2020-11-05: News Headlines

teleSUR (2020-11-05). UN Asks to Protect Palestinian Harvesters From Israeli Settlers. telesurenglish.net The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and other international NGOs on Thursday call on the Israeli authorities to protect Palestinian olive pickers from violence by Israeli settlers living in the West Bank. | RELATED: | As of October 7, the OCHA has recorded 33 incidents where Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians or damaged their trees or produce. At least 25 Palestinians were i…

news.un (2020-11-05). Dozens displaced in largest demolition in years in the West Bank, reports UN relief office. news.un.org Seventy-three people, including 41 children have been displaced after Israeli authorities demolished their homes and other structures, and destroyed belongings in the Palestinian community of Humsa Al Bqai'a in the West Bank, the UN humanitarian wing has reported.

MEE staff (2020-11-05). Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras passes 100 days on hunger strike. middleeasteye.net Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras passes 100 days on hunger strike | Taghreed, Akhras's wife, says her husband has been in and out of a coma as his health deteriorates | Thu, 11/05/2020 – 12: 01 | Palestinians carry placards demanding the release of administrative detainee in Israeli custody Maher al-Akhras during a demonstration Hebron, 3 November (AFP) | Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras is on the "ver…

news.un (2020-11-05). Protect Palestine olive harvest from settler violence, Israel urged. news.un.org UN agencies, together with other international NGOs, are calling on Israel to better protect Palestinian farmers from violence by Israeli settlers, as they bring in their traditional olive harvest – crucial to livelihoods – and ensure families can access their land "freely and safely".

David Hearst (2020-11-05). Suspension of Jeremy Corbyn Will Define UK Labour Leader Keith Starmer as Iraq Defined Tony Blair. globalresearch.ca One of the lesser known aspects of Keir Starmer's assault on the left of his party since becoming Labour leader is his growing silence on Palestine. | Silencing the Palestinian lobby in Britain has always been a goal of Israel's …

Ilan Pappe (2020-11-05). From Balfour to the Nakba: The Settler-Colonial Experience of Palestine. globalresearch.ca The late prominent scholar of settler-colonialism, Patrick Wolfe, reminded us repeatedly that it is not an event, it is a structure. While settler-colonialism in many cases has a historical starting point, its original motivation guides its maintenance in the …

Akram Al-Waara (2020-11-05). Israel makes 41 Palestinian children homeless as world watches US election. middleeasteye.net Israel makes 41 Palestinian children homeless as world watches US election | Eleven families left searching for shelter after Israeli forces destroyed their village in the Jordan Valley | Thu, 11/05/2020 – 10: 35 | Palestinian children playing next to their demolished home in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Humsa, 4 November (MEE/Akram el-Waara) | On the evening of Wednesday 4 November, a cold, b…

Maryam Jameela (2020-11-05). White community leaders must respond to the huge numbers of white people voting for Trump. thecanary.co Whatever the result of the US election, white America has once again chosen Trump's fascism.An

MEE correspondent (2020-11-05). Iranian press review: Lockdowns lead to marriages. middleeasteye.net Iranian press review: Lockdowns lead to marriages | Meanwhile, an aide to the supreme leader denies the Holocaust, widespread abuse reported in private rehab centres, and a top athlete practices in a field | Thu, 11/05/2020 – 14: 29 | A couple walks past a mural painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on 20 September 2020 (AFP) | Lockdowns l…

Rita Akayama (2020-11-05). Saturday 11/7: Stop Trump's Attempt to Steal the Elections & Violently Impose a Fascist America on World. indybay.org Embarcadero Plaza…

Khaled Iskef (2020-11-05). The Arab World and the US Elections. Who Will Succeed in Controlling the White House? globalresearch.ca The exit of the American forces from Iraq and Syria, finding a solution to the Palestinian issue and the Syrian and Libyan crisis and ending the war in Yemen is what the Arab World wants, in addition to ending the …

Dean Baker (2020-11-05). Donald Trump and Being Deplorable. cepr.net As it increasingly looks like Joe Biden has won the election, I see many people around me appalled that so many of their fellow citizens can vote for someone as racist, sexist, and otherwise offensive as Donald Trump. Given what we know about the guy, and think everyone else should know about him as well, …

Rob Okun (2020-11-05). Patriarchy's Post Election End Days. zcomm.org We may have begun to acknowledge that racism has its knee on the necks of Black people, but to fully heal America we'll have to admit patriarchy has its other knee on the necks of women…

Kathryn Shihadah (2020-11-05). The Military-Industrial Complex, Israeli-Style. New Docuseries Touts Virtues of "Iron Dome" mintpressnews.com A new documentary series produced in Israel tells the story of the Iron Dome missile system, but as Kathryn Shihadah reports, it leaves out crucial details about how the weapon is used and who funded it.

