Monthly Archives: April 2020

2020-04-30: News Headlines

Curt Wechsler (2020-04-30). May 1 Actions to Counter "ReOpen America" Rallies; Demand Trump/Pence #OutNOW. indybay.org Join us to demand Trump, Pence, the whole fascist regime #OutNow in social distancing counter protest of the May 1st fascist rallies that demand the end to sheltering at home and demand their rights to disregard the health and lives of the most vulnerable. In contrast to this, unite with refuse fascism by saying Humanity first and in the name of humanity we refuse to accept a fascist America.

Seth Adler (2020-04-30). How Biden Clipped Sanders on Race. counterpunch.org After the South Carolina loss to Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders' opponents effectively used the African American vote against him. The political moves that clipped his chances of winning, revolved around the following opportunistic argument: because Sanders ran a campaign with a racial justice and anti-racist approach that lost to huge African American majorities, how could

Oliver Vargas (2020-04-30). Bolivia's socialist presidential candidate Luis Arce speaks about elections, COVID-19 and fascist oppression. peoplesdispatch.org The presidential candidate of the Movement for Socialism in Bolivia, Luis Arce Catacora, talks about COVID-19 being used as a pretext to postpone elections, the economic policies of the coup government, and the approach his party plans to take…

Black Lives Matter Sacramento (2020-04-30). Press Conference: Rancho Cordova PD Stop Beating Our Children. indybay.org 7-Eleven (Rancho Cordova, CA) | 10246 Mills Station Rd | Rancho Cordova, California 95670…

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-29). Hate as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government Is Likely to Survive. mintpressnews.com Israeli leaders insist that democracy, transparency, and inclusion are achievable, even when millions of the country's Arab citizens are marginalized and continue to be victims of institutional racism that dates back to the very foundation of Israel.

South Front (2020-04-29). Video: Israeli Military Buildup Near Golan Heights Follows Strikes on Syrian Capital. globalresearch.ca Israel has deployed additional units of the Iron Dome and Patriot air defense systems near the borders of Lebanon and Syria. Pro-Israeli sources claim that the country's military is preparing to repel possible retaliatory strikes from Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed …

Ryan Cristián (2020-04-29). Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag. thelastamericanvagabond.com 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 (4/28/19). 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 …

Gareth Porter (2020-04-29). With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran. thealtworld.com An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran. | President Donald Trump scrapped the nuclear deal with Iran and continued to risk war with Iran based on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim to have proven definitively that Iran was determined to manufacture nuclear weapons. Netanyahu not only spun Trump but much of the corporate media as well, duping them with the public unveiling of what he claimed was the entire secret Iranian "nuclear…

Miko Peled (2020-04-29). Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's New Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Takes Aim at the Holy Sanctuary. mintpressnews.com Israel's right-wing poster boy has been slated for the role of Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, giving him both the position and power to carry out his apocalyptic vision of building a Jewish Temple on the site of the Dome of the Rock.

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-29). Hating Arabs as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government is Likely to Survive. dissidentvoice.org Shortly after an agreement to form a "national emergency government" in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that 'democracy' in Israel has been 'safeguarded'. But how is a deal that would grant Israel's right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a veto power over the very judicial system which …

Marwa Osman (2020-04-29). Hunger Grows in Lebanon—MES EP.51. thealtworld.com The past six months have brought hardships unseen in Lebanon even during the bitter days of its 15-year civil wae that ended in 1990. Decades of corruption and financial mismanagement by warlords-turned-politicians and a cabal of business elites combined with greedy Banks to plunge Lebanon's economy into its worst crisis in living memory. We discuss this segment with Dr. Nasri Harb, economist at USAL university. | In the meantime, Israelis are sparing no effort to complete the process of Judaization. In light of the world's preoccupation with the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, the pace of settlement expansi…

Haggai Matar (2020-04-29). In Israel, the Betrayal that Made Netanyahu King. thenation.com Benny Gantz chose chauvinism and corruption.

Ali Salam (2020-04-29). Israel Orders One Halt Construction and Two Demolition Orders of Palestinian Structures. imemc.org The Israeli army, on Tuesday, ordered a Palestinian resident of Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley to halt construction on his home, citing a lack of Israeli permission to build, a local source reported. Aref Daraghme, a human rights activist, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that occupation authorities instructed …

Andrey Areshev (2020-04-29). The Victory America Won for Fascism and Nazism After WWII. strategic-culture.org This article is about the role ideology actually played in World War II, the Cold War, and plays in today's world. The links here provide access to deeper explorations, regarding each linked issue. Links are provided instead of notes, because all of the sources here are freely available online, and because in the digital era (as we now are) notes are archaic except when a source is not available online. Readers who are interested in the documentation at any point can instantaneously access that in the article's online version simply by clicking onto the link. Readers who aren't interested in ideology won't be int…

Monica Moorehead (2020-04-29). U.S. is a prison house of oppressed peoples. workers.org Based on a talk given during an April 9 Workers World Party national webinar: "Free them all! COVID-19 and racist mass incarceration." Mass incarceration is nothing new to the U.S. This brutal policy of social control of workers — especially the white supremacist oppression of people of color — harkens . . . |

Newsclick (2020-04-29). Roger Waters: We need to save this fragile planet. peoplesdispatch.org Vijay Prashad speaks to Roger Waters on issues ranging from the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the protests in Chile to the coup against Evo Morales Ayma in Bolivia and the struggle to liberate Palestine.

RT (2020-04-29). NYC mayor blasted for 'anti-Semitism' after threatening to arrest Jews for flouting Covid-19 distancing rules at rabbi's funeral. rt.com A tightly-packed funeral procession of Orthodox Jews attracted the ire of Bill de Blasio, but netizens had something to say about the mayor's own distancing policy and said his outburst had "invited anti-Semitism." | The New York City mayor tweeted his anger at members of Brooklyn's Jewish community who gathered on Tuesday night for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz. "My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed," he wrote. | Photos of the procession were circulated in the media, with many of the participants visibly defying social distancing rules, w…

Staff (2020-04-29). Social Distancing Doesn't Matter When It Comes to Racist, Aggressive Policing. truthout.org Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have implored New Yorkers to keep respectable distances from one another, with the hopes of stopping the spread of the virus. The state's and city's economies were grounded to a halt as all kinds of businesses were ordered to shut their doors. Schools have been closed since March, and de Blasio recently announced that they will remain closed for the remainder of the year. Court affairs are being condu…

Ali Salam (2020-04-28). Palestinian Youth Abducted from Qalandia, Several Suffer Tear-gas Inhalation in Hebron. imemc.org Israeli forces attacked, on Sunday night, several Palestinian youths in al-Fawwar refugee camp in southern Hebron, southern occupied West Bank, in addition to abducting one in Qalandia, in the Jerusalem district, Days of Palestine reported. Local sources said that Israeli soldiers invaded al-Fawwar camp and brutalized some Palestinian civilians near …

David Swanson (2020-04-28). How Are You Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel. mintpressnews.com Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military "aid?"

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-28). Israeli Forces Abduct Five Palestinian Youths in East Jerusalem Neighborhood. imemc.org Israeli troops in East Jerusalem, southern occupied West Bank, abducted five Palestinian youths, early on Tuesday, from the al-'Isawiya neighborhood. Local media sources and witness said that Israeli troops invaded the al-'Isawiya Palestinian-populated neighborhood and invaded several homes. Sources added that the soldiers conducted thorough searches of homes, before abducting …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-28). Erekat Briefs European Officials on Israeli Annexation Plans. imemc.org Top Palestinian negotiator and executive member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, briefed a number of Palestinian officials on the latest announcement by Israel regarding the planned annexation of the occupied West Bank. During phone calls, Erekat was reportedly introduced to the Swedish Foreign Minister, Anne Lindy …

Sasha Abramsky (2020-04-28). The Federalist Fight Against Fascism. thenation.com The Federalist Fight Against Fascism…

Staff (2020-04-28). Labour Party Plot Against Corbyn Revealed. therealnews.com Newly-elected leader Keir Starmer promised to investigate the evidence that senior party members actively undermined Jeremy Corbyn, even at the cost of weakening Labour in the general election.

Aviva Levine (2020-04-28). Trump attacks trans health access during a pandemic. liberationnews.org Under an expected rewrite of part of the ACA, discrimination against trans people in health care would be legally permitted.

teleSUR (2020-04-28). Brazil: Workers' Party Files Lawsuit Against Bolsonaro and Moro. telesurenglish.net The Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil filed a lawsuit against President Jair Bolsonaro and former Justice Minister Sergio Moro at the Supreme Federal Court (STF) on suspicions of prevarication, extortion and corruption. | RELATED: | According to the PT, those crimes were unveiled in the war of accusations between them on Friday, when Moro resigned to his post and Bolsonaro refuted his confessions. | Moro left his post after the presid…

Ali Salam (2020-04-27). Family Receives Body of Deceased Palestinian Prisoner. imemc.org The Palestinian Authority's Detainees Affairs Commission announced on Sunday that Israeli authorities are set to release the corpse of the Palestinian detainee, Nour Barghouthi to his family late on Sunday evening, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. After serving 4 years in Israel's Naqab prison, Barghouthi, 23, died on Wednesday, …

Alison Weir (2020-04-30). As US Approaches Record Deficit, Israel Asks for Record Handout. iranian.com Breaking Defense, a digital magazine that covers military issues, reports that Israel may ask for its U.S. aid early, possibly in a lump sum that could be as high as $7.6 billion. This would work out to almost $21 million per day from American taxpayers, even though the U.S. is approaching a $4 trillion deficit (the largest in the world), …

Manlio Dinucci (2020-04-29). Video: Liberiamoci dal virus della guerra. globalresearch.ca "Convegno internazionale "Liberiamoci dal virus della guerra" in occasione del 75 ∞ anniversario della Liberazione d'Italia" | Michel Chossudovsky (Canada), economista, direttore del Centro di ricerca sulla globalizzazione; Peter Koenig (Svizzera), economista con lunga esperienza nella Banca Mondiale, Guido Grossi, già dirigente …

yenisafak (2020-04-30). Indian Muslims to sue for debris of Babri mosque. yenisafak.com "The petition in the supreme court will be filed after the lockdown ends in India," said Zafaryab Jilani, senior lawyer and convener of the All India Babri Masjid Action Committee, which had fought the legal battle for 27 years for ownership of Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya. The Babri Mosque had been torn down by a Hindu mob at the site in 1992."Our motive is quite clear that mosque debris also has sanctity like a mosque. So it should be handed over to us. It is of no use for them [Hindus] and if they throw it here and there it will hurt the sentiments of the Muslim community," Jilani told Anadolu Agency,…

Ali Salam (2020-04-27). 22 Palestinian Structures Receive Demolition Notices in Salfit. imemc.org Israeli authorities, on Sunday, issued demolition orders targeting 22 Palestinian homes and agricultural facilities in Qarawat Bani Hassan village in the central occupied West Bank district of Salfit, Days of Palestine reports. Salfit's governor, Abdullah Kmeil, said that the Israeli authorities are using the coronavirus crisis to escalate demolitions against …

Miko Peled (2020-04-27). How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners. mintpressnews.com Each year Palestinian Prisoners Day comes and goes while the prisoners remain in their cells and their conditions worsen. The destructive effects that Israel's imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians has on society cannot be overstated. Israel justifies its treatment of these prisoners with false claims that the Palestinian men, women, and children who languish in its jails are terrorists. These false claims must be rejected in their entirety. Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners, they are prisoners of conscience and must be viewed and treated as such by the international community. | Israeli claims th…

Staff (2020-04-27). The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony. therealnews.com Co-hosted by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle — Families Forum. Co-sponsored by over sixty peace organizations and religious institutions around the world Anat Marinin and Ahmed Aljaafri — Bereaved Israeli sister, Anat, who lost her two brothers, Pinchas (Pinka) and Yair, during the Yom Kippur War will hold a conversation with bereaved Palestinian,…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-27). Israeli Troops Abduct a Palestinian Youth from Bethlehem. imemc.org Israeli troops abducted, on Monday, a Palestinian young man from the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local media sources and witnesses said that Israeli soldiers broke into and vandalized the home of Laith Youman, 19, before they abducted him. The sources, on Alsaf Street, noted that the Israeli …

Jonathan Cook (2020-04-27). Netanyahu's Coalition Deal paves the Way to Annexation. dissidentvoice.org Only weeks ago, Benjamin Netanyahu was a hair's breadth from being ousted from the Israeli Prime Minister's Office in disgrace, after 11 years of continuous rule. But after a dramatic turnaround in fortunes last week — that saw him signing a pact with Benny Gantz, his chief political rival — Netanyahu has begun to rapidly …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-27). Colonial Israeli Settlers Uproot Dozens of Palestinian-owned Olive Trees. imemc.org Israeli colonial settlers, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, uprooted on Monday, at least 40 Palestinian-owned olive trees. Chief of the Israeli settlements profile, Ghassan Daghlas, reported that the settlers invaded the Saqya village, south of Nablus city and began uprooting 40 old olive trees, owned by local …

Staff (2020-04-27). Has The Coronavirus Crisis Softened Hamas? therealnews.com The Gaza Strip lacks protective gear, clean water, and ventilators, putting immense pressure on Hamas to sign a ceasefire agreement with Israel. But the Israeli side isn't as eager to make a deal.

Fight Back (2020-04-27). FRSO online event: COVID-19 pandemic striking Black and brown communities. fightbacknews.org New York City, NY — On Sunday, April 26, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Central Committee members Frank Chapman and Masao Suzuki gave talks in the livestreamed webinar "Pandemic + Racism = Genocide: Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Oppressed Nationalities & How We can Fight Back!". | As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the country, certain communities are affected more than others. The webinar's purpose was to explore how COVID-19 has affected Black and brown communities, why the virus is especially dangerous in prisons and detention centers, and how imperialism is at the center of it all…

PCHR (2020-04-27). PCHR Condemns Restrictions on Freedom of Journalistic Work in Gaza. imemc.org At approximately 12: 30 on Saturday, 25 April 2020, Palestinian police in Gaza city arrested a Palestine TV Satellite's press crew while recording an interview in Jabalia refugee camp, claiming that they did not have the necessary authorization for photographing and conducting interviews. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns …

Cassie Miller (2020-04-27). Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists. splcenter.org Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.

Gianluca Gaidano, Raffaella Balocco, Wael Al Essa, Andrea Turolla, Roberto Barbato, Umberto Dianzani, Menico Rizzi, Raffaella Ravinetto (2020-04-25). [Correspondence] European education corridors: opportunity for academic solidarity. thelancet.com In times of growing political tensions around migration, health-care providers can help to protect migrant populations from exclusion.1,2 The UCL—Lancet Commission on Migration and Health called for a strengthening, through regulatory and training bodies, of health professionals' and organisations' awareness of discrimination.2 We add that organisations engaged in health science and biomedical education can fulfil their moral and deontological duty to protect populations that are susceptible to discrimination by also promoting the right to education.

Staff (2020-04-24). Israelis Cheer Palestinian Party Leader Ayman Odeh At Rally Against Netanyahu Coalition Government. therealnews.com After three election cycles, Netanyahu and Gantz's coalition formed the largest government in Israeli history, even as Netanyahu faces a corruption trial.

Staff (2020-04-24). "We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege. democracynow.org As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."

splcenter (2020-04-24). Florida voting rights trial to be argued online. splcenter.org

Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano (2020-04-24). Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report. splcenter.org Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources. splcenter.org On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later. splcenter.org

Staff (2020-04-23). Israel Is Involving Itself In Libya's Civil War. Why? therealnews.com Khalifa Haftar's onslaught on the Libya's capital was openly supported by the UAE, but evidence has emerged that his forces received weapons and training from Israel.

Caleb Kieffer (2020-04-23). The Social Contract Publishes its Last Tract. splcenter.org The Social Contract, a long-running quarterly journal founded by John Tanton, ran its final issue in Fall 2019.

Hatewatch Staff (2020-04-23). Oath Keepers Chaplain Quits Over Leader's COVID Response. splcenter.org Chuck Baldwin, who has served as the national chaplain of the antigovernment Oath Keepers since 2013, announced his resignation early Tuesday morning on Facebook.

2020-04-30: Social Media Postees

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With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

May 1 Actions to Counter "ReOpen America" Rallies; Demand Trump/Pence #OutNOW
Curt Wechsler | indybay.org | 2020-04-30
Join us to demand Trump, Pence, the whole fascist regime #OutNow in social distancing counter protest of the May 1st fascist rallies that demand the end to sheltering at home and demand their rights to disregard the health and lives of the most vulnerable. In contrast to this, unite with refuse fascism by saying Humanity first and in the name of humanity we refuse to accept a fascist America.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/29/18832688.php

Bolivia's socialist presidential candidate Luis Arce speaks about elections, COVID-19 and fascist oppression
Oliver Vargas | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-30
The presidential candidate of the Movement for Socialism in Bolivia, Luis Arce Catacora, talks about COVID-19 being used as a pretext to postpone elections, the economic policies of the coup government, and the approach his party plans to take…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/30/bolivias-socialist-presidential-candidate-luis-arce-speaks-about-elections-covid-19-and-fascist-oppression/

How Biden Clipped Sanders on Race
Seth Adler | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-30
After the South Carolina loss to Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders' opponents effectively used the African American vote against him. The political moves that clipped his chances of winning, revolved around the following opportunistic argument: because Sanders ran a campaign with a racial justice and anti-racist approach that lost to huge African American majorities, how could…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/how-biden-clipped-sanders-on-race/

Press Conference: Rancho Cordova PD Stop Beating Our Children
Black Lives Matter Sacramento | indybay.org | 2020-04-30
7-Eleven (Rancho Cordova, CA) | 10246 Mills Station Rd | Rancho Cordova, California 95670…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/29/18832686.php

Hate as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government Is Likely to Survive
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
Israeli leaders insist that democracy, transparency, and inclusion are achievable, even when millions of the country's Arab citizens are marginalized and continue to be victims of institutional racism that dates back to the very foundation of Israel.
mintpressnews.com/hate-as-a-common-ground-israel-coalition-government-survive/267091/

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's New Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Takes Aim at the Holy Sanctuary
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
Israel's right-wing poster boy has been slated for the role of Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, giving him both the position and power to carry out his apocalyptic vision of building a Jewish Temple on the site of the Dome of the Rock.
mintpressnews.com/bezalel-smotrich-apocalyptic-vision-israel-new-minister-jerusalem-affairs/267104/

Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-29
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 (4/28/19). 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-attacks-syria-us-oks-annexation-opcw-caught-again-impending-already-here-bio-false-flag/

In Israel, the Betrayal that Made Netanyahu King
Haggai Matar | thenation.com | 2020-04-29
Benny Gantz chose chauvinism and corruption.
thenation.com/article/world/gantz-netanyahu-deal/

As US Approaches Record Deficit, Israel Asks for Record Handout
Alison Weir | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-29
The request would work out to almost $21 million per day from American taxpayers, even as the U.S. is approaching a $4 trillion deficit (the largest in the world), and Israel typically has a lower unemployment rate than the United States.
mintpressnews.com/us-approachs-record-deficit-israel-asks-record-handout/267077/

Video: Israeli Military Buildup Near Golan Heights Follows Strikes on Syrian Capital
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Israel has deployed additional units of the Iron Dome and Patriot air defense systems near the borders of Lebanon and Syria. Pro-Israeli sources claim that the country's military is preparing to repel possible retaliatory strikes from Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed …
globalresearch.ca/video-israeli-military-buildup-near-golan-heights-follows-strikes-syrian-capital/5711188

Israel Orders One Halt Construction and Two Demolition Orders of Palestinian Structures
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-29
The Israeli army, on Tuesday, ordered a Palestinian resident of Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley to halt construction on his home, citing a lack of Israeli permission to build, a local source reported. Aref Daraghme, a human rights activist, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that occupation authorities instructed …
imemc.org/article/israel-orders-one-halt-construction-and-two-demolition-orders-of-palestinian-structures/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israel-orders-one-halt-construction-and-two-demolition-orders-of-palestinian-structures

