Le « camp de la raison »
50 nuances de racisme | Caisses de grève
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▻https://twitter.com/caissesdegreve/status/1497756905003012104
Le « camp de la raison »
50 nuances de racisme | Caisses de grève
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▻https://twitter.com/caissesdegreve/status/1497756905003012104
Pour compléter le bêtiser !
▻https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/1497820765491662851
“It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed”, said former Ukrainian official."
La liste n’est pas près de finir !
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/russia-ukraine-war-criticised-racism-western-coverage?s=09
“They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking," wrote journalist and former Conservative politician Daniel Hannan in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper on Saturday.
"Ukraine is a European country. Its people watch Netflix and have Instagram accounts, vote in free elections and read uncensored newspapers. War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations. It can happen to anyone.”
Anas Daif
@jnounaliste
27 févr. 2022·
▻https://twitter.com/jnounaliste/status/1497931802475851776
Traduction : nous sommes réunis, les Marocains, les Arabes et les Noirs, et de l’autre côté, les ukrainiens. Un bus arrive toutes les 15 min pour les récupérer et nous toutes les 4h et ils
choisissent qui va monter. Les frontières ne sont pas loin, elles sont à 100m à peu près…
▻https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1497931737694978048/pu/vid/640x1138/Z99avi-azMzSEOWB.mp4?tag=12
“On n’est pas autorisé, toute personne noire, à entrer par la barrière. Seuls les Ukrainiens sont autorisés”. Les expatriés africains en Ukraine qui tentent de fuir la guerre dénoncent le traitement qui leur est réservé. #AfricansinUkraine
Les étudiants tunisiens s’organisent pour quitter l’Ukraine en guerre
►https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20220226-les-%C3%A9tudiants-tunisiens-s-organisent-pour-quitter-l-ukraine-en-gue
AMEJA Statement in response to Ukraine Coverage - AMEJA+Statement+in+response+to+Ukraine+Coverage-2.pdf
▻https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56f442fc5f43a6ecc531a9f5/t/621bd07b3dbc3174ca6a24ee/1645990011746/AMEJA+Statement+in+response+to+Ukraine+Coverage-2.pdf
THE ARAB AND MIDDLE EASTERN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION (AMEJA)
STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO COVERAGE OF THE UKRAINE CRISIS
February 2022—The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA) calls on all news
organizations to be mindful of implicit and explicit bias in their coverage of war in Ukraine. In only the
last few days, we have tracked examples of racist news coverage that ascribes more importance to some
victims of war over others.
@vanderling j’ai ajouté ton commentaire sur les étudiant·es tunisiens également dans ce fil de discussion :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/951230
We’re Europeans, Christians, Whites!
Posted on March 1, 2022 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR - Indian Punchline
▻https://www.indianpunchline.com/were-europeans-christians-whites
Racist Ukraine coverage in mainstream Western media. Notice the racist overtones.
1. BBC
“It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed”
– Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze
2. CBS News
“This isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan…This is a relatively civilised, relatively European city”
– CBS foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata
3. Al-Jazeera [not exactly Western, but West-aligned]
“What’s compelling is looking at them, the way they are dressed. These are prosperous, middle-class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from the Middle East…or North Africa. They look like any European family that you’d live next door to.”
– Peter Dobbie, Al Jazeera news presenter.
(...)
8. NBC News
“To put it bluntly, these are not refugees from Syria, these are refugees from Ukraine…These are Christians, they’re white. They’re very similar [to us]”.
– Kelly Cobiella, NBC News Correspondent, explaining why Poland, which was hesitant to take in refugees from West Asia and North Africa, is now accepting refugees.
« Des nouvelles de la suprématie blanche, c’est un journaliste du monde libre qui s’exprime. Le camp du bien et de la morale.
Sinon, il y a aussi les mêmes voitures et les mêmes smartphones dans les pays du Sud. »
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"Les français se disent : l’ukrainien, il me ressemble.
Il a la même voiture que moi, je pourrais être à sa place.
C’est pas du racisme, c’est la loi de la proximité."
2 salles, 2 ambiances.
▻https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1498707998990127112/pu/vid/480x270/z0wITwBQK-r_Pykj.mp4?tag=12
#refugies #migrants #Ukraine #Afghanistan #solidarité-européenne... ah bon !
Et si Olivier Truchot fermait un peu sa « grande gueule » ?
▻https://blogs.mediapart.fr/sylvain-grandserre/blog/280121/et-si-olivier-truchot-fermait-un-peu-sa-grande-gueule
▻https://www.acrimed.org/+-Olivier-Truchot-+
Il a débuté comme rédacteur en chef d’Autoroute FM. (#radio_caniveau)
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Truchot
La voix des chauffeurs de maîtres :
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2013/05/24/le-talk-fait-parler-la-radio_3416953_3246.html
« Ils ont beaucoup de retours, notamment par leurs chauffeurs qui écoutent l’émission et leur font un résumé de ce qui se dit dans l’opinion ! Lorsqu’une mesure gouvernementale est lancée, les politiques se penchent avec attention sur les réactions de nos auditeurs », affirme #Olivier_Truchot.
