The withdrawal of James Cavallaro’s nomination to a human rights commission was decried by rights advocates as a clamp-down on criticism of the Israeli government’s violent policies in Palestine.
In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Ada Colau condemned the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people and said she was breaking off a symbolic, sister-city twinning agreement with Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu’s governmental partner, the Jewish Strength Party, is willing to conduct Palestinicide in order to create a Jewish-only society in the Levant, writes Vijay Prashad. A two-state solution, is simply no longer factually possible.
What you now see so publicly demonstrated is, and always has been, Zionist Israel’s true culture and character — a state designed for one group alone and built on the conquest and dispossession of others, writes Lawrence Davidson.
The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel’s apartheid state, exposing a grinning death’s head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against killing Palestinians.
It’s hard to be a moral person and a Zionist at the same time, writes Lawrence Davidson.
Among other recommendations, Ihab Maharmeh says the BDS movement should further center the violation of Palestinian workers’ rights in its call for boycotts of Israeli companies.