Hating Arabs as a Common Ground: Why Israel's Coalition Government is Likely to Survive
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-29
Shortly after an agreement to form a "national emergency government" in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that 'democracy' in Israel has been 'safeguarded'. But how is a deal that would grant Israel's right-wing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a veto power over the very judicial system which …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/hating-arabs-as-a-common-ground-why-israels-coalition-government-is-likely-to-survive/

Hunger Grows in Lebanon–MES EP.51
Marwa Osman | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-29
The past six months have brought hardships unseen in Lebanon even during the bitter days of its 15-year civil wae that ended in 1990. Decades of corruption and financial mismanagement by warlords-turned-politicians and a cabal of business elites combined with greedy Banks to plunge Lebanon's economy into its worst crisis in living memory. We discuss this segment with Dr. Nasri Harb, economist at USAL university. | In the meantime, Israelis are sparing no effort to complete the process of Judaization. In light of the world's preoccupation with the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, the pace of settlement expansi…
thealtworld.com/marwa_osman/hunger-grows…

With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-29
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran. | President Donald Trump scrapped the nuclear deal with Iran and continued to risk war with Iran based on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim to have proven definitively that Iran was determined to manufacture nuclear weapons. Netanyahu not only spun Trump but much of the corporate media as well, duping them with the public unveiling of what he claimed was the entire secret Iranian "nuclear…
thealtworld.com/gareth_porter/with-appar…

The Victory America Won for Fascism and Nazism After WWII
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-04-29
This article is about the role ideology actually played in World War II, the Cold War, and plays in today's world. The links here provide access to deeper explorations, regarding each linked issue. Links are provided instead of notes, because all of the sources here are freely available online, and because in the digital era (as we now are) notes are archaic except when a source is not available online. Readers who are interested in the documentation at any point can instantaneously access that in the article's online version simply by clicking onto the link. Readers who aren't interested in ideology won't be int…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/29/the-victory-america-won-for-fascism-and-nazism-after-wwii/

Roger Waters: We need to save this fragile planet
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-29
Vijay Prashad speaks to Roger Waters on issues ranging from the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the protests in Chile to the coup against Evo Morales Ayma in Bolivia and the struggle to liberate Palestine.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/29/roger-waters-we-need-to-save-this-fragile-planet/

NYC mayor blasted for 'anti-Semitism' after threatening to arrest Jews for flouting Covid-19 distancing rules at rabbi's funeral
rt.com | 2020-04-29
A tightly-packed funeral procession of Orthodox Jews attracted the ire of Bill de Blasio, but netizens had something to say about the mayor's own distancing policy and said his outburst had "invited anti-Semitism." | The New York City mayor tweeted his anger at members of Brooklyn's Jewish community who gathered on Tuesday night for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz. "My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed," he wrote. | Photos of the procession were circulated in the media, with many of the participants visibly defying social distancing rules, w…
rt.com/usa/487184-de-blasio-coronavirus-jews/

U.S. is a prison house of oppressed peoples
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-04-29
Based on a talk given during an April 9 Workers World Party national webinar: "Free them all! COVID-19 and racist mass incarceration." Mass incarceration is nothing new to the U.S. This brutal policy of social control of workers

Social Distancing Doesn't Matter When It Comes to Racist, Aggressive Policing
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-29
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have implored New Yorkers to keep respectable distances from one another, with the hopes of stopping the spread of the virus. The state's and city's economies were grounded to a halt as all kinds of businesses were ordered to shut their doors. Schools have been closed since March, and de Blasio recently announced that they will remain closed for the remainder of the year. Court affairs are being condu…
truthout.org/articles/social-distancing-doesnt-matter-when-it-comes-to-racist-aggressive-policing/

Erekat Briefs European Officials on Israeli Annexation Plans
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-28
Top Palestinian negotiator and executive member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, briefed a number of Palestinian officials on the latest announcement by Israel regarding the planned annexation of the occupied West Bank. During phone calls, Erekat was reportedly introduced to the Swedish Foreign Minister, Anne Lindy …
imemc.org/article/erekat-briefs-european-officials-on-israeli-annexation-plans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=erekat-briefs-european-officials-on-israeli-annexation-plans

Palestinian Youth Abducted from Qalandia, Several Suffer Tear-gas Inhalation in Hebron
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-28
Israeli forces attacked, on Sunday night, several Palestinian youths in al-Fawwar refugee camp in southern Hebron, southern occupied West Bank, in addition to abducting one in Qalandia, in the Jerusalem district, Days of Palestine reported. Local sources said that Israeli soldiers invaded al-Fawwar camp and brutalized some Palestinian civilians near …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-youth-abducted-from-qalandia-several-suffer-tear-gas-inhalation-in-hebron/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-youth-abducted-from-qalandia-several-suffer-tear-gas-inhalation-in-hebron

How Are You Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel
David Swanson | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-28
Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military "aid?"
mintpressnews.com/stop-giving-united-states-money-israel-miltiary-aid/267054/

Israeli Forces Abduct Five Palestinian Youths in East Jerusalem Neighborhood
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-28
Israeli troops in East Jerusalem, southern occupied West Bank, abducted five Palestinian youths, early on Tuesday, from the al-'Isawiya neighborhood. Local media sources and witness said that Israeli troops invaded the al-'Isawiya Palestinian-populated neighborhood and invaded several homes. Sources added that the soldiers conducted thorough searches of homes, before abducting …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-abduct-five-palestinian-youths-in-east-jerusalem-neighborhood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-abduct-five-palestinian-youths-in-east-jerusalem-neighborhood

The Federalist Fight Against Fascism
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-28
The Federalist Fight Against Fascism…
thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-trump-fascism-immigration/

Labour Party Plot Against Corbyn Revealed
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-28
Newly-elected leader Keir Starmer promised to investigate the evidence that senior party members actively undermined Jeremy Corbyn, even at the cost of weakening Labour in the general election.
therealnews.com/stories/labour-party-corbyn-leaked-report-anti-semitism

Trump attacks trans health access during a pandemic
Aviva Levine | liberationnews.org | 2020-04-28
Under an expected rewrite of part of the ACA, discrimination against trans people in health care would be legally permitted.
liberationnews.org/trump-attacks-trans-health-access-during-a-pandemic/

As US Approaches Record Deficit, Israel Asks for Record Handout
Alison Weir | iranian.com | 2020-04-30
Breaking Defense, a digital magazine that covers military issues, reports that Israel may ask for its U.S. aid early, possibly in a lump sum that could be as high as $7.6 billion. This would work out to almost $21 million per day from American taxpayers, even though the U.S. is approaching a $4 trillion deficit (the largest in the world), …
iranian.com/2020/04/29/as-us-approaches-record-deficit-israel-asks-for-record-handout/

Video: Liberiamoci dal virus della guerra
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
"Convegno internazionale "Liberiamoci dal virus della guerra" in occasione del 75 ∞ anniversario della Liberazione d'Italia" | Michel Chossudovsky (Canada), economista, direttore del Centro di ricerca sulla globalizzazione; Peter Koenig (Svizzera), economista con lunga esperienza nella Banca Mondiale, Guido Grossi, già dirigente …
globalresearch.ca/video-liberiamoci-dal-virus-della-guerra/5711191

Indian Muslims to sue for debris of Babri mosque
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-30
"The petition in the supreme court will be filed after the lockdown ends in India," said Zafaryab Jilani, senior lawyer and convener of the All India Babri Masjid Action Committee, which had fought the legal battle for 27 years for ownership of Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya. The Babri Mosque had been torn down by a Hindu mob at the site in 1992."Our motive is quite clear that mosque debris also has sanctity like a mosque. So it should be handed over to us. It is of no use for them [Hindus] and if they throw it here and there it will hurt the sentiments of the Muslim community," Jilani told Anadolu Agency,…
yenisafak.com/en/world/indian-muslims-to-sue-for-debris-of-babri-mosque-3518326

Brazil: Workers' Party Files Lawsuit Against Bolsonaro and Moro
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-28
The Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil filed a lawsuit against President Jair Bolsonaro and former Justice Minister Sergio Moro at the Supreme Federal Court (STF) on suspicions of prevarication, extortion and corruption. | RELATED: | Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro | According to the PT, those crimes were unveiled in the war of accusations between them on Friday, when Moro resigned to his post and Bolsonaro refuted his confessions. | Moro left his post after the presid…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Workers-Party-Files-Lawsuit-Against-Bolsonaro-and-Moro-20200428-0023.html

22 Palestinian Structures Receive Demolition Notices in Salfit
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
Israeli authorities, on Sunday, issued demolition orders targeting 22 Palestinian homes and agricultural facilities in Qarawat Bani Hassan village in the central occupied West Bank district of Salfit, Days of Palestine reports. Salfit's governor, Abdullah Kmeil, said that the Israeli authorities are using the coronavirus crisis to escalate demolitions against …
imemc.org/article/22-palestinian-structures-receive-demolition-notices-in-salfit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=22-palestinian-structures-receive-demolition-notices-in-salfit

Netanyahu's Coalition Deal paves the Way to Annexation
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-27
Only weeks ago, Benjamin Netanyahu was a hair's breadth from being ousted from the Israeli Prime Minister's Office in disgrace, after 11 years of continuous rule. But after a dramatic turnaround in fortunes last week

Israeli Troops Abduct a Palestinian Youth from Bethlehem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
Israeli troops abducted, on Monday, a Palestinian young man from the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local media sources and witnesses said that Israeli soldiers broke into and vandalized the home of Laith Youman, 19, before they abducted him. The sources, on Alsaf Street, noted that the Israeli …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-a-palestinian-youth-from-bethlehem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-a-palestinian-youth-from-bethlehem

Family Receives Body of Deceased Palestinian Prisoner
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
The Palestinian Authority's Detainees Affairs Commission announced on Sunday that Israeli authorities are set to release the corpse of the Palestinian detainee, Nour Barghouthi to his family late on Sunday evening, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. After serving 4 years in Israel's Naqab prison, Barghouthi, 23, died on Wednesday, …
imemc.org/article/family-receives-body-of-deceased-palestinian-prisoner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-receives-body-of-deceased-palestinian-prisoner

How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-27
Each year Palestinian Prisoners Day comes and goes while the prisoners remain in their cells and their conditions worsen. The destructive effects that Israel's imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians has on society cannot be overstated. Israel justifies its treatment of these prisoners with false claims that the Palestinian men, women, and children who languish in its jails are terrorists. These false claims must be rejected in their entirety. Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners, they are prisoners of conscience and must be viewed and treated as such by the international community. | Israeli claims th…
mintpressnews.com/how-israel-legitimizes-abuse-palestinian-political-prisoners/267014/

Has The Coronavirus Crisis Softened Hamas?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-27
The Gaza Strip lacks protective gear, clean water, and ventilators, putting immense pressure on Hamas to sign a ceasefire agreement with Israel. But the Israeli side isn't as eager to make a deal.
therealnews.com/stories/has-coronavirus-softened-hamas-israel-ceasefire-gaza

Colonial Israeli Settlers Uproot Dozens of Palestinian-owned Olive Trees
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
Israeli colonial settlers, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, uprooted on Monday, at least 40 Palestinian-owned olive trees. Chief of the Israeli settlements profile, Ghassan Daghlas, reported that the settlers invaded the Saqya village, south of Nablus city and began uprooting 40 old olive trees, owned by local …
imemc.org/article/colonial-israeli-settlers-uproot-dozens-of-palestinian-owned-olive-trees/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colonial-israeli-settlers-uproot-dozens-of-palestinian-owned-olive-trees

The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-27
Co-hosted by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle

PCHR Condemns Restrictions on Freedom of Journalistic Work in Gaza
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
At approximately 12: 30 on Saturday, 25 April 2020, Palestinian police in Gaza city arrested a Palestine TV Satellite's press crew while recording an interview in Jabalia refugee camp, claiming that they did not have the necessary authorization for photographing and conducting interviews. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns …
imemc.org/article/pchr-condemns-restrictions-on-freedom-of-journalistic-work-in-gaza/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-condemns-restrictions-on-freedom-of-journalistic-work-in-gaza

FRSO online event: COVID-19 pandemic striking Black and brown communities
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-27
New York City, NY

Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2020-04-27
Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/27/anti-lockdown-rallies-are-providing-opening-proud-boys-and-other-far-right-extremists

[Correspondence] European education corridors: opportunity for academic solidarity
Gianluca Gaidano, Raffaella Balocco, Wael Al Essa, Andrea Turolla, Roberto Barbato, Umberto Dianzani, Menico Rizzi, Raffaella Ravinetto | thelancet.com | 2020-04-25
In times of growing political tensions around migration, health-care providers can help to protect migrant populations from exclusion.1,2 The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health called for a strengthening, through regulatory and training bodies, of health professionals' and organisations' awareness of discrimination.2 We add that organisations engaged in health science and biomedical education can fulfil their moral and deontological duty to protect populations that are susceptible to discrimination by also promoting the right to education.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30484-0/fulltext?rss=yes

"We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-24
As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/24/tarek_lou…

Israelis Cheer Palestinian Party Leader Ayman Odeh At Rally Against Netanyahu Coalition Government
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-24
After three election cycles, Netanyahu and Gantz's coalition formed the largest government in Israeli history, even as Netanyahu faces a corruption trial.
therealnews.com/stories/israel-ayman-odeh-rally-netanyahu-ganz-coalition-government-trial

Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/remembering-deadly-poway-shooting-one-year-later

Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/fraihat-v-ice-resources-0

Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report
Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/24/trumps-immigration-order-was-drafted-officials-ties-hate-groups-according-report

Florida voting rights trial to be argued online
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/25/florida-voting-rights-trial-be-argued-online

Israel Is Involving Itself In Libya's Civil War. Why?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-23
Khalifa Haftar's onslaught on the Libya's capital was openly supported by the UAE, but evidence has emerged that his forces received weapons and training from Israel.
therealnews.com/stories/israel-mossad-libya-civil-war-khalifa-haftar

2020-04-29: News Headlines

Ryan Cristián (2020-04-29). Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag. thelastamericanvagabond.com 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 (4/28/19). 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 …

Labor Video Project (2020-04-29). Black Workers Unite, Covid-19 & Black Workers Under Attack On Front Lines In City of SF. indybay.org San Francisco Black Workers Unite covered a panel on the health and safety conditions of Black city workers in San Francisco. They discuss the systemic racism, health and safety violations and retaliations against whistleblowers…

Philip A Farruggio (2020-04-29). It Can't Happen Here? The Roots Run Deep! globalresearch.ca Sinclair Lewis wrote an important novel in 1935, It Can't Happen Here. In the fictitious book, based on the threats at the time of fascism taking root in the USA, we see how this virus spread. | As with Philip Roth's …

Monica Moorehead (2020-04-29). U.S. is a prison house of oppressed peoples. workers.org Based on a talk given during an April 9 Workers World Party national webinar: "Free them all! COVID-19 and racist mass incarceration." Mass incarceration is nothing new to the U.S. This brutal policy of social control of workers — especially the white supremacist oppression of people of color — harkens . . . |

RT (2020-04-29). NYC mayor blasted for 'anti-Semitism' after threatening to arrest Jews for flouting Covid-19 distancing rules at rabbi's funeral. rt.com A tightly-packed funeral procession of Orthodox Jews attracted the ire of Bill de Blasio, but netizens had something to say about the mayor's own distancing policy and said his outburst had "invited anti-Semitism." | The New York City mayor tweeted his anger at members of Brooklyn's Jewish community who gathered on Tuesday night for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz. "My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed," he wrote. | Photos of the procession were circulated in the media, with many of the participants visibly defying social distancing rules, w…

Adriaan Alsema (2020-04-29). UN genocide prevention chief looking into Colombia's mass killing of rights defenders. colombiareports.com The United Nations' genocide prevention chief wants to visit Colombia while looking into the ongoing mass killing of human rights defenders, community leaders and demobilized guerrillas. The UN's Special Adviser…

Telesur (2020-04-29). Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro. globalresearch.ca Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Monday ordered an investigation against President Jair Bolsonaro, due to accusations by former Justice Minister Sergio Moro. | Moro, who resigned from his post at the Ministry of Justice last Friday, accused Bolsonaro …

South Front (2020-04-28). Video: Turkish Army Clashing with Turkish Proxies in Idlib. globalresearch.ca Early on April 27, the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on alleged Iranian targets in the countryside of Damascus. As always, pro-Israeli sources claimed that the missile attack hit and destroyed weapon depots and HQs of …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-28). Israeli Forces Abduct Five Palestinian Youths in East Jerusalem Neighborhood. imemc.org Israeli troops in East Jerusalem, southern occupied West Bank, abducted five Palestinian youths, early on Tuesday, from the al-'Isawiya neighborhood. Local media sources and witness said that Israeli troops invaded the al-'Isawiya Palestinian-populated neighborhood and invaded several homes. Sources added that the soldiers conducted thorough searches of homes, before abducting …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-28). Erekat Briefs European Officials on Israeli Annexation Plans. imemc.org Top Palestinian negotiator and executive member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, briefed a number of Palestinian officials on the latest announcement by Israel regarding the planned annexation of the occupied West Bank. During phone calls, Erekat was reportedly introduced to the Swedish Foreign Minister, Anne Lindy …

teleSUR (2020-04-28). US to Recognize Israeli Annexation of Occupied Palestinian Land. telesurenglish.net Expanding on RELATED: | "As w…

Miri Wood (2020-04-28). Netanyahu Air Force Bombings Targeted Homes, Killed Three Civilians. globalresearch.ca Americans awaiting their COVID-19 stimulus and unemployment checks will be thrilled to know their taxes continue to be spent via Netanyahu bombing and murdering Syrians in their homes. Israel remains the US' most voracious welfare state queen, subsidized at more …

David Swanson (2020-04-28). How Are You Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel. mintpressnews.com Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military "aid?"

Ali Salam (2020-04-28). Palestinian Youth Abducted from Qalandia, Several Suffer Tear-gas Inhalation in Hebron. imemc.org Israeli forces attacked, on Sunday night, several Palestinian youths in al-Fawwar refugee camp in southern Hebron, southern occupied West Bank, in addition to abducting one in Qalandia, in the Jerusalem district, Days of Palestine reported. Local sources said that Israeli soldiers invaded al-Fawwar camp and brutalized some Palestinian civilians near …

Philip Giraldi (2020-04-28). Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again. Israel Will Become Much Bigger. globalresearch.ca Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that …

Philip Giraldi (2020-04-28). Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again. thealtworld.com Israel will become much bigger | Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that a good crisis should never be allowed to go to waste. He meant, of course, that a crisis can be exploited to provide cover for other shenanigans involving politicians. It was an observation that was particularly true when one was working for a sexual predator like Bill, who once attacked a "terrorist" pharmaceutical factory in Sudan to divert attention aw…

Sasha Abramsky (2020-04-28). The Federalist Fight Against Fascism. thenation.com The Federalist Fight Against Fascism…

Staff (2020-04-28). Government Must Pay $12 Billion to Obamacare Insurers, Supreme Court Rules. truthout.org Insurance companies are entitled to recoup $12 billion from the federal government in unpaid Obamacare claims, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in an 8-1 vote. | The companies were shielded under the "risk corridor" provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which promised compensation for companies that incurred losses in the marketplaces created by the law. | The original remuneration period lasted three years, but Congressional Republicans capped payments between 2015 and 2017, which the insure…

Staff (2020-04-28). Labour Party Plot Against Corbyn Revealed. therealnews.com Newly-elected leader Keir Starmer promised to investigate the evidence that senior party members actively undermined Jeremy Corbyn, even at the cost of weakening Labour in the general election.

Aviva Levine (2020-04-28). Trump attacks trans health access during a pandemic. liberationnews.org Under an expected rewrite of part of the ACA, discrimination against trans people in health care would be legally permitted.