Israel-Palestine: Armed settler raids in West Bank raise fears of heightened violence | Middle East Eye
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Two-year-old Sanad knows little about what happened to his father, Nidal Safadi, other than that he is in heaven.
“Where is heaven?” one of his relatives asked the little boy. “Up,” he replied, looking at the sky.
On 14 May, Israeli settlers killed Safadi, a 30-year-old Palestinian man from the village of Urif on the southern outskirts of Nablus city. In addition to Sanad, he left behind two daughters: one-year-old Ruqayya and five-year-old Maryam.
Israel-Palestine: The names of Palestinians and Israelis killed during the violence
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On the same day, Awad Harb, a 27-year-old Palestinian from the village of Iskaka in the northern occupied West Bank, was killed in similar conditions by an Israeli settler. His daughter, five-month-old Hoor, will likewise be forced to grow up without her father by her side.
Israeli settler attacks have been escalating - both in frequency and ferocity - since 2014. However, residents and observers say that over the past few months, and particularly since the recent Palestinian protests since mid-April, which were followed by a deadly wave of violence, the Israeli army has been using settlers as a tool to further repress Palestinians.
Tallying the Casualties from Ten Days of Bombardment
May 22, 2021 – – IMEMC News
▻https://imemc.org/article/tallying-the-casualties-from-ten-days-of-bombardment
The IMEMC has been trying to keep track of all of the Palestinians and Israelis killed from May 10th to 20th during the massive bombardment of Gaza.
Here is the list of casualties we have thus far – and this will be added to as we find more names and ages (5/10 – 5/15 are more comprehensive, we are still adding more names to 5/16 – 20).
(...)
Israel-Palestine: The names of Palestinians and Israelis killed during the violence
At least 292 people were killed between 7 and 21 May, including at least 71 children and 41 women
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-gaza-west-bank-palestinians-israelis-killed-names
Jubilation in Gaza as ceasefire takes effect : Live | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
▻https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/21/jubilation-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-takes-effect-palestine-israel-live
Voir aussi : Raucous celebrations break out in Gaza, West Bank & East Jerusalem as ceasefire takes effect (VIDEOS) ▻https://www.rt.com/news/524390-palestinians-celebrate-ceasefire-israel
Rarement les deux points de vue auront été aussi opposés. Dans le monde arabe et à commencer à Gaza, on exulte pour la victoire. Chez nous, dans la presse comme il faut, c’est toujours « très équilibré » !
Le Monde : Cessez-le-feu entre Israël et le Hamas à Gaza : un accord fragile, sans vainqueur ni vaincu
Le Figaro : Le cessez-le-feu entre Israël et le Hamas est officiellement entré en vigueur
Libération : Israël-Hamas : un cessez-le-feu pour un conflit sans vainqueur
Que cela plaise ou non, cette « victoire » du Hamas et de la résistance armée palestinienne est aussi importante que l’évacuation du sud du Liban par l’armée israélienne en 2000 et que son autre échec face au Hezbollah en 2006...
Il y a ici une petite vidéo prise à une des entrées de la mosquée Al-Aqsa qui est terriblement parlante : ▻https://twitter.com/ALQadiPAL/status/1395582434679402499
A Jérusalem, ils se réjouissent de la victoire mais à Gaza ils se réjouissent peut être surtout de ne plus être bombardés ?
@rumor : regarde les vidéos, à Gaza (où l’on a appris à vivre avec la mort depuis longtemps), on fête bien la « victoire » (tout en appelant à prier ce vendredi pour la mémoire des victimes (tombées en "martyrs)...
Palestine celebrates beginning of Gaza ceasefire after 11 days of Israeli air strikes
Officials from Hamas and Israel have confirmed the truce, which came into effect at 2am, local time
By MEE staff
Published date: 20 May 2021 20:01 UTC | Last update: 55 mins 46 secs ago
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-gaza-hamas-agree-ceasefire
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas aimed at ending eleven days of intense bombing on the besieged Gaza Strip appeared to be holding early on Friday, despite cross-border attacks in the hours leading up to the truce.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on Thursday that it had accepted Egypt’s proposal for a “mutual” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, after several days of mounting international pressure.
The ceasefire, if it holds, would end the heaviest Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip since its 2014 offensive.
Over the last 11 days, Israeli air strikes killed at least 232 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Of those killed, 65 were children, 39 were women and 17 were elderly men. In Israel, 12 people were killed.
Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories took to the streets to celebrate at 2 am local time, (23:00 GMT Thursday), when the ceasefire came into effect.
Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem celebrate the ceasefire with Israel by setting off fireworks, going on demonstrations and expressing jubilant belated Eid prayers, a Muslim celebration Palestinians in Gaza marked last week amid heavy Israeli bombardment pic.twitter.com/TlVy5mHQ7J
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) May 21, 2021
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Celebratory gunfire and fireworks could be heard while mosques used their loudspeakers to broadcast celebratory chants as the war-torn enclave hailed the apparent end to some of the worst violence in a decade.
Fragile cessez-le-feu en Palestine : la résistance reste sur le pied de guerre
Publié 21 mai 2021 · Mis à jour 21 mai 2021
▻https://charleroi-pourlapalestine.be/index.php/2021/05/21/fragile-cessez-le-feu-en-palestine-la-resistance-reste-sur
Un cessