US surveillance of pro-Palestinian speech has a direct line to McCarthyism - Chip Gibbons in The Guardian

‘Members of Congress in both parties have called for the surveillance of pro-Palestinian activists.’ Photograph: Adam Davis/EPA

The pretext of counter-terrorism as a reason to investigate Americans started with ‘red squads’, Huac and J Edgar Hoover

On Monday, 13 May, the Israeli historian and professor Ilan Pappé landed in Detroit, Michigan. Upon his arrival, agents from the US Department of Homeland Security detained and interrogated him for two hours. According to Pappé, DHS asked him whether he was a Hamas supporter, whether he believed Israel was committing genocide and what his “solution” to the Middle East conflict was. Agents also reportedly asked him to identify “his Arab and Muslim friends in America”.

During his interrogation, DHS agents held a long phone conversation, which Pappé speculated may have been with Israeli officials. Pappé was eventually admitted to the US, but only after DHS copied the entire contents of his cellphone. (Initially, Pappé reported he had been interrogated by the FBI; he has since clarified that it was agents of the DHS.)

Pappé is a respected academic known for his scholarship arguing that the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba was a deliberate act of ethnic cleansing central to Israel’s creation. Pappé is also known for his anti-Zionist politics. There is nothing to suggest any connection between Pappé and Hamas.

In the US, however, counter-terrorism authorities are often deployed to surveil political speech. Opponents of Palestinian rights both within and outside government frequently conflate political views they dislike with terrorism. This demonizes supporters of Palestinian rights in the public sphere and paves the way for the type of government harassment to which the DHS subjected Pappé. Such actions are part of both the McCarthyite atmosphere those with pro-Palestinian politics face and the broader history of political policing in the US.

During the first half of the 20th century, a political policing apparatus... READ MORE   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/surveillance-pro-palestine-protest

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The UN says 1.1 million people in the coastal strip – nearly half the population – face catastrophic levels of hunger, and that the territory is on the brink of famine.

Trucks deliver humanitarian aid over a temporary pier on the Gaza coast. Photograph: US Army Central/Reuters

Humanitarian operations ‘near collapse’ in Gaza, says World Food Programme

UN says 1m people face catastrophic levels of hunger as food aid piles up on Egyptian side of border

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is set to worsen once again as deliveries of aid and fuel to the Palestinian territory slow to a trickle in the wake of Israel’s two-week-old ground offensive in the southern city of Rafah.

The UN has suspended food distribution in Rafah owing to a lack of supplies and insecurity, the world body said late on Tuesday, and delivery operations from the new US-funded floating pier have also been halted after desperate people seized most of the shipment offloaded on to trucks on Saturday, an incident in which one person was killed.

Since 10 May, shortly after Israel seized control of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, through which the majority of aid to Gaza flows, only about three dozen trucks have successfully been delivered via the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing, and only about a quarter of the allowed fuel has been delivered since the Israeli operation began.

The ongoing fighting means that both Kerem Shalom and Rafah are effectively blocked, and perishable food and medicine is piling up on the Egyptian side of the border... READ MORE           https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/22/humanitarian-operations-near-collapse-in-gaza-says-wfp

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Palestinian refugees in Gaza- AFSC Defending a displaced people

                                            American Friends Service Committee

When the 1948 Arab-Israeli War left nearly 250,000 Palestinian refugees stranded in Gaza, the United Nations turned to AFSC to help organize relief services. Early in 1949, 20 AFSC staffers faced a sea of people and began distributing food, clothing, tents, and blankets. Ultimately, a renowned African-American physician, Dr. Jerome Peterson, came to manage medical care.

While staff from other relief agencies lived apart in guarded houses, the Quakers “lived as close as we could … open and present and among the people all the time.” By 1950, when the United Nations took over, more than 100 AFSC staffers had worked in Gaza—most of them in their 20s and early 30s. They had managed to help Palestinians create schools, maternity centers, metal shops, and recreation clubs.

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Camps were roughly grouped around three cities: Gaza (the largest), Khan Younis, and Rafah.

 

 

 

The cold, rainy winters in Gaza made adequate shelter essential.

Even with donated blankets, nights were so chilly that people often huddled together to stay warm.

 

Lentils and beans supplemented flour and oil in the refugees’ meager diets.

Initially, children had no writing tools. They learned by reciting aloud and sat on the mats, sacks or the ground.

Even in these surroundings, “they had the boundless eagerness of school children everywhere,” wrote one volunteer.