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2020-04-28). Health care workers resist bigots and bosses. workers.org Antiscientific and right-wing attacks have intensified against efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. — with the U.S. president recklessly recommending bogus "treatments" and fascists protesting social distancing. During an April 23 press conference, President Trump actually suggested treating COVID-19 by injecting people with household disinfectants or giving . . . |

RT (2020-04-28). Ukraine denies Armenian genocide, refers instead to 'tragic events of April'. rt.com Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vasyl Bodnar has urged government agencies to refrain from using the term 'genocide' when referring to the slaughter of Armenians a century ago, as it would go against Kiev's political interests. | An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1922. Bodnar outlined reasons for refusing to recognize the events as genocide in a letter to government officials, which was subsequently leaked on Facebook by a member of the Verkovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament. | According to Bodnar, these events do not fit the UN definition of genocide, which…

Peter Oborne (2020-04-28). HSBC to Block Donations to Palestinian Aid Charity Interpal. globalresearch.ca British bank HSBC has told customers in the UK that it will stop processing standing order payments to the Palestinian aid charity Interpal from next month. | The bank sent out letters earlier this month to account holders who make regular …

teleSUR (2020-04-28). Brazil: Workers' Party Files Lawsuit Against Bolsonaro and Moro. telesurenglish.net The Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil filed a lawsuit against President Jair Bolsonaro and former Justice Minister Sergio Moro at the Supreme Federal Court (STF) on suspicions of prevarication, extortion and corruption. | RELATED: | According to the PT, those crimes were unveiled in the war of accusations between them on Friday, when Moro resigned to his post and Bolsonaro refuted his confessions. | Moro left his post after the presid…

teleSUR (2020-04-28). Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro. telesurenglish.net Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Monday ordered an investigation against President Jair Bolsonaro, due to accusations by former Justice Minister Sergio Moro. | RELATED: | Moro, who resigned from his post at the Ministry of Justice last Friday, accused Bolsonaro of interfering in police investigations. | In response to these accusations, the STF established on Monday that the Federal Police must interrogate t…

Ali Salam (2020-04-27). Family Receives Body of Deceased Palestinian Prisoner. imemc.org The Palestinian Authority's Detainees Affairs Commission announced on Sunday that Israeli authorities are set to release the corpse of the Palestinian detainee, Nour Barghouthi to his family late on Sunday evening, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. After serving 4 years in Israel's Naqab prison, Barghouthi, 23, died on Wednesday, …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-27). Palestinian Officials Denounce Israeli Seizure of Tax Funds. imemc.org A number of Palestinian officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, the Israeli seizure of Palestinian Authority's (PA) tax funds, considering this piracy against the Palestinian people. Hussien Elsheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs with the PA, confirmed today that the Israeli Magistrate Court in the internationally-recognized …

Miko Peled (2020-04-27). How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners. mintpressnews.com Each year Palestinian Prisoners Day comes and goes while the prisoners remain in their cells and their conditions worsen. The destructive effects that Israel's imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians has on society cannot be overstated. Israel justifies its treatment of these prisoners with false claims that the Palestinian men, women, and children who languish in its jails are terrorists. These false claims must be rejected in their entirety. Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners, they are prisoners of conscience and must be viewed and treated as such by the international community. | Israeli claims th…

Ali Salam (2020-04-27). 22 Palestinian Structures Receive Demolition Notices in Salfit. imemc.org Israeli authorities, on Sunday, issued demolition orders targeting 22 Palestinian homes and agricultural facilities in Qarawat Bani Hassan village in the central occupied West Bank district of Salfit, Days of Palestine reports. Salfit's governor, Abdullah Kmeil, said that the Israeli authorities are using the coronavirus crisis to escalate demolitions against …

sputniknews (2020-04-29). Inspired by Heroes: Murals Painted on Buildings in Russia in Celebration of WWII Victory. sputniknews.com The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Jonathan Cook (2020-04-27). Netanyahu's Coalition Deal paves the Way to Annexation. dissidentvoice.org Only weeks ago, Benjamin Netanyahu was a hair's breadth from being ousted from the Israeli Prime Minister's Office in disgrace, after 11 years of continuous rule. But after a dramatic turnaround in fortunes last week — that saw him signing a pact with Benny Gantz, his chief political rival — Netanyahu has begun to rapidly …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-27). Colonial Israeli Settlers Uproot Dozens of Palestinian-owned Olive Trees. imemc.org Israeli colonial settlers, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, uprooted on Monday, at least 40 Palestinian-owned olive trees. Chief of the Israeli settlements profile, Ghassan Daghlas, reported that the settlers invaded the Saqya village, south of Nablus city and began uprooting 40 old olive trees, owned by local …

Staff (2020-04-27). The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony. therealnews.com Co-hosted by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle — Families Forum. Co-sponsored by over sixty peace organizations and religious institutions around the world Anat Marinin and Ahmed Aljaafri — Bereaved Israeli sister, Anat, who lost her two brothers, Pinchas (Pinka) and Yair, during the Yom Kippur War will hold a conversation with bereaved Palestinian,…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-27). Israeli Troops Abduct a Palestinian Youth from Bethlehem. imemc.org Israeli troops abducted, on Monday, a Palestinian young man from the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local media sources and witnesses said that Israeli soldiers broke into and vandalized the home of Laith Youman, 19, before they abducted him. The sources, on Alsaf Street, noted that the Israeli …

Staff (2020-04-27). Has The Coronavirus Crisis Softened Hamas? therealnews.com The Gaza Strip lacks protective gear, clean water, and ventilators, putting immense pressure on Hamas to sign a ceasefire agreement with Israel. But the Israeli side isn't as eager to make a deal.

Fight Back (2020-04-27). FRSO online event: COVID-19 pandemic striking Black and brown communities. fightbacknews.org New York City, NY — On Sunday, April 26, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Central Committee members Frank Chapman and Masao Suzuki gave talks in the livestreamed webinar "Pandemic + Racism = Genocide: Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Oppressed Nationalities & How We can Fight Back!". | As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the country, certain communities are affected more than others. The webinar's purpose was to explore how COVID-19 has affected Black and brown communities, why the virus is especially dangerous in prisons and detention centers, and how imperialism is at the center of it all…

Scot Nakagawa (2020-04-27). For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time. thenation.com For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time…

PCHR (2020-04-27). PCHR Condemns Restrictions on Freedom of Journalistic Work in Gaza. imemc.org At approximately 12: 30 on Saturday, 25 April 2020, Palestinian police in Gaza city arrested a Palestine TV Satellite's press crew while recording an interview in Jabalia refugee camp, claiming that they did not have the necessary authorization for photographing and conducting interviews. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns …

Cassie Miller (2020-04-27). Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists. splcenter.org Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.

Jonathan Cook (2020-04-26). Palestinians Hunker Down for Ramadan, Facing a Virus that doesn't Discriminate but an Occupier that does. dissidentvoice.org As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations' lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. While 15,000 Israelis have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the numbers infected in the occupied territories are …

RT (2020-04-25). Senator hands outrage culture a win, apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask after defending it only a day earlier. rt.com A Michigan state senator gave in to triggered critics by apologizing for wearing a mask resembling the Confederate flag. A day earlier he ardently defended it, saying history should be taught so as not to repeat itself. | Republican Dale Zorn was photographed wearing the mask while in the Michigan state chamber on Friday to vote on bills seeking to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | This is Dale Zorn. He is an elected member of the Michigan Senate. He wore a Confederate Flag mask on the floor of the Michigan Senate. Then he tried to tell us he didn't…

RT (2020-04-25). #KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here. rt.com Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…

Gianluca Gaidano, Raffaella Balocco, Wael Al Essa, Andrea Turolla, Roberto Barbato, Umberto Dianzani, Menico Rizzi, Raffaella Ravinetto (2020-04-25). [Correspondence] European education corridors: opportunity for academic solidarity. thelancet.com In times of growing political tensions around migration, health-care providers can help to protect migrant populations from exclusion.1,2 The UCL—Lancet Commission on Migration and Health called for a strengthening, through regulatory and training bodies, of health professionals' and organisations' awareness of discrimination.2 We add that organisations engaged in health science and biomedical education can fulfil their moral and deontological duty to protect populations that are susceptible to discrimination by also promoting the right to education.

Staff (2020-04-24). Israelis Cheer Palestinian Party Leader Ayman Odeh At Rally Against Netanyahu Coalition Government. therealnews.com After three election cycles, Netanyahu and Gantz's coalition formed the largest government in Israeli history, even as Netanyahu faces a corruption trial.

Staff (2020-04-24). "We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege. democracynow.org As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."

Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano (2020-04-24). Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report. splcenter.org Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources. splcenter.org On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Florida voting rights trial to be argued online. splcenter.org

splcenter (2020-04-24). Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later. splcenter.org

Staff (2020-04-23). Israel Is Involving Itself In Libya's Civil War. Why? therealnews.com Khalifa Haftar's onslaught on the Libya's capital was openly supported by the UAE, but evidence has emerged that his forces received weapons and training from Israel.

2020-04-29: Social Media Postees

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Israel Attacks Syria, US OKs Annexation, OPCW Caught Again & Impending (Already Here) Bio False Flag
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-04-29
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 (4/28/19). 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-attacks-syria-us-oks-annexation-opcw-caught-again-impending-already-here-bio-false-flag/

Black Workers Unite, Covid-19 & Black Workers Under Attack On Front Lines In City of SF
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-29
San Francisco Black Workers Unite covered a panel on the health and safety conditions of Black city workers in San Francisco. They discuss the systemic racism, health and safety violations and retaliations against whistleblowers…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/27/18832661.php

It Can't Happen Here? The Roots Run Deep!
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Sinclair Lewis wrote an important novel in 1935, It Can't Happen Here. In the fictitious book, based on the threats at the time of fascism taking root in the USA, we see how this virus spread. | As with Philip Roth's …
globalresearch.ca/it-cant-happen-here-roots-run-deep/5711071

NYC mayor blasted for 'anti-Semitism' after threatening to arrest Jews for flouting Covid-19 distancing rules at rabbi's funeral
rt.com | 2020-04-29
A tightly-packed funeral procession of Orthodox Jews attracted the ire of Bill de Blasio, but netizens had something to say about the mayor's own distancing policy and said his outburst had "invited anti-Semitism." | The New York City mayor tweeted his anger at members of Brooklyn's Jewish community who gathered on Tuesday night for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz. "My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed," he wrote. | Photos of the procession were circulated in the media, with many of the participants visibly defying social distancing rules, w…
rt.com/usa/487184-de-blasio-coronavirus-jews/

UN genocide prevention chief looking into Colombia's mass killing of rights defenders
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-29
The United Nations' genocide prevention chief wants to visit Colombia while looking into the ongoing mass killing of human rights defenders, community leaders and demobilized guerrillas. The UN's Special Adviser…
colombiareports.com/un-genocide-prevention-chief-looking-into-colombias-mass-killing-of-rights-defenders/

U.S. is a prison house of oppressed peoples
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-04-29
Based on a talk given during an April 9 Workers World Party national webinar: "Free them all! COVID-19 and racist mass incarceration." Mass incarceration is nothing new to the U.S. This brutal policy of social control of workers

Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-29
Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Monday ordered an investigation against President Jair Bolsonaro, due to accusations by former Justice Minister Sergio Moro. | Moro, who resigned from his post at the Ministry of Justice last Friday, accused Bolsonaro …
globalresearch.ca/brazilian-court-orders-investigation-against-bolsonaro/5711218

Israeli Forces Abduct Five Palestinian Youths in East Jerusalem Neighborhood
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-28
Israeli troops in East Jerusalem, southern occupied West Bank, abducted five Palestinian youths, early on Tuesday, from the al-'Isawiya neighborhood. Local media sources and witness said that Israeli troops invaded the al-'Isawiya Palestinian-populated neighborhood and invaded several homes. Sources added that the soldiers conducted thorough searches of homes, before abducting …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-abduct-five-palestinian-youths-in-east-jerusalem-neighborhood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-forces-abduct-five-palestinian-youths-in-east-jerusalem-neighborhood

How Are You Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel
David Swanson | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-28
Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military "aid?"
mintpressnews.com/stop-giving-united-states-money-israel-miltiary-aid/267054/

Video: Turkish Army Clashing with Turkish Proxies in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Early on April 27, the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on alleged Iranian targets in the countryside of Damascus. As always, pro-Israeli sources claimed that the missile attack hit and destroyed weapon depots and HQs of …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-army-clashing-turkish-proxies-idlib/5711056

Palestinian Youth Abducted from Qalandia, Several Suffer Tear-gas Inhalation in Hebron
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-28
Israeli forces attacked, on Sunday night, several Palestinian youths in al-Fawwar refugee camp in southern Hebron, southern occupied West Bank, in addition to abducting one in Qalandia, in the Jerusalem district, Days of Palestine reported. Local sources said that Israeli soldiers invaded al-Fawwar camp and brutalized some Palestinian civilians near …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-youth-abducted-from-qalandia-several-suffer-tear-gas-inhalation-in-hebron/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-youth-abducted-from-qalandia-several-suffer-tear-gas-inhalation-in-hebron

Erekat Briefs European Officials on Israeli Annexation Plans
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-28
Top Palestinian negotiator and executive member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, briefed a number of Palestinian officials on the latest announcement by Israel regarding the planned annexation of the occupied West Bank. During phone calls, Erekat was reportedly introduced to the Swedish Foreign Minister, Anne Lindy …
imemc.org/article/erekat-briefs-european-officials-on-israeli-annexation-plans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=erekat-briefs-european-officials-on-israeli-annexation-plans

Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again. Israel Will Become Much Bigger
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-back-israel-will-become-much-bigger/5711133

Netanyahu Air Force Bombings Targeted Homes, Killed Three Civilians
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Americans awaiting their COVID-19 stimulus and unemployment checks will be thrilled to know their taxes continue to be spent via Netanyahu bombing and murdering Syrians in their homes. Israel remains the US' most voracious welfare state queen, subsidized at more …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-air-force-bombings-targeted-homes-killed-three-civilians/5711065

Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-28
Israel will become much bigger | Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that a good crisis should never be allowed to go to waste. He meant, of course, that a crisis can be exploited to provide cover for other shenanigans involving politicians. It was an observation that was particularly true when one was working for a sexual predator like Bill, who once attacked a "terrorist" pharmaceutical factory in Sudan to divert attention aw…
thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/netanyahu…

US to Recognize Israeli Annexation of Occupied Palestinian Land
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-28
Expanding on remarks made last week by United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who said annexation was "an Israeli decision," the U.S. State Department confirmed Monday that it was prepared to recognize Israel's annexation of much of the illegally occupied West Bank. | RELATED: | HSBC Bank Blocks Donations to Palestinian Aid Group: Report | "As w…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-to-Recognize-Israeli-Annexation-of-Occupied-Palestinian-Land-20200428-0016.html

The Federalist Fight Against Fascism
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-28
The Federalist Fight Against Fascism…
thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-trump-fascism-immigration/

Government Must Pay $12 Billion to Obamacare Insurers, Supreme Court Rules
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-28
Insurance companies are entitled to recoup $12 billion from the federal government in unpaid Obamacare claims, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in an 8-1 vote. | The companies were shielded under the "risk corridor" provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which promised compensation for companies that incurred losses in the marketplaces created by the law. | The original remuneration period lasted three years, but Congressional Republicans capped payments between 2015 and 2017, which the insure…
truthout.org/articles/government-must-pay-12-billion-to-obamacare-insurers-supreme-court-rules/

Labour Party Plot Against Corbyn Revealed
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-28
Newly-elected leader Keir Starmer promised to investigate the evidence that senior party members actively undermined Jeremy Corbyn, even at the cost of weakening Labour in the general election.
therealnews.com/stories/labour-party-corbyn-leaked-report-anti-semitism

Trump attacks trans health access during a pandemic
Aviva Levine | liberationnews.org | 2020-04-28
Under an expected rewrite of part of the ACA, discrimination against trans people in health care would be legally permitted.
liberationnews.org/trump-attacks-trans-health-access-during-a-pandemic/

Health care workers resist bigots and bosses
Minnie Bruce Pratt | workers.org | 2020-04-28
Antiscientific and right-wing attacks have intensified against efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

Ukraine denies Armenian genocide, refers instead to 'tragic events of April'
rt.com | 2020-04-28
Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vasyl Bodnar has urged government agencies to refrain from using the term 'genocide' when referring to the slaughter of Armenians a century ago, as it would go against Kiev's political interests. | An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1922. Bodnar outlined reasons for refusing to recognize the events as genocide in a letter to government officials, which was subsequently leaked on Facebook by a member of the Verkovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament. | According to Bodnar, these events do not fit the UN definition of genocide, which…
rt.com/news/487169-ukraine-armenian-genocide-turkey/

HSBC to Block Donations to Palestinian Aid Charity Interpal
Peter Oborne | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
British bank HSBC has told customers in the UK that it will stop processing standing order payments to the Palestinian aid charity Interpal from next month. | The bank sent out letters earlier this month to account holders who make regular …
globalresearch.ca/hsbc-block-donations-palestinian-aid-charity-interpal/5711121

Brazil: Workers' Party Files Lawsuit Against Bolsonaro and Moro
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-28
The Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil filed a lawsuit against President Jair Bolsonaro and former Justice Minister Sergio Moro at the Supreme Federal Court (STF) on suspicions of prevarication, extortion and corruption. | RELATED: | Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro | According to the PT, those crimes were unveiled in the war of accusations between them on Friday, when Moro resigned to his post and Bolsonaro refuted his confessions. | Moro left his post after the presid…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Workers-Party-Files-Lawsuit-Against-Bolsonaro-and-Moro-20200428-0023.html

Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-28
Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Monday ordered an investigation against President Jair Bolsonaro, due to accusations by former Justice Minister Sergio Moro. | RELATED: | Brazil Bolsonaro Hits the Streets To Defy COVID-19 Guidelines | Moro, who resigned from his post at the Ministry of Justice last Friday, accused Bolsonaro of interfering in police investigations. | In response to these accusations, the STF established on Monday that the Federal Police must interrogate t…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazil-court-orders-investigation-against-bolsonaro—20200428-0001.html

Netanyahu's Coalition Deal paves the Way to Annexation
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-27
Only weeks ago, Benjamin Netanyahu was a hair's breadth from being ousted from the Israeli Prime Minister's Office in disgrace, after 11 years of continuous rule. But after a dramatic turnaround in fortunes last week

Has The Coronavirus Crisis Softened Hamas?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-27
The Gaza Strip lacks protective gear, clean water, and ventilators, putting immense pressure on Hamas to sign a ceasefire agreement with Israel. But the Israeli side isn't as eager to make a deal.
therealnews.com/stories/has-coronavirus-softened-hamas-israel-ceasefire-gaza

The Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-27
Co-hosted by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle

22 Palestinian Structures Receive Demolition Notices in Salfit
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
Israeli authorities, on Sunday, issued demolition orders targeting 22 Palestinian homes and agricultural facilities in Qarawat Bani Hassan village in the central occupied West Bank district of Salfit, Days of Palestine reports. Salfit's governor, Abdullah Kmeil, said that the Israeli authorities are using the coronavirus crisis to escalate demolitions against …
imemc.org/article/22-palestinian-structures-receive-demolition-notices-in-salfit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=22-palestinian-structures-receive-demolition-notices-in-salfit

Inspired by Heroes: Murals Painted on Buildings in Russia in Celebration of WWII Victory
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-29
The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
sputniknews.com/photo/202004291079131821-murals-painted-in-russia-in-celebration-of-wwii-victory/

Family Receives Body of Deceased Palestinian Prisoner
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
The Palestinian Authority's Detainees Affairs Commission announced on Sunday that Israeli authorities are set to release the corpse of the Palestinian detainee, Nour Barghouthi to his family late on Sunday evening, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. After serving 4 years in Israel's Naqab prison, Barghouthi, 23, died on Wednesday, …
imemc.org/article/family-receives-body-of-deceased-palestinian-prisoner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-receives-body-of-deceased-palestinian-prisoner

