(2021-10-07). Iron Dome: Don't be deceived, US aid to Israel is not about saving lives. dissidentvoice.org Battles in the US Congress that erupted again this week, holding up an extra $1bn in military funding for Israel, underscored just how divorced from reality the conversation about US financial aid to Israel has become, even among many critics. For 48 hours last month, a small group of progressive Democrats in the US House of Representatives succeeded …
(2021-10-07). Iranian press review: Tehran fury over Israel-Azerbaijan military pact. middleeasteye.net 
Iranian press review: Tehran fury over Israel-Azerbaijan military pact | Meanwhile, conservative MP claims Iranian property investors have 'saved' Turkey's economy, and corruption heavily linked to suicide cases | Thu, 10/07/2021 – 12: 00 | A handout picture made available by the Iranian army official website on October 1, 2021, shows an Iranian army helicopter during a military exercis…
(2021-10-07). Zionism, Israel & The Firing Of UK University of Bristol Sociologist David Miller. indybay.org David Miller a sociologist at the University of Bristol in the UK raised issues about the role of Israel and the Zionists and he was targeted by Zionists for removal. Under their new policy criticism of Israel and Zionism is "anti-semitic". He was fired on October 1, 2021 by the university for supposed anti-semitism.
(2021-10-07). Tuesday 11/16: "Grave Matters": Talk on History of Indigenous Genocide, Racist Land Grabs & Grave Robbing. indybay.org In-person: SF Main Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 | Online: Join via Zoom…
(2021-10-07). Tensions mount between Iran, Azerbaijan in Caucasus. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Tensions mount between Iran, Azerbaijan in Caucasus region Tensions mount between Iran and Azerbaijan as Tehran heckles Baku over its ties with Israel and Baku criticizes Tehran's "provocative" military actions near its borders. Most recently, Iran said Wednesday that it has "serious concerns" about Israel's presence in the Caucasus. The comments came a day after …
(2021-10-07). Racial Justice Vs. The Israel Lobby: When Being Pro-Palestine Becomes the New Normal. dissidentvoice.org 
There is an unmistakable shift in American politics regarding Palestine and Israel, a change that is inspired by the way in which many Americans, especially the youth, view the Palestinian struggle and the Israeli occupation. While this shift is yet to translate into tangibly diminishing Israel's stronghold over the US Congress, it promises to be …
(2021-10-07). UN "expert" can't defend his attacks on Palestine solidarity. electronicintifada.net Ahmed Shaheed helps Israel lobby smear critics of its abuses and crimes.
(2021-10-07). Report: Azerbaijan mulls buying Israeli Arrow-3 interceptor missiles amid tensions with Iran. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azerbaijan weighs buying Israeli Arrow-3 missile amid Iran tensions Azerbaijan is considering buying Israel's Arrow-3 missile defense system amid tensions with Iran, according to Israel Hayom newspaper. The move would be a major step in typically quiet Israel-Azerbaijan defense ties. Azerbaijan's government began stopping, fining and in at least two cases detaining Iranian vehicles transiting …
(2021-10-07). Hamas And Islamic Jihad Hold Conference To Say What Will Happen After "Israel's Collapse" But Not How It Will Happen. southfront.org 
On September 30th, a conference titled "Promise of the Hereafter — Post-Liberation Palestine" funded by Hamas and sponsored by Hamas…
(2021-10-07). Russian Foreign Minister accuses NATO of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Russian Foreign Minister accuses NATO of "supporting neo-Nazis" in Ukraine Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov accused the NATO of "supporting neo-Nazis" in Ukraine. He said so during the negotiations with the Alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, writes The Washington Post. According to the outlet, Lavrov made these statements during the closed session …
(2021-10-07). Thursday 10/28: Justice for Black Farmers: Uprooting Racist Policy & Planting Seeds of Redress. indybay.org Online webinar (FREE and open to the community)…
(2021-10-07). Biden administration defends CIA against torture victim. wsws.org The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal by Abu Zubaydah, held at Guantanamo Bay, for the disclosure of additional information about his torture, including being waterboarded 83 times in a month.