 

 

https://peaceworks.afsc.org/palestinian-refugees-gaza

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Apartheid and Genocide ARE NOT JEWISH VALUES

Israel-Gaza war Biden wants progressives to believe he’s reining in Israel. He isn’t. Biden will be remembered as a president who could have restrained Israel but instead made the US complicit in this war- Mohamad Bazzi

"The US is, by far, the biggest supplier of arms to Israel, providing $3.8bn in military aid per year – and it’s all paid for by American taxpayers. (Israel is also the largest aggregate recipient of US foreign aid in the world, having received about $300bn since the Jewish state was founded in 1948.) Last month, after intense lobbying by Biden, Congress approved $26bn in additional support to Israel, which includes $14bn in unconditional military aid. 

Biden and his top aides passed up another opportunity this month to restrict most arms shipments and end US complicity in Israel’s war. On 10 May, the state department sent a long-awaited report to Congress in which the administration must certify that recipients of US weapons are abiding by international law and allowing the transport of humanitarian aid during active conflicts. The administration said it found written assurances from Israeli officials that they would use US arms in accordance with international humanitarian law to be “credible and reliable”. 

The 46-page report was an exercise in bureaucratic double-speak, and it showed how far the Biden administration is willing to contort itself to avoid concluding that Israel violated any international laws, or had intentionally obstructed humanitarian aid into Gaza. Either of those findings would have shown that Israel had violated a new national security memo that Biden issued in February, and required the administration to suspend or restrict most arms shipments to Israel under existing US laws. 

The state department report, which contradicted itself in numerous places, argued that the US could not find hard proof that Israel had used US weapons in specific incidents that might have involved human rights violations. But for months, numerous rights groups and independent monitors have documented Israel’s violations of international law, including its use of starvation as a weapon of war and methodical campaign to obstruct the delivery of food and other aid into Gaza." READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/biden-weapons-israel-gaza-war

Dear President Biden... Connect The Dots

@UNRWA  estimates that around 800,000 people have fled Rafah since Israel's military operations intensified. Families flee looking for safety, but living conditions deteriorate by the day and no place is safe in the Gaza Strip.

Dear President Biden,

"Democracy worthy of our dreams starts with opening the doors for every one without exceptions." Biden's speech at Morehouse College May 2024 graduation ceremonies.

During the 1930s-1970s maps were made and Federal Loans were denied to red lined Black neighborhoods. Eventually, through the efforts of organizers like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the resulting protests, the Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964, outlawing discrimination, though desegregation was a slow process, especially in schools.

YES, democracy worthy of our dreams MUST open doors for everyone without exception.

Slavery and segregation are all wrong.  Please connect the dots... real democracy needs our support, not Israel. 

Israel has targeted and murdered multiple Palestinian journalists, stifled free speech, violated international law, imprisoned countless Palestinian men, women & children, and freely bombs universities, bookstores, businesses, neighborhoods, refugee camps, roads, cars, schools, restaurants, and other countries over and over again. 

Israel, fully funded by America, punitively demolishes Palestinian homes, destroys Palestinian communities, and kills Palestinian men, women and children.

Why is Atlanta building a $90 million dollar Israeli inspired "COP CITY" usurping 100 acres of forest to create a tactical training compound featuring a mock city?!

Why are American police forces being trained by Israel?!

There is a better way forward, for everyone: Enough with foolishly wasting American money on Israel and COP CITY antics.

Fund true community needs- not Israel.    Start honoring basic human rights and respect for all people, regardless of supposed race or religion.

No more delusions for Israel.  No more support for Apartheid Walls, IDF checkpoints, conniving Zionist propaganda, and COP CITY vice.

Enough with destroying hopes and dreams here and in Palestine.

Invest in goodness- not Israel.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

NOTES  https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes

A telling sign at a recent Atlanta protest reads "FROM THE West End TO THE West Bank STOP COP CITY Free Palestine" 

An ICJ Excerpt: "This genocide takes place within the context of the ongoing Nakba –– the 76th anniversary of which was celebrated yesterday –– the continued forced displacement of the Palestinian people, the erasure of Palestinian presence in Palestine and replacement with colonial settlers –– a criminal process entrenched and maintained by 76 years of apartheid and 56 years of illegal belligerent occupation... " 

Palestine Nakba 1948-2024 

NAKBA 76 years so far....

Anti-Defamation League ramps up lobbying to promote controversial definition of antisemitism : Federal records show a dramatic spending increase that critics say is primarily intended to punish criticism of Israel and target pro-Palestinian groups

On Nakba Day, as Palestinians run for their lives, Biden advances $1 billion in arms sales to Israel – Day 221

From 1948 to 2024, three Palestinian sisters speak of endless Nakba For Dalal

‘Barbaric’: Palestinian lorry drivers recount settlers’ attack on Gaza aid convoy- Israeli soldiers escorting convoy accused of doing nothing to stop widely condemned incident

The Nakba Explained- May 15th is the day commemorating the Nakba—a term used to denote Palestinians’ forced expulsion from their homeland by Zionist forces in 1948. 

Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour reflects on the impact of the Gaza war, the life and legacy of his friend Fathi Ghaben, and the role of art under occupation.

Palestinians are living a new Nakba: survivor of 1948 says

76 years after #Nakba, Palestinians continue to be forcibly displaced. 

Nakba yesterday, Nakba today: The story of my grandmother's two keys- Ghefreh has lived through two Nakbas, 1948 and today. Her grandson Emad Moussa tells her story of twinned displacement and how they've now blurred into one.

Release The Hostages Poem by Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha 

May 15th poem-a-day from the Academy of American Poets:We Live We Live by Brandy Nālani McDougall- For Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, with lines from his poems

I wear the traditional black and white scarf to celebrate my heritage. That’s enough to make you a target in the US today

The Guardian: ‘No water, food, health care, toilet’: Desperation deepens in Gaza’s camps 

The New Yorker: The View from Palestinian America In Kholood Eid’s photographs of Missouri, taken six months into the war in Gaza, the quiet act of documenting life is a kind of protest against erasure. By Zaina Arafat Photography by Kholood Eid

In these challenging times, it is heartening to witness the remarkable solidarity and support from university students across the #USA many #European countries & others around the world standing with #Gaza. #StandWithGaza #StudentsForPeace #HumanRights #StopGenocideInGaza

‘Our struggles are connected’: Atlanta protesters link Cop City to Gaza war: Campus protesters say issue of police training center and its connections to Israel has been on their minds for months

Israel attacked aid workers despite knowing their locations: Human Rights Watch documents eight Israeli strikes on humanitarian groups that had provided their coordinates in advance

Spotted in a pro-Palestine demonstration in Ottawa, Canada.... "Israel Did It in 1948... 56...67...82...2002...08...14...21...23..."

English guitar legend Eric Clapton kicks off his concert by playing a guitar adorned with the Palestinian flag.🇵🇸

[CNN] Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention...

There are enough weapons of war and destruction already on planet earth.

Please stop aiding and abetting Israeli insanity. Full Stop.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?

The UN Mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, believed that the Palestinians displaced had a right to return to their homes and wrote several UN reports to that effect.

"It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and, indeed, at least offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries."

Bernadotte was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the group Lehi, a Zionist terrorist organization, commonly known in the West as the Stern Gang 

 

 PALESTINE REMEMBERED

 

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."   https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

An ICJ Excerpt: "This genocide takes place within the context of the ongoing Nakba –– the 76th anniversary of which was celebrated yesterday –– the continued forced displacement of the Palestinian people, the erasure of Palestinian presence in Palestine and replacement with colonial settlers –– a criminal process entrenched and maintained by 76 years of apartheid and 56 years of illegal belligerent occupation... "

International Court
of Justice
THE HAGUE
YEAR 2024
Public sitting held on Thursday 16 May 2024, at 3 p.m., at the Peace Palace, President Salam presiding,
in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel)
____________________
VERBATIM RECORD
___________________ 

The verbatim record of today's hearings in South Africa v. Israel are now available on the ICJ's website:

https://www.icj-cij.org/.../192-20240516-ora-01-00-bi.pdf

 

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4. Israel is escalating its attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, and in so doing is wilfully breaching the binding Orders of this Court. Israel similarly breaches the binding resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, erroneously believing from the lack of counter-measures by the international community that it is exempt from having to respect international law. This institutionalized impunity has led Israel to engage in this genocide, which has shocked the conscience of humanity.

 

5. South Africa is mindful that the present genocide operates in denial of the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and collective right to return to their homes in Palestine. This genocide takes place within the context of the ongoing Nakba –– the 76th anniversary of which was celebrated yesterday –– the continued forced displacement of the Palestinian people, 

 

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 the erasure of Palestinian presence in Palestine and replacement with colonial settlers –– a criminal process entrenched and maintained by 76 years of apartheid and 56 years of illegal belligerent occupation. Undoubtedly, the ongoing scenes of Palestinians being forced to repeatedly flee for their lives is not only reminiscent of the Nakba of 1948 –– it is a continuation of it.