Israeli Troops Abduct a Palestinian Youth from Bethlehem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
Israeli troops abducted, on Monday, a Palestinian young man from the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local media sources and witnesses said that Israeli soldiers broke into and vandalized the home of Laith Youman, 19, before they abducted him. The sources, on Alsaf Street, noted that the Israeli …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-a-palestinian-youth-from-bethlehem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-a-palestinian-youth-from-bethlehem

Palestinian Officials Denounce Israeli Seizure of Tax Funds
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
A number of Palestinian officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, the Israeli seizure of Palestinian Authority's (PA) tax funds, considering this piracy against the Palestinian people. Hussien Elsheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs with the PA, confirmed today that the Israeli Magistrate Court in the internationally-recognized …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-officials-denounce-israeli-seizure-of-tax-funds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-officials-denounce-israeli-seizure-of-tax-funds

How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-27
Each year Palestinian Prisoners Day comes and goes while the prisoners remain in their cells and their conditions worsen. The destructive effects that Israel's imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians has on society cannot be overstated. Israel justifies its treatment of these prisoners with false claims that the Palestinian men, women, and children who languish in its jails are terrorists. These false claims must be rejected in their entirety. Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners, they are prisoners of conscience and must be viewed and treated as such by the international community. | Israeli claims th…
mintpressnews.com/how-israel-legitimizes-abuse-palestinian-political-prisoners/267014/

Colonial Israeli Settlers Uproot Dozens of Palestinian-owned Olive Trees
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
Israeli colonial settlers, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, uprooted on Monday, at least 40 Palestinian-owned olive trees. Chief of the Israeli settlements profile, Ghassan Daghlas, reported that the settlers invaded the Saqya village, south of Nablus city and began uprooting 40 old olive trees, owned by local …
imemc.org/article/colonial-israeli-settlers-uproot-dozens-of-palestinian-owned-olive-trees/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colonial-israeli-settlers-uproot-dozens-of-palestinian-owned-olive-trees

For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time
Scot Nakagawa | thenation.com | 2020-04-27
For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time…
thenation.com/article/society/white-nationalism-coronavirus-racism/

PCHR Condemns Restrictions on Freedom of Journalistic Work in Gaza
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
At approximately 12: 30 on Saturday, 25 April 2020, Palestinian police in Gaza city arrested a Palestine TV Satellite's press crew while recording an interview in Jabalia refugee camp, claiming that they did not have the necessary authorization for photographing and conducting interviews. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns …
imemc.org/article/pchr-condemns-restrictions-on-freedom-of-journalistic-work-in-gaza/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-condemns-restrictions-on-freedom-of-journalistic-work-in-gaza

FRSO online event: COVID-19 pandemic striking Black and brown communities
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-27
New York City, NY

Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2020-04-27
Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/27/anti-lockdown-rallies-are-providing-opening-proud-boys-and-other-far-right-extremists

Palestinians Hunker Down for Ramadan, Facing a Virus that doesn't Discriminate but an Occupier that does
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-26
As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations' lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. While 15,000 Israelis have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the numbers infected in the occupied territories are …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/palestinians-hunker-down-for-ramadan-facing-a-virus-that-doesnt-discriminate-but-an-occupier-that-does/

Senator hands outrage culture a win, apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask after defending it only a day earlier
rt.com | 2020-04-25
A Michigan state senator gave in to triggered critics by apologizing for wearing a mask resembling the Confederate flag. A day earlier he ardently defended it, saying history should be taught so as not to repeat itself. | Republican Dale Zorn was photographed wearing the mask while in the Michigan state chamber on Friday to vote on bills seeking to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | This is Dale Zorn. He is an elected member of the Michigan Senate. He wore a Confederate Flag mask on the floor of the Michigan Senate. Then he tried to tell us he didn't…
rt.com/usa/486901-michigan-senator-confederate-mask/

[Correspondence] European education corridors: opportunity for academic solidarity
Gianluca Gaidano, Raffaella Balocco, Wael Al Essa, Andrea Turolla, Roberto Barbato, Umberto Dianzani, Menico Rizzi, Raffaella Ravinetto | thelancet.com | 2020-04-25
In times of growing political tensions around migration, health-care providers can help to protect migrant populations from exclusion.1,2 The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health called for a strengthening, through regulatory and training bodies, of health professionals' and organisations' awareness of discrimination.2 We add that organisations engaged in health science and biomedical education can fulfil their moral and deontological duty to protect populations that are susceptible to discrimination by also promoting the right to education.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30484-0/fulltext?rss=yes

#KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…
rt.com/usa/486889-kim-jong-un-undead-twitter/

"We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-24
As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/24/tarek_lou…

Israelis Cheer Palestinian Party Leader Ayman Odeh At Rally Against Netanyahu Coalition Government
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-24
After three election cycles, Netanyahu and Gantz's coalition formed the largest government in Israeli history, even as Netanyahu faces a corruption trial.
therealnews.com/stories/israel-ayman-odeh-rally-netanyahu-ganz-coalition-government-trial

Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report
Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/24/trumps-immigration-order-was-drafted-officials-ties-hate-groups-according-report

Florida voting rights trial to be argued online
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/25/florida-voting-rights-trial-be-argued-online

Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/fraihat-v-ice-resources-0

Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/remembering-deadly-poway-shooting-one-year-later

Israel Is Involving Itself In Libya's Civil War. Why?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-23
Khalifa Haftar's onslaught on the Libya's capital was openly supported by the UAE, but evidence has emerged that his forces received weapons and training from Israel.
therealnews.com/stories/israel-mossad-libya-civil-war-khalifa-haftar

2020-04-28: News Headlines

Philip Giraldi (2020-04-28). Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again. thealtworld.com Israel will become much bigger | Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that a good crisis should never be allowed to go to waste. He meant, of course, that a crisis can be exploited to provide cover for other shenanigans involving politicians. It was an observation that was particularly true when one was working for a sexual predator like Bill, who once attacked a "terrorist" pharmaceutical factory in Sudan to divert attention aw…

RT (2020-04-28). Israeli police 'shoot & neutralize' assailant who stabbed Kfar Saba woman in suspected terror attack. rt.com A woman has been stabbed in Israel's central city of Kfar Saba, in what police are investigating as a potential terror attack. The woman, 62, was taken in a moderate-to-serious condition to a nearby hospital, the Times of Israel reported on Tuesday, citing medics. | The assailant was shot and "neutralized," the Zaka emergency service said. It did not specify whether he is still alive. | Police officers are working at the scene of the attack. They have shut down nearby roads, according to the report.

David Swanson (2020-04-28). How Are You Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel. mintpressnews.com Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military "aid?"

en.mehrnews (2020-04-28). 'Resistance to give crushing response to Israelis' occupation of West Bank'. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 28 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament Speaker's Special Aide for International Affairs warned that any move by the Israeli regime to occupy parts of Palestine's West Bank will await the Resistance Movement's crushing response.

South Front (2020-04-28). Video: Turkish Army Clashing with Turkish Proxies in Idlib. globalresearch.ca Early on April 27, the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on alleged Iranian targets in the countryside of Damascus. As always, pro-Israeli sources claimed that the missile attack hit and destroyed weapon depots and HQs of …

Miri Wood (2020-04-28). Netanyahu Air Force Bombings Targeted Homes, Killed Three Civilians. globalresearch.ca Americans awaiting their COVID-19 stimulus and unemployment checks will be thrilled to know their taxes continue to be spent via Netanyahu bombing and murdering Syrians in their homes. Israel remains the US' most voracious welfare state queen, subsidized at more …

teleSUR (2020-04-28). US to Recognize Israeli Annexation of Occupied Palestinian Land. telesurenglish.net Expanding on RELATED: | "As w…

Philip Giraldi (2020-04-28). Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again. Israel Will Become Much Bigger. globalresearch.ca Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that …

Labor Video Project (2020-04-28). Black Workers Unite, Covid-19 & Black Workers Under Attack On Front Lines In City of SF. indybay.org San Francisco Black Workers Unite covered a panel on the health and safety conditions of Black city workers in San Francisco. They discuss the systemic racism, health and safety violations and retaliations against whistleblowers…

Leslie Gregory (2020-04-28). COVID-19 From the Front Lines. counterpunch.org Some of us in the frontlines of health care have been trying to convince CDC to declare racism as a threat to public health. We think our proofs are strong. Nearly five years ago, when we started the Racism is a Public Health Threat campaign in Portland, Oregon at Race Talks PDX, hosted by long-time community justice

Sasha Abramsky (2020-04-28). The Federalist Fight Against Fascism. thenation.com The Federalist Fight Against Fascism…

RT (2020-04-28). Ukraine denies Armenian genocide, refers instead to 'tragic events of April'. rt.com Deputy foreign minister of Ukraine Vasyl Bodnar has urged government agencies to refrain from using the term 'genocide' when referring to the murder of Armenians a century ago, as it would go against Kiev's political interests. | An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1922. Bodnar outlined the reasons for refusing to recognise the events as genocide in a letter to government officials, which was subsequently leaked to Facebook by a member of the Verkovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament. | According to Bodnar, these events do not fit the UN definition of genocide, whic…

Staff (2020-04-28). Government Must Pay $12 Billion to Obamacare Insurers, Supreme Court Rules. truthout.org Insurance companies are entitled to recoup $12 billion from the federal government in unpaid Obamacare claims, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in an 8-1 vote. | The companies were shielded under the "risk corridor" provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which promised compensation for companies that incurred losses in the marketplaces created by the law. | The original remuneration period lasted three years, but Congressional Republicans capped payments between 2015 and 2017, which the insure…

Peter Oborne (2020-04-28). HSBC to Block Donations to Palestinian Aid Charity Interpal. globalresearch.ca British bank HSBC has told customers in the UK that it will stop processing standing order payments to the Palestinian aid charity Interpal from next month. | The bank sent out letters earlier this month to account holders who make regular …

teleSUR (2020-04-28). Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro. telesurenglish.net Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Monday ordered an investigation against President Jair Bolsonaro, due to accusations by former Justice Minister Sergio Moro. | RELATED: | Moro, who resigned from his post at the Ministry of Justice last Friday, accused Bolsonaro of interfering in police investigations. | In response to these accusations, the STF established on Monday that the Federal Police must interrogate t…

Ali Salam (2020-04-27). Family Receives Body of Deceased Palestinian Prisoner. imemc.org The Palestinian Authority's Detainees Affairs Commission announced on Sunday that Israeli authorities are set to release the corpse of the Palestinian detainee, Nour Barghouthi to his family late on Sunday evening, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. After serving 4 years in Israel's Naqab prison, Barghouthi, 23, died on Wednesday, …

Miko Peled (2020-04-27). How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners. mintpressnews.com Each year Palestinian Prisoners Day comes and goes while the prisoners remain in their cells and their conditions worsen. The destructive effects that Israel's imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians has on society cannot be overstated. Israel justifies its treatment of these prisoners with false claims that the Palestinian men, women, and children who languish in its jails are terrorists. These false claims must be rejected in their entirety. Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners, they are prisoners of conscience and must be viewed and treated as such by the international community. | Israeli claims th…

Ali Salam (2020-04-27). 22 Palestinian Structures Receive Demolition Notices in Salfit. imemc.org Israeli authorities, on Sunday, issued demolition orders targeting 22 Palestinian homes and agricultural facilities in Qarawat Bani Hassan village in the central occupied West Bank district of Salfit, Days of Palestine reports. Salfit's governor, Abdullah Kmeil, said that the Israeli authorities are using the coronavirus crisis to escalate demolitions against …

Jonathan Cook (2020-04-27). Netanyahu's Coalition Deal paves the Way to Annexation. dissidentvoice.org Only weeks ago, Benjamin Netanyahu was a hair's breadth from being ousted from the Israeli Prime Minister's Office in disgrace, after 11 years of continuous rule. But after a dramatic turnaround in fortunes last week — that saw him signing a pact with Benny Gantz, his chief political rival — Netanyahu has begun to rapidly …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-27). Palestinian Officials Denounce Israeli Seizure of Tax Funds. imemc.org A number of Palestinian officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, the Israeli seizure of Palestinian Authority's (PA) tax funds, considering this piracy against the Palestinian people. Hussien Elsheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs with the PA, confirmed today that the Israeli Magistrate Court in the internationally-recognized …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-27). Colonial Israeli Settlers Uproot Dozens of Palestinian-owned Olive Trees. imemc.org Israeli colonial settlers, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, uprooted on Monday, at least 40 Palestinian-owned olive trees. Chief of the Israeli settlements profile, Ghassan Daghlas, reported that the settlers invaded the Saqya village, south of Nablus city and began uprooting 40 old olive trees, owned by local …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-27). Israeli Troops Abduct a Palestinian Youth from Bethlehem. imemc.org Israeli troops abducted, on Monday, a Palestinian young man from the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local media sources and witnesses said that Israeli soldiers broke into and vandalized the home of Laith Youman, 19, before they abducted him. The sources, on Alsaf Street, noted that the Israeli …

Fight Back (2020-04-27). FRSO online event: COVID-19 pandemic striking Black and brown communities. fightbacknews.org New York City, NY — On Sunday, April 26, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Central Committee members Frank Chapman and Masao Suzuki gave talks in the livestreamed webinar "Pandemic + Racism = Genocide: Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Oppressed Nationalities & How We can Fight Back!". | As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the country, certain communities are affected more than others. The webinar's purpose was to explore how COVID-19 has affected Black and brown communities, why the virus is especially dangerous in prisons and detention centers, and how imperialism is at the center of it all…

Scot Nakagawa (2020-04-27). For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time. thenation.com For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time…

Dennis Broe (2020-04-27). 'Babylon Berlin' and origin of German fascism; 'Superstore' in age of Amazon. peoplesworld.org Season three of the German mega-series Babylon Berlin continues the exploration of tensions in the Weimar Republic as it moves inexorably toward its demise and its replacement by fascism. The series centers around inspector Gereon Rath, a sometimes staunch defender of the democracy, and Charlotte Ritter—a vivacious character created for the series and not in …

PCHR (2020-04-27). PCHR Condemns Restrictions on Freedom of Journalistic Work in Gaza. imemc.org At approximately 12: 30 on Saturday, 25 April 2020, Palestinian police in Gaza city arrested a Palestine TV Satellite's press crew while recording an interview in Jabalia refugee camp, claiming that they did not have the necessary authorization for photographing and conducting interviews. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns …

Stephen Lendman (2020-04-27). Trump Regime Pushing for Confrontation with Iran? globalresearch.ca Since Iranians ended a generation of CIA-installed fascist dictatorship in 1979, the US has been at war on the Islamic Republic by other means. | The Trump regime escalated it way beyond where its predecessors went, risking confrontation by accident or …

Steven Sahiounie (2020-04-27). Syrians Remember the Armenian Genocide as Turkey Threatens Again. globalresearch.ca April 24, 2020, marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which was the first genocide of the 20th century. The starting date is held to be April 24, 1915, in a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate …

Manlio Dinucci (2020-04-28). Giulietto Chiesa in prima linea fino all'ultimo. globalresearch.ca Giulietto Chiesa è morto poche ore dopo aver concluso, nel 75 ∞ Anniversario della Liberazione e della fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, il Convegno internazionale del 25 Aprile ´Liberiamoci dal virus della guerra ª. Un convegno in diretta streaming, organizzato dal Comitato …

sputniknews (2020-04-28). Woman Stabbed in Israel in Potential Terrorist Attack, Perpetrator 'Neutralized' – Reports. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A 62-year old woman was stabbed in the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba in what police are now investigating as a potential terrorist attack, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday.

teleSUR (2020-04-27). HSBC Bank Blocks Donations to Palestinian Aid Group: Report. telesurenglish.net British bank HSBC informed customers in the United Kingdom (U.K.) that it will stop processing standing orders for donations to the Palestinian aid group Interpal staring May 17, Middle East Eye reported Monday. | RELATED: | The bank gave no reasons to explain a decision that comes as a blow to Interpal because it has been announced during Ramadan when Muslims usually increase their donations. | "It is disappointing that a…

Cassie Miller (2020-04-27). Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists. splcenter.org Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.

teleSUR (2020-04-26). US Will Allow West Bank Annexation in 2 Months: Netanyahu. telesurenglish.net Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his confidence Sunday that the United States would give him the approval within two months to go ahead with the annexation of parts of the illegally occupied West Bank. | RELATED: | "A couple of months from now I am confident that that pledge will be honored," Netanyahu told the European Commission for Israel, describing that the U.S. peace proposal announced by President Do…

Jonathan Cook (2020-04-26). Palestinians Hunker Down for Ramadan, Facing a Virus that doesn't Discriminate but an Occupier that does. dissidentvoice.org As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations' lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. While 15,000 Israelis have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the numbers infected in the occupied territories are …

BIICFHRIOT (2020-04-26). B'Tselem: Israeli Settlers Exploit Coronavirus to Take Over West Bank Land with Military Backing: Violent Attacks Spike in April. imemc.org B'Tselem — The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Since the start of the corona crisis, Israeli settlers have ramped up attacks against Palestinians throughout the West Bank, with full state backing. The attacks have increased despite the movement restrictions, lockdowns and social distancing measures introduced …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-26). Israeli Troops Abduct Several Palestinians from Hebron and Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Sunday at dawn, several Palestinian youth from both the West Bank city of Hebron and the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinian sources in Hebron said that both Ali Fatafta and Kayed Fatafta, were abducted by Israeli troops who broke into and vandalized their homes in …

Ali Salam (2020-04-26). Israeli Colonists Cut Dozens of Palestinian-owned Olive Trees near Nablus. imemc.org Illegal Israeli colonists, on Friday cut down more than 30 olive trees in As-Sawiya town, south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local official. Ghassan Daghlas, an official documenting Israeli settlement construction in the area, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency, that a group of …

Ali Salam (2020-04-26). Two Palestinians Shot, Injured by Israeli Army Fire in Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Saturday, towards local Palestinian civilians in Kufur Qaddoum, wounding two with rubber-coated metal rounds, while intentionally shooting at and damaging water tanks on rooftops of homes, local sources reported. Morad Eshteiwi, Coordinator of the Popular Committee in Kufur Qaddoum, told Quds News Network that a …

RT (2020-04-25). Senator hands outrage culture a win, apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask after defending it only a day earlier. rt.com A Michigan state senator gave in to triggered critics by apologizing for wearing a mask resembling the Confederate flag. A day earlier he ardently defended it, saying history should be taught so as not to repeat itself. | Republican Dale Zorn was photographed wearing the mask while in the Michigan state chamber on Friday to vote on bills seeking to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | This is Dale Zorn. He is an elected member of the Michigan Senate. He wore a Confederate Flag mask on the floor of the Michigan Senate. Then he tried to tell us he didn't…

RT (2020-04-25). #KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here. rt.com Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…

Staff (2020-04-24). "We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege. democracynow.org As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."

Sasha Abramsky (2020-04-24). Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law. thenation.com Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law…

Harvey "Sluggo" Wasserman (2020-04-24). How YOU can dump Trump: Let us count the ways. peoplesworld.org Grassroots action's immense recent upset victory in Wisconsin, where voters kicked out a sitting conservative Supreme Court judge and elected a progressive, shows we can overcome even a rigged election. In November, you must do it again. When Trump tries to steal or cancel the election, our informed non-violence must rise to protect and win …

splcenter (2020-04-24). Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later. splcenter.org

splcenter (2020-04-24). Florida voting rights trial to be argued online. splcenter.org

splcenter (2020-04-24). Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources. splcenter.org On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.

Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano (2020-04-24). Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report. splcenter.org Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.

news.un (2020-04-23). Common coronavirus enemy, forges some Palestine-Israel cooperation, but West Bank annexation looms. news.un.org The COVID-19 pandemic is creating opportunities for cooperation that Israelis and Palestinians must embrace to sustain Middle East peace efforts and bring an end to decades of conflict, the United Nations' top envoy in the region said on Thursday.

