Publishers Note: As Donald Trump wins the New York Republican Primary and perhaps the Presidential nomination on the basis of anti-Islam, anti-Arab sentiment, the democratic state of Israel continues its brutal occupation of Palestine.
Hillary Clinton won New York State on the back of her liberal Zionist ticket that even Bernie Sanders could not dent.
Thanks to the crew at the Palestine Liberation Centre at Byron for compiling this news.
Ian Curr
April 2016
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AUSTRALIA
Pesach message from Bill Shorten
AL AQSA
Jewish settlers try to slaughter livestock near Aqsa Mosque
Despite Israeli restrictions, thousands of Muslims pray at al-AqsaIsraeli police ban 29 Palestinians from tense Aqsa, detain 7 Israelis
AL QUDS
Israel turns Jerusalem into military barrack to mark Passover
APARTHEID RACISM
The Long Road to Bethlehem: Exodus
ARAB
International Pro-Palestine forum kicks off in Tunisia
Arab League to set unified Arab stance against Israeli escalation in Golan
Oil and Amnesia: Obama and Saudi Arabia’s “Forgotten” Ties to 9/11 Fisk
BDS
Canadian student union will divest from firms aiding Israeli abuses
NYU graduate worker union backs Israel boycott by big margin
UK student union elects Palestine campaigner president
An Israeli initiative is needed now
CHILDREN
Child Injured After Israeli Soldiers Attacked Kafr Qaddoum Weekly Protest
CULTURE
Israeli-directed film about Palestinian rapper wins big at Tribeca
DEATHS
Israel releases soldier after court convicted him of murder
DEMOLITION ANNEXATION
Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Home Demolitions on the Rise
IOA to knock down Palestinian home in Silwan
Israel seizes 115 dunams as ‘state land’ in northern West Bank
HRW report slams ‘discriminatory’ Israeli closure of Palestinian quarries
DIPLOMACY
GAZA
Israeli Navy opens fire at Palestinian fishermen off Gaza shores
Anti-siege group warns of Israel’s ban on cement entry to Gaza
occupied Palestinian territory: Gaza Situation Report 140, 12 – 19 April 2016
Indignity, grief and mourning on the Gaza border
Israel should stop playing the victim card, MK tells Washington audiences
ISRAEL
If the Palestinians are guilty of incitement, then what does Israel’s 24/7 occupation amount to?
Netanyahu threatens to fire Bennett during row over West Bank policy
Israel issues tender for new international airport
Netanyahu’s mind and the Israelis’ detachment from reality Davidson
Ashkenazi Jews descended from ancient Turkey: New research
KIDNAPPINGS RAIDS INVASIONS VIOLENCE
Israeli army to close off W. Bank and Gaza for two days
2 Palestinians kidnapped as IOF rolls into al-Khalil
IOF imposes curfew south of Nablus
HRW: Israel closes dozens of quarries in the West Bank
Army Kidnaps Twenty Palestinians In Jerusalem
MEDIA HASBARA
Israeli court sentences journalist to seven months
MOSSAD SHIN BET
State Attorney: Backing the Shin Bet’s interrogation tactics when they are under fire
ONE TWO STATE
AB Yehoshua: ‘Instead of dealing with Palestine, the new generation do a play or write a story’
PA
Banks and currency exchange offices persecuted by the PA
PA’s UN draft resolution condemning settlements left in question
Abbas signs global climate change convention in New York
At climate deal signing, Abbas says settlements ‘destroying the environment’
PRISONERS
Hunger striker Janazra loses consciousness, suffers head injury
IOA releases member of al-Qassam after ten years
20 Jerusalemite youths granted conditional release
Female journalist Dwaik transferred to Hasharon jail
IOA ends isolation of prisoner Khawaja after ending his strike
Global calls to free Palestinian clown held by Israel
‘There’s always an Intifada inside the prisons’
Agreement in Nafha follows second attack by Israeli forces on Palestinian prisoners
Majd Oweida: The jailed robot designer from Gaza
REFUGEES
UNRWA chief receives protest letter from Palestinian teachers in Beirut
RESISTANCE
Dozens of injuries reported during West Bank weekly marches
Palestinian youth arrested for alleged stabbing attempt
SETTLERS/SETTLEMENTS
Israeli settlers attack French solidarity delegation
Palestinian injured in settler’s car-ramming attack
Israeli settler threatens Palestinian family with gun near Hebron
USA
Dying to Forget the Israel Lobby?
LEBANON/SYRIA
The Israeli Occupied Golan Heights: An Occupation for Natural Resources. Water, Land and Oil
Israel Building Another Wall near Lebanese Border
Israel: The Broken Silence
Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance
Return: A Palestinian Memoir
Disturbing the Peace: The Use of Criminal Law to Limit the Actions of Human Rights Defenders in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Al pi tehom [At the Edge of the Abyss]
The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert
This Place
Catalog of the exhibition by Frederic Brenner and others
MACK, 191 pp., $50.00 (paper)
A poster of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (left), Aida refugee camp, near Bethlehem, West Bank, 2009; photograph by Josef Koudelka from ‘This Place,’ an exhibition of pictures by twelve photographers of Israel and the West Bank, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art until June 5, 2016
Finkelstein:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/jamie-stern-weiner-norman-finkelstein/american-jewish-scholar-behind-labour-s-antisemitism-scanda
and Shulman
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/07/israel-the-broken-silence/