24 October 2023 – Opinion
The EU’s funding and support for Israeli arms companies
Following the deadly 7 October attacks by militant group Hamas, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Parliament president Roberta Metsola reassured Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “Israel can count on the EU”.
As they met in Tel Aviv, Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) indiscriminately bombed the besieged enclave of Gaza and imposed collective punishment on its 2.3 million residents cutting off food, water and fuel — acts that constitute war crimes under international law.
In the same way that the clock on Israel’s occupation of Palestine didn’t start on 7 October, neither did the EU’s friendship with Israel.
Niamh Ní Bhriain
21 October 2023 – Article
No, Israel Is Not Making the Desert Bloom
For decades, Israel has boasted of “making the desert bloom,” as if Palestinians never even existed. As Israel today pushes Gazans toward mass dehydration, we should remember its longstanding efforts to colonize land through its control of the water supply.
Manal Shqair
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/israel-settler-colonialism-greenwashing-eco-normalization-water-energy
Related to http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349213/dismantling-green-colonialism/
19 October 2023 – Article
Israel’s War on Palestinians: Language in the Service of the Unspeakable
It is extraordinary that Israel, the occupier, calls for a ‘war’ against the occupied.
Let us start with acceptance of a fundamental moral-political reality. The relationship between the Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israel is that of the oppressed vis-à-vis the oppressor.
Achin Vanaik
https://thewire.in/world/israels-war-on-palestinians-language-in-the-service-of-the-unspeakable
7 October 2023 – Video
Phyllis Bennis on Al Jazeera: We Need an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
We can maintain our “grief and outrage” over the killing of Israeli civilians while still fighting to prevent a “potential genocide” in Gaza.
https://ips-dc.org/phyllis-bennis-on-al-jazeera-we-need-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza/
16 October 2023 – Article
Revisiting an Interview with a Leader of Hamas
Nearly two decades ago, the “most wanted man” in Lebanon discussed Israel, intra-Palestinian relations, and the prospects for liberation.
The momentous events in Gaza and Israel the past week brought back to my attention an interview my former colleague Marylou Malig and I did with a Beirut-based leader of Hamas nearly two decades ago that was published in the Indian periodical Frontline.
https://fpif.org/revisiting-an-interview-with-a-leader-of-hamas/
16 October 2023 – Article
Both Israelis and Palestinians Are Victims of Israel’s Apartheid System
The answer to Hamas’s horrifying crimes isn’t to kill innocent Gazans — it’s to change the conditions from which this brutality sprang.
Phyllis Bennis
https://ips-dc.org/both-israelis-and-palestinians-are-victims-of-israels-apartheid-system/
14 February 2023 – Longread
Seeing the World Like a Palestinian – Intersectional Struggles against Big Tech and Israeli Apartheid
With collaboration of Big Tech, Israeli state has rolled out ever more digital tools to spy, surveil and repress Palestinians in order to entrench its apartheid rule. Palestine is at the sharp end of digital colonialism and therefore a critical place for global resistance to begin.
Apoorva PG
https://www.tni.org/en/article/seeing-the-world-like-a-palestinian
May 2021 – Longread
Israel: the model coercive state and why boycotting it is key to emancipation everywhere
Israel’s arms and security industry has become an intrinsic part of the apartheid regime. It is not only present in the brutal violence of the bombing of Gaza and the constant harassment and dispossession of Palestinians, it is also shaping the coercive dimensions of states everywhere, bringing the politics and methodology of occupation to other countries and regimes.
Alys Samson Estapé
https://longreads.tni.org/stateofpower/israel-the-model-coercive-state
May 2021 -Infographics
Israeli – A Militarised State
State of Power 2021 Coercive World
https://longreads.tni.org/state-of-power-2021/israel-infographics
10 February 2020 – Article
Trump’s Middle East ‘Peace Plan’ Is a Step Towards Institutionalising Apartheid
The ‘deal of the century’ demands that Palestinians officially accept that Israel has no responsibility for its inaugural act of ethnic cleansing and all brutalities on Palestinians since.
Achin Vanaik
13 November 2018 – Report
Shrinking Space and the BDS Movement
A widening pattern of repression of social movements has taken shape around the world. Everywhere, space for dissent is shrinking rapidly. Governments and corporations alike are working to suppress and silence movements, organisations and individuals who organise against repression. This shrinking of public space threatens virtually all social movements. Around the world, the legality, physical safety, and public access of dissident movements and civil society more broadly are being threatened. This report examines the legal and political pressure exerted on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, a global campaign aimed at pressuring Israel to end human rights violations, launched in 2005 by a group of Palestinian activists.
Bina Ahmad, Ben White Phyllis Bennis
https://www.tni.org/en/publication/shrinking-space-and-the-bds-movement
12 November 2018 – Article
Will Europe use Israeli drones against refugees?
‘Combat proven’ drones that were employed during Israel’s three major attacks on Gaza over the past decade may soon be used to monitor Europe’s borders.
Mark Akkerman
https://www.tni.org/en/article/will-europe-use-israeli-drones-against-refugees
18 May 2018 – Article
It remains our obligation to respond
Over the last six weeks the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached its lowest point since the 2014 Gaza war. The Palestinian protests on the Gaza border that started on March 30 under the name ‘Great March of Return’, turned into massacre on May 14.
Phyllis Bennis
https://www.tni.org/en/article/it-remains-our-obligation-to-respond
5 January 2015 – Video
Defying US and Israel – Will ICC Membership bring justice to stateless and occupied Palestinians?
Phyllis Bennis and Ali Abunimah about the move opposed by the United States and Israel, Palestinian leaders have submitted a request to join the International Criminal Court and sign over a dozen other international treaties.
Phyllis Bennis, Ali Abunimah
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