Caleb Kieffer (2020-04-23). The Social Contract Publishes its Last Tract. splcenter.org The Social Contract, a long-running quarterly journal founded by John Tanton, ran its final issue in Fall 2019.

Hatewatch Staff (2020-04-23). Oath Keepers Chaplain Quits Over Leader's COVID Response. splcenter.org Chuck Baldwin, who has served as the national chaplain of the antigovernment Oath Keepers since 2013, announced his resignation early Tuesday morning on Facebook.

2020-04-28: Social Media Postees

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Netanyahu Air Force Bombings Targeted Homes, Killed Three Civilians
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Americans awaiting their COVID-19 stimulus and unemployment checks will be thrilled to know their taxes continue to be spent via Netanyahu bombing and murdering Syrians in their homes. Israel remains the US' most voracious welfare state queen, subsidized at more …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-air-force-bombings-targeted-homes-killed-three-civilians/5711065

Video: Turkish Army Clashing with Turkish Proxies in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Early on April 27, the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on alleged Iranian targets in the countryside of Damascus. As always, pro-Israeli sources claimed that the missile attack hit and destroyed weapon depots and HQs of …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-army-clashing-turkish-proxies-idlib/5711056

Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again. Israel Will Become Much Bigger
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-back-israel-will-become-much-bigger/5711133

How Are You Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel
David Swanson | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-28
Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military "aid?"
mintpressnews.com/stop-giving-united-states-money-israel-miltiary-aid/267054/

Israeli police 'shoot & neutralize' assailant who stabbed Kfar Saba woman in suspected terror attack
rt.com | 2020-04-28
A woman has been stabbed in Israel's central city of Kfar Saba, in what police are investigating as a potential terror attack. The woman, 62, was taken in a moderate-to-serious condition to a nearby hospital, the Times of Israel reported on Tuesday, citing medics. | The assailant was shot and "neutralized," the Zaka emergency service said. It did not specify whether he is still alive. | Police officers are working at the scene of the attack. They have shut down nearby roads, according to the report.
rt.com/newsline/487114-israel-police-suspect-attack/

US to Recognize Israeli Annexation of Occupied Palestinian Land
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-28
Expanding on remarks made last week by United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who said annexation was "an Israeli decision," the U.S. State Department confirmed Monday that it was prepared to recognize Israel's annexation of much of the illegally occupied West Bank. | RELATED: | HSBC Bank Blocks Donations to Palestinian Aid Group: Report | "As w…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-to-Recognize-Israeli-Annexation-of-Occupied-Palestinian-Land-20200428-0016.html

How Are You Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel
David Swanson | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-28
Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military "aid?"
mintpressnews.com/stop-giving-united-states-money-israel-miltiary-aid/267054/

'Resistance to give crushing response to Israelis' occupation of West Bank'
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-28
TEHRAN, Apr. 28 (MNA)

Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-28
Israel will become much bigger | Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that a good crisis should never be allowed to go to waste. He meant, of course, that a crisis can be exploited to provide cover for other shenanigans involving politicians. It was an observation that was particularly true when one was working for a sexual predator like Bill, who once attacked a "terrorist" pharmaceutical factory in Sudan to divert attention aw…
thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/netanyahu…

COVID-19 From the Front Lines
Leslie Gregory | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-28
Some of us in the frontlines of health care have been trying to convince CDC to declare racism as a threat to public health. We think our proofs are strong. Nearly five years ago, when we started the Racism is a Public Health Threat campaign in Portland, Oregon at Race Talks PDX, hosted by long-time community justice…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/28/covid-19-from-the-front-lines/

Black Workers Unite, Covid-19 & Black Workers Under Attack On Front Lines In City of SF
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-28
San Francisco Black Workers Unite covered a panel on the health and safety conditions of Black city workers in San Francisco. They discuss the systemic racism, health and safety violations and retaliations against whistleblowers…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/27/18832661.php

Black Workers Unite, Covid-19 & Black Workers Under Attack On Front Lines In City of SF
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-04-28
San Francisco Black Workers Unite covered a panel on the health and safety conditions of Black city workers in San Francisco. They discuss the systemic racism, health and safety violations and retaliations against whistleblowers…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/27/18832661.php

The Federalist Fight Against Fascism
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-28
The Federalist Fight Against Fascism…
thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-trump-fascism-immigration/

Government Must Pay $12 Billion to Obamacare Insurers, Supreme Court Rules
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-28
Insurance companies are entitled to recoup $12 billion from the federal government in unpaid Obamacare claims, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in an 8-1 vote. | The companies were shielded under the "risk corridor" provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which promised compensation for companies that incurred losses in the marketplaces created by the law. | The original remuneration period lasted three years, but Congressional Republicans capped payments between 2015 and 2017, which the insure…
truthout.org/articles/government-must-pay-12-billion-to-obamacare-insurers-supreme-court-rules/

Ukraine denies Armenian genocide, refers instead to 'tragic events of April'
rt.com | 2020-04-28
Deputy foreign minister of Ukraine Vasyl Bodnar has urged government agencies to refrain from using the term 'genocide' when referring to the murder of Armenians a century ago, as it would go against Kiev's political interests. | An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1922. Bodnar outlined the reasons for refusing to recognise the events as genocide in a letter to government officials, which was subsequently leaked to Facebook by a member of the Verkovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament. | According to Bodnar, these events do not fit the UN definition of genocide, whic…
rt.com/news/487169-ukraine-armenian-genocide-turkey/

HSBC to Block Donations to Palestinian Aid Charity Interpal
Peter Oborne | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
British bank HSBC has told customers in the UK that it will stop processing standing order payments to the Palestinian aid charity Interpal from next month. | The bank sent out letters earlier this month to account holders who make regular …
globalresearch.ca/hsbc-block-donations-palestinian-aid-charity-interpal/5711121

Brazilian Court Orders Investigation Against Bolsonaro
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-28
Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Monday ordered an investigation against President Jair Bolsonaro, due to accusations by former Justice Minister Sergio Moro. | RELATED: | Brazil Bolsonaro Hits the Streets To Defy COVID-19 Guidelines | Moro, who resigned from his post at the Ministry of Justice last Friday, accused Bolsonaro of interfering in police investigations. | In response to these accusations, the STF established on Monday that the Federal Police must interrogate t…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazil-court-orders-investigation-against-bolsonaro—20200428-0001.html

Colonial Israeli Settlers Uproot Dozens of Palestinian-owned Olive Trees
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
Israeli colonial settlers, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, uprooted on Monday, at least 40 Palestinian-owned olive trees. Chief of the Israeli settlements profile, Ghassan Daghlas, reported that the settlers invaded the Saqya village, south of Nablus city and began uprooting 40 old olive trees, owned by local …
imemc.org/article/colonial-israeli-settlers-uproot-dozens-of-palestinian-owned-olive-trees/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colonial-israeli-settlers-uproot-dozens-of-palestinian-owned-olive-trees

How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-27
Each year Palestinian Prisoners Day comes and goes while the prisoners remain in their cells and their conditions worsen. The destructive effects that Israel's imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians has on society cannot be overstated. Israel justifies its treatment of these prisoners with false claims that the Palestinian men, women, and children who languish in its jails are terrorists. These false claims must be rejected in their entirety. Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners, they are prisoners of conscience and must be viewed and treated as such by the international community. | Israeli claims th…
mintpressnews.com/how-israel-legitimizes-abuse-palestinian-political-prisoners/267014/

Family Receives Body of Deceased Palestinian Prisoner
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
The Palestinian Authority's Detainees Affairs Commission announced on Sunday that Israeli authorities are set to release the corpse of the Palestinian detainee, Nour Barghouthi to his family late on Sunday evening, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. After serving 4 years in Israel's Naqab prison, Barghouthi, 23, died on Wednesday, …
imemc.org/article/family-receives-body-of-deceased-palestinian-prisoner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-receives-body-of-deceased-palestinian-prisoner

Palestinian Officials Denounce Israeli Seizure of Tax Funds
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
A number of Palestinian officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, the Israeli seizure of Palestinian Authority's (PA) tax funds, considering this piracy against the Palestinian people. Hussien Elsheikh, Minister of Civil Affairs with the PA, confirmed today that the Israeli Magistrate Court in the internationally-recognized …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-officials-denounce-israeli-seizure-of-tax-funds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palestinian-officials-denounce-israeli-seizure-of-tax-funds

22 Palestinian Structures Receive Demolition Notices in Salfit
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
Israeli authorities, on Sunday, issued demolition orders targeting 22 Palestinian homes and agricultural facilities in Qarawat Bani Hassan village in the central occupied West Bank district of Salfit, Days of Palestine reports. Salfit's governor, Abdullah Kmeil, said that the Israeli authorities are using the coronavirus crisis to escalate demolitions against …
imemc.org/article/22-palestinian-structures-receive-demolition-notices-in-salfit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=22-palestinian-structures-receive-demolition-notices-in-salfit

Israeli Troops Abduct a Palestinian Youth from Bethlehem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
Israeli troops abducted, on Monday, a Palestinian young man from the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local media sources and witnesses said that Israeli soldiers broke into and vandalized the home of Laith Youman, 19, before they abducted him. The sources, on Alsaf Street, noted that the Israeli …
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Netanyahu's Coalition Deal paves the Way to Annexation
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-27
Only weeks ago, Benjamin Netanyahu was a hair's breadth from being ousted from the Israeli Prime Minister's Office in disgrace, after 11 years of continuous rule. But after a dramatic turnaround in fortunes last week

For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time
Scot Nakagawa | thenation.com | 2020-04-27
For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time…
thenation.com/article/society/white-nationalism-coronavirus-racism/

'Babylon Berlin' and origin of German fascism; 'Superstore' in age of Amazon
Dennis Broe | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-27
Season three of the German mega-series Babylon Berlin continues the exploration of tensions in the Weimar Republic as it moves inexorably toward its demise and its replacement by fascism. The series centers around inspector Gereon Rath, a sometimes staunch defender of the democracy, and Charlotte Ritter–a vivacious character created for the series and not in …
peoplesworld.org/article/babylon-berlin-and-origin-of-german-fascism-superstore-in-age-of-amazon/

Trump Regime Pushing for Confrontation with Iran?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-27
Since Iranians ended a generation of CIA-installed fascist dictatorship in 1979, the US has been at war on the Islamic Republic by other means. | The Trump regime escalated it way beyond where its predecessors went, risking confrontation by accident or …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-pushing-confrontation-iran/5710975

PCHR Condemns Restrictions on Freedom of Journalistic Work in Gaza
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-04-27
At approximately 12: 30 on Saturday, 25 April 2020, Palestinian police in Gaza city arrested a Palestine TV Satellite's press crew while recording an interview in Jabalia refugee camp, claiming that they did not have the necessary authorization for photographing and conducting interviews. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns …
imemc.org/article/pchr-condemns-restrictions-on-freedom-of-journalistic-work-in-gaza/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pchr-condemns-restrictions-on-freedom-of-journalistic-work-in-gaza

Giulietto Chiesa in prima linea fino all'ultimo
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Giulietto Chiesa è morto poche ore dopo aver concluso, nel 75 ∞ Anniversario della Liberazione e della fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, il Convegno internazionale del 25 Aprile ´Liberiamoci dal virus della guerra ª. Un convegno in diretta streaming, organizzato dal Comitato …
globalresearch.ca/giulietto-chiesa-in-prima-linea-fino-allultimo/5711106

Woman Stabbed in Israel in Potential Terrorist Attack, Perpetrator 'Neutralized' – Reports
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-28
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A 62-year old woman was stabbed in the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba in what police are now investigating as a potential terrorist attack, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202004281079121229-woman-stabbed-in-israel-in-potential-terrorist-attack-perpetrator-neutralized—reports/

FRSO online event: COVID-19 pandemic striking Black and brown communities
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-27
New York City, NY

Syrians Remember the Armenian Genocide as Turkey Threatens Again
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-27
April 24, 2020, marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which was the first genocide of the 20th century. The starting date is held to be April 24, 1915, in a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate …
globalresearch.ca/syrians-armenian-genocide-turkey-threatens-again/5710879

HSBC Bank Blocks Donations to Palestinian Aid Group: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-27
British bank HSBC informed customers in the United Kingdom (U.K.) that it will stop processing standing orders for donations to the Palestinian aid group Interpal staring May 17, Middle East Eye reported Monday. | RELATED: | US Will Allow West Bank Annexation in 2 Months: Netanyahu | The bank gave no reasons to explain a decision that comes as a blow to Interpal because it has been announced during Ramadan when Muslims usually increase their donations. | "It is disappointing that a…
telesurenglish.net/news/HSBC-Bank-Blocks-Donations-to-Palestinian-Aid-Group-Report-20200427-0014.html

Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2020-04-27
Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/27/anti-lockdown-rallies-are-providing-opening-proud-boys-and-other-far-right-extremists

Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2020-04-27
Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/27/anti-lockdown-rallies-are-providing-opening-proud-boys-and-other-far-right-extremists

B'Tselem: Israeli Settlers Exploit Coronavirus to Take Over West Bank Land with Military Backing: Violent Attacks Spike in April
BIICFHRIOT | imemc.org | 2020-04-26
B'Tselem

Israeli Colonists Cut Dozens of Palestinian-owned Olive Trees near Nablus
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-26
Illegal Israeli colonists, on Friday cut down more than 30 olive trees in As-Sawiya town, south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local official. Ghassan Daghlas, an official documenting Israeli settlement construction in the area, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency, that a group of …
imemc.org/article/israeli-colonists-cut-dozens-of-palestinian-owned-olive-trees-near-nablus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-colonists-cut-dozens-of-palestinian-owned-olive-trees-near-nablus

Palestinians Hunker Down for Ramadan, Facing a Virus that doesn't Discriminate but an Occupier that does
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-26
As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations' lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. While 15,000 Israelis have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the numbers infected in the occupied territories are …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/palestinians-hunker-down-for-ramadan-facing-a-virus-that-doesnt-discriminate-but-an-occupier-that-does/

US Will Allow West Bank Annexation in 2 Months: Netanyahu
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-26
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his confidence Sunday that the United States would give him the approval within two months to go ahead with the annexation of parts of the illegally occupied West Bank. | RELATED: | UN, EU Warn New Israeli Gov't Against West Bank Annexation | "A couple of months from now I am confident that that pledge will be honored," Netanyahu told the European Commission for Israel, describing that the U.S. peace proposal announced by President Do…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Will-Allow-West-Bank-Annexation-in-2-Months-Netanyahu-20200426-0007.html

Israeli Troops Abduct Several Palestinians from Hebron and Jerusalem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-26
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Sunday at dawn, several Palestinian youth from both the West Bank city of Hebron and the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinian sources in Hebron said that both Ali Fatafta and Kayed Fatafta, were abducted by Israeli troops who broke into and vandalized their homes in …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-several-palestinians-from-hebron-and-jerusalem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-several-palestinians-from-hebron-and-jerusalem

Two Palestinians Shot, Injured by Israeli Army Fire in Kufur Qaddoum
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-26
Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Saturday, towards local Palestinian civilians in Kufur Qaddoum, wounding two with rubber-coated metal rounds, while intentionally shooting at and damaging water tanks on rooftops of homes, local sources reported. Morad Eshteiwi, Coordinator of the Popular Committee in Kufur Qaddoum, told Quds News Network that a …
imemc.org/article/two-palestinians-shot-injured-by-israeli-army-fire-in-kufur-qaddoum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-palestinians-shot-injured-by-israeli-army-fire-in-kufur-qaddoum

Senator hands outrage culture a win, apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask after defending it only a day earlier
rt.com | 2020-04-25
A Michigan state senator gave in to triggered critics by apologizing for wearing a mask resembling the Confederate flag. A day earlier he ardently defended it, saying history should be taught so as not to repeat itself. | Republican Dale Zorn was photographed wearing the mask while in the Michigan state chamber on Friday to vote on bills seeking to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | This is Dale Zorn. He is an elected member of the Michigan Senate. He wore a Confederate Flag mask on the floor of the Michigan Senate. Then he tried to tell us he didn't…
rt.com/usa/486901-michigan-senator-confederate-mask/

#KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…
rt.com/usa/486889-kim-jong-un-undead-twitter/

"We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-24
As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/24/tarek_lou…

Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-24
Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-immigration-coronavirus-fascism/

Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-24
Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-immigration-coronavirus-fascism/

How YOU can dump Trump: Let us count the ways
Harvey "Sluggo" Wasserman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-24
Grassroots action's immense recent upset victory in Wisconsin, where voters kicked out a sitting conservative Supreme Court judge and elected a progressive, shows we can overcome even a rigged election. In November, you must do it again. When Trump tries to steal or cancel the election, our informed non-violence must rise to protect and win …
peoplesworld.org/article/how-you-can-dump-trump-let-us-count-the-ways/

Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report
Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/24/trumps-immigration-order-was-drafted-officials-ties-hate-groups-according-report

Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/fraihat-v-ice-resources-0

Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/remembering-deadly-poway-shooting-one-year-later

2020-04-27: News Headlines

RT (2020-04-27). Israel may reopen some schools on Sunday, Gaza allows restaurants to reopen. rt.com Israel will begin a staggered reopening of schools next week if the latest health data does not warn of a heightened coronavirus risk, PM Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Monday. The country closed schools and kindergartens in mid-March, worsening an economic lockdown as parents were forced to stay at home. With unemployment peaking at 27 percent and contagion rates waning, Israel is now easing its curbs. | Netanyahu's office said children in the first three years of primary school would resume studies, in reduced class sizes of no more than 15 pupils. Kindergartens and nurseries will reopen, with children…

Miko Peled (2020-04-27). How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners. mintpressnews.com Each year Palestinian Prisoners Day comes and goes while the prisoners remain in their cells and their conditions worsen. The destructive effects that Israel's imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians has on society cannot be overstated. Israel justifies its treatment of these prisoners with false claims that the Palestinian men, women, and children who languish in its jails are terrorists. These false claims must be rejected in their entirety. Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners, they are prisoners of conscience and must be viewed and treated as such by the international community. | Israeli claims th…

en.mehrnews (2020-04-27). VIDEO: Syrian air defense repels Israeli regime's airstrike. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 27 (MNA) — Syria's air defense systems have repelled an attack by the Israeli regime's air force in the skies over Palmyra, downing several hostile projectiles, according to a report by SANA.

Scot Nakagawa (2020-04-27). For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time. thenation.com For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time…

Norman Solomon (2020-04-27). Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump's Fascist Momentum. indybay.org "Get rid of the malignancy in the White House"

Stephen Lendman (2020-04-27). Trump Regime Pushing for Confrontation with Iran? globalresearch.ca Since Iranians ended a generation of CIA-installed fascist dictatorship in 1979, the US has been at war on the Islamic Republic by other means. | The Trump regime escalated it way beyond where its predecessors went, risking confrontation by accident or …

RT (2020-04-27). 'Another hoax': Kremlin dismisses reports of poisoning plot against Czech officials who tore down Konev monument. rt.com The Czech media has crafted a spy thriller, based on unnamed sources, that Russians were planning to poison officials behind the removal of a monument to Marshal Ivan Konev who freed Prague from the Nazis. Moscow says it's a hoax. | The Citing anonymous sources, the newspaper claimed that three weeks ago, a diplomat from…

WSWS (2020-04-27). Leaked UK Labour Party anti-Semitism report: A filthy witch-hunt exposed. wsws.org The leak of the Labour Party investigation marks an appropriate endpoint to Corbyn's five-year record of political surrender and collusion.

WSWS (2020-04-27). As Bolsonaro pushes to reopen schools, Brazilian state governments escalate attacks on education. wsws.org Brazil's fascistic president justified his proposal by saying, "It's a reality: on average, 70 percent will catch the virus… It is no use running away from this reality."