Mohammad al-Deirawi and Ramzy Baroud (2020-11-04). "They Tried to Freeze Me to Death": Torture and Resistance in Israeli Prisons. dissidentvoice.org Mohammad Ibrahim Ali al-Deirawi was born on January 30, 1978 in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. His family is originally from Bir Al-Saba', an ethnically cleansed Palestinian town located in the southern Naqab desert. Mohammad was arrested by the Israeli army at a military checkpoint in central Gaza on March 1, 2001. He …

Mohammed al-Deirawi, Ramzy Baroud (2020-11-04). "They Tried to Freeze Me to Death:" Torture and Resistance in Israeli Prisons. counterpunch.org Mohammad Ibrahim Ali al-Deirawi was born on January 30, 1978 in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. His family is originally from Bir Al-Saba', an ethnically cleansed Palestinian town located in the southern Naqab desert. Mohammad was arrested by the Israeli army at a military checkpoint in central Gaza on March 1, 2001. He

Ali Harb (2020-11-04). US elections 2020: Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar win re-election. middleeasteye.net US elections 2020: Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar win re-election | Tlaib says Covid-19 relief will be her top priority during second term in Congress and vows to continue pushing for Palestinian human rights | Wed, 11/04/2020 – 04: 13 | The Republican opponents of Tlaib and Omar had raised staggering amounts of money despite the non-competitive nature of races (AFP/File photo) | Muslim-American Congresswomen Rashi…

Susan Abulhawa (2020-11-04). Labour's ouster of MP Jeremy Corbyn aims to crush criticism of Israel. workers.org Member of Parliament and former leader of the Labour Party (2015-2020), Jeremy Corbyn was ousted from his own party by its new leader, Keir Starmer, who has clearly allied with right-wing and neoliberal forces to destroy the socialist left in Britain and beyond. While Workers World Party has disagreed with . . . |

Fight Back (2020-11-04). Green Bay, WI: Vigil and caravan for Donna Christensen and missing, murdered indigenous women. fightbacknews.org Green Bay, WI – On November 1, the Wisconsin Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression held a car caravan and vigil for Donna Christensen, an Ojibwe woman and member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, who was found dead in a jail cell in Vilas County, Wisconsiin. | The car caravanners displayed signs and chanted slogans calling for justice for Donna Christensen and for all Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), as well as justice for all victims of police crimes. They flew a banner with the words "Native lives matter" and "Justice for Jonathan," an indigenous man murdered by Gree…

Gloria Rubac (2020-11-04). Indigenous nations in Oklahoma win Supreme Court ruling. workers.org A surprisingly progressive Supreme Court decision found that over one-third of Oklahoma still falls into "Indian Country" under federal law for the Muscogee Creek Tribe and other Oklahoma tribes. The court ruled July 9 in McGirt v. Oklahoma that under treaties dating back two centuries, much of eastern Oklahoma is . . . |

_____ (2020-11-04). Amazon Bans Book Exposing US COVID-19 Chaos. popularresistance.org A decision by the Amazon company to block a book focused on a scientific and cooperative approach to COVID-19 amounts to corporate information control operating at a new intensity. This censorship occurs while almost every form of U.S. media permits and promotes racist, unscientific and thoroughly confusing information. | The censored book is "Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S." This anthology of 55 articles by a broad range of social justice authors discuss the importance of free health care, social distancing, testing, protective equipment, education and social mobilizat…

MEE and agencies (2020-11-04). Palestinian killed by Israeli fire near West Bank checkpoint. middleeasteye.net Palestinian killed by Israeli fire near West Bank checkpoint | Bilal Rawajba, 29, was a legal consultant in the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Service in the Tubas district, and lived in the village of Iraq al-Tayeh, outside Nablus | Wed, 11/04/2020 – 10: 42 | Israeli forces gather at Huwara checkpoint near Nablus in the occupied West Bank where Bilal Rawajba, 29, was killed (…

Tom Anderson (2020-11-04). Campaigners take direct action as Palestinians remember Balfour's shameful declaration. thecanary.co UK Palestine solidarity campaigners have taken coordinated direct action across the UK to mark the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. | The Balfour Declaration

Kenneth Surin (2020-11-04). The UK's Report on Labour Party Antisemitism. counterpunch.org The UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report on antisemitism in the Labour party has just been published. It found Labour to have breached the Equality Act of 2010, by virtue of harassment committed by its "agents" and "indirect discrimination", occurring in the form of political interference in investigative procedures, muddled official responses to