(2021-10-07). Ex-CIA Officer Who Led Raid that Captured Leading Al Qaeda Suspect Is Now Denouncing CIA for Torturing Him for 20 Years In Guantanamo Without Ever Charging Him With A Crime. covertactionmagazine.com The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments from attorneys for Abu Zubaydah, a Guantánamo prisoner once thought to be the third-ranking leader in al-Qaeda, about whether their client would be allowed to depose two CIA contract psychologists who devised and carried out the Agency's torture program and who personally participated in Zubaydah's torture.
(2021-10-07). Abu Zubaydah Was Tortured for Years at CIA Black Sites. Biden Is Trying to Keep the Abuse Secret. democracynow.org 
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case brought by Abu Zubaydah, the Guantánamo prisoner who was the first subject of the CIA's torture program. Zubaydah's legal team has spent years trying to obtain testimony from two psychologists who helped the CIA design and implement his torture, and the Biden administration is continuing the Trump's administration strategy to keep key information about Zubaydah's torture in Poland classified despite the fact that the two psychologists are willing to testify. Several justices contradicted the Biden administration, suggesting Zubaydah, the only witness besi…
(2021-10-06). The Police State's Reign of Terror Continues … With Help from the Supreme Court. dissidentvoice.org 
Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They're privileges. — George Carlin You think you've got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and assembly, due process, privacy, bodily integrity, the right to not have police seize …
(2021-10-06). Here's What An Ex-Tesla Worker Said About Winning $137M In An Anti-Black Discrimination Case. moguldom.com A San Francisco federal court on Oct. 4 ordered Tesla to pay a former worker, Owen Diaz, about $137 million after he endured a hostile work environment and racist abuse working there as an elevator operator. Now Diaz, who is Black, is speaking out. The jury awarded more than attorneys had asked for their client, …
(2021-10-06). Video: Why anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. electronicintifada.net Mini-documentary on how Israel's critics are being falsely accused of anti-Jewish bigotry.
(2021-10-06). "Becoming Abolitionists": Derecka Purnell on Why Police Reform Is Not Enough to Protect Black Lives. democracynow.org 
Derecka Purnell draws from her experience as a human rights lawyer in her new book, published this month, "Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom," to argue that police reform is an inadequate compromise to calls for abolition. Since the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville in 2020, many states have passed laws aimed at reforming police, but congressional talks at the federal level have broken down. Purnell reflects upon her personal journey as a Black woman who believed in police reform before pivoting to abolition, saying, "I became a part of soci…
(2021-10-06). Police Reform Is Not Enough to Protect Black Lives. truthout.org 
Derecka Purnell draws from her experience as a human rights lawyer in her new book, published this month, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom, to argue that police reform is an inadequate compromise to calls for abolition. Since the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville in 2020, many states have passed laws aimed at reforming police, but congressional talks at the federal level have broken down. Purnell reflects upon her personal journey as a Black woman…
(2021-10-06). Baby Talk Fascists: Reflections on a Summer Encounter. counterpunch.org An obsessive focus "personal responsibility" is a consistent thread running through the Christian fascist OR mindset. Abortion is for the OR zealots a sinful rejection of personal responsibility — refusal to take individual accountability for the conception of a child. There's nothing in their world view about peoples' personal and collective responsibility to not bring new lives into households and communities unsuitable for a decent infancy and childhood.
(2021-10-06). EU unveils blueprint for muzzling Israel's critics. electronicintifada.net Margaritis Schinas smears campaigners against Zionism.
(2021-10-06). Sheikh Jarrah families asked to choose pragmatism over principle. electronicintifada.net Israeli court "compromise" aimed at defusing tensions but not delivering justice.
(2021-10-06). Join us to support journalists in Gaza. electronicintifada.net This partnership will offer training and replace media equipment destroyed by Israel.