RT (2020-04-27). Syrian air defenses repel 'Israeli aggression', down several 'hostile' missiles over Damascus — state media. rt.com Syrian missile defenses responded to an attack by Israeli warplanes, intercepting several missiles over Damascus launched from Lebanese airspace, Syria's SANA news agency reported. | A video has emerged online purportedly showing the Syrian missile shield being activated to shoot down missiles, reportedly fired by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from Lebanese airspace. | Syrian air defense active over

Steven Sahiounie (2020-04-27). Syrians Remember the Armenian Genocide as Turkey Threatens Again. globalresearch.ca April 24, 2020, marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which was the first genocide of the 20th century. The starting date is held to be April 24, 1915, in a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate …

Cassie Miller (2020-04-27). Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists. splcenter.org Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.

Jonathan Cook (2020-04-26). Palestinians Hunker Down for Ramadan, Facing a Virus that doesn't Discriminate but an Occupier that does. dissidentvoice.org As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations' lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. While 15,000 Israelis have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the numbers infected in the occupied territories are …

Ali Salam (2020-04-26). Two Palestinians Shot, Injured by Israeli Army Fire in Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Saturday, towards local Palestinian civilians in Kufur Qaddoum, wounding two with rubber-coated metal rounds, while intentionally shooting at and damaging water tanks on rooftops of homes, local sources reported. Morad Eshteiwi, Coordinator of the Popular Committee in Kufur Qaddoum, told Quds News Network that a …

RT (2020-04-26). 'Blow to privacy': Top Israeli court to ban use of anti-terror tech on coronavirus patients, unless govt makes it law. rt.com Israel's High Court of Justice has ruled that a domestic spy agency must stop tracking coronavirus patients with tech it would otherwise use on terrorists — but only pending a law to legalize the practice. | In a ruling on Sunday, the court said that the government must discontinue its use of domestic intelligence service Shin Bet's broad spying powers to track the cell phones of those infected, unless it comes up with at least a temporary order to codify the practice in the next few weeks, provided the legislative process kicks off by April 30. | "We must take every precaution to ensure that the extraor…

Andrey Areshev (2020-04-26). Facebook Says Israeli Spyware Company Ran Vast Hacking Operation in the United States. strategic-culture.org Lawsuit reveals extent of Israeli spyware company's U.S. operation | Michael ARRIA | In 2019, nearly 1,400 WhatsApp users were hacked with a number human rights advocates and journalists targeted. The attack was allegedly the work the NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company. | Last October, Facebook (which owns WhatsApp)

Stephen Lendman (2020-04-26). Trump Regime Aims to Suppress Iranian Truth-Telling. globalresearch.ca US hostility toward Iran is all about its sovereign independence — free from US control. | It's also because of its large hydrocarbon resources the US seeks control over, along with wanting Israel's main rival neutralized. | Hostile US policy toward Iran …

teleSUR (2020-04-26). US Will Allow West Bank Annexation in 2 Months: Netanyahu. telesurenglish.net Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his confidence Sunday that the United States would give him the approval within two months to go ahead with the annexation of parts of the illegally occupied West Bank. | RELATED: | "A couple of months from now I am confident that that pledge will be honored," Netanyahu told the European Commission for Israel, describing that the U.S. peace proposal announced by President Do…

Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo (2020-04-26). Will the Coronavirus Change the World? We Must Be Very Careful How We Answer That Question. commondreams.org Israeli security forces stand by as Palestinian worshippers perform the first Friday prayer of the holy fasting month of Ramadan outside the closed-down Aqsa mosque compound in the old city of Jerusalem on April 24, 2020, amidst heightened security and social distancing measures due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: Ahmad Gharabli / AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Ali Salam (2020-04-26). Israeli Colonists Cut Dozens of Palestinian-owned Olive Trees near Nablus. imemc.org Illegal Israeli colonists, on Friday cut down more than 30 olive trees in As-Sawiya town, south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local official. Ghassan Daghlas, an official documenting Israeli settlement construction in the area, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency, that a group of …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-26). Israeli Troops Abduct Several Palestinians from Hebron and Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Sunday at dawn, several Palestinian youth from both the West Bank city of Hebron and the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinian sources in Hebron said that both Ali Fatafta and Kayed Fatafta, were abducted by Israeli troops who broke into and vandalized their homes in …

BIICFHRIOT (2020-04-26). B'Tselem: Israeli Settlers Exploit Coronavirus to Take Over West Bank Land with Military Backing: Violent Attacks Spike in April. imemc.org B'Tselem — The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Since the start of the corona crisis, Israeli settlers have ramped up attacks against Palestinians throughout the West Bank, with full state backing. The attacks have increased despite the movement restrictions, lockdowns and social distancing measures introduced …

Robert Fantina (2020-04-26). Suffering in Kashmir and Palestine. globalresearch.ca While the world is pre-occupied with coronavirus and its impact on lives and the international economy, one must not forget that suffering due to oppression knows no season and has no vaccine, but is not without a cure. Sadly, for …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-25). Israeli Troops Open Fire on Palestinian Farmers in Southern Gaza. imemc.org Israeli troops opened heavy fire, earlier Saturday, towards Palestinian farmers east of Khan Younis city, south of the Gaza Strip. Local media reports said that Israeli soldiers, stationed on the Israeli side of the border fence between Gaza and Israel, fired tear-gas canisters and some live ammunition, towards local farmers, …

IMEMC News (2020-04-25). Soldiers Seriously Injure A Palestinian Worker, Abduct One, Near Jenin. imemc.org Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man, abducted another and caused several others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, after the army chased Palestinian workers near Jenin, in northern West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers chased the Palestinian workers near the illegal …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-25). Arab Countries' Ambassadors to the UN Reject Israeli Annexation Plans. imemc.org Council of Arab Countries' Ambassadors to the United Nations (UN) in New York City, rejected Israel's announced annexation plans for the occupied West Bank. The council held a meeting via video conference to discuss the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly the illegal annexation plans, recently announced by …

teleSUR (2020-04-25). Israel: Thousands Demonstrate Against Netanyahu-Gantz Coalition. telesurenglish.net Several thousand Israelis demonstrated Saturday against a unity government RELATED: | The protesters say the unity agreement gives Netanyahu influence over the appointment of judges and legal officials, "cr…

teleSUR (2020-04-25). Italy Remembers the Day of Liberation From Nazi Occupation. telesurenglish.net Italy celebrates today the 75th anniversary of the liberation of fascism in 1945 amid a pandemic that has left 25,969 dead in the country until Saturday morning. | RELATED: | On April 25 Italians celebrate their Liberation Day, a national holiday that used to be enjoyed with concerts, events, and exhibitions to remember how popular resistance forces controlled the northern cities and drive out Nazi troops on their withdrawal to…

yenisafak (2020-04-27). Israel's population hits 9.2M including 1.93M Arabs. yenisafak.com Israel's current population has reached 9.2 million, including over one-quarter Arabs and other non-Jews, according to official new statistics.Israel's population is made up of 6.8 million Jews (74%), 1.93 million Arabs (21%), and 454,000 non-Arab Christians or adherents of other faiths (5%), the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said on Sunday.The figures were released by the bureau ahead of Israel's 72nd anniversary, which showed the rise in the population since 1948 and gave some projections for Israel's future population.The figures showed that 3.3 million Jewish people have immigrated to Israel in t…

Gordon Duff (2020-04-26). Russia's Love of Trump, But Why? Trump is Burying the United States, Just Like Nikita Promised. thealtworld.com Over the past year, since Russiagate has blown over for the most part, Sputnik News and Russia Today, the two major government controlled media operations (controlled by the same person) have embarrassingly fawned over Trump. | More than that, their slant has been decidedly racist, anti-Semitic (expressing virulent hatred for America's liberal Jewish majority), anti-Hispaic/African American/Islamic America and anti-intellectual. | They have also been anti-science but their real bias has been an ongoing smear campaign against any democratic politician or anyone that isn't a pure Deep State sludge eater. | Above al…

RT (2020-04-25). Senator hands outrage culture a win, apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask after defending it only a day earlier. rt.com A Michigan state senator gave in to triggered critics by apologizing for wearing a mask resembling the Confederate flag. A day earlier he ardently defended it, saying history should be taught so as not to repeat itself. | Republican Dale Zorn was photographed wearing the mask while in the Michigan state chamber on Friday to vote on bills seeking to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | This is Dale Zorn. He is an elected member of the Michigan Senate. He wore a Confederate Flag mask on the floor of the Michigan Senate. Then he tried to tell us he didn't…

RT (2020-04-25). #KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here. rt.com Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…

teleSUR (2020-04-25). Brazil's Attorney General Demands Inquiry Against Bolsonaro. telesurenglish.net Brazil's Attorney General Augusto Aras requested Saturday for the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to open an investigation against the nation's president, Jair Bolsonaro, following accusations presented by former Super-Minister of Justice Sergio Moro. | RELATED: | Moro, the former judge who took former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to jail, accused Bolsonaro on Friday of political interference in the Federal Police…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-24). Israeli Troops Shoot, Wound Palestinian Man in Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli Troops shot and wounded on Friday a Palestinian young man during protests in the Kufur Qaddoum village in the northern occupied West Bank. Organizers of the protest, which is staged on weekly basis, said that the Israeli troops attacked tens of Palestinian protesters near the Apartheid Wall in the …

Ali Salam (2020-04-24). Israeli Forces Storm East Jerusalem Town, Palestinian Youths Resist. imemc.org Confrontations broke out on Thursday morning, between Israeli forces and Palestinian young men in Kafr Aqab town in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local source.. Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center that soldiers were cutting down street signs, when the youth resisted the invasion, the soldiers fired rubber-coated steel …

Staff (2020-04-24). "We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege. democracynow.org As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."

PCHR (2020-04-24). PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (16 — 22 April 2020). imemc.org Palestinian Center for Human Rights Summary of Israeli Violations of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (16-22 April, 2020) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to violate Palestinians' human rights and commit crimes against civilians and their properties, conducting raids into Palestinian cities without regard to the state of emergency …

David Swanson (2020-04-24). How Ya Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel. dissidentvoice.org Did you know that the U.S. government has done something odd with your tax dollars? The ones you get so furious and indignant about when they're used to feed anybody who's hungry? It has given over 280 billion of those dollars to the government of Israel (not counting classified hush-hush super-secret amounts). Source. Israel is …

Sasha Abramsky (2020-04-24). Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law. thenation.com Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law…

Harvey "Sluggo" Wasserman (2020-04-24). How YOU can dump Trump: Let us count the ways. peoplesworld.org Grassroots action's immense recent upset victory in Wisconsin, where voters kicked out a sitting conservative Supreme Court judge and elected a progressive, shows we can overcome even a rigged election. In November, you must do it again. When Trump tries to steal or cancel the election, our informed non-violence must rise to protect and win …

splcenter (2020-04-24). Florida voting rights trial to be argued online. splcenter.org

splcenter (2020-04-24). Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources. splcenter.org On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.

Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano (2020-04-24). Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report. splcenter.org Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later. splcenter.org

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-23). A Machiavellian Fiasco: How a So-Called 'Centrist' Resurrected Israel's Far Right. mintpressnews.com So-called centrist Benny Gantz has seemingly done everything in his power to assure Israel's left and center are crippled for years to come and that Netanyahu will continue his decades-long reign unopposed.

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-23). A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Resurrected Netanyahu, Israel's Right. dissidentvoice.org It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises, whereby …

news.un (2020-04-23). Common coronavirus enemy, forges some Palestine-Israel cooperation, but West Bank annexation looms. news.un.org The COVID-19 pandemic is creating opportunities for cooperation that Israelis and Palestinians must embrace to sustain Middle East peace efforts and bring an end to decades of conflict, the United Nations' top envoy in the region said on Thursday.

Fight Back (2020-04-23). Chicago: Celebration of International Workers Day planned. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL — Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) will be marking International Workers Day virtually with talks from leaders of workers struggles in Chicago. The Sunday, May 3 forum will be streamed from the FRSO Chicago page via Facebook Live at 4 p.m. | Kobi Guillory of FRSO and an activist in the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, states, "'We're all in this together' has been a common message from corporate politicians over the past several months. The disproportionate damage the novel coronavirus has done to working and oppressed people while billionaires continue to…

Hatewatch Staff (2020-04-23). Oath Keepers Chaplain Quits Over Leader's COVID Response. splcenter.org Chuck Baldwin, who has served as the national chaplain of the antigovernment Oath Keepers since 2013, announced his resignation early Tuesday morning on Facebook.

Caleb Kieffer (2020-04-23). The Social Contract Publishes its Last Tract. splcenter.org The Social Contract, a long-running quarterly journal founded by John Tanton, ran its final issue in Fall 2019.

2020-04-27: Social Media Postees

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VIDEO: Syrian air defense repels Israeli regime's airstrike
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-27
TEHRAN, Apr. 27 (MNA)

How Israel Legitimizes the Abuse of Palestinian Political Prisoners
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-27
Each year Palestinian Prisoners Day comes and goes while the prisoners remain in their cells and their conditions worsen. The destructive effects that Israel's imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians has on society cannot be overstated. Israel justifies its treatment of these prisoners with false claims that the Palestinian men, women, and children who languish in its jails are terrorists. These false claims must be rejected in their entirety. Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners, they are prisoners of conscience and must be viewed and treated as such by the international community. | Israeli claims th…
mintpressnews.com/how-israel-legitimizes-abuse-palestinian-political-prisoners/267014/

Israel may reopen some schools on Sunday, Gaza allows restaurants to reopen
rt.com | 2020-04-27
Israel will begin a staggered reopening of schools next week if the latest health data does not warn of a heightened coronavirus risk, PM Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Monday. The country closed schools and kindergartens in mid-March, worsening an economic lockdown as parents were forced to stay at home. With unemployment peaking at 27 percent and contagion rates waning, Israel is now easing its curbs. | Netanyahu's office said children in the first three years of primary school would resume studies, in reduced class sizes of no more than 15 pupils. Kindergartens and nurseries will reopen, with children…
rt.com/newsline/487039-israel-reopen-schools-gaza/

For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time
Scot Nakagawa | thenation.com | 2020-04-27
For White Nationalists, Covid-19 Came Right on Time…
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Trump Regime Pushing for Confrontation with Iran?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-27
Since Iranians ended a generation of CIA-installed fascist dictatorship in 1979, the US has been at war on the Islamic Republic by other means. | The Trump regime escalated it way beyond where its predecessors went, risking confrontation by accident or …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-pushing-confrontation-iran/5710975

Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump's Fascist Momentum
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-04-27
"Get rid of the malignancy in the White House"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/23/18832600.php

Leaked UK Labour Party anti-Semitism report: A filthy witch-hunt exposed
wsws.org | 2020-04-27
The leak of the Labour Party investigation marks an appropriate endpoint to Corbyn's five-year record of political surrender and collusion.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/27/labo…

As Bolsonaro pushes to reopen schools, Brazilian state governments escalate attacks on education
wsws.org | 2020-04-27
Brazil's fascistic president justified his proposal by saying, "It's a reality: on average, 70 percent will catch the virus… It is no use running away from this reality."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/27/bols…

Syrians Remember the Armenian Genocide as Turkey Threatens Again
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-27
April 24, 2020, marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which was the first genocide of the 20th century. The starting date is held to be April 24, 1915, in a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate …
globalresearch.ca/syrians-armenian-genocide-turkey-threatens-again/5710879

'Another hoax': Kremlin dismisses reports of poisoning plot against Czech officials who tore down Konev monument
rt.com | 2020-04-27
The Czech media has crafted a spy thriller, based on unnamed sources, that Russians were planning to poison officials behind the removal of a monument to Marshal Ivan Konev who freed Prague from the Nazis. Moscow says it's a hoax. | The report by Respekt magazine this weekend had a short and catchy title

Anti-Lockdown Rallies Are Providing an Opening for the Proud Boys and Other Far-Right Extremists
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2020-04-27
Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/27/anti-lockdown-rallies-are-providing-opening-proud-boys-and-other-far-right-extremists

US Will Allow West Bank Annexation in 2 Months: Netanyahu
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-26
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his confidence Sunday that the United States would give him the approval within two months to go ahead with the annexation of parts of the illegally occupied West Bank. | RELATED: | UN, EU Warn New Israeli Gov't Against West Bank Annexation | "A couple of months from now I am confident that that pledge will be honored," Netanyahu told the European Commission for Israel, describing that the U.S. peace proposal announced by President Do…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Will-Allow-West-Bank-Annexation-in-2-Months-Netanyahu-20200426-0007.html

B'Tselem: Israeli Settlers Exploit Coronavirus to Take Over West Bank Land with Military Backing: Violent Attacks Spike in April
BIICFHRIOT | imemc.org | 2020-04-26
B'Tselem

Israeli Colonists Cut Dozens of Palestinian-owned Olive Trees near Nablus
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-26
Illegal Israeli colonists, on Friday cut down more than 30 olive trees in As-Sawiya town, south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local official. Ghassan Daghlas, an official documenting Israeli settlement construction in the area, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency, that a group of …
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'Blow to privacy': Top Israeli court to ban use of anti-terror tech on coronavirus patients, unless govt makes it law
rt.com | 2020-04-26
Israel's High Court of Justice has ruled that a domestic spy agency must stop tracking coronavirus patients with tech it would otherwise use on terrorists

Two Palestinians Shot, Injured by Israeli Army Fire in Kufur Qaddoum
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-26
Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Saturday, towards local Palestinian civilians in Kufur Qaddoum, wounding two with rubber-coated metal rounds, while intentionally shooting at and damaging water tanks on rooftops of homes, local sources reported. Morad Eshteiwi, Coordinator of the Popular Committee in Kufur Qaddoum, told Quds News Network that a …
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Will the Coronavirus Change the World? We Must Be Very Careful How We Answer That Question
Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo | commondreams.org | 2020-04-26
Israeli security forces stand by as Palestinian worshippers perform the first Friday prayer of the holy fasting month of Ramadan outside the closed-down Aqsa mosque compound in the old city of Jerusalem on April 24, 2020, amidst heightened security and social distancing measures due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: Ahmad Gharabli / AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Palestinians Hunker Down for Ramadan, Facing a Virus that doesn't Discriminate but an Occupier that does
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-26
As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations' lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. While 15,000 Israelis have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the numbers infected in the occupied territories are …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/palestinians-hunker-down-for-ramadan-facing-a-virus-that-doesnt-discriminate-but-an-occupier-that-does/

Israeli Troops Abduct Several Palestinians from Hebron and Jerusalem
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-26
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Sunday at dawn, several Palestinian youth from both the West Bank city of Hebron and the internationally-recognized occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinian sources in Hebron said that both Ali Fatafta and Kayed Fatafta, were abducted by Israeli troops who broke into and vandalized their homes in …
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Facebook Says Israeli Spyware Company Ran Vast Hacking Operation in the United States
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-04-26
Lawsuit reveals extent of Israeli spyware company's U.S. operation | Michael ARRIA | In 2019, nearly 1,400 WhatsApp users were hacked with a number human rights advocates and journalists targeted. The attack was allegedly the work the NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company. | Last October, Facebook (which owns WhatsApp) sued NSO over the breach, claiming that the company was unable to break Facebook's encryption, but infected the phones of many users. NSO denied the claims. "The sole purpose of…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/26/facebook-says-israeli-spyware-company-ran-vast-hacking-operation-in-us/

Suffering in Kashmir and Palestine
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-26
While the world is pre-occupied with coronavirus and its impact on lives and the international economy, one must not forget that suffering due to oppression knows no season and has no vaccine, but is not without a cure. Sadly, for …
globalresearch.ca/suffering-kashmir-palestine/5710799

Trump Regime Aims to Suppress Iranian Truth-Telling
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-26
US hostility toward Iran is all about its sovereign independence

