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Israel may not be Nazi, nor even a fascist state. Yet it is a member of the same terrible family, the family of evil states. Just consider these acts of evil perpetrated by the state...

After we’ve cited nationalism and racism, hatred and contempt for Arab life, the security cult and resistance to the occupation, victimhood and messianism, one more element must be added without which the behavior of the Israeli occupation regime cannot be explained: Evil. Pure evil. Sadistic evil. Evil for its own sake. Sometimes, it’s the only explanation.
Eva Illouz described its signs (“Evil now,” Haaretz Hebrew edition, July 30). Her essay, which challenges the idea of the banality of evil, considers the national group as the source of the evil. Using philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept, she finds a “family resemblance” between the Israeli occupation and history’s evil regimes. This similarity does not mean that Israel is Nazi, nor even fascist. And yet it is a member of the same terrible family, the family of evil states. It’s a depressing and brilliant analysis.
http://jpdg.de/meldungen/2016/7/31/gideon-levy-haaretz-30072016-stop-living-in-denial-israel-is-an-evil-state

300 Palestinian prisoners now participating in mass hunger strike

More than 300 Palestinians are currently participating in an open hunger strike in Israeli prisons, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Thursday.

PPS said that 285 Hamas-affiliated prisoners held at the Eshel and Nafha prisons entered an open hunger strike on Thursday to protest suppressive measures by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS), while some 40 prisoners from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) were striking in support of fellow prisoner Bilal Kayid.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772515

Hunger striker Bilal Kayed refuses to see doctors

Bilal Kayed has now been on [hunger strike] for 50 days.

In mid-June, he was supposed to return to his home in the West Bank village of Asira al-Shamaliya after serving nearly 15 years in an Israeli prison.

But when Israeli authorities reneged and placed him under administrative detention instead, he began refusing food.

His protest has drawn strong support: around 100 Palestinian prisoners have joined a hunger strike in solidarity with him.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/hunger-striker-bilal-kayed-refuses-see-doctors

Bilal Kayed begins fifth week of hunger strike

“To all freedom loving people of the world,” begins the August 1st letter of Bilal Kayed, a Palestinian political prisoner who is on his 51st day of hunger strike in protest of his unjust detainment.

In the letter, Kayed announces the second phase of his protest, which “will focus on the unity with all prisoners of all categories and all parties.” Despite his deteriorating heath, Kayed also announced his intentions to deny medical tests and return back to prison. His decision comes after an Israeli military court rejected his request to have the detention order lifted.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/150-bilal-kayed-begins-fifth-week-of-hunger-strike

Hamas prisoners reach agreement with Israel Prison Service to end mass hunger strike

Hamas-affiliated prisoners reached an agreement Saturday with the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to end their mass hunger strikes, according the the Prisoner’s Media Office, a Gaza-based organization covering Palestinian prisoner-related news.

The group published the terms of the agreement that was reached, which included ending all types of “humiliating searches” -- specifically strip searching -- improving the living conditions of Hamas-affiliated prisoners in Israel’s Nafha prison, by installing proper ventilation and reducing prisoner congestion.

The terms of the agreement also included returning the head of the Higher Commission of Hamas Prisoners, Muhammad Irman, from Israel’s Hadarim prison back to Nafha prison within a period of six months, as well as returning all prisoners who were previously moved to other prisons, back to their original locations.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772548

41 Palestinian women, including 12 minors, currently held in Israel's HaSharon prison

Several dozen Palestinian women, including 12 minors, are currently being held in Israel’s HaSharon prison, according to a statement released Thursday by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs.

The committee said in the statement that 41 Palestinian women and girls are being held in the prison, with some suffering from deteriorating health conditions, adding that Israel’s treatment of women prisoners is against international law, and requires “international institutions to end their silence" and to stop Israel's "perpetual crimes.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772526

Hundreds gather in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners in Ramallah sit-in

Hundreds of Palestinians took part in a sit-in the city of Ramallah in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons on Wednesday.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772511

Israeli authorities deny families of Palestinian prisoners entry into Israel

Several Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s Ashkelon prison filed complaints against Israeli forces and authorities after their family members were denied entry through Israeli-controlled checkpoints despite holding Israeli permits for family visitations, according to a statement released Saturday by a lawyer from the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772547

Palestinian journalists launch campaign to support hunger striker Omar Nazzal

A representative for the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) announced on Thursday that the group would organize a solidarity sit-in to support the prominent Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal, who began a hunger strike on Thursday in protest of being held by Israeli authorities without charge or trial.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772531

Israeli authorities transfer critically ill Palestinian prisoner to solitary confinement

Israeli prison authorities reportedly assaulted and transferred a critically ill Palestinian prisoner to solitary confinement on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

Israeli forces transferred 42-year-old Alaa al-Hums to solitary confinement while he continued to suffer from a tumor in his throat and chest. Al-Hums’ heavy medication regimen has also reportedly caused him to develop a stomach and nerve disease, and in 2012 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772489

Israel passes law allowing imprisonment of East Jerusalem Palestinians ages 14 and under

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed a bill into law on Wednesday permitting the imprisonment of children under the age of 14 if the child committed acts of "terrorism," according to a statement released by the Knesset.

