Key Facts in Palestinian-Israeli Bloodshed Dating Back Centuries and Acelerating since1948 Palestinian land has always been occupied by Israelites from1030-586 BC,Persians 538-538 BC,Greeks 332-166 BC Ottoman Turks 1517-1917 A.D. British 1917-1948 A.D. Muslims have had both Arabs and Turks have been active in 5 separate ccupations.and Israel....
Posted: Sun Apr 1, 2018 8:23PM
New Orleans City Council Rescinds Universal Human Rights Resolution Due to Backlash Over Inclusion of Palestinians WASHINGTON, DC, January 25, 2018 – Today, the New Orleans City Council rescinded a universal human rights resolution, R-18-5, under intense pressure from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans (JFGNO), simply because the resolution was introduced by a Palestine solidarity group which framed the resolution as a victory for Palestinian rights within the broader scope of human rights....
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:56PM
USCPR Statement on Israeli Blacklist of Palestinian Rights Organizations WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2018 – Today, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) learned through media reports that it, along with 19 other organizations, including several members of USCPR’s broad national coalition, have been added to a blacklist of organizations compiled by the Israeli Strategic Affairs Ministry. The stated purpose of the blacklist is to deny members of the organizations entry into Palestine/Israel due to their support for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) tac...
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:36PM
Honor Roll of BDS Organizations Banned by Zionist Israel Nazi Zionist Israel has been so adversely affected by the successful Boycott Divest Sanctions movement that it is now lashing out, like a wounded, dying beast, with a list of 20 organizations banned from visiting the hellhole, US military base and settler colony called Israel. This honor roll is:...
Posted: Sun Jan 7, 2018 3:14PM
Department of Justice says Americans can’t challenge the legality of U.S. aid to Israel The U.S. Department of Justice once again insisted that individual citizens do not have standing to sue the U.S. federal government over foreign aid to Israel. Several Americans from Fagan Dickson in 1975 to author Isaac Asimov in 1991 have tried. But their claims, based on Establishment Clause separation of church and state appeals, failed.
But what about challenges to U.S. foreign aid to Israel through the Administrative Procedure Act? IRmep has filed a case that breaks into new territory....
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:15PM
Bay Area runs to provide mental health counseling to psychologically traumatized refugees The Gaza 5K returns to San Francisco for a fifth year!...
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:57AM
Army Kills A Third Palestinian on Friday Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man, after shooting him with a live round to the heart, in Abu Dis town, east of occupied East Jerusalem. The Palestinians is the third to be killed by Israeli fire within a few hours....
Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 8:34PM
Victory in 40 Days Due to International and Community Support "While further information about the agreement has not yet been released, news indicates that further achievements of the strike also center on the issue of family visits, including access to more relatives including grandparents and grandchildren; improved communication, especially between imprisoned children and women and their families, and the installation of public telephones; easing security prohibitions and the frequent bans on family visit imposed by the Israeli prison administration....
Posted: Sat May 27, 2017 6:45PM
Day 40 Palestinian Hunger Strike in Israeli Jails: Military Embargo on Israel Proposed 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike for 40 days as of May 26, 2017...
Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 8:58PM
Trump Set to Desecrate Bethlehem President Trump is in Saudi Arabia where he will instruct his puppets then go to apartheid Israel where he will get further instructions from his masters. He will do a token visit to Bethlehem Tuesday and desecrate the city of the Prince of Peace with his entourage of racist Zionists....
Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 9:28PM
Poll: Most Americans don't want US embassy moved to Jerusalem An IRmep poll fielded by Google Consumer Surveys January 27-29 reveals 56.2 percent of the US adult Internet user population prefers the US keep its Israel embassy in Tel Aviv. Only 38.3 percent prefer moving it to Jerusalem, while 5.5 percent are either uncertain or have other responses. The statistically-significant survey has an RMSE score of 3.3%....
Posted: Tue Feb 7, 2017 12:05PM
Israel is no Democracy: A letter to Jimmy Panetta A letter I sent to Jimmy Panetta regarding his his recent vote for HR 11, the non-binding resolution opposing UN sanctions of Israel. I filled my letter with eye witness information from my recent trip to Palestine to try to explain the subterfuge around the claim that Israel is a Democracy....
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:32PM
The Israel Lobby's Impact on America Guest lecturer Grant F. Smith discusses key points developed in his new book, Big Israel: How Israel's Lobby Moves America, while providing insight into likely Israel lobby demands on the next administration. Smith is the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc....
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2016 6:30AM
Press Release: New website lists Israelis & Palestinians killed since 2000 New website lists Israelis & Palestinians killed since 2000
For Immediate Release
Contact: contact@ifamericansknew.org / 202-631-4060
A new website, Israel-PalestineTimeline: The human cost of the conflict, contains a list of all Israelis and Palestinians killed over the past 16 years. According to the site, at least 9,434 Palestinians and 1,204 Israelis and have been killed by the other side since 2000.
In addition to a chronological list of all deaths, the Timeline also provide...
Posted: Thu Oct 6, 2016 12:46PM
Bennis Is "rear guard of the Israel Lobby." Phyllis Bennis and other critics like the Jewish Voice For Peace have done damage control for Israel and refused to mobilize against US arms sales to Israel....
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:36AM
Israel’s surveillance state Palestinians using social media to spread news about arrests and deaths, and Israeli intelligence and law enforcement officers scouring the web for clues about the next stabbing or protest. Facebook has not changed the fundamental contours of the conflict, but it has accelerated it. A demonstration against the Israeli occupation can be organized in a matter of hours, while the monitoring of Palestinians is made easier by the large digital footprint they leave on their laptops and mobile phone...
Posted: Fri Jul 8, 2016 2:15PM
Mark Stone Voted for Unconstitutional, Anti-BDS Law AB 2844 On June 6, South Bay Jewish Voice for Peace sent out a letter asking supporters to contact Assembly Members Evan Low, Nora Campos, and Mark Stone, to convey disappointment that they voted in favor of the anti-BDS law AB 2844....
Posted: Wed Jun 8, 2016 12:08PM
Made refugees The Israeli defense minister, Moshe Ya’alon, has resigned, saying, "I fought with all my might against manifestations of extremism, violence and racism in Israeli society." His resignation comes only days after Ya’alon’s deputy chief of staff, Major General Yair Golan, compared modern-day Israel to "nauseating trends" in Nazi-era Germany....
Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 3:04PM
$40 Billion in Military Aid to Israel Obama Administration Proposes Up to $40 Billion in Military Aid to Israel
The Obama administration has proposed an unprecedented military funding package to Israel that could top $40 billion over 10 years. It is the largest military funding package the U.S. has ever offered to any nation. Israeli officials are reportedly demanding even more funding. The U.S. currently gives Israel $3 billion a year in military funding under a deal slated to expire in 2018....
Posted: Mon May 2, 2016 2:43PM
Refusing to share The World knows that Israel is being very stubborn, rebellious and is bucking the entire Earth in her selfish possession of Palestine, refusing to share it with its original inhabitants and occupants, the Arabs, the Palestinians, the Christians....
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 3:24PM