2020-01-12: Social Media Postees

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Alert Signal Goes Off in South Israel Near Gaza Strip, No Threat of Rocket Fire – IDF
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-12
The Israeli Defence Forces earlier wrote on Twitter that an alarm was sounded at Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the southern district of the country.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202001121078014464-alert-signal-goes-off-in-south-israel-near-gaza-strip—idf/

Israel's Parliament to Start Discussing PM's Immunity Request
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-12
An Israeli Parliament committee, known as the Knesset's Arrangements Committee, is set to meet Monday to start processing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request for immunity from prosecution in the three corruption cases against him. | RELATED: | Netanyahu Pledges ICC Investigation Won't Impede Settlements | The Arrangements Committee – headed…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israels-Parliament-to-Start-Discussing-PMs-Immunity-Request–20200112-0013.html

Netanyahu Accuses Iran of Deliberately Lying About Downed Ukrainian Plane
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-12
TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused Iran of deliberately misleading the world about true causes of Ukraine's Boeing 737 fatal crash as it knew but failed to say right away that the jetliner was shot down by the Iranian military by mistake.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202001121078015070-netanyahu-accuses-iran-of-deliberately-lying-about-downed-ukrainian-plane/

Knesset to go forward debating & rejecting Bibi's immunity request as his allies cry it will be a 'jungle'
rt.com | 2020-01-12
In a blow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Knesset was given the green light to debate his immunity from prosecution. The legislative body is likely to deny it, paving the way for his corruption trial to start. | Netanyahu requested immunity after he was indicted in November on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of public trust saying he needs "to continue to lead Israel to great achievements." | On Sunday Eyal Yinon, the Knesset's legal adviser, issued a ruling that Speaker Yuli Edelstein should allow the formation of a Knesset House Committee that will look into the matter and is expected…
rt.com/news/478084-netanyahu-immunity-israel-trial/

Israel's Former Envoy to Poland: Poles Don't Want to Rewrite History but They Look at it Differently
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-12
Israel is caught in the middle of an ongoing squabble between Russia and Poland over who started World War II. But while the Poles have every right to claim they were victims, Warsaw shouldn't sweep under the rug its collaboration with the Nazis, believes a former diplomat.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202001121078014895-israels-former-envoy-to-poland-poles-dont-want-to-rewrite-history-but-they-look-at-it-differently/

No war on Iran. No war on women
Curt Wechsler | indybay.org | 2020-01-12
RefuseFascism Organizers meeting | 1590 Bryant, San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/12/18829688.php

Canada Apologizes for Wrongly Raising Alarm at Nuclear Plant
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-12
Canadians in the province of Ontario on Sunday were awoken to a frightening message from their local government after the latter wrongly raised an alarm at a nuclear power plant. | RELATED: | Canadian Muslim Convention Hosts Anti-Palestinian Politician | According to the Canadian Broadcast Channel, the authorities in the proivince of Ontario were conducting a training excerise at a nuclear power plant near Toronto when they mistakenly sounded the alarm at the site. | The false a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Canada-Apologizes-for-Wrongly-Raising-Alarm-at-Nuclear-Plant-20200112-0008.html

Cocktail of Death is Genocide Euthanasia and Gas Chamber Holocaust
Olga Fajardo | indybay.org | 2020-01-12
Seven patients die daily in German psychiatric hospitals, more than 2,500 have died in a period of one year.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/12/18829670.php

Qatar's emir visits Iran amid regional tension
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-12
According to a statement by the Qatari Royal Court, Tamim will hold talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and senior officials on bilateral relations and regional developments.The Qatari leader will also meet with Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to discuss regional developments, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.Tension soared in the region after the U.S. killed Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian general, in a drone airstrike outside Baghdad airport earlier this month. Iran retaliated with firing a dozen ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops.Last week, Qatari Foreign Minister Mo…
yenisafak.com/en/world/qatars-emir-visits-iran-amid-regional-tension-3509469