Israel: Thousands Demonstrate Against Netanyahu-Gantz Coalition
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-25
Several thousand Israelis demonstrated Saturday against a unity government deal reached last week between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival parliament speaker Benny Gantz. | RELATED: | Netanyahu and Gantz Reach Deal, End Political Deadlock | The protesters say the unity agreement gives Netanyahu influence over the appointment of judges and legal officials, "cr…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-Thousands-Demonstrate-Against-Netanyahu-Gantz-Coalition-20200425-0007.html

Arab Countries' Ambassadors to the UN Reject Israeli Annexation Plans
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-25
Council of Arab Countries' Ambassadors to the United Nations (UN) in New York City, rejected Israel's announced annexation plans for the occupied West Bank. The council held a meeting via video conference to discuss the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly the illegal annexation plans, recently announced by …
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Israeli Troops Open Fire on Palestinian Farmers in Southern Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-25
Israeli troops opened heavy fire, earlier Saturday, towards Palestinian farmers east of Khan Younis city, south of the Gaza Strip. Local media reports said that Israeli soldiers, stationed on the Israeli side of the border fence between Gaza and Israel, fired tear-gas canisters and some live ammunition, towards local farmers, …
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Soldiers Seriously Injure A Palestinian Worker, Abduct One, Near Jenin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-25
Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man, abducted another and caused several others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, after the army chased Palestinian workers near Jenin, in northern West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers chased the Palestinian workers near the illegal …
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Italy Remembers the Day of Liberation From Nazi Occupation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-25
Italy celebrates today the 75th anniversary of the liberation of fascism in 1945 amid a pandemic that has left 25,969 dead in the country until Saturday morning. | RELATED: | Italy: COVID-19 Plunged One Million People Into Poverty | On April 25 Italians celebrate their Liberation Day, a national holiday that used to be enjoyed with concerts, events, and exhibitions to remember how popular resistance forces controlled the northern cities and drive out Nazi troops on their withdrawal to…
telesurenglish.net/news/Italy-Remembers-the-Day-of-Liberation-From-Nazi-Occupation-20200425-0002.html

Senator hands outrage culture a win, apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask after defending it only a day earlier
rt.com | 2020-04-25
A Michigan state senator gave in to triggered critics by apologizing for wearing a mask resembling the Confederate flag. A day earlier he ardently defended it, saying history should be taught so as not to repeat itself. | Republican Dale Zorn was photographed wearing the mask while in the Michigan state chamber on Friday to vote on bills seeking to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | This is Dale Zorn. He is an elected member of the Michigan Senate. He wore a Confederate Flag mask on the floor of the Michigan Senate. Then he tried to tell us he didn't…
rt.com/usa/486901-michigan-senator-confederate-mask/

Israel's population hits 9.2M including 1.93M Arabs
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-27
Israel's current population has reached 9.2 million, including over one-quarter Arabs and other non-Jews, according to official new statistics.Israel's population is made up of 6.8 million Jews (74%), 1.93 million Arabs (21%), and 454,000 non-Arab Christians or adherents of other faiths (5%), the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said on Sunday.The figures were released by the bureau ahead of Israel's 72nd anniversary, which showed the rise in the population since 1948 and gave some projections for Israel's future population.The figures showed that 3.3 million Jewish people have immigrated to Israel in t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israels-population-hits-92m-including-193m-arabs-3518023

Russia's Love of Trump, But Why? Trump is Burying the United States, Just Like Nikita Promised
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-26
Over the past year, since Russiagate has blown over for the most part, Sputnik News and Russia Today, the two major government controlled media operations (controlled by the same person) have embarrassingly fawned over Trump. | More than that, their slant has been decidedly racist, anti-Semitic (expressing virulent hatred for America's liberal Jewish majority), anti-Hispaic/African American/Islamic America and anti-intellectual. | They have also been anti-science but their real bias has been an ongoing smear campaign against any democratic politician or anyone that isn't a pure Deep State sludge eater. | Above al…
thealtworld.com/gordon_duff/russias-love…

Senator hands outrage culture a win, apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask after defending it only a day earlier
rt.com | 2020-04-25
A Michigan state senator gave in to triggered critics by apologizing for wearing a mask resembling the Confederate flag. A day earlier he ardently defended it, saying history should be taught so as not to repeat itself. | Republican Dale Zorn was photographed wearing the mask while in the Michigan state chamber on Friday to vote on bills seeking to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | This is Dale Zorn. He is an elected member of the Michigan Senate. He wore a Confederate Flag mask on the floor of the Michigan Senate. Then he tried to tell us he didn't…
rt.com/usa/486901-michigan-senator-confederate-mask/

Brazil's Attorney General Demands Inquiry Against Bolsonaro
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-25
Brazil's Attorney General Augusto Aras requested Saturday for the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to open an investigation against the nation's president, Jair Bolsonaro, following accusations presented by former Super-Minister of Justice Sergio Moro. | RELATED: | Brazil Justice Minister Quits in Bolsonaro's Worst Crisis Yet | Moro, the former judge who took former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to jail, accused Bolsonaro on Friday of political interference in the Federal Police…
telesurenglish.net/news/Fiscal-General-of-Brazil-Demands-Investigation-Against-Bolsonaro-20200425-0011.html

#KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…
rt.com/usa/486889-kim-jong-un-undead-twitter/

#KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…
rt.com/usa/486889-kim-jong-un-undead-twitter/

Israeli Troops Shoot, Wound Palestinian Man in Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Israeli Troops shot and wounded on Friday a Palestinian young man during protests in the Kufur Qaddoum village in the northern occupied West Bank. Organizers of the protest, which is staged on weekly basis, said that the Israeli troops attacked tens of Palestinian protesters near the Apartheid Wall in the …
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"We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-24
As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/24/tarek_lou…

Israeli Forces Storm East Jerusalem Town, Palestinian Youths Resist
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Confrontations broke out on Thursday morning, between Israeli forces and Palestinian young men in Kafr Aqab town in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local source.. Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center that soldiers were cutting down street signs, when the youth resisted the invasion, the soldiers fired rubber-coated steel …
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How Ya Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel
David Swanson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-24
Did you know that the U.S. government has done something odd with your tax dollars? The ones you get so furious and indignant about when they're used to feed anybody who's hungry? It has given over 280 billion of those dollars to the government of Israel (not counting classified hush-hush super-secret amounts). Source. Israel is …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/how-ya-gonna-pay-for-it-stop-giving-money-to-israel/

Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-24
Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law…
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Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-24
Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-immigration-coronavirus-fascism/

Brazil Justice Minister Quits in Bolsonaro's Worst Crisis Yet
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-24
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro suffered the heaviest blow to his presidency so far as his well-known justice minister quit Friday and accused him of potential criminal meddling in law enforcement, adding to the turmoil of a government struggling to confront a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak. | RELATED: | Brazil: Supreme Court Judges Sergio Moro's Lack of Impartiality | Former judge Sergio Moro, who gained notoriety in the anti-corruption investigation, Lava Jato, resigned a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Main-Minister-Quits-in-Bolsonaros-Worst-Crisis-yet—20200424-0013.html

How YOU can dump Trump: Let us count the ways
Harvey "Sluggo" Wasserman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-24
Grassroots action's immense recent upset victory in Wisconsin, where voters kicked out a sitting conservative Supreme Court judge and elected a progressive, shows we can overcome even a rigged election. In November, you must do it again. When Trump tries to steal or cancel the election, our informed non-violence must rise to protect and win …
peoplesworld.org/article/how-you-can-dump-trump-let-us-count-the-ways/

Coronavirus Color-Revolution: California Declares Nation Statehood as Trump Moves to Quell 'Mutiny on the Bounty'
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-04-24
Bloomberg published a stunning piece on April 9th promoting the secession of California from the U.S., in an op-ed by Francis Wilkinson titled Gavin Newsom Declares California a 'Nation-State', which resurrected John C. Calhoun in a neo-confederate argument favoring nullification. | Bloomberg is part a strategy to prevent Trump from a second term by way of legal means (election), and has now brought to the fore the spectre of secession or nullification. This does not mean we should n…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/24/coronavirus-color-revolution-california-declares-nation-statehood-trump-moves-quell-mutiny-bounty/

Florida voting rights trial to be argued online
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
When the Southern Poverty Law Center goes to trial next week over a law undercutting the biggest expansion of suffrage since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the judge will not be on the bench, but in a remote location, staring at his computer screen.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/25/florida-voting-rights-trial-be-argued-online

Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
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Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/fraihat-v-ice-resources-0

Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report
Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/24/trumps-immigration-order-was-drafted-officials-ties-hate-groups-according-report

Florida voting rights trial to be argued online
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
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A Machiavellian Fiasco: How a So-Called 'Centrist' Resurrected Israel's Far Right
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-23
So-called centrist Benny Gantz has seemingly done everything in his power to assure Israel's left and center are crippled for years to come and that Netanyahu will continue his decades-long reign unopposed.
mintpressnews.com/how-centrist-benny-gantz-resurrected-israel-far-right/266891/

A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Resurrected Netanyahu, Israel's Right
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-23
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises, whereby …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/a-machiavellian-fiasco-how-centrist-gantz-resurrected-netanyahu-israels-right/

2020-04-26: News Headlines

Stephen Lendman (2020-04-26). Trump Regime Aims to Suppress Iranian Truth-Telling. globalresearch.ca US hostility toward Iran is all about its sovereign independence — free from US control. | It's also because of its large hydrocarbon resources the US seeks control over, along with wanting Israel's main rival neutralized. | Hostile US policy toward Iran …

Jonathan Cook (2020-04-26). Palestinians Hunker Down for Ramadan, Facing a Virus that doesn't Discriminate but an Occupier that does. dissidentvoice.org As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations' lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. While 15,000 Israelis have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the numbers infected in the occupied territories are …

Leslie D. Gregory (2020-04-26). COVID-19 from the front lines. zcomm.org Some of us in the frontlines of health care have been trying to convince CDC to declare racism as a threat to public health. We think our proofs are strong…

Robert Fantina (2020-04-26). Suffering in Kashmir and Palestine. globalresearch.ca While the world is pre-occupied with coronavirus and its impact on lives and the international economy, one must not forget that suffering due to oppression knows no season and has no vaccine, but is not without a cure. Sadly, for …

Norman Solomon (2020-04-26). Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump's Fascist Momentum. indybay.org "Get rid of the malignancy in the White House"

Juan Gonzalez (2020-04-26). Edging Closer to Neo-Fascist Authoritarianism. zcomm.org If hundreds of African Americans or Latinos showed up in cities around the country brandishing automatic weapons, what would be the response of the country to this? Why is this being almost accepted and normalized now as a method of protest?

teleSUR (2020-04-25). Israel: Thousands Demonstrate Against Netanyahu-Gantz Coalition. telesurenglish.net Several thousand Israelis demonstrated Saturday against a unity government RELATED: | The protesters say the unity agreement gives Netanyahu influence over the appointment of judges and legal officials, "cr…

IMEMC News (2020-04-25). Soldiers Seriously Injure A Palestinian Worker, Abduct One, Near Jenin. imemc.org Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man, abducted another and caused several others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, after the army chased Palestinian workers near Jenin, in northern West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers chased the Palestinian workers near the illegal …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-25). Arab Countries' Ambassadors to the UN Reject Israeli Annexation Plans. imemc.org Council of Arab Countries' Ambassadors to the United Nations (UN) in New York City, rejected Israel's announced annexation plans for the occupied West Bank. The council held a meeting via video conference to discuss the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly the illegal annexation plans, recently announced by …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-25). Israeli Troops Open Fire on Palestinian Farmers in Southern Gaza. imemc.org Israeli troops opened heavy fire, earlier Saturday, towards Palestinian farmers east of Khan Younis city, south of the Gaza Strip. Local media reports said that Israeli soldiers, stationed on the Israeli side of the border fence between Gaza and Israel, fired tear-gas canisters and some live ammunition, towards local farmers, …

RT (2020-04-25). Demonstrators swarm Tel Aviv to decry Netanyahu-Gantz 'unity deal' as affront to justice system (VIDEO). rt.com Hundreds turned out in Tel Aviv to voice their outrage at a coalition deal agreed on by Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, saying it might let the embattled prime minister, who faces a corruption trial, off the hook. | Around 2,000 protesters filled Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Saturday evening in the second such mass action against the 'unity government' in a week. Envisioned by the deal between Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and Gantz's centrist-liberal Blue and White that the two struck on Monday, the so-called unity government is set to bring an end to a year-long political impasse, brought o…

teleSUR (2020-04-25). Italy Remembers the Day of Liberation From Nazi Occupation. telesurenglish.net Italy celebrates today the 75th anniversary of the liberation of fascism in 1945 amid a pandemic that has left 25,969 dead in the country until Saturday morning. | RELATED: | On April 25 Italians celebrate their Liberation Day, a national holiday that used to be enjoyed with concerts, events, and exhibitions to remember how popular resistance forces controlled the northern cities and drive out Nazi troops on their withdrawal to…

RT (2020-04-25). Senator hands outrage culture a win, apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask after defending it only a day earlier. rt.com A Michigan state senator gave in to triggered critics by apologizing for wearing a mask resembling the Confederate flag. A day earlier he ardently defended it, saying history should be taught so as not to repeat itself. | Republican Dale Zorn was photographed wearing the mask while in the Michigan state chamber on Friday to vote on bills seeking to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | This is Dale Zorn. He is an elected member of the Michigan Senate. He wore a Confederate Flag mask on the floor of the Michigan Senate. Then he tried to tell us he didn't…

RT (2020-04-25). Example of Russia-US cooperation: Putin & Trump release rare JOINT statement on Elbe Day 75th anniversary. rt.com Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump have released a rare joint statement, marking the 75th anniversary of the historic meeting between Soviet and American troops on the Elbe River. | The meeting that occurred on April 25, 1945 "heralded the decisive defeat of the Nazi regime," which was ultimately destroyed a couple weeks after. But most importantly, it clearly showed how the two nations can cooperate, the statement reads. | The 'Spirit of the Elbe' is an example of how our countries can put aside differences, build trust, and cooperate in pursuit of a greater cause. | On Elbe…

RT (2020-04-25). #KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here. rt.com Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…

teleSUR (2020-04-25). Brazil's Attorney General Demands Inquiry Against Bolsonaro. telesurenglish.net Brazil's Attorney General Augusto Aras requested Saturday for the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to open an investigation against the nation's president, Jair Bolsonaro, following accusations presented by former Super-Minister of Justice Sergio Moro. | RELATED: | Moro, the former judge who took former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to jail, accused Bolsonaro on Friday of political interference in the Federal Police…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-24). Israeli Troops Shoot, Wound Palestinian Man in Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli Troops shot and wounded on Friday a Palestinian young man during protests in the Kufur Qaddoum village in the northern occupied West Bank. Organizers of the protest, which is staged on weekly basis, said that the Israeli troops attacked tens of Palestinian protesters near the Apartheid Wall in the …

David Swanson (2020-04-24). How Ya Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel. dissidentvoice.org Did you know that the U.S. government has done something odd with your tax dollars? The ones you get so furious and indignant about when they're used to feed anybody who's hungry? It has given over 280 billion of those dollars to the government of Israel (not counting classified hush-hush super-secret amounts). Source. Israel is …

Ali Salam (2020-04-24). Israeli Forces Storm East Jerusalem Town, Palestinian Youths Resist. imemc.org Confrontations broke out on Thursday morning, between Israeli forces and Palestinian young men in Kafr Aqab town in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local source.. Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center that soldiers were cutting down street signs, when the youth resisted the invasion, the soldiers fired rubber-coated steel …

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-24). A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Resurrected Netanyahu, Israel's Right. counterpunch.org It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises, whereby

Staff (2020-04-24). "We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege. democracynow.org As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."

Ali Salam (2020-04-24). Israeli Forces Detain 14 Palestinians, including Former Prisoner. imemc.org Israeli occupation forces invaded West Bank towns, early Thursday morning, and detained 14 Palestinians, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. In the northern occupied West Bank, soldiers stormed Tulkarem and detained a former prisoner. Also in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, Israeli troops abducted 2 Palestinian men from …

PCHR (2020-04-24). PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (16 — 22 April 2020). imemc.org Palestinian Center for Human Rights Summary of Israeli Violations of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (16-22 April, 2020) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to violate Palestinians' human rights and commit crimes against civilians and their properties, conducting raids into Palestinian cities without regard to the state of emergency …

Sasha Abramsky (2020-04-24). Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law. thenation.com Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law…

Harvey "Sluggo" Wasserman (2020-04-24). How YOU can dump Trump: Let us count the ways. peoplesworld.org Grassroots action's immense recent upset victory in Wisconsin, where voters kicked out a sitting conservative Supreme Court judge and elected a progressive, shows we can overcome even a rigged election. In November, you must do it again. When Trump tries to steal or cancel the election, our informed non-violence must rise to protect and win …

Greg Moses (2020-04-24). Aren't We All in This Together? College Students Told Hell No. counterpunch.org In a stormy week of denunciation and discrimination, the Trump administration sent a blaring announcement to America's college students: you shall not be in this together. Everything now depends upon college students resolving to believe different. Wedges of denunciation and discrimination were hammered in this week, beginning Monday morning with a Huffington Post headline that

Comitato No Nato (2020-04-24). Liberiamoci dal Virus della Guerra. globalresearch.ca Convegno internazionale nel 75 ∞ Anniversario della Liberazione | TRASMESSO DA BYOBLU e PANDORATV | Sabato 25 Aprile 2020 DALLA ORE 15 | In Diretta Streaming, 25 Aprile 2020 | Click to VIEW on | 15pm (Italia, CET), 9am (EST, USA, Canada) | …

sputniknews (2020-04-26). Blame Game in Full Throttle: Why WHO's Listing of Israel as 'European' Raises No Red Flags. sputniknews.com Donald Trump's criticism of the WHO has turned all eyes on the entity's alleged political biases. However, it appears the media spread it on thick when they lambasted the WHO for including Israel in the list of European nations in its COVID-19 situation reports. WHO and Israeli researchers have explained why and what's behind the controversy.

Gordon Duff (2020-04-26). Russia's Love of Trump, But Why? Trump is Burying the United States, Just Like Nikita Promised. thealtworld.com Over the past year, since Russiagate has blown over for the most part, Sputnik News and Russia Today, the two major government controlled media operations (controlled by the same person) have embarrassingly fawned over Trump. | More than that, their slant has been decidedly racist, anti-Semitic (expressing virulent hatred for America's liberal Jewish majority), anti-Hispaic/African American/Islamic America and anti-intellectual. | They have also been anti-science but their real bias has been an ongoing smear campaign against any democratic politician or anyone that isn't a pure Deep State sludge eater. | Above al…

sputniknews (2020-04-26). Russian Paratroopers Make Historic Airdrop From Mind-Boggling 10,000 Metre Altitude – Video. sputniknews.com This marks the first time paratroopers have ever jumped from this height. The airdrop was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 90th anniversary of the Russian Airborne Forces.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources. splcenter.org On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Florida voting rights trial to be argued online. splcenter.org When the Southern Poverty Law Center goes to trial next week over a law undercutting the biggest expansion of suffrage since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the judge will not be on the bench, but in a remote location, staring at his computer screen.

Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano (2020-04-24). Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report. splcenter.org Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.

splcenter (2020-04-24). Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later. splcenter.org

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-23). A Machiavellian Fiasco: How a So-Called 'Centrist' Resurrected Israel's Far Right. mintpressnews.com So-called centrist Benny Gantz has seemingly done everything in his power to assure Israel's left and center are crippled for years to come and that Netanyahu will continue his decades-long reign unopposed.

