Palestinian Christians reject U.S. Catholic Bishops collaboration with pro-Israel group - mondoweiss
Palestinian Christians are condemning the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for collaborating with the American Jewish Committee on an online resource that defines Palestinian resistance as antisemitic.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4533650
Palestinian Christians are condemning a move by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to collaborate with a leading pro-Israel advocacy group on an online tool that aims to define Palestinian resistance as antisemitic.
In a letter sent late last month from Kairos Palestine to the USCCB Committee’s head, Bishop Timothy Broglio, sixteen Palestinian Christian leaders representing Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant denominations and church organizations express their deep disappointment regarding the USCCB’s endorsement of the American Jewish Committee’s online resource, Translate Hate. The bishops’ Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, in partnership with the AJC, added its own annotations to the AJC’s resource, which offers glossary of “antisemitic terms, phrases, conspiracies, cartoons, themes, and memes” and titled it, Translate Hate: The Catholic Edition.
The Kairos Palestine letter charges t
Red Crescent releases video showing Israeli murder of first responders
Mobile phone video shows Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian rescuers despite flashing emergency lights and sirens marking their vehicles as ambulances
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4525978
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has published mobile phone footage taken by a slain Palestinian paramedic refuting Israel's account of why its soldiers opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck on 23 March, killing 15 rescue workers.
. The video shows the vehicles moving in the dark with their headlights and emergency flashing lights switched on. Israeli forces then opened fire on the vehicles for several minutes.
The Israeli military initially denied the vehicles had their headlights or emergency signals on when its forces opened fire on them.
At least two emergency workers can be seen stepping out of the vehicles wearing reflective clothing. The rescuer filming the video with his phone is heard reciting Islamic prayers before being killed.
One rescuer can be heard in the video saying, "Forgive me, mother. I just wanted to help people. I wanted to save lives."
During the attac
Palestinians endure another festive season under genocide - Electronic Intifada
The ceasefire brought brief respite, but famine and despair loom again for Palestinians in Gaza.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4507353
During the Eid el-Fitr, the holiday at the end of Ramadan, Muin Abu Al-Mehza, 58, would usually celebrate together with his family and go visit relatives, as per tradition.
Muin has two sons and two daughters. One daughter moved to Kuwait with her husband. But his other children live close by, and his oldest son, Sami, 31, built an apartment for his family above Muin’s home.
The holidays were always a time for celebration for the family, as it generally is for everyone in Gaza.
But the past two festive seasons have been anything but joyous in the besieged and devastated coastal territory, home to 2.3 million people now facing starvation and Israel’s genocidal military violence again.
Last Ramadan, Muin’s family was struggling with an acute shortage of food. They had been displaced from their home and were struggling for shelter, warmth and water.
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Spanish unions call for a General Strike in solidarity with Palestine on September 27
La iniciativa, impulsada por CGT y Solidaridad Obrera, toma fuerza en al menos 50 localidades del Estado español. A 48 horas de la cita, hay ya más de 100 convocatorias descentralizadas entre piquetes, concentraciones y marchas de 163 organizaciones y colectivos, para este viernes 27 de septiembre.
Sorry, the article is in Spanish, I've not found an English article about this strike.
From the article:
Almost silently and like a living tide, the call for the Strike for Palestine on September 27 , called by the unions CGT and Solidaridad Obrera (SO), has been gaining strength. Having launched the official call towards the end of August, little by little other non-majority unions (COS, SAT Granada, Co.bas...), organizations, groups from various sectors of society have shown their intention to subscribe to it. Dozens of posters in various territories of the Spanish State are already circulating, referring not only to continuing the strike but also to making it a day of active struggle throughout the day.
The General Strike has not the support of the two mayor Spanish unions (CCOO a
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Pagers Explode Across Lebanon in Apparent Attack on Hezbollah
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article will receive updates
Why Israeli leaders admit if they were Palestinian they would fight for freedom
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Joseph Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, New York.
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Military claims the sanitation worker had been throwing explosive devices at its troops from the roof of his home in the el Far’a camp
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When Germany targets Jewish artists as antisemitic
An open letter signed by more than 150 Jewish personalities has expressed concern that Germany's draft resolution to protect Jewish life is focusing on the wrong people.
from Deutsche Welle
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Four columnists quit Jewish Chronicle over Gaza coverage based on ‘wild fabrications’
Columnists Jonathan Freedland, David Aaronovitch, David Baddiel and Hadley Freeman have quit the paper
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Hollywood stars call for protection of pro-Palestinian voices from 'McCarthyist repression'
Mark Ruffalo, Rosie O’Donnell, and Ramy Youssef among hundreds of stars demanding actors' union call for a permanent ceasefire and protect pro-Palestinian voices against industry blacklisting
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