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Don Wagner: The Widespread Influence of Christian Zionism and Growing Backlash Inside American Churches on Washington Report

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I used to give my students when I was teaching the Israel-Palestine… On the first day of classes I would give them this exercise: Where, when and why did the Palestine-Israel struggle begin? Now what would you say? Where does it begin? The students would often start with 1967, the 1967 war. But if you start there, and some textbooks do, you don’t get what happened in the Nakba. You’ll miss the genocide of 1948 and 1949. 

Continue reading at https://www.wrmea.org/transcending-the-israel-lobby-at-home-and-abroad/don-wagner-the-widespread-influence-of-christian-zionism-and-growing-backlash-inside-american-churches.html

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Apartheid is a Crime: Portraits of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine by Mats Svensson, Reviewed by Charles Villa-Vicencio

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Whilst South Africa gave the word “apartheid” to institutionalized racism, international law indicates that the Israeli government’s conduct toward Palestinians meets the legal definition of apartheid, as well as the definitions of genocide and war crimes in terms of articles six, seven and eight of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Continue reading at https://www.wrmea.org/middle-east-books-and-more/apartheid-is-a-crime-portraits-of-the-israeli-occupation-of-palestine.html

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The Legal Battle for Justice Against Israeli Settlers and Their American Financiers on Washington Report On Middle East Affairs

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He filed a lawsuit initially dismissed by the District Court here in DC. But it was overturned by the Court of Appeals here in DC. And that lawsuit seeks $1 billion in damages from those who enabled the settlements and the settlers to commit war crimes, including genocide, ethnic cleansing and denationalization.
The court reasoned that, based on the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide has a legal, rather than a political, definition. All of the other counts [in the lawsuit] were dismissed as being political, not legal. So that means the case is going back to District Court and there will be litigation on whether Israeli settlers are committing genocide, which is a huge breakthrough.

Continue reading at https://www.wrmea.org/2019-may/the-legal-battle-for-justice-against-israeli-settlers-and-their-american-financiers.html

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Women’s Rally for Ahed Tamimi And Palestine an Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

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More than 200 protesters attended the Jan. 6 “Women’s Rally to Free Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian Child Prisoners” in front of the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles… The event was co-sponsored by Jews for Palestinian Right of Return and Al-Awda (the Palestine Right to Return Coalition), and endorsed by Jewish Voice for Peace-Los Angeles, North America BDS, American Indian Movement (AIM), Black Lives Matter (BLM) Pasadena, CODE PINK and Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)… “We know what oppression looks like. We know what genocide looks like,” said Idle No More organizer Lydia Ponce, citing the parallels to the Native American oppression in the U.S.

Continue reading at https://www.wrmea.org/human-rights/womens-rally-for-ahed-tamimi-and-palestine.html