BBC Pays Over Three Million Pounds in Settlements to Staff Following Equal Pay Tribunal – Reports
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-12
Earlier this week, a BBC journalist Samira Ahmed won a sex discrimination claim against the broadcaster after a tribunal ruled she was unfairly being paid less than her male colleagues.
sputniknews.com/uk/202001121078015041-bbc-pays-over-three-million-pounds-in-settlements-to-staff-following-equal-pay-tribunal—reports/

France Deplores New Israeli Settlement Expansion Plans
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-11
France condemned, on Friday, the recent Israeli decision to green-light the construction of 1,936 housing units in the West Bank illegal settlements. The French consulate in Jerusalem said in a statement that the decision "comes at a troubling time of accelerated settlement on the West Bank," the Palestinian News and …
imemc.org/article/france-deplores-new-israeli-settlement-expansion-plans/

Israel Notifies 3 Prisoner's Families of Order to Demolish Homes
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-11
Israeli forces, overnight Thursday, notified the families of three alleged Palestinian attackers, of their intention to demolish their houses across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian News and Info Agency reported. The Palestine Prisoners' Society (PPS) confirmed that Israeli forces broke into the family home of Mohammad Walid Hanatsheh, in …
imemc.org/article/israel-notifies-3-prisoners-families-of-order-to-demolish-homes/

International Criminal Court Prepares to Try Israelis over War Crimes
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-11
Shawan Jabarin of the Al-Haq human rights organization discusses the International Criminal Court decision to prepare a lawsuit against the state of Israel regarding war crimes committed against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities are already panicking. (Transcript unavailable.
imemc.org/article/international-criminal-court-prepares-to-try-israelis-over-war-crimes/

Syrian National Released After 5 Years in Israeli Prison
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-11
According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS), Israeli authorities, on Friday, released a Syrian national who has been in Israeli detention for five years, the Palestine News and Info Agency reported. Sidqi al-Maqt, 53, was jailed in 2015 on alleged charges of "treason and espionage, support for terrorism and contact …
imemc.org/article/syrian-national-released-after-5-years-in-israeli-prison/

US and Israel escalate Middle East tensions in wake of Suleimani assassination
wsws.org | 2020-01-11
A report that Washington attempted to assassinate a second Iranian official in Yemen has given the lie to the claim that Suleimani was killed to prevent an "imminent" attack.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/11/iran…

US and Israel escalate Middle East tensions in wake of Suleimani assassination
wsws.org | 2020-01-11
A report that Washington attempted to assassinate a second Iranian official in Yemen has given the lie to the claim that Suleimani was killed to prevent an "imminent" attack.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/11/iran…

Israeli Troops Assault Demonstrators in Kufur Qaddoum; Fire Tear Gas
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-11
During the weekly nonviolent protest in Kufur Qaddoum village in the northern West Bank, dozens of local residents suffered from tear gas inhalation when Israeli forces attacked demonstrators. The weekly anti-settlement march called for the opening of the main village street, which was closed by Israeli military forces 16 years …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-assault-demonstrators-in-kafr-qaddoum-fire-tear-gas/

Iran Admits Fault in Downing of Ukranian Airliner
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-11
Iran announced on Saturday that a preliminary investigation into the crash of the Ukrainian airliner that was flying to Kiev from Tehran earlier this week was caused by human error. | RELATED: ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã | Palestinian Militants Not Yet Ready to Avenge Iran | Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter that "human error at time of crisis caused by U.S. adventurism l…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Admits-Fault-in-Downing-of-Ukranian-Airliner-20200111-0001.html

No, Iran didn't exit the nuclear deal. And no, its nuclear announcement is not revenge for Soleimani
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-11
On January 5, Iran made a major announcement regarding its nuclear program, stating that it will no longer observe limits on the number of centrifuges that it uses to enrich uranium. While the announcement is significant, it was not altogether unexpected. And it most certainly does not constitute the "harsh revenge" that Iran's supreme leader, […] | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/11/no-iran-didnt-exit-the-nuclear-deal-and-no-its-nuclear-announcement-is-not-revenge-for-soleimani/