The legislation, labeled the “Youth Bill,” would allow Israeli authorities to imprison a child if convicted of “terrorism” against Israeli civilians or military personnel.

The statement said that Israeli courts were now permitted to “set discussions regarding the imprisoned juvenile while he or she is being held at a close facility,” and that during the discussions the courts “will be allowed to postpone the convicted minor’s transfer date from the closed facility to a prison, shorten the convicted minor’s prison sentence or cancel the prison sentence.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772507

Israel approves prison sentences for 'terrorists' as young as 12

Rights groups have slammed the measure saying that jailing 'such young minors denies them the chance of a better future'
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approves-jailing-terrorists-age-12-126821637

Palestinian leaders call mass hunger strike in Israel's prisons an 'intifada against injustice'

Palestinian leaders gathered at a solidarity sit-in for hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners on Saturday in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, as the Head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs addressed the participants, saying that Israeli prisons have turned into a “battle field” and an “intifada against injustice, humiliation, and racist arbitrary laws.”

Issa Qaraqe cited the mass hunger strike under way throughout Israel’s prisons, first launched in solidarity with hunger striker Bilal Kayid, which evolved into a mass protest against administrative detention -- Israel’s policy of detention without charge or trial, as well solitary confinement, humiliating raids, and other severe measures imposed on Palestinian prisoners.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772550

Israeli forces detain mother and brother of wanted Palestinian, demand he turn himself in

sraeli authorities Monday detained the mother and brother of Malik Ubeid, a wanted Palestinian from the village of Farun in the northern occupied West Bank district of Tulkarem, in an attempt to pressure Malik into turning himself in to Israeli authorities in exchange for their release.

According to Amir Awad, a member of the Farun village council, Israeli authorities summoned Wafiqa Daoud Nasser Ubeid and her son Suleiman Ahmad Abd al-Qader Ubeid to the Israeli liaison offices before detaining them.

Awad told Ma’an that Israeli authorities reportedly called Malik’s brother-in-law, who lives in the Tulkarem refugee camp, and threatened to detain Malik’s sisters if he didn’t turn himself in.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772493

Israeli forces raid, search house of wanted Palestinian in Jenin(05-08)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772538

Israeli forces detain 3 siblings of wanted Palestinian in Tulkarem(03-08)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772500

Israeli forces detain 26 Palestinians, including 3 minors, during raids(03-08)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772506

25 Palestinians detained in raids, as Israeli forces close main Hebron entrance(02-08)

At least 25 Palestinians were detained in raids from Monday evening to the early morning hours on Tuesday, as Israeli forces stormed multiple villages and cities across the occupied West Bank, and sealed off the main road to the southern city of Hebron.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772480

Several Palestinians injured in clashes, Israeli forces storm southern Nablus villages(07-08)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772555

Clashes break out in Beit Ummar, several Palestinians suffer from tear gas inhalation(06-08)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772546

6 Palestinians injured with Israeli live fire in Gaza clashes(05-08)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772545

Israeli forces closes major checkpoint in Ramallah
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772504

Israeli navy opens fire at Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coast
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772518

Israeli forces close roads in Nablus
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772481

Israeli forces demolish structures in Hebron(05-08)

Israeli forces reportedly demolished two structures used for agricultural purposes and a water well on Thursday evening in the Farsh al-Hawa area of western Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772544

Israeli forces demolish Palestinian structures in Jericho(04-08)

Israeli forces Thursday demolished residential structures in the al-Moarajat area in the northern part of the occupied West Bank district of Jericho on Thursday, according to Palestinian officials.