RT (2020-11-04). France bans Turkish right-wing 'Grey Wolves' group for inciting 'discrimination and hatred'. rt.com The French interior minister has announced that the Turkish nationalist group 'Grey Wolves' has been dissolved, adding that the organization was responsible for violent acts and incited discrimination and hatred. | On Wednesday, the Council of Ministers approved the dissolution of the Turkish nationalist group Grey Wolves in France. | The outcome of the meeting was announced by Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. He shared a photo of the decree on Twitter, adding that the group "was dissolved… in accordance with the instructions of the President of the Republic." | It [the Grey Wolves group] incites discrimin…

Staff (2020-11-04). Socialism is the future, even if fascism and neoliberalism are the present. therealnews.com Cornel West and Tricia Rose of the Tight Rope speak with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson & Bhaskar Sunkara, about the demand for socialism.

Kathy Durkin (2020-11-04). Remembering Sue Davis: Comrade, fighter, writer (1942-2020). workers.org Workers World Party lost a dynamic, dedicated comrade on Sept. 26 when Sue Davis died, a month after suffering a major stroke. A member of the party since 1967, Sue had early on been a militant activist on the streets with Youth Against War and Fascism, the party's youth group, . . . |

Ted Kelly (2020-11-04). International calls for release of Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike. workers.org Hunger striker Maher al-Akhras The International Association of Democratic Lawyers, in a resolution released late last month, called for the immediate release of Maher al-Akhras, a Palestinian man imprisoned by Israeli occupation. Detained without charges under the notorious "administrative detention" policy, al-Akhras has been staging a hunger strike for almost . . . |

WSWS (2020-11-04). Fascist protests in Bolivia demand overturning of presidential election. wsws.org Last night, a street council called by fascists in Santa Cruz demanded the overturning of the recent election and a military takeover.

Jon Queally, staff writer (2020-11-04). "He Doesn't Decide… We the People Do": Trump Denounced for False Election Night Claim of Victory. commondreams.org "We must count every vote, and prepare for what's coming," warned one progressive activist. "This is a crucial moment to defend democracy from fascism at home." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

_____ (2020-11-04). Is Adam Schiff an Anti-Semite? strategic-culture.org Is Adam Schiff an anti-Semite? | On its face, the question seems absurd. Not only is Schiff himself Jewish, but, as far as anyone knows, he's never uttered an unkind word in his life about Jews as a nation, religion, or ethnic group. So he seems to get a clean bill of health. Yet when it comes to Russia, his thinking hews so closely to the classic anti-Semitic model that one hesitates to let him off the hook. | Basically, Schiff obsesses about the Kremlin the way people used to obsess about a mythical entity known as the elders of Zion. According to the notorious czarist forgery known as the "secret protocols," t…

Mehr News Agency (2020-11-04). VIDEO: Iranian envoy submits credentials to Yemeni official. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 04 (MNA) — Iran's new ambassador to Yemen Hassan Irloo submitted a copy of his credentials to the Chairman of Yemen's Supreme Political Council Mahdi al-Mashat on Wednesday.

sputniknews (2020-11-04). John Cusack Says Trump Backers Voted for 'Mentally Ill Virus Spreading Child Abducting Nazi Rapist'. sputniknews.com Many in the United States are passionately awaiting the results of Tuesday's presidential vote between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Currently, the winner remains unknown, with some projecting that the former US vice president will win the ticket to the White House, as there are official results yet.

Elijah Magnier (2020-11-04). Israel's "Lethal Arrow" military exercise anticipates Hezbollah will its cross-borders. thealtworld.com After a week of In these large-scale exercises, Israel has acknowledged, for the first time…

Elijah Magnier (2020-11-04). L'exercice militaire ´Lethal Arrow ª montre qu'Israà´l s'attend à ce que le Hezbollah traverse la frontière. thealtworld.com Après une semaine de

Dr. Robert Rennebohm (2020-11-04). A Little Recognized and Most Pervasive Form of Racism: The Economic Model of "Global Capitalism" globalresearch.ca According to "racist thinking", certain groups of people innately have inferior characteristics that make them undesirable, unworthy, and dispensable. The purveyors of racist views believe they, in contrast, are superior, exceptionally worthy, and indispensable. | There is a virtually unrecognized form …

WSWS (2020-11-04). Protests erupt in Vancouver, Washington after police murder of 21-year-old Kevin Peterson, Jr. wsws.org The anti-police violence protests just north of Portland, Oregon became the target of far-right forces, including Patriot Prayer.