World famous pianist Igor Levit victim of anti-Semitic death threats
wsws.org | 2020-01-11
The fact that a Jewish pianist cannot perform publicly without protection indicates the extent of the current turn to the right in German politics.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/11/levi…

The coming decade of revolution
Vincent Taccetta and Makasi Motema | workers.org | 2020-01-11
In the last decade the working class

European Union Denounces Israel's Settlement Expansion
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-10
The European Union, on Thursday, criticized Israeli plans to expand illegal settlements built in the occupied Palestinian territory and called on Israel to comply with international law, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. Israel approved earlier this week the construction of almost 2000 housing units in illegal settlements …
imemc.org/article/european-union-denounces-israels-settlement-expansion/

Palestinian Militants Not Yet Ready to Avenge Iran
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-10
Despite the latest conflict between Iran and the U.S., Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, Iran's allies, are not ready to attack Israel, the U.S. ally, in revenge on Iran's behalf, analysts said. | RELATED: | US Announces New Sanctions on Iran, Refuses to Pull Out Troops | The Palestinians are afraid that the Iran-U.S. conflict would lead to a new wave of confrontation between Palestinian militants in Gaza Strip and Israel, as the enclave is ruled by the Islamic Hamas move…
telesurenglish.net/news/Palestinian-Militants-Not-Yet-Ready-to-Avenge-Iran-20200110-0005.html

Palestine FM Rejects David Friedman's Statements
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-10
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned statements made by US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, in which he emphasized the right of Israeli presence in the occupied West Bank which he described as 'Judea and Samaria.' The Palestinian News and Info Agency reported that Friedman, speaking at the …
imemc.org/article/palestine-fm-rejects-david-friedmans-statements/

Reclaiming the Narrative: How to Combat Israel's Misuse of "Antisemitism"
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-10
While anti-Jewish racism is a real phenomenon that must be confronted, but "antisemitism, as defined by Israel, is a smokescreen with the ultimate aim of distracting from the real conversation: the crimes of military occupation, racism, and apartheid in Palestine.
mintpressnews.com/combat-israels-misuse-antisemitism/264055/

Embracing Palestine: How to Combat Israel's Misuse of "Antisemitism"
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-10
At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations of antisemitism, which are often lobbed against pro-Palestinian communities and intellectuals everywhere, is to draw even closer to the Palestinian narrative. In fact, my proposal was not meant to be a sentimental response in any …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/embracing-palestine-how-to-combat-israels-misuse-of-antisemitism/

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians In Jenin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-10
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday at dawn, four young men, indulging two former political prisoners, in Jenin governorate, in northern West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in Jenin city, and the al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin, and interrogated the residents while inspecting ID cards. …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-four-palestinians-in-jenin-2/

Army Abducts A Palestinian Near Jenin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-10
Israeli soldiers abducted, Friday, a young Palestinian man from the al-Yamoun town, west of Jenin, in northern West Bank. Media sources said that several army jeeps invaded the town, before the soldiers stormed and searched a few homes, and abducted one Palestinian. They added that the soldiers abducted the young …
imemc.org/article/army-abducts-a-palestinian-near-jenin-9/

The continuing ordeal of Ahmad Zahran
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-10
An Israeli court refused to release Palestinian administrative detainee Ahmad Zahran who has been on hunger strike for 109 days. The court said that an investigation into his release could not be conducted until he withdrew his protest…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/10/the-continuing-ordeal-of-ahmad-zahran/

This Is What It Means to Spend a Life Resisting Israeli Injustice
Mairav Zonszein | thenation.com | 2020-01-10
This Is What It Means to Spend a Life Resisting Israeli Injustice…
thenation.com/article/lea-tsemel-advocate/

Israel Again Bombs The PMU, Rockets Fired In Iraq, 737 Misinfo & Congress Warned Not To Discuss Iran
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-01-10
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (1/9/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/israel-again-bombs-the-pmu-rockets-fired-in-iraq-737-misinfo-congress-warned-not-to-discuss-iran/

