Adaptation of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America on HBO: If the US had gone fascist
wsws.org | 2020-03-25
The series imagines an alternate history in which aviation hero and Hitler admirer Charles Lindbergh becomes the Republican Party's candidate for president in 1940 and wins the general election against incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/25/plot…
US-Israel Defence Pact Essential for Deterrence but Could it Also Tie the Jewish State's Hands?
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-25
US-Israel relations are excellent and need no extra boost in the form of a defence pact, believes one Israeli expert. Although it could contribute to Israel's security and to regional stability, the agreement might also do more harm than good as it could damage the Jewish state's image as a country that relies solely on itself for survival.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202003251078701303-us-israel-defence-pact-essential-for-deterrence-but-could-it-also-tie-the-jewish-states-hands/
Knesset speaker announces sudden resignation in Israel
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-25
Speaker of the Knesset (Israel's parliament) Yuli Edelstein announced a sudden resignation on Wednesday, hours before a deadline set by the Supreme Court for him to elect a successor. | "I hereby resign from my position as speaker of the Knesset," Edelstein, a prominent member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, said in a resignation speech to the Knesset. | Edelstein argued that the court decision "destroys the work of the Knesset". | "The Supreme Court decision constitutes a gross and arrogant intervention of the judiciary in the affairs of the elected legislature. The Supreme Court decision inf…
yenisafak.com/en/world/knesset-speaker-announces-sudden-resignation-in-israel-3514959
Palestinian PM Presses for ICRC-applied Safety Standards for Prisoners
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-03-24
Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, on Tuesday, called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to apply all necessary international standards of safety and protection on the 5,000 Palestinian prisoners, held in Israeli jails. Shtayyeh's call came in response to the current Coronavirus crisis that has plagued many …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-pm-presses-for-icrc-applied-safety-standards-for-prisoners/
Jordan Eases Coronavirus Curfew, Allows Shops to Open
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-24
Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz said Tuesday that his government would allow people to go on foot to neighborhood shops, in a move to ease a tight curfew imposed Saturday on people to contain and prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. | RELATED: | Israel's Palestinian Inmates to Hunger Strike, Due to Poor COVID-19 Response | Razzaz said that starting Wednesday people will be able to leave their homes from 10: 00 am to 06: 00 pm. | "I understand the worry and anxiety.
telesurenglish.net/news/Jordan-Eases-Coronavirus-Curfew-Allows-Shops-to-Open–20200324-0025.html
King David's Ancient Road: How Israeli Archaeologists Are Aiding the Theft of Silwan
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-24
Claiming "science" as their reason and in total disregard for the wellbeing of the population, tunnels are dug under Palestinian homes in Silwan, destroying foundations and forcing residents to flee.
mintpressnews.com/how-israel-archeologists-aiding-theft-silwan/266005/
Israel Controls 95 Percent of Occupied Jordan Valley: Official
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-24
Saeb Erekat, secretary general of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee stated on Tuesday that Israel is now controlling 95 percent of the West Bank's Jordan Valley. | RELATED: | Israel's Palestinian Inmates to Hunger Strike, Due to Poor COVID-19 Response | He said in an emailed press statement that 12,700 Israeli settlers exploit 95 percent of the territory, while 55,000 Palestinians are living in the remaining 5 percent. | "Intensifying settlement in the…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-Controls-95-Percent-of-Occupied-Jordan-Valley-Official-20200324-0010.html
Israeli Bulldozers Raze Palestinian Farm Lands Near Nablus
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-03-24
Israeli army bulldozers, on Tuesday morning, began razing Palestinian-owned farm lands in the occupied West Bank village of Jaloud, south of Nablus city, local Palestinian sources reported. Chief of Israeli colonial settlements file in northern West Bank, Ghassan Daghlas, told local media outlets that the new bulldozing started in area …
imemc.org/article/israeli-bulldozers-raze-palestinian-farm-lands-near-nablus/
Technology of Death: The Not-So-Shocking Report on Israeli Weapons Exports
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-24
SIPRI and Amnesty International are right in exposing Israel's thriving weapons exports market while emphasizing the fact that much of these weapons proliferate freely among human rights violators.