Staff (2020-11-04). Election Day Mayhem Began Two Years Ago With Massive Voter Purges. truthout.org You didn't hear this in the cable TV chatter: In the two years leading up to this election, Georgia's GOP secretary of state quietly wiped away the voter registrations of 198,351 voters — based on false information. | Call it "The Great Purge" — overwhelmingly wiping away the voting rights of young voters and voters of color. In other words, voters who might be more likely to vote blue. | I'm not guessing the number of wrongly purged voters. I directed a team of experts that identified each…

Ben Chacko (2020-11-04). 'Corbyn as Much a Racist as Nelson Mandela,' Former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein Tells Online Rally. globalresearch.ca Jeremy Corbyn "is as much a racist or anti-semite as my former boss Nelson Mandela" and must be restored to membership of the Labour Party, former South African MP Andrew Feinstein told a rally in defence of the ex-Labour leader …

Mehr News Agency (2020-11-04). Iran's newly-appointed envoy to Yemen submits credentials. en.mehrnews.com SANA'A, Nov. 05 (MNA) — Iran's newly-appointed ambassador to Yemen Hassan Irloo submitted a copy of his credentials to the Chairman of Yemen's Supreme Political Council Mahdi al-Mashat on Wednesday.

Sara Flounders (2020-11-03). Amazon bans book exposing U.S. COVID chaos—a commentary. workers.org A decision by the Amazon company to block a book focused on a scientific and cooperative approach to COVID-19 amounts to corporate information control operating at a new intensity. This censorship occurs while almost every form of U.S. media permits and promotes racist, unscientific and thoroughly confusing information. The censored . . . |

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2020-11-03). Deconstructing France's Emmanuel Macron. The Surge of Islamophobia. globalresearch.ca The Modi government has earned the distinction as the "first non-western" voice to come out in support of French President Emmanuel Macron over the recent

teleSUR (2020-11-03). US Elections: Most Expensive Elections in History. telesurenglish.net The United States election taking place this year will be the most expensive in history, with costs exceeding 14 billion dollars, according to experts from the Center for Responsive Politics. | RELATED: | The Center previously estimated the election would reach nearly $11 billion in total spending. But an extraordinary influx of political donations in the final months — driven by a Supreme Court battle and closely…

_____ (2020-11-03). 'The Coming War On China' — Watch John Pilger's Powerfully Relevant Documentary. strategic-culture.org Caitlin JOHNSTONE | "The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable," Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which "In a few years China has become the world's second-biggest economic power," Pilger's introduction continues. "The United States is the world's biggest military power, with bases and missiles and ships covering ever…

Richard Eskow (2020-11-03). In a Fearful Moment, We Are Honored by History. commondreams.org This moment connects us in an unbreakable thread to so many of the generations that came before us and came after us—generations who fought invaders, resisted slavery, challenged colonialism, and fought fascism. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Staff (2020-11-03). "I Am a Citizen": Watch Nikki Giovanni Read Her Poem "Vote" on the Power of the Ballot. democracynow.org Acclaimed poet and activist Nikki Giovanni has a new collection of poems called "Make Me Rain," a celebration of her Black heritage, as well as an exploration of racism and white nationalism. In the poem "Vote," Giovanni offers her thoughts on the importance of voting. It was filmed by The Meteor, a feminist collective of activists, journalists and creators, part of a daily Instagram series focusing on voting rights.

Philip Giraldi (2020-11-03). Israel Wins U.S. Election. globalresearch.ca The U.S. election will end today, more or less, and we Americans will suffer another four years of putting up with serial nonsense out of a White House and Congress that couldn't care less about us no matter who is …

MEE staff (2020-11-03). Covid-19: Scores of Palestinian prisoners infected. middleeasteye.net Covid-19: Scores of Palestinian prisoners infected | The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs blames 'bad measures' inside Gilboa prison for the spread of the coronavirus | Tue, 11/03/2020 – 15: 05 | Palestinian prisoners and visitors at Gilboa prison in central Israel in 2006 (AFP) | Around 73 Palestinian prisoners have tested positive for Covid-19 inside the Israeli prison of Gilboa, according to the…

Monica Moorehead (2020-11-03). No matter the outcome, the election will not fix racism, police terror. workers.org Nov. 2 — CNN reports that a record 95 million-plus voters have already cast their ballot in the presidential race as of today. This number already represents at least 70% of the 139 million total votes cast during the 2016 election, all but guaranteeing there will be a record-setting number . . . |

Rickey Vincent (2020-11-03). Trump is our Chernobyl Disaster. counterpunch.org Back in 2019, before the dark times, I watched the HBO special on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the former USSR. I had a somewhat guilty pleasure watching a dysfunctional nation with a corrupt & out-of-touch government, playing on the patriotism of the masses to downplay, to deceive, and eventually to recruit hundreds of thousands