 

6. Seven months ago, South Africa could not have imagined that Gaza would now be mostly wiped off the map. It could not foresee that every family, every neighbourhood, every class of students, every workplace, would be pulled apart, killed, maimed, displaced, malnourished or starved. South Africa had hoped — when we last appeared before this Court — to halt this genocidal process –– to preserve Palestine and its people. Instead, Israel’s genocide has continued apace and has just reached a new and horrific stage.

 

7. Israel has sought to hide its crimes through the weaponization of international humanitarian law. It pretends that the civilians it ruthlessly kills — through its 2,000-lb bombs, through its targeted airstrikes, through its artificial intelligence systems, through its executions — are “human shields”. 

 

This whitewashing of Israel’s genocide misses the key and fundamental element –– that of the massive and still-mounting evidence of Israel’s genocidal intent –– documents and videos of Israeli parliamentarians and military leaders, calling for the destruction of the Palestinian people in Gaza, incitement by Israeli civil society and leading public Israeli figures, all collectively supporting the genocide and its continuation.

 

8. Israel continues to show utter contempt for Palestinian life, operating with impunity. South Africa has no other option than to, once again, seek protection in the halls of justice for the fundamental right of the Palestinian people to their existence.

 

9. Although this present application was triggered by the unfolding horrific situation in Rafah, Israel’s genocidal onslaught across Gaza has intensified over the past few days, also warranting the attention of this Court. With that, Mr President, I respectfully wish to request you to invite Professor Vaughan Lowe to set out South Africa’s substantive legal arguments. I thank you.... READ MORE    https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240516-ora-01-00-bi.pdf

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Palestine Nakba 1948-2024

 

NAKBA 76 years so far....

 

 

 

Palestinian female employees in the Telephone and Telecom service, Jerusalem, PALESTINE 1942

Anti-Defamation League ramps up lobbying to promote controversial definition of antisemitism : Federal records show a dramatic spending increase that critics say is primarily intended to punish criticism of Israel and target pro-Palestinian groups

 The Anti-Defamation League has spent record amounts on lobbying in recent years, including on bills opponents say are meant to punish criticism of Israel and target Jewish peace and Palestinian rights groups.

The Jewish civil rights organization, founded in 1913, is the self-described “leading anti-hate organization in the world”, and has historically focused on combating antisemitism by shaping public opinion. Its lobbying spike marks a dramatic shift – it spent about $100,000 on lobbying in 2020 and is on pace to spend nearly $1.6m this year based on its first quarter expenditures, a Guardian analysis of federal records finds.

The spending positions the ADL as the largest pro-Israel lobbying force on domestic issues. Records show the surge’s broader aim is to promoting a controversial definition of antisemitism across a range of federal agencies and mobilizing the government to enforce it....

 READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/15/adl-lobby-antisemitism-definition

On Nakba Day, as Palestinians run for their lives, Biden advances $1 billion in arms sales to Israel – Day 221

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A woman mourns as she carries the body of a child killed following overnight Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 6 May 2024 (photo)

Palestinians in Gaza can’t seem to run fast enough to keep up with Israeli evacuation orders; can’t dig airstrike victims out of the rubble; Israel reportedly was aware of UN car that it bombed, killing a high-ranking international worker; Israeli police reportedly knew about aid convoy and allowed its destruction; Israel appears ready for a full-scale invasion of Rafah; Ben Gvir calls for expulsion; Palestinian killed in West Bank; Biden seeks approval for another $1 billion in military sales to Israel; campus protest update, more

By IAK staff, from reports

Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza

Associated Press reports: Palestinians on Wednesday will mark the 76th year of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel, an event that is at the core of their national struggle. But in many ways, that experience pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza.

Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe. Some 700,000 Palestinians — a majority of the prewar population — fled or were driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel’s establishment.

After the war, Israel refused to allow them to return because it would have resulted in a Palestinian majority within its borders.

Instead, they became a seemingly permanent refugee community that now numbers some 6 million, with most living in slum-like urban refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

In Gaza, the refugees and their descendants make up around three-quarters of the population.

Now, many Palestinians fear a repeat of their painful history on an even more cataclysmic scale.

All across Gaza, Palestinians in recent days have been loading up cars and donkey carts or setting out on foot to already overcrowded tent camps as Israel expands its offensive. The images from several rounds of mass evacuations throughout the seven-month war are strikingly similar to black-and-white photographs from 1948.