mintpressnews.com/technology-of-death-shocking-report-israeli-weapons-exports/265971/
Amid COVID-19, India Buys $116M Worth Of Weapons to Israel
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-24
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed Thursday an arms deal with Israel worth hundreds of millions of dollars, as cases of the coronavirus infections are surging and concerns are rising over the country's ability to face a health emergency of such magnitude. | RELATED: | Indian Police Files Case Against Social Media Users in Kashmir | Israel will deliver to the Indian military 16,479 Negev light machine guns, the Indian government said in a statement. | The US$116 millio…
telesurenglish.net/news/Covid-19-Cases-Jump-India-Spends-Hundreds-of-Millions-in-Arms-20200324-0023.html
The Not-So-Shocking Report on Israeli Weapons Exports
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-24
The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security and reconstruction. Thanks to the US, Russian, French, Israeli and other weapons manufacturers, however, it is now the dumping ground for military hardware, an ominous sign for …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/the-not-so-shocking-report-on-israeli-weapons-exports/
Will COVID-19 be Known as "the Chinese Virus" or "the Trump Virus"?
Allen Yu | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-24
President Trump and his Administration officials have made an emphatic point of calling the COVID-19 virus the "Chinese Virus'. When pushed on the racist overtone of his rhetoric, Trump retorted, "Cause [the virus] comes from China. It's not racist at all, no, not at all. It comes from China, that's why. I want to be accurate."
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-chinese-virus-trump-virus/5707344
Radical Missionaries in the Amazon Put Isolated Tribes at Risk
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-24
Isolated tribes in the Brazilian Amazon are at high risk of contracting deadly diseases including the coronavirus because of missionaries who swore to convert all of them, a report from the Guardian published Monday revealed. | RELATED: | Brazil's Peoples: Bolsonaro Means Genocide, Ethnocide, Ecocide | A United States-based group of radical missionaries called Ethnos360 and formerly known as New Tribes Mission has set itself with the task of entering in contact with, and convertin…
telesurenglish.net/news/Radical-Missionaries-in-the-Amazon-Put-Isolated-Tribes-at-Risk-20200324-0016.html
'A Patriotic and Moral Requirement': Healthcare Workers, on Frontlines of Coronavirus Pandemic, Demand Protective Equipment
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-03-24
Nurses and doctors are being "sent to battle with no armor," said National Nurses United. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/03/24/patriotic-and-moral-requirement-healthcare-workers-frontlines-coronavirus-pandemic?cd-origin=rss
Because 'Anne Frank Did Not Die in a Gas Chamber,' Jewish Activists Cite Disease in Nazi Death Camps in Call to Free Detained Immigrants
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-03-24
"Crowded, unsanitary detention camps are a death sentence for the people inside. These are the conditions that killed Anne Frank, who died of typhus in 1945." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/03/24/because-anne-frank-did-not-die-gas-chamber-jewish-activists-cite-disease-nazi-death?cd-origin=rss
Army Abducts Three Palestinians In Qalqilia
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-03-23
Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday, three Palestinian men in Qalqilia governorate, in northern West Bank, after invading and violently searching their homes, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS said the soldiers invaded and ransacked homes in Sniria village, south of Qalqilia, before abducting 'Ala Sadeq Omar, 38, and …
imemc.org/article/army-abducts-three-palestinians-in-qalqilia/
Israeli Colonists Attack A Young Man In Northern Plains, Homes In Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-03-23
Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Monday evening, a Palestinian shepherd in Ein al-Hilwa area, in the West Bank's Northern Plains, and attacked many homes in Madama village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian human rights activist, Aref Daraghma, said several colonists assaulted a young …
imemc.org/article/israeli-colonists-attack-a-young-man-in-northern-plains-homes-in-nablus/
Arab League Demands Israel Release Palestinian Prisoners
Rami Almeghari | imemc.org | 2020-03-23
The League of Arab States, consisting of 22 Arab countries, addressed international human rights organizations and other relevant bodies, on Monday, what they describe as an imperative release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners, from Israeli jails. A press release, issued by the Deputy-Secretary General of the Arab States' League for …
imemc.org/article/arab-league-demand-israel-release-palestinian-prisoners/
Israeli Settlers Attack , Damage Palestinian Vehicle near Jenin
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-03-23
Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian vehicle with stones on Monday, in northern occupied West Bank, causing damage to the vehicle but no injuries were reported. A Palestinian resident of Silat al-Dahr village, south of city of Jenin, told WAFA that illegal colonial settlers hurled stones at his car, breaking its …
imemc.org/article/settlers-attack-damage-palestinian-vehicle-near-jenin/
Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians For Disinfecting Public Facilities In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-03-23
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday evening, five Palestinians for disinfecting public facilities near the Lion's Gate, leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers abducted the Palestinians in the al-Ghazali Square, in Bab Al-Asbat (Lion's Gate), while they were disinfecting public facilities as …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-abduct-four-palestinians-for-disinfecting-public-facilities-in-jerusalem/