(2021-10-06). Khalida Jarrar freed from Israeli prison, visits daughter's grave. workers.org 
Hours after her Sept. 26 release, Khalida Jarrar visits the grave of her daughter, whose funeral she had not been permitted to attend. Khalida Jarrar, a major leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was released Sept. 26 from Israeli prison after two years incarceration. Jarrar, a . . . |
(2021-10-06). Patriots Remember to Forget: Omri Boehm and the Collapse of Liberal Zionism. dissidentvoice.org Summer is over in Israel and so too the holiday season that includes Yom Kippur and Sukkot with their accompanying prayers of remembrance. Memory is integral to most Jewish holidays. The readings at Passover and the lighting of candles at Hanukkah are collective acts of remembrance. The importance of remembering has always been central to …
(2021-10-06). Despite Israel Lobbies' Power in Congress, for a New Generation Sympathy with Oppressed Palestinians is becoming New Normal. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) — There is an unmistakable shift in American politics regarding Palestine and Israel, one that is inspired by the way in which many Americans, especially young people, view the Palestinian struggle and the Israeli occupation. While this shift is yet to translate into reducing Israel's stranglehold over the US Congress …
(2021-10-06). Water as Weapon of War: Israel is Drying Out the West Bank to Drive Out Palestinians. libya360.wordpress.com Jessica Buxbaum MASAFER YATTA, OCCUPIED WEST BANK — Last weekend, around 600 Israeli, Palestinian and international activists marched across Masafer Yatta in the Occupied West Bank to deliver a water tanker to Palestinian villagers. Their message was clear: Water is a human right, and Israel is depriving Palestine of this basic necessity. Amid a sea…
(2021-10-06). Professor David Miller fired after Israel lobby smear campaign. mronline.org 
The University of Bristol has fired Professor David Miller, a leading UK critic of Israel and its lobby.
(2021-10-06). Mossad Abducted Iranian General From Syria To Uncover Fate Of Missing Israeli Air Force Navigator. southfront.org 
Ron Arad, by the Israeli Air Force, via The Times of Israel. | The Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, abducted an Iranian general from Syria in September to uncover new information about missing Israel Air Force navigator Ron Arad, the London-based Arabic newspaper Rai al-Youm reported on October 4. | According to the report, the Iranian general was taken to an African country where he was interrogated by Israeli agents then released. | Ron Arad's warplane crashed in South Lebanon while carrying…
(2021-10-06). Occupied East Jerusalem: Bahraini group tours Western Wall Plaza with Israelis. middleeasteye.net 
Occupied East Jerusalem: Bahraini group tours Western Wall Plaza with Israelis | Footage circulated on Palestinian social media shows the tourists wearing the traditional Khaliji thobe and ghutra and accompanied by Israelis | Wed, 10/06/2021 – 16: 01 | The group pose for a photo in the Western Wall Plaza, a sacred site in Judaism, and known to Muslims as Ha'it al-Buraq (Twitter\@shfanews_net) | A Bahraini dele…
(2021-10-06). Palestinian prisoner recaptured by Israel after Gilboa prison break goes on hunger strike. peoplesdispatch.org Israeli prison authorities have conducted an internal hearing and sentenced Mohammed Ardah to two weeks in solitary confinement and imposed various kinds of restrictions and punitive limits on him…
(2021-10-06). Massachusetts Activists Are Changing The Conversation On Israel. popularresistance.org Rep. Betty McCollum's (D-MN) historic Palestinian Children & Families Act still lacks a companion bill in the Senate. At a recent event local JVP Action leader named Jill urged Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to introduce the legislation. Here's her question: | I am Jewish and, like you, I am passionate about justice for all. You probably know that the U.S. government sends about $3.8 billion a year in military funding to the Israeli government. Massachusetts sends $1.3 million a year and Massachusetts taxpayers send Israel $352,000 a day. Some of these tax dollars are used to support Israeli oppression of P…
(2021-10-06). Ahed's Knee from Israel, made "with a sense of urgency," The Gravedigger's Wife and other films from the Middle East, Africa. wsws.org With certain honorable exceptions, passion and urgency in a good cause have been in short supply in the global film world in recent decades.
