Is the Golden Calf
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-12-11
Trump dredges up old anti-Semitic tropes to the applause of a right-wing Jewish group.
therealnews.com/stories/trump-golden-calf-anti-semitic