Ali Salam (2020-04-23). Israeli Soldiers Dismantle, Seize Palestinian Mobile Home near Jericho. imemc.org Israeli soldiers, on Thursday, dismantled a mobile home belonging to a Palestinian family in al-Dyouk al-Tahta village, west of the city of Jericho, and seized it, according to witnesses. Witnesses told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the area, and took apart the mobile home and seized it, under …

Ali Salam (2020-04-23). Israeli Military Vehicles Infiltrate Gaza Strip, Raze Palestinian Land. imemc.org A number of Israeli occupation military vehicles penetrated, on Thursday morning, the Palestinian agricultural lands along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, local sources reported. Local sources and residents told Quds Press, that Israeli military vehicles infiltrated dozens of meters into the agricultural lands of citizens east of …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-23). Arab States' League Decries Israeli Confiscation of Ibrahimi Mosque Lands. imemc.org League of the Arab States denounced on Thursday, the latest Israeli authorities' decision to confiscate the vicinity of Palestinian-Muslim 'Al-Ibrahimi' or Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. In a statement, issued by the league, 22 Arab states considered the latest confiscation a part of Israel's …

news.un (2020-04-23). Common coronavirus enemy, forges some Palestine-Israel cooperation, but West Bank annexation looms. news.un.org The COVID-19 pandemic is creating opportunities for cooperation that Israelis and Palestinians must embrace to sustain Middle East peace efforts and bring an end to decades of conflict, the United Nations' top envoy in the region said on Thursday.

Fight Back (2020-04-23). Chicago: Celebration of International Workers Day planned. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL — Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) will be marking International Workers Day virtually with talks from leaders of workers struggles in Chicago. The Sunday, May 3 forum will be streamed from the FRSO Chicago page via Facebook Live at 4 p.m. | Kobi Guillory of FRSO and an activist in the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, states, "'We're all in this together' has been a common message from corporate politicians over the past several months. The disproportionate damage the novel coronavirus has done to working and oppressed people while billionaires continue to…

Hatewatch Staff (2020-04-23). Oath Keepers Chaplain Quits Over Leader's COVID Response. splcenter.org Chuck Baldwin, who has served as the national chaplain of the antigovernment Oath Keepers since 2013, announced his resignation early Tuesday morning on Facebook.

Caleb Kieffer (2020-04-23). The Social Contract Publishes its Last Tract. splcenter.org The Social Contract, a long-running quarterly journal founded by John Tanton, ran its final issue in Fall 2019.

pip.hinman (2020-04-22). Asian community stands up to escalating COVID-19 racist violence. greenleft.org.au

splcenter (2020-04-22). First person to die in Alabama's prisons with COVID-19 spent more than four decades behind bars. splcenter.org

splcenter (2020-04-22). SPLC Action makes recommendations to Congress to address COVID-19 needs in the Deep South. splcenter.org The SPLC Action Fund sent a detailed letter to members of Congress on April 22, 2020, highlighting the need for federal action that specifically addresses the needs of people in South.

Staff (2020-04-21). Juan González: "Make No Mistake: This Country Is Edging Closer to Neo-Fascist Authoritarianism" democracynow.org We get an update from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about his mother and wife, who were infected with COVID-19, and discuss how right-wing Trump supporters are brandishing automatic weapons at protests to demand an end to coronavirus shutdowns and are being egged on by the president. "We should make no mistake, that this country is edging closer and closer to neo-fascist authoritarianism," says González, expressing concern these actions will become normalized in the lead-up to a bitter national election in November.

Rachel Janik (2020-04-21). Augustus Invictus Arrested in Florida for Stalking, Violating Bond. splcenter.org Invictus' father, John Gillespie, was arrested days earlier and charged with human trafficking of children under 18 years old.

Eddie Bejarano (2020-04-21). Anti-Immigrant Movement Has History of Politicizing Disease. splcenter.org COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, is the latest disease the nativist movement has politicized to demonize immigrants.

Aaron Maté (2020-04-18). Labour report reveals how Jeremy Corbyn was sabotaged from within. thegrayzone.com Labour Party officials undermined Jeremy Corbyn's leadership by trying to lose races and exploiting an anti-Semitism smear campaign, an internal…

Staff (2020-04-17). "Gangster in the White House": Noam Chomsky on COVID-19, WHO, China, Gaza and Global Capitalism. democracynow.org We continue our conversation with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky. He responds to President Trump's cuts to U.S. support for the World Health Organization and the surge in deaths in the United States to another record high, and discusses conditions in Gaza, the rise of authoritarianism around the world, and the progressive response. "This is typical behavior of autocrats and dictators. When you make colossal errors which are killing thousands of people, find somebody else to blame," say Chomsky. "In the United States, it's unfortunately the case, for well over a century, centu…

2020-04-26: Social Media Postees

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Palestinians Hunker Down for Ramadan, Facing a Virus that doesn't Discriminate but an Occupier that does
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-26
As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations' lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. While 15,000 Israelis have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the numbers infected in the occupied territories are …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/palestinians-hunker-down-for-ramadan-facing-a-virus-that-doesnt-discriminate-but-an-occupier-that-does/

COVID-19 from the front lines
Leslie D. Gregory | zcomm.org | 2020-04-26
Some of us in the frontlines of health care have been trying to convince CDC to declare racism as a threat to public health. We think our proofs are strong…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-19-from-the-front-lines/

Suffering in Kashmir and Palestine
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-26
While the world is pre-occupied with coronavirus and its impact on lives and the international economy, one must not forget that suffering due to oppression knows no season and has no vaccine, but is not without a cure. Sadly, for …
globalresearch.ca/suffering-kashmir-palestine/5710799

Trump Regime Aims to Suppress Iranian Truth-Telling
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-26
US hostility toward Iran is all about its sovereign independence

Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump's Fascist Momentum
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-04-26
"Get rid of the malignancy in the White House"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/23/18832600.php

Edging Closer to Neo-Fascist Authoritarianism
Juan Gonzalez | zcomm.org | 2020-04-26
If hundreds of African Americans or Latinos showed up in cities around the country brandishing automatic weapons, what would be the response of the country to this? Why is this being almost accepted and normalized now as a method of protest?
zcomm.org/znetarticle/edging-closer-to-neo-fascist-authoritarianism/

Demonstrators swarm Tel Aviv to decry Netanyahu-Gantz 'unity deal' as affront to justice system (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Hundreds turned out in Tel Aviv to voice their outrage at a coalition deal agreed on by Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, saying it might let the embattled prime minister, who faces a corruption trial, off the hook. | Around 2,000 protesters filled Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Saturday evening in the second such mass action against the 'unity government' in a week. Envisioned by the deal between Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and Gantz's centrist-liberal Blue and White that the two struck on Monday, the so-called unity government is set to bring an end to a year-long political impasse, brought o…
rt.com/news/486903-israel-protest-coronavirus-netanyuah-gantz/

Israel: Thousands Demonstrate Against Netanyahu-Gantz Coalition
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-25
Several thousand Israelis demonstrated Saturday against a unity government deal reached last week between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival parliament speaker Benny Gantz. | RELATED: | Netanyahu and Gantz Reach Deal, End Political Deadlock | The protesters say the unity agreement gives Netanyahu influence over the appointment of judges and legal officials, "cr…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-Thousands-Demonstrate-Against-Netanyahu-Gantz-Coalition-20200425-0007.html

Soldiers Seriously Injure A Palestinian Worker, Abduct One, Near Jenin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-25
Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man, abducted another and caused several others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, after the army chased Palestinian workers near Jenin, in northern West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers chased the Palestinian workers near the illegal …
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Arab Countries' Ambassadors to the UN Reject Israeli Annexation Plans
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-25
Council of Arab Countries' Ambassadors to the United Nations (UN) in New York City, rejected Israel's announced annexation plans for the occupied West Bank. The council held a meeting via video conference to discuss the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly the illegal annexation plans, recently announced by …
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Israeli Troops Open Fire on Palestinian Farmers in Southern Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-25
Israeli troops opened heavy fire, earlier Saturday, towards Palestinian farmers east of Khan Younis city, south of the Gaza Strip. Local media reports said that Israeli soldiers, stationed on the Israeli side of the border fence between Gaza and Israel, fired tear-gas canisters and some live ammunition, towards local farmers, …
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Italy Remembers the Day of Liberation From Nazi Occupation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-25
Italy celebrates today the 75th anniversary of the liberation of fascism in 1945 amid a pandemic that has left 25,969 dead in the country until Saturday morning. | RELATED: | Italy: COVID-19 Plunged One Million People Into Poverty | On April 25 Italians celebrate their Liberation Day, a national holiday that used to be enjoyed with concerts, events, and exhibitions to remember how popular resistance forces controlled the northern cities and drive out Nazi troops on their withdrawal to…
telesurenglish.net/news/Italy-Remembers-the-Day-of-Liberation-From-Nazi-Occupation-20200425-0002.html

Senator hands outrage culture a win, apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask after defending it only a day earlier
rt.com | 2020-04-25
A Michigan state senator gave in to triggered critics by apologizing for wearing a mask resembling the Confederate flag. A day earlier he ardently defended it, saying history should be taught so as not to repeat itself. | Republican Dale Zorn was photographed wearing the mask while in the Michigan state chamber on Friday to vote on bills seeking to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | This is Dale Zorn. He is an elected member of the Michigan Senate. He wore a Confederate Flag mask on the floor of the Michigan Senate. Then he tried to tell us he didn't…
rt.com/usa/486901-michigan-senator-confederate-mask/

Example of Russia-US cooperation: Putin & Trump release rare JOINT statement on Elbe Day 75th anniversary
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump have released a rare joint statement, marking the 75th anniversary of the historic meeting between Soviet and American troops on the Elbe River. | The meeting that occurred on April 25, 1945 "heralded the decisive defeat of the Nazi regime," which was ultimately destroyed a couple weeks after. But most importantly, it clearly showed how the two nations can cooperate, the statement reads. | The 'Spirit of the Elbe' is an example of how our countries can put aside differences, build trust, and cooperate in pursuit of a greater cause. | On Elbe…
rt.com/news/486899-putin-trump-elbe-day/

#KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…
rt.com/usa/486889-kim-jong-un-undead-twitter/

#KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…
rt.com/usa/486889-kim-jong-un-undead-twitter/

Brazil's Attorney General Demands Inquiry Against Bolsonaro
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-25
Brazil's Attorney General Augusto Aras requested Saturday for the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to open an investigation against the nation's president, Jair Bolsonaro, following accusations presented by former Super-Minister of Justice Sergio Moro. | RELATED: | Brazil Justice Minister Quits in Bolsonaro's Worst Crisis Yet | Moro, the former judge who took former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to jail, accused Bolsonaro on Friday of political interference in the Federal Police…
telesurenglish.net/news/Fiscal-General-of-Brazil-Demands-Investigation-Against-Bolsonaro-20200425-0011.html

Israeli Troops Shoot, Wound Palestinian Man in Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Israeli Troops shot and wounded on Friday a Palestinian young man during protests in the Kufur Qaddoum village in the northern occupied West Bank. Organizers of the protest, which is staged on weekly basis, said that the Israeli troops attacked tens of Palestinian protesters near the Apartheid Wall in the …
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A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Resurrected Netanyahu, Israel's Right
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-24
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises, whereby…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/a-machiavellian-fiasco-how-centrist-gantz-resurrected-netanyahu-israels-right/

How Ya Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel
David Swanson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-24
Did you know that the U.S. government has done something odd with your tax dollars? The ones you get so furious and indignant about when they're used to feed anybody who's hungry? It has given over 280 billion of those dollars to the government of Israel (not counting classified hush-hush super-secret amounts). Source. Israel is …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/how-ya-gonna-pay-for-it-stop-giving-money-to-israel/

Israeli Forces Detain 14 Palestinians, including Former Prisoner
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Israeli occupation forces invaded West Bank towns, early Thursday morning, and detained 14 Palestinians, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. In the northern occupied West Bank, soldiers stormed Tulkarem and detained a former prisoner. Also in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, Israeli troops abducted 2 Palestinian men from …
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Israeli Forces Storm East Jerusalem Town, Palestinian Youths Resist
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Confrontations broke out on Thursday morning, between Israeli forces and Palestinian young men in Kafr Aqab town in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local source.. Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center that soldiers were cutting down street signs, when the youth resisted the invasion, the soldiers fired rubber-coated steel …
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A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Resurrected Netanyahu, Israel's Right
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-24
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises, whereby…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/a-machiavellian-fiasco-how-centrist-gantz-resurrected-netanyahu-israels-right/

"We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-24
As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/24/tarek_lou…

Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-24
Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-immigration-coronavirus-fascism/

Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-24
Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-immigration-coronavirus-fascism/

How YOU can dump Trump: Let us count the ways
Harvey "Sluggo" Wasserman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-24
Grassroots action's immense recent upset victory in Wisconsin, where voters kicked out a sitting conservative Supreme Court judge and elected a progressive, shows we can overcome even a rigged election. In November, you must do it again. When Trump tries to steal or cancel the election, our informed non-violence must rise to protect and win …
peoplesworld.org/article/how-you-can-dump-trump-let-us-count-the-ways/

Blame Game in Full Throttle: Why WHO's Listing of Israel as 'European' Raises No Red Flags
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-26
Donald Trump's criticism of the WHO has turned all eyes on the entity's alleged political biases. However, it appears the media spread it on thick when they lambasted the WHO for including Israel in the list of European nations in its COVID-19 situation reports. WHO and Israeli researchers have explained why and what's behind the controversy.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202004261079095387-blame-game-in-full-throttle-why-whos-listing-of-israel-as-european-raises-no-red-flags/

Russian Paratroopers Make Historic Airdrop From Mind-Boggling 10,000 Metre Altitude – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-26
This marks the first time paratroopers have ever jumped from this height. The airdrop was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 90th anniversary of the Russian Airborne Forces.
sputniknews.com/russia/202004261079098079-russian-paratroopers-make-historic-airdrop-from-mind-boggling-10000-km-altitude—video/

Russia's Love of Trump, But Why? Trump is Burying the United States, Just Like Nikita Promised
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-26
Over the past year, since Russiagate has blown over for the most part, Sputnik News and Russia Today, the two major government controlled media operations (controlled by the same person) have embarrassingly fawned over Trump. | More than that, their slant has been decidedly racist, anti-Semitic (expressing virulent hatred for America's liberal Jewish majority), anti-Hispaic/African American/Islamic America and anti-intellectual. | They have also been anti-science but their real bias has been an ongoing smear campaign against any democratic politician or anyone that isn't a pure Deep State sludge eater. | Above al…
thealtworld.com/gordon_duff/russias-love…

Brazil Justice Minister Quits in Bolsonaro's Worst Crisis Yet
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-24
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro suffered the heaviest blow to his presidency so far as his well-known justice minister quit Friday and accused him of potential criminal meddling in law enforcement, adding to the turmoil of a government struggling to confront a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak. | RELATED: | Brazil: Supreme Court Judges Sergio Moro's Lack of Impartiality | Former judge Sergio Moro, who gained notoriety in the anti-corruption investigation, Lava Jato, resigned a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Main-Minister-Quits-in-Bolsonaros-Worst-Crisis-yet—20200424-0013.html

Aren't We All in This Together? College Students Told Hell No
Greg Moses | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-24
In a stormy week of denunciation and discrimination, the Trump administration sent a blaring announcement to America's college students: you shall not be in this together. Everything now depends upon college students resolving to believe different. Wedges of denunciation and discrimination were hammered in this week, beginning Monday morning with a Huffington Post headline that…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/arent-we-all-in-this-together-college-students-told-hell-no/

Liberiamoci dal Virus della Guerra
Comitato No Nato | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-24
Convegno internazionale nel 75 ∞ Anniversario della Liberazione | TRASMESSO DA BYOBLU e PANDORATV | Sabato 25 Aprile 2020 DALLA ORE 15 | In Diretta Streaming, 25 Aprile 2020 | Click to VIEW on | 15pm (Italia, CET), 9am (EST, USA, Canada) | www.byoblu.com | …
globalresearch.ca/liberiamoci-dal-virus-della-guerra/5710726

Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report
Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/24/trumps-immigration-order-was-drafted-officials-ties-hate-groups-according-report

Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/remembering-deadly-poway-shooting-one-year-later

Florida voting rights trial to be argued online
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
When the Southern Poverty Law Center goes to trial next week over a law undercutting the biggest expansion of suffrage since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the judge will not be on the bench, but in a remote location, staring at his computer screen.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/25/florida-voting-rights-trial-be-argued-online

Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/fraihat-v-ice-resources-0

Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/fraihat-v-ice-resources-0

A Machiavellian Fiasco: How a So-Called 'Centrist' Resurrected Israel's Far Right
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-23
So-called centrist Benny Gantz has seemingly done everything in his power to assure Israel's left and center are crippled for years to come and that Netanyahu will continue his decades-long reign unopposed.
mintpressnews.com/how-centrist-benny-gantz-resurrected-israel-far-right/266891/

Common coronavirus enemy, forges some Palestine-Israel cooperation, but West Bank annexation looms
news.un.org | 2020-04-23
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating opportunities for cooperation that Israelis and Palestinians must embrace to sustain Middle East peace efforts and bring an end to decades of conflict, the United Nations' top envoy in the region said on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062452

Arab States' League Decries Israeli Confiscation of Ibrahimi Mosque Lands
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-23
League of the Arab States denounced on Thursday, the latest Israeli authorities' decision to confiscate the vicinity of Palestinian-Muslim 'Al-Ibrahimi' or Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. In a statement, issued by the league, 22 Arab states considered the latest confiscation a part of Israel's …
imemc.org/article/arab-states-league-decries-israeli-confiscation-of-ibrahimi-mosque-lands/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arab-states-league-decries-israeli-confiscation-of-ibrahimi-mosque-lands

A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Resurrected Netanyahu, Israel's Right
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-23
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises, whereby …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/a-machiavellian-fiasco-how-centrist-gantz-resurrected-netanyahu-israels-right/

Israeli Soldiers Dismantle, Seize Palestinian Mobile Home near Jericho
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-23
Israeli soldiers, on Thursday, dismantled a mobile home belonging to a Palestinian family in al-Dyouk al-Tahta village, west of the city of Jericho, and seized it, according to witnesses. Witnesses told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the area, and took apart the mobile home and seized it, under …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-dismantle-seize-palestinian-mobile-home-near-jericho/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-soldiers-dismantle-seize-palestinian-mobile-home-near-jericho

Israeli Military Vehicles Infiltrate Gaza Strip, Raze Palestinian Land
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-23
A number of Israeli occupation military vehicles penetrated, on Thursday morning, the Palestinian agricultural lands along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, local sources reported. Local sources and residents told Quds Press, that Israeli military vehicles infiltrated dozens of meters into the agricultural lands of citizens east of …
imemc.org/article/israeli-military-vehicles-infiltrate-gaza-strip-raze-palestinian-land/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-military-vehicles-infiltrate-gaza-strip-raze-palestinian-land

Chicago: Celebration of International Workers Day planned
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-23
Chicago, IL

The Social Contract Publishes its Last Tract
Caleb Kieffer | splcenter.org | 2020-04-23
The Social Contract, a long-running quarterly journal founded by John Tanton, ran its final issue in Fall 2019.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/23/social-contract-publishes-its-last-tract

Oath Keepers Chaplain Quits Over Leader's COVID Response
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-04-23
Chuck Baldwin, who has served as the national chaplain of the antigovernment Oath Keepers since 2013, announced his resignation early Tuesday morning on Facebook.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/23/oath-keepers-chaplain-quits-over-leaders-covid-response

Asian community stands up to escalating COVID-19 racist violence
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-22
Anti-racism Peter BoyleIssue 1262 Australia COVID-19 anti-Asian racism Jenny LeongApril 22, 2020Two young Asian women were walking in Eli…
greenleft.org.au/content/asian-community-stands-escalating-covid-19-racist-violence

SPLC Action makes recommendations to Congress to address COVID-19 needs in the Deep South
splcenter.org | 2020-04-22
The SPLC Action Fund sent a detailed letter to members of Congress on April 22, 2020, highlighting the need for federal action that specifically addresses the needs of people in South.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/22/splc-action-makes-recommendations-congress-address-covid-19-needs-deep-south

First person to die in Alabama's prisons with COVID-19 spent more than four decades behind bars
splcenter.org | 2020-04-22
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/22/first-person-die-alabamas-prisons-covid-19-spent-more-four-decades-behind-bars