REPORT: Israeli Settlers Vandalized 1600 Palestinian-Owned Trees This Year
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-03-23
Nearly 1,600 trees have been vandalized by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since the start of 2020, according to United Nations OCHA. According to the agency's latest report, during the period 3-16 March, Israeli settlers vandalized at least 385 Palestinian-owned trees and vehicles in the West Bank. Three …
imemc.org/article/report-israeli-settlers-vandalized-1600-palestinian-owned-trees-this-year/
PHRI calls on the Israeli authorities to provide Gaza with missing equipment and assist patients needing treatment
Staff | imemc.org | 2020-03-23
Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) has called on the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and the Ministry of Health (MoH) to provide Gaza with the equipment it urgently needs to combat COVID-19, including basic antiseptics, intensive care beds, and ventilators. PHRI's further urged COGAT and the …
imemc.org/article/phri-calls-on-the-israeli-authorities-to-provide-gaza-with-missing-equipment-and-assist-patients-needing-treatment/
Hate Group Leaders, Antigovernment Extremists Push Anti-China Coronavirus Rhetoric
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-03-23
A litany of conservative groups and figures, including members of hate and antigovernment extremist groups, have signed a March 17 letter to President Trump asking him to investigate China for its alleged role in spreading the novel coronavirus and hiding its origins.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/24/hate-group-leaders-antigovernment-extremists-push-anti-china-coronavirus-rhetoric
COVID-19 Updates: SPLC continues fight against injustice
splcenter.org | 2020-03-20
We are only beginning to feel the impacts of the coronavirus, but we know that the communities we serve
Expert: US sanctions on Iran, Venezuela during pandemic could be genocidal
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-20
Intensified US sanctions on Iran, Venezuela during the COVID-19 pandemic could amount to genocide, a former UN expert warns. Iran…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/20/expert-us-sanctions-on-iran-venezuela-during-pandemic-could-be-genocidal/
How the ACLU Organized to end Racial Profiling on Greyhound Buses
Andrea Flores | aclu.org | 2020-03-20
Two years ago, the ACLU set a clear goal: push Greyhound to refuse Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers access to their buses to conduct warrantless searches. As part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, CBP officers were targeting bus passengers around the country, boarding their buses to racially profile, harass, and too often, detain people who they suspected of being undocumented. Of course, you can't tell someone's immigration status by how they look or sound
SPLC responds to Trump's Racist and Xenophobic Attacks on Asians
splcenter.org | 2020-03-20
President Trump continued to use racist and xenophobic language today during a news conference about the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. by calling it the "Chinese virus."
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/20/splc-responds-trumps-racist-and-xenophobic-attacks-asians
The Fight to Vote: Overcoming voter suppression in the South
splcenter.org | 2020-03-20
Voter suppression is alive and well across the South.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/24/fight-vote-overcoming-voter-suppression-south
As White House Contemplates Coronavirus Asylum Ban, Hate Groups Urge Trump to Seize the Moment
Michael Edison Hayden and Hannah Gais | splcenter.org | 2020-03-20
The Trump administration took steps to block asylum seekers from entering the U.S.-Mexico border amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This nativist policy course has been pushed by anti-immigrant pundits and hate groups from the time the crisis started to unfold.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/23/white-house-contemplates-coronavirus-asylum-ban-hate-groups-urge-trump-seize-moment
Grassroots effort sponsored by SPLC protects voting rights for hundreds across South Florida
splcenter.org | 2020-03-20
Clutching a clipboard full of voter registration forms under his arm, Marq Mitchell knocked on the front door of a small, beige, stucco house in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/20/grassroots-effort-sponsored-splc-protects-voting-rights-hundreds-across-south-florida
Fight To Vote: Florida man's voting rights restored by Amendment 4
splcenter.org | 2020-03-20
Abdul Yaw Akachi was talking to his neighbors one sunny day in Florida when a voting rights advocate walked up to him.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/24/fight-vote-florida-mans-voting-rights-restored-amendment-4
Trump Continues Calling the Coronavirus "Chinese" Despite Reports of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-19
"I would like to begin by announcing some important developments in our war against the Chinese virus. I will be invoking the Defense Production Act just in case we need it." That was the opening line of President Trump's news conference Wednesday afternoon. Later in the news conference, Trump was questioned by ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega on continuously referring to the coronavirus as the "Chinese virus." A member of the administration also reportedly referred to the coronavirus as the "kung-flu." Meanwhile, racist incidents and threats of hate crimes against Asian Americans have emerged across the United Sta…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/19/trump_ant…
California Anti-Immigrant Activist Robin Hvidston Seeking State Assembly Seat
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-03-19
Robin Hvidston, a longtime anti-immigrant activist, is running as a Republican for a California Assembly seat in District 41.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/19/california-anti-immigrant-activist-robin-hvidston-seeking-state-assembly-seat
Who are we, America?