Why Are There So Few Black Coaches in the NFL? It's the Racism, Stupid
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2020-01-10
Why Are There So Few Black Coaches in the NFL? It's the Racism, Stupid.
thenation.com/article/black-nfl-coaches/

Project 1619 and Its Detractors
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-10
Last August, the New York Times Sunday Magazine devoted an entire issue to Project 1619, an attempt to root today's racism in the institution of slavery dating back to the seventeenth century. In 1619, British colonists in Point Comfort, Virginia bought twenty African slaves from Portuguese traders who had landed there, fresh from a body-snatching…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/project-1619-and-its-detractors/

Why Are There So Few Black Coaches in the NFL? It's the Racism, Stupid
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2020-01-10
Why Are There So Few Black Coaches in the NFL? It's the Racism, Stupid.
thenation.com/article/black-nfl-coaches/

Iran Will Make Huge Political Gains From This Crisis
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-10
The Iranian missile attack on two US bases in Iraq is symbolic retaliation for the US assassination of General Qassem Soleimani on 3 January. Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei said there would be direct action against the US by the Iranian armed forces, and this has now happened. The message is that the Iranian leadership…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/iran-will-make-huge-political-gains-from-this-crisis/

On the Issue of "Electability"
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-10
The hardcore Trump base is vile in many of the ways that bona fide fascists were, and as is Trump himself. Even so, calling it "fascist," though tempting, inasmuch as the word is still a term of abuse, is ahistorical and misleading. "Rightwing nationalist" or "rightwing populist" are more exact and to the point. Unlike true fascists, Trump's supporters have no coherent ideology, only a vague attachment to white supremacism, and they have no organizational structure other than the Republican Party itself.
counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/on-the-issue-of-electability/

Bolivia: Morales' Minister Under Attack by De-Facto Government
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-10
The de-facto government of Bolivia continues with the siege and political persecution of leaders and supporters of the Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS) and authorities that were part of the Evo Morales government, this time the former minister Carlos Romero. | RELATED: | Bolivia One Month After the Coup: A Recount of Pivotal Events | The former Minister in Evo Morales Administration reappeared publicly on Wednesday since the coup on Nov. 10, when a journalist from an international agency…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Minister-of-Morales-Besieged-by-Fascist-de-facto-Government-Group-20200110-0011.html

Once a Political Force, Richard Spencer and National Policy Institute Go Quiet
splcenter.org | 2020-01-10
An "alt-right" think tank run by one of the country's most prominent white nationalists has mysteriously gone quiet and appears to be in disarray.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/01/10/once-political-force-richard-spencer-and-national-policy-institute-go-quiet

EU Congress Stops Recognizing Jailed Catalan MP as Lawmaker
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-10
Jailed Catalan leader Oriol Junqueras' mandate as a European Union (EU) lawmaker is over, the legislature's head said on Friday, in what could be showing support for the hardline followed by Madrid against the independentist movement. | RELATED: | Brussels Court Suspends Extradition of Catalan Leader Puigdemont | European Parliament president David Sassoli said decisions this month by Spain's electoral board and Supreme Court blocking Junqueras from occupying his seat meant h…
telesurenglish.net/news/EU-Congress-Stops-Recognizing-Jailed-Catalan-MP-as-Lawmaker-20200110-0010.html

White Nationalists and Neo-Nazis Applaud Recent Spate of Antisemitic Attacks
splcenter.org | 2020-01-10
White nationalists and neo-Nazis largely supported a series of antisemitic attacks that sparked fear and outrage across the New York metropolitan area at the close of 2019, a Hatewatch review of their correspondences determined.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/01/10/white-nationalists-and-neo-nazis-applaud-recent-spate-antisemitic-attacks

Weekend Read: SPLC sues Trump administration over family separation policy
splcenter.org | 2020-01-10
The SPLC and its allies have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration policy that has separated and traumatized thousands of migrant families.
splcenter.org/news/2020/01/11/weekend-read-splc-sues-trump-administration-over-family-separation-policy

Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: Facebook Allows Racist, Sexist Political Ads
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-10
A longtime Facebook executive has admitted the company's platform helped Donald Trump win the 2016 election, and it may happen again this year. In an internal memo, Facebook Vice President Andrew Bosworth wrote, "So was Facebook responsible for Donald Trump getting elected? I think the answer is yes." Bosworth, who was a backer of Hillary Clinton in 2016, went on to write that the company should not change its policies in an effort to hurt Trump's re-election chances. In his memo, Bosworth r…
truthout.org/video/cambridge-analytica-whistleblower-facebook-allows-racist-sexist-political-ads/

International Criminal Court Prepares to Try Israelis over War Crimes
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-09
Shawan Jabarin of the Al-Haq human rights organization discusses the International Criminal Court decision to prepare a lawsuit against the state of Israel regarding war crimes committed against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities are already panicking.
therealnews.com/stories/international-criminal-court-prepares-israel-war-crimes

Capitalism needs racism: A response to the NYT 1619 Project
Joel Wendland-Liu | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-09
In her report on the U.S. financial system and racial slavery for the New York Times 1619 Project, international finance expert Mehrsa Baradaran hints at the relationship between racial slavery and the development of finance capitalism in the U.S. The 1619 Project is "a major initiative of the New York Times," launched last summer to mark the …
peoplesworld.org/article/capitalism-needs-racism-a-response-to-the-nyt-1619-project/

Capitalism needs racism: A response to the NYT 1619 Project
Joel Wendland-Liu | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-09
In her report on the U.S. financial system and racial slavery for the New York Times 1619 Project, international finance expert Mehrsa Baradaran hints at the relationship between racial slavery and the development of finance capitalism in the U.S. The 1619 Project is "a major initiative of the New York Times," launched last summer to mark the …
peoplesworld.org/article/capitalism-needs-racism-a-response-to-the-nyt-1619-project/

Augustus Invictus Charged With Kidnapping, Domestic Violence in South Carolina
Rachel Janik | splcenter.org | 2020-01-09
"Alt-right" figure Augustus Sol Invictus was denied bond Thursday for charges of kidnapping, domestic violence and possession of a weapon during a crime of violence.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/01/09/augustus-invictus-charged-kidnapping-domestic-violence-south-carolina

Iraqis to the United States: What Part of "Go Home" Don't You Understand?
Steven Sahiounie | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-09
Iranian forces launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two military bases housing US troops in Iraq early hours of Wednesday morning. The al-Assad airbase in western Iraq was hit by 17 missiles, and 5 targeted at a base in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil. No US casualties were immediately reported. | Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called the attack a "slap in the face" of the US, and observers seem to question whether the attack was designed to kill or inflict casualties, or was it carefully orchestrated to produce closure to a situation which could have escalated into a regional or…
mintpressnews.com/iraq-united-states-part-go-home-dont-understand/264008/

Iran's Hero has Fallen and Now the World is an Even More Dangerous Place
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-09
They say he came from a humble background, and worked himself up the ranks, becoming, as many believe, the second most powerful man in Iran. They say he had the chance to become the next Supreme Leader of the country. Whenever I visit Iran, I am told how much he is loved by his people. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/irans-hero-has-fallen-and-now-the-world-is-an-even-more-dangerous-place/

Justice at Last? Panic in Israel as the ICC Takes Momentous Step in the Right Direction
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-08
The high level of these ICC investigations places the legal push against Israel at a whole new level. This is uncharted territory for Israel, the United States, Palestine, the ICC and the international community as a whole.
mintpressnews.com/justice-at-last-panic-in-israel-as-the-icc-takes-momentous-step-in-the-right-direction/263973/

Confederate Monuments in Texas Can Stay Down, Court Rules
splcenter.org | 2020-01-08
In the latest skirmish related to the Civil War, the Confederacy lost twice.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/01/08/confederate-monuments-texas-can-stay-down-court-rules