(2021-10-06). Israel court allows Jewish silent prayer at al-Aqsa mosque compound. middleeasteye.net 
Israel court allows Jewish silent prayer at al-Aqsa mosque compound | Landmark ruling comes after repeated incursions into the compound by Jewish activists at a time of heightened tensions at the holy site | Wed, 10/06/2021 – 20: 06 | Jewish worshippers, with police protection, visit Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third-holiest site of Islam which is also revered by Jews as the T…
(2021-10-06). Israel: Security officials in Cairo for Hamas prisoner exchange talks. middleeasteye.net 
Israel: Security officials in Cairo for Hamas prisoner exchange talks | Following a visit by high-ranking Hamas officials to Cairo, Israeli security team discuss a possible truce, the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and a prisoner swap | Wed, 10/06/2021 – 12: 20 | A Hamas security guard on duty as the Egyptian intelligence chief and Hamas officials meet in Gaza City, 31 May 2021 (AFP) | An Israeli security de…
(2021-10-06). Boycott Duty Free Americas: Don't Buy Airport Goods That Fund Israeli Settlers. truthout.org 
Palestinian lawyer Mohammed Khatib once dreamed of bringing his own children back to ride the swing in the roman olive tree where he used to play as a child, but that vision was shattered by the ongoing illegal expansion of Israeli settlements. | "I always dreamed that this olive tree and this place that I used to play when I was a child, that my children will play there," Khatib said. "Unfortunately, this has been demolished, this has been uprooted, and in its place, they have built a huge s…
(2021-10-06). SFSU and Zoom undermine Palestinians and academic freedom. electronicintifada.net Grievance hearing underway exposes university missteps.
(2021-10-06). "Certain Days" calendar for political prisoners now available for purchase, includes Shukri Abu Baker. samidoun.net 
The new "Certain Days" calendar to support political prisoners is now released! Among the contributors of writing and art to this year's edition is Shukri Abu Baker, one of the Holy Land Foundation 5 — Palestinian political prisoners in U.S. jails. Proceeds go to support a number of political prisoner organizations, including Addameer in occupied […] | The article
(2021-10-06). Palestinians continue to oppose UNRWA's deal with the US. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinian refugees claim that the conditions imposed in the deal cancel their right to return and effectively change the UNRWA from being an agency for their assistance to a US security agency…
(2021-10-06). US conditional aid to UN agency violates Palestinian right of return and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at protests in Gaza against a funding agreement between the U.S. and the UNRWA, a U.S. court ordering Indigenous people in Ecuador to pay the Chevron corporation's legal fees, and more…
(2021-10-06). Guantanamo Bay: CIA 'torture programme' in spotlight at US Supreme Court. middleeasteye.net 
Guantanamo Bay: CIA 'torture programme' in spotlight at US Supreme Court | Palestinian Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah is seeking access to information regarding his treatment while in US custody | Wed, 10/06/2021 – 15: 40 | At the time of his capture, the CIA claimed Abu Zubaydah was a top-level al-Qaeda leader, but later conceded he was never a member of the armed group (AFP/File photo) | The
(2021-10-06). Venezuelan Socialists Start Pre-Campaign for November Elections. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro summoned the militants of the Great Simon Bolivar Patriotic Pole (GPPSB) to start a pre-campaign day on Thursday and get ready for the sub-national elections that will take place on November 21. | RELATED: | "On Oct. 7, when we remember nine years of the 2012 victory of Commander Hugo Chavez, we will start a GPPSB mobilization day in our country's 335 municipalities and 23 states,"
(2021-10-06). Film Screening: From Cable Street to Brick Lane. peoplesforum.org "From Cable Street to Brick Lane", presents archive footage and interviews with people who were there and charts the anti-racist tradition of the East End of London and how different communities came together in the 1930's, 1970's and 1990's to challenge racism and intolerance.
(2021-10-06). Wednesday 10/6: Defund Formosa Plastics! Stop Environmental Racism & End Cancer Alley. indybay.org Online teach-in & call to action protest…
(2021-10-06). Black Women Are Leading Efforts to Combat Rising Maternal and Infant Mortality. truthout.org 
Black women and their newborn babies are trapped in a public health crisis that is rooted in enslavement and perpetuated by systemic racism. Centuries of marginalization, exposure to environmental toxins, use of Black women's bodies for scientific and pseudo-scientific experimentation, poor housing, substandard education, and the
(2021-10-06). OPINION: The Racist Treatment of Haitian Migrants and Other Immigrants of Color Must End. latinorebels.com Border Patrol whipping Haitian migrants brings to mind our sordid history of racist immigration polices based on public health concerns. It's time for a change.