Eric K. Ward | splcenter.org | 2020-03-19
Just as the authoritarian-tinged tenure of Donald Trump underscores the question, the coronavirus and near shut-down of public life in response highlight this defining time in our democracy.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/22/who-are-we-america
West Virginia Tourist Hub Rejects VDARE's 'Negative' Message‚Äã
splcenter.org | 2020-03-19
A vacation hub known for its placid spas and lush hiking trails, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia has hardly been defined by Trump-era political strife in recent years.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/19/west-virginia-tourist-hub-rejects-vdares-negative-message
Delay or Hold Primaries: Can the 2020 Election Be Safeguarded Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-18
Tuesday night's primary election for the Democratic presidential nomination was marred by chaos, confusion and fears over the spread of coronavirus at polling places as former Vice President Joe Biden consolidated his lead as he won Florida and Illinois by a wide margin and scored a victory in Arizona. We are joined by Vanita Gupta, former head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in the Obama administration, now president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights coalition. They issued a call with 100 voting rights groups for states to proce…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/18/democrati…
2019 Year in Hate and Extremism Report Release
splcenter.org | 2020-03-18
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/18/2019-year-hate-and-extremism-report-release
SPLC's Three Strikes Project helps nonviolent offenders move from prison to parole
splcenter.org | 2020-03-17
Drugs were a way of life in the economically struggling "Brickyard" neighborhood of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Nicky Patterson grew up.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/17/splcs-three-strikes-project-helps-nonviolent-offenders-move-prison-parole
SPLC offices, Civil Rights Memorial Center close
splcenter.org | 2020-03-14
Our work continues with fervor and is needed more now than ever.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/20/splc-offices-civil-rights-memorial-center-close
Weekend Read: 2020 Census safe and easy, helps communities
splcenter.org | 2020-03-13
This month kicks off a major
Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group Presents "Make the Family Great Again" Petition to U.S. State Department Commission
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-03-13
Anti-LGBTQ hate group Ruth Institute presented a "Make the Family Great Again" petition to the State Department at its Commission on Unalienable Rights meeting Feb. 21.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/16/anti-lgbtq-hate-group-presents-make-family-great-again-petition-us-state-department
Spotlight on tactics: A flurry of flyering in 2019
splcenter.org | 2020-03-11
The distribution of flyers remained a common tactic employed by groups on the radical right in 2019. The SPLC recorded more than 1,500 flyering incidents during the year.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/18/spotlight-tactics-flurry-flyering-2019
Notable extremist attacks and plots in 2019
splcenter.org | 2020-03-11
Extremists across the United States and the world continued to launch attacks during 2019. But the worst carnage came in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15, when a white nationalist gunman attacked two mosques, killing 51 people and injuring 49.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/18/notable-extremist-attacks-and-plots-2019
Methodology: 
How hate groups are identified and categorized
splcenter.org | 2020-03-11
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/18/methodology-how-hate-groups-are-identified-and-categorized
Year in technology 2019
splcenter.org | 2020-03-11
Even as research documented a link between online speech and offline violence, internet companies struggled in 2019 to prioritize public safety over the freedom of their users to post extremist content.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/18/year-technology-2019
[Research Paper] Gender discrimination and depressive symptoms among child-bearing women: ELSPAC-CZ cohort study
Irena Stepanikova, Sanjeev Acharya, Safa Abdalla, Elizabeth Baker, Jana Klanova, Gary L. Darmstadt | thelancet.com | 2020-03-04
The findings provide the first evidence that perceived gender discrimination is associated with depressive symptoms among child-bearing women. Social intervention programs aimed at reducing gender discrimination can potentially contribute to better mental health of women.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30041-9/fulltext?rss=yes
Pipeline or a Pipedream
Ramzy Baroud | zcomm.org | 2020-03-02
Israel, Turkey Hydrocarbon Conflict is Brewing in the Mediterranean…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/pipeline-or-a-pipedream/