Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Who will be next to betray Palestine?

 

at 8/14/20 1:27pm

Palestinians call for Arab boycott of United Arab Emirates.

[Category: United Arab Emirates, Arab normalization, Saudi-Israeli relations, Qatar normalization, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Iran, annexation]

— Scant funding, little opportunity hamper Gaza TV industry

 

at 8/14/20 8:58am

Creative sector limited by the harsh realities it depicts.

[Category: television, Alaa Alaloul, Hosam Abu Dan, Diana al-Ayoubi, Alaa al-Gabary, Al-Arabiya, Ghassan Salem, Gaza siege]

— United Arab Emirates sells out Palestine for Israel

 

at 8/13/20 2:01pm

“Historic” deal formalizes secret ties going back decades.

[Category: Arab normalization, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Gulf-Israel alliance against Iran]

— Israel tightens noose on Gaza

 

at 8/13/20 6:20am

Israel displaced more than 100 Palestinians so far this month.

[Category: Gisha, collective punishment, Gaza fishing industry, PCHR, COGAT, home demolitions, demolitions, Kerem Shalom]

— Uphold Palestinian struggle in all its forms

 

at 8/12/20 8:02pm

Israel seeks to undermine boycott by conflating it with armed resistance; both should be defended.

[Category: Ghassan Kanafani, resistance, armed resistance, Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Gilad Erdan, European Union, BDS, Samah Idriss]

— Biden-Harris ticket a blow to Palestinian hopes

 

at 8/12/20 1:25pm

The two Democrats fought each other over civil rights in the US, but both look the other way on Israel’s record.

[Category: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Jewish News of Northern California, The New York Times, Raji Sourani, Jim Crow, israeli apartheid, Human Rights Watch, Benjamin Netanyahu, Democratic Party platform, Jewish National Fund, Nakba, AIPAC, anti-Palestinian racism, Barack Obama, Haaretz, UN Security Council Resolution 2334, BDS, apartheid South Africa]

— Social justice groups say drop the ADL

 

at 8/12/20 12:02pm

Anti-Defamation League’s racist practices, Israel lobbying and history of spying betrays leftist movements.

[Category: Anti-Defamation League, ADL, racism, Israel Lobby, Black Lives Matter, Movement for Black Lives, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Legal, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, American Friends Service Committee, Red Nation, Friends of Sabeel North America, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), #DropTheADL]

— EU "closely following" Israel's detention of BDS coordinator

 

at 8/12/20 9:50am

Mahmoud Nawajaa, still under interrogation, finally allowed to see lawyer.

[Category: Mahmoud Nawajaa, European Union, Peter Stano, BDS, Palestinian prisoners]

— Progressive Squad remains intact, but racist wins in Georgia

 

at 8/12/20 9:34am

A bigot clinches Republican nomination in south, while shift to left continues in north.

[Category: Marjorie Taylor Greene, QAnon, John Cowan, Donald Trump, Steve King, Ilhan Omar, Antone Melton-Meaux, Tom Perkins, Israel Lobby, The Squad, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Mike Pence, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Democratic Party platform]

— Florida officials, Israeli government app bully Palestinian student

 

at 8/11/20 4:10pm

IHRA definition of anti-Semitism being used to silence critics of Israel at Florida State University.

[Category: Florida, Florida State University, Ahmad Daraldik, Israel Lobby, Act.il, IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, Palestine Legal, Students for Justice in Palestine, campus activism]

— How universities serve as outposts of Israeli colonial control

 

at 8/11/20 10:15am

Academic freedom arguments to protect speech on Palestine are insufficient.

[Category: rabab abdulhadi, academic freedom, free speech, David Landy, Ronit Lentin, Hilary Aked, Steven Salaita, C. Heike Schotten, Nick Riemer, Sinead Pembroke, BDS, John Reynolds, Kenneth Marcus]

— Israeli army again renews detention of BDS coordinator

 

at 8/10/20 3:36pm

Mahmoud Nawajaa is being denied the right to see a lawyer.

[Category: Mahmoud Nawajaa, BDS, Palestinian prisoners, Mick Wallace, European Union]

— Israel lobby group deletes call to blackmail Lebanon using aid

 

at 8/10/20 9:22am

Israel seeks to exploit Beirut disaster to destroy resistance.

[Category: Lebanon, Beirut blast 2020, American Jewish Committee, Hizballah, armed resistance, France, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates]

— Coping with the scorching sun

 

at 8/10/20 2:55am

With little water and an irregular power supply, Palestinians in Gaza have to find ways to survive when summer temperatures beat down.

[Category: Gaza siege, blockade, Electricity crisis in Gaza, water crisis in Gaza]

— Marjorie Greene, the QAnon anti-Semite gun fanatic who loves Israel

 

at 8/7/20 6:54pm

Leading Republican candidate and Islamophobe is taking aim at northwest Georgia congressional seat.

[Category: Marjorie Taylor Greene, QAnon, Travis View, Islamophobia, anti-semitism, anti-black racism, George Soros, Open Society Institute, Donald Trump, George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn, Sergey Kislyak, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, George Floyd]

— Journeying to freedom in a closed-off world

 

at 8/7/20 5:52pm

Backpacking with a Palestinian passport in "Walled Citizen."

[Category: cinema, freedom of movement, Sameer Qumsiyeh]

— Palestinian child jailed by Israel has coronavirus

 

at 8/7/20 5:06pm

Israel extends detention of Palestinian child with COVID-19 in its prisons.

[Category: Addameer, Defense for Children International - Palestine, child prisoners, Palestinian political prisoners, Yabous Cultural Center, Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, Mahmoud Nawajaa, Amnesty International, Ahmad Qatamesh, Rania Elias, Suhail Khoury, Naim Abu Turki]

— Detention of BDS coordinator in Israel is a "violation," EU says

 

at 8/7/20 10:02am

Bloc stops short of calling for Mahmoud Nawajaa’s immediate release.

[Category: Mahmoud Nawajaa, European Union, BDS, Amnesty International]

— How will annexation change the legal landscape in the West Bank?

 

at 8/7/20 2:36am

Israeli land grab will formalize what is already a reality on the ground.

[Category: annexation, Israeli settlements, international law, West Bank, absentee property law]

— Ex-general appointed by Trump says he was in Gaza with Israeli army

 

at 8/6/20 12:42pm

Anthony Tata has frequently attacked Muslims and Palestinians.

[Category: Anthony J. Tata, Donald Trump, Adam Smith, Fox News, Barack Obama, Islamophobia, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Hamas, Hizballah, Gaza Strip, mistaravim, anti-Palestinian racism, Great March of Return]

— Israel, destroyer of Lebanon, poses as its savior

 

at 8/5/20 7:57pm

Israeli politician celebrates death and destruction in Beirut.

[Category: Beirut blast 2020, 2006 war on Lebanon, Moshe Feiglin, Lebanon, Arab normalization, bluewashing, Nickolay Mladenov, Hizballah, Beirut]

As of 8/15/20 12:52pm. Last new 8/14/20 2:55pm.