Israeli bulldozers, escorted by Israeli bulldozers, reportedly demolished two residential mobile homes, two offices, two kitchens, a bathroom, residential barracks, and three water tanks owned by Ali Suliman Mlehat.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772529

Israel demolishes commercial structures in East Jerusalem neighborhood(02-08)

Israeli bulldozers demolished a car dealer’s office and two shipping containers in the occupied East Jerusalem village of Sur Bahir during the predawn hours of Tuesday morning, while a Palestinian man in Silwan demolished his own home following an Israeli order, amid a large-scale demolition campaign targeting Palestinian communities across the city.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772481

Israeli forces demolishes homes of Tel Aviv attack suspects(04-08)

Israeli forces raided the town of Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank late on Wednesday night and demolished the family homes of two Palestinian cousins who carried out a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv in June which killed four Israelis.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772517

Israeli bulldozers level lands in southern Gaza Strip
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772497

Israel demolishes Palestinian home in East Jerusalem for 6th time in 10 years

Israeli bulldozers on Wednesday demolished a Palestinian family's home in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina -- the sixth time since the family began seeking an Israeli-issued building license more than a decade ago -- amid a massive escalation of demolitions in the city over recent weeks.

The owner of the house, Izz al-Din Abu Nijma, told the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Jerusalem that the demolition “caught him by surprise” and occurred without prior notice.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772505

Susiya village on brink of destruction by Israel

Israel’s high court placed the fate of the Palestinian village Susiya and its 340 residents in the hands of defense minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday, leaving it to him to decide whether the army will demolish nearly half its structures, mostly ramshackle dwellings.

On Monday, the court punted a petition the village had submitted with Rabbis for Human Rights requesting that it compel Israel’s occupation administration to recognize the legality of structures that Palestinians had built without permits from the army.

The president of the court, Miriam Naor, said she would reject the petition, but left the decision to Lieberman.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/susiya-village-brink-destruction-israel

Private Palestinian land under threat of confiscation for evacuees of illegal Israeli outpost

Israeli human rights watchdog Peace Now slammed on Tuesday a recent position by an Israeli government committee advocating the leasing privately held Palestinian property for the resettlement of Israeli settlers residing in the nearby illegal outpost of Amona in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus, which was ordered by Israel’s Supreme Court to be demolished by the end of the year.

According to the group, Israel's Army Radio reported Tuesday morning that a committee established to relocate the residents of the Amona outpost issued a legal opinion to the attorney general, suggesting the takeover of nearby Palestinian land whose owners are currently residing outside of the West Bank, in order to transfer the settlers there.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772491

Hundreds of Israeli settlers raid Nablus-area village

Some 400 Israeli settlers entered the village of Awarta in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus in the early morning on Friday and performed religious rituals in the area, according to Israeli sources.

Israel’s Channel 7 reported that the Israeli settlers raided the village as they were escorted by Israeli forces, prompting clashes to erupt between Palestinian youths, Israeli settlers, and soldiers.

Israeli forces reportedly detained seven Palestinians from the village for allegedly throwing rocks at the settlers.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772539

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian girl in Ramallah, stab and kill her sheep

A group of Israeli settlers attacked and beat a Palestinian girl in the village of Rammun in the eastern part of the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah on Thursday, according to Palestinian locals and an Israeli police spokesperson.

The Palestinian girl, who was herding sheep in the village at the time, sustained injuries after the incident, while 11 of her sheep were reportedly stabbed by the Israeli settlers, locals told Ma’an. Several of the sheep died of their stab wounds.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772527

A guide to online security for activists

The last year has seen an uptick in digital threats faced by individuals and organizations around the world, and those working on the question of Palestine are no exception.

Over the past few months, there have been attacks on boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement websites, threatening emails to activists and new information emerging on Israel’s surveillance capabilities.

“The latest cyber-attacks against BDS seem to be part of a full-fledged Israeli war on the movement that includes McCarthyite legal repression, use of intelligence services and yet more funding for ‘brand Israel’ propaganda,” said Mahmoud Nawajaa, the general coordinator of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC). “These attacks smack of Israel’s despair at its growing isolation around the world, after failing for years to stem the growing support for the nonviolent BDS movement as a strategic and effective means to achieve Palestinian rights under international law.”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/guide-online-security-activists/17536

Israeli guard grabs Palestinian girl's bike and throws it into bushes

An armed Israeli border guard has been caught on camera seizing a Palestinian girl's bicycle and throwing it away after she allegedly rode along a path reserved for illegal settlers in the occupied West Bank.

B’Tselem volunteer Raed Abu Ramileh captured the moment on Monday, 25 July when Anwar Burqan was confronted by the officer near the town of Hebron.

The officer runs to the girl and steps on the bicycle. Burqan is then seen crying and running away, before the officer throws the bike into nearby bushes.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/video-israeli-police-officer-grabs-crying-palestinian-girls-bike-and-throws-it-bushes-162837150

Palestinians buried after Jerusalem killings

Two Palestinians who were shot dead in the Jerusalem suburb of al-Ram during separate incidents over the past week were buried on Wednesday.

