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Latest stories from the If Americans Knew blog. View this in your browser Essential news about Palestine, Israel, and related topics • IsraelPalestineNews.org Featuring reports about the Israel lobby's activities from around the web, missing headlines from Palestine, and the latest If Americans Knew videos. Did someone forward you this email? Sign up to receive blog updates in your inbox twice a week (or more often). Click here to modify your current subscription.  Please donate so that we can continue this work! Your contributions are essential in our many diverse projects to inform Americans about Palestine. We are a 501(c)3 organization and all donations are fully tax deductible.  Speakers oppose racism in the U.S. while supporting it in Israel By Alison Weir. Progressive Except Palestine Department: Individuals recently spoke out against racism and injustice at U.S. rallies, while supporting racism and oppression against Palestinians in Israel… Read the rest of this entry BBC bows to pressure from Israel and changes Gaza headline From MEMO (Middle East Monitor). This is truly shocking: media giant BBC is bossed around by Israel. The headline “Israeli air strikes kill pregnant woman and baby” magically become “Gaza air strikes ‘kill woman and child’ after rockets hit Israel” when Israel’s foreign ministry spokesman ordered it to be changed “IMMEDIATELY.” A BBC spokesperson admitted that “although the original headline was not factually incorrect, we updated it to add more context to the story”. They added something else too, and it ain’t truth. One BBC senior producer confided, ‘We wait in fear for the phone call from the Israelis,’” whenever they publish negative stories about Israel. Read the rest of this entry Florida A&M campus newspaper: The relationship between African-American students and Israel By Angelique Fullwood, from The Famuan. Article in the Florida A&M campus newspaper describes how AIPAC woos student leaders from historically black colleges and universities…  Read the rest of this entry Heart-wrenching firsthand account of Israeli water criminality By Kristin Foss, International Solidarity Movement; from IMEMC News. Israeli water policy is diabolical: the water table beneath the West Bank is being siphoned off by Israel and rationed to Palestinian farmers, sold at exorbitant prices; Israeli soldiers destroy water pipes and greenhouses; Israel walls off the Jordan River itself from Palestinian use; and water is piped away from refugee camps into illegal settlements. Amid all this injustice, Palestinians carry on with patience and dignity. To exist is to resist. Read the rest of this entry Avigdor Lieberman: all of Gaza’s dead were Hamas (with commentary) From Ha’aretz. Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman, who once famously said, “there are no innocents in Gaza,” has once again perhaps gone a little too far. Avigdor Lieberman’s claims that all of the dead in the Great March of Return were part of Hamas, and the IDF destroyed “dozens of terror infrastructures” fails to take into… Read the rest of this entry The luxury of evacuation: a form of Jewish privilege based on the myth of Israeli vulnerability, while Gazans suffer and die By Kathryn Shihadah, Palestine Home. Evacuation is another form of Jewish Israeli privilege, based on the myth of vulnerability (Israel’s borders are secure) and existential threat (Israel has one of the most powerful armies in the world, and is in no danger of annihilation).  Read the rest of this entry Gazan shot by Israeli forces dies, 80% of cancer medications depleted In Gaza hospitals From IMEMC News. Another Gazan shot by Israeli forces while participating in the Great March has died… meanwhile, Gaza cancer patients suffer and die as Israel prevents medicines from entering Gaza, and prevents patients from going abroad for treatment. Read the rest of this entry Gunshot Gaza: hospitals struggle to treat surge in firearms injuries By Jonathan Owen, The BMJ. Medical work in Gaza is impeded by the unmanageable number of wounded, the complex injuries that will require multiple follow-up procedures, and the shortage of supplies. Add to that the difficulty in getting permission for patients to seek medical attention outside the country – it adds up to an impossible situation. Read the rest of this entry The history of Zionist collusion with Nazis From Unz Review. Jewish American Ron Unz details facts about Zionist-Nazi cooperation, including Zionist sponsored trips for Nazi officials such as Adolph Eichmann to Palestine, up through recent events in Ukraine… Read the rest of this entry On Friday Israeli forces killed 2 more Gazans, shot 85, raided Bethlehem, Hebron, etc From IMEMC News. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed, Friday, two Palestinians, including one medic, and injured 307 others, including 85 who were shot with live fire… Israeli forces also rampaged, as usual, throughout the West Bank.  Read the rest of this entry Israel mayoral candidate killed Palestinian teen in 1989 From MEMO (Middle East Monitor). While serving in IDF during 1st Intifada, mayoral candidate Raz Sagi shot & killed a fleeing Palestinian teen. Sagi was sentenced to 3 mo community service, pardoned, then promoted. Read the rest of this entry Water Works in Gaza Destroyed From Quds News Network. Overnight on August 8-9, Israeli warplanes bombed the Water and Sanitation system for al-Mughraqa City in Gaza. Read the rest of this entry Palestinian Art and Culture as a Battlefield for Israel In recent weeks, Israel has targeted unarmed protesters, medics, journalists, & children, but also symbols of Palestinian art and culture, incl. 5-story Al-Meshal Cultural Center.   Read the rest of this entry WATCH: 2-minute video about mother and toddler killed in Gaza by Israeli forces On Aug 9 Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed Enas Khammash, 23, and her 18-month-old daughter Bayan. Enas was nine-months pregnant with another daughter, whom she had named Hayat, Arabic for “Life.” U.S. news media paid little attention to these deaths, rarely even reporting their names…  Read the rest of this entry News from Palestine – mostly unreported by US media From IMEMC News. Palestinian Poet Turns Herself In to Finish Sentence… Israeli Airstrike Levels Five-story Building in Gaza City… Abbas Appeals to International Community in Halting Attacks on Gaza… “Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seventeen Palestinians in the West Bank”… Palestinian Wells, Tourist Areas, Among Israeli Targeted Sites In Gaza… Israeli Army Demolishes A Shop Near Jericho… Israeli Army Injures Many Palestinians In Kufur Qaddoum…  Read the rest of this entry Israeli airstrikes continue to pound Gaza, kill mother, 23, & her daughter, 18 months From IMEMC News. Though in the past 4 months Israel has killed over 160 Palestinians & Hamas has killed 2 Israelis, Israel felt it was time for an all-out airstrike against Gaza. At least 140 bombs were dropped, killing a pregnant mother, 23, and her 18 month old daughter…  Read the rest of this entry Army Demolishes A Home In Jerusalem Israeli Soldiers Abduct Six Palestinians In Tubas And Jenin Army Abducts Two Palestinians Near Bethlehem Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian Journalist In Ramallah Report: 520 Palestinians Abducted by Israeli Forces in July Khan al-Ahmar to Receive Health Services After Emerging From An Israeli Prison, Freedom Flotilla Captain Accuses Canada’s Government Of Complicity In A “Slow Genocide” Home of 5 Palestinian Detainees Measured for Demolition Illegal Israeli Colonists March In Hebron, Invade Home Israel Seizes Palestinian Farmland for ‘Gardening Purposes’ IsraelPalestineNews.org • IfAmericansKnew.org    contact@PROTECTED  •  202-631-4060 DONATE Manage Subscription