Mustafa al-Gazzar, now 81, still recalls his family’s months long flight from their village in what is now central Israel to the southern city of Rafah, when he was 5. At one point they were bombed from the air, at another, they dug holes under a tree to sleep in for warmth.

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From 1948 to 2024, three Palestinian sisters speak of endless Nakba For Dalal

 For Dalal, 1948 was the year she was forced to walk hundreds of kilometres on foot with her mother and two brothers, Nimr and Naim to reach safety.

Sally Ibrahim

Gaza

16 May, 2024

Amina Nassar, one of the three Palestinians sisters, embracing her granddaughter, Layan. [Sally Ibrahim/TNA]

Dalal, Naima and Amina Nassar are three sisters who lived through a horrific journey of forced exodus, destruction and death since 1948 and today, indicating how endless the Nakba has been for the Palestinians throughout the decades.  

The three sisters are Palestinian refugees from Julis in northern occupied Palestine. Their family was forced to flee their town in 1948 to the Gaza Strip, like more than 700,000 other Palestinians, by Zionist militant groups, according to official Palestinian data.

For Dalal, 1948 was the year of the Nakba, when she was forced to walk hundreds of kilometres on foot with her mother and two brothers, Nimr and Naim, to reach the nearest safe place in the Gaza Strip. 

"The situation was as if we were experiencing the Day of Judgment (...) Crowds of people escaping from the death on foot and others riding donkeys and camels, while children ran in front of their families as the sound of bullets fired by the Zionist gangs towards us," Dalal recalls to The New Arab. 

Dalal Nassar is an 84-year-old elderly Palestinian refugee. [Sally Ibrahim/TNA]

The 84-year-old mother of six never forgot one scene during that time. She describes how men and women lay dead in the streets, shot by Zionist forces while they were trying to escape. No one managed to save them or know who they were. 

"Everyone was trying to survive (...) No one had weapons during the exodus. We were and still are defenceless women, children and helpless elderly people," she remarked. 

Before the Nakba in 1948, Dalal said, "We lived a quiet, simple life." She lived in a mud house and her family owned land on which they planted legumes and vegetables. They had a cow from which they got milk for the children and made cheese to eat.

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Despite the passage of time, Dalal vividly remembers details of her life with her neighbours and friends, when they used to gather daily to play in front of their houses, and the long walks they all took together to fill some galloons with water.

"I miss farming the land with my mother during the farming seasons," she said. "Sometimes we grew lentils and chickpeas, and in another season, we grew tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, cabbage, and many vegetables and fruits."

"But," Dalal added, "Everything was destroyed. Our lives became hell after we were forced to flee to the Gaza Strip, where my family lived in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, sheltering in tents that did not protect us from the harsh winter cold or the oppressive summer heat.

Dalal continued to live the tragic reality with her family in light of the lack of all necessities of life. She recalls, "Living in tents is the height of tragedy, without protection and privacy for you and your family (...) We felt naked in front of each other and felt ashamed all the time, even when we had to relieve ourselves inside tents."

Dalal and her five-member family then tried to deal with the "new difficult reality" imposed on them, believing that they would return to their town, from which they had been displaced, after weeks or months.

But many years passed, and neither Dalal nor any of the Palestinian refugees were able to return to their homes, denied their inalienable right to return.

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"For many years, I heard stories from my family about immigration and how happy and stable my family's life was after that, but I did not expect that I would live a catastrophe and know its details intimately until the war broke out between Israel and the Arab countries in 1967," Naima,  the 74-year-old middle sister, said to TNA. 

At that time, she said, "Internal displacement was imposed on us again; we were forced to move from Deir al-Balah to Mawasi Khan Yunis and stay there during the six days of the Israeli-Arab war in 1967."

She recalls "tens of thousands of people running and fleeing on foot (...) I cannot forget the beating of my heart that was accelerating due to fear of Israeli bullets. And I cannot forget the sights of so many bodies lying in the streets. What I witnessed was terrifying, and I thought we would die."

Naima, the mother of six, elaborated that experiencing the Nakba is not just fear and anxiety for one's self but is also part of fear and anxiety for the Palestinian existence.

"Every time we survived, we insisted on proving our Palestinian presence (...) After the end of the war and Israel's occupation of Gaza, we were forced to live as immigrants inside our cities. Still, the pain inside us is great after we lost many of our loved ones and our lands and watched the Israelis seize our lands and establish settlements," she added.... READ MORE   https://www.newarab.com/news/1948-2024-three-palestinian-sisters-live-endless-nakba

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