Muhyee Sidqi al-Tibakhi, 10, died after he was shot in the chest and head on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry told media.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinians-buried-after-jerusalem-killings

Six years of struggle in al-Araqib

“Today we say to the world that we are going to remain on this land,” says one young resident of the village of al-Araqib.

Al-Araqib, in the Naqab desert in the south of present-day Israel, has been razed 101 times already.

It is one of several villages in the area not recognized by the Israeli government, which also means it lacks basic services like electricity and water.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/six-years-struggle-al-araqib/17606

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour is home, but still not free

Palestinian poet and political prisoner Dareen Tatour finally returned to her hometown of Reineh last week after enduring various forms of Israeli detention for nearly nine months.

Her family and supporters joyously greeted her with music, food and fireworks when she arrived to the village on July 26th.

Yet Tartour’s future remains uncertain: she will remain under house arrest and electronic surveillance in her family’s home. Moreover, her trial remains ongoing. If Israeli authorities find her guilty of “incitement to violence,” she will be taken back to prison for up to eight years.

Israeli forces arrested Tatour on October 11th 2015. They charged her with incitement to violence, based on a YouTube video showcasing a poem she wrote titled Resist, My People, Resist Them, as well as two statuses and an image of Israa Abed posted on her Facebook profile.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/149-palestinian-poet-dareen-tatour-is-home-but-still-not-fre

Palestinians inside Israel are under attack

Was it meant as an epic parody or an insult to his audience’s intelligence? It was hard to tell.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to social media to apologise for last year’s notorious election-day comment, when he warned that “the Arabs are coming out to vote in droves” – a reference to the fifth of Israel’s population who are Palestinian.

In videos released last week in English and Hebrew, Mr Netanyahu urged Palestinian citizens to become more active in public life. They needed to “work in droves, study in droves, thrive in droves,” he said. “I am proud of the role Arabs play in Israel’s success”.

Pointedly, Ayman Odeh, head of the Palestinian-dominated Joint List party, noted that 100,000 Bedouin citizens could not watch the video because Israel denies their communities electricity, internet connections and all other services.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2016-08-01/palestinians-inside-israel-are-under-attack/

The right man in the right place

Following Eyal Karim’s appointment as chief rabbi of the Israeli military, secular Israelis must realize that their allies in the fight for a secular democratic state are none other than Palestinians.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/comment/147-the-right-man-in-the-right-place

Yair Lapids zerstörende Verschwörung des Schweigens über Israel

Die Diskussion über die Besatzung kann nur im Ausland geführt werden. Eine solche Debatte erfordert die Existenz einer freien demokratischen Gesellschaft, wo die Leute wissen, was vor sich geht. Die Debatte kann demnach nicht in Israel geführt werden, so wie eine Diskussion über die Jesiden im Irak oder eine Diskussion über Gays oder Journalisten in Russland nicht möglich ist.

Unter dem israelischen Regime leben zwei Gesellschaften, die nicht in der Lage sind eine Diskussion über die Besatzung zu führen. Es gibt die jüdische Gesellschaft, die in Verleugnung und Repression lebt, die nichts weiß und nichts wissen will; und die palästinensische Gesellschaft, die alles weiß, aber keine Rechte hat.

In einer Situation, in der die eine Gesellschaft die Macht zur Beeinflussung hat, aber die Realität nicht anerkennt, während die andere Bescheid weiß, aber nicht nach ihrer Meinung gefragt wird, ist es unerlässlich, die Diskussion hinaus zu bringen und so dafür zu sorgen, dass die Welt weiß, wie die israelische Besatzung aussieht und ihre Verbrechen bekannt werden. Das ist der Weg sie zu beenden.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=18401

Film takes aim at media coverage of 2014 Gaza attacks

A short new film on the historical, political and humanitarian situation in Palestine takes aim at the corporate news media’s coverage of Israel’s July-August 2014 assault on Gaza.

Israel killed 2,251 Palestinians during the attacks, including 551 children. Approximately 75,000 people remain displaced two years later.

“Despite overwhelming evidence of the disparity of power between Israel and all Palestinians and the aggressiveness of Israel’s exercise of its power, including excessive and brutal violence and collective punishment in Gaza in the form of occupation, siege, and frequent military assaults against dense and captive civilian populations,” the film’s producers assert, “mainstream media and educational materials continue to frame Israel as the victim.”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/film-takes-aim-media-coverage-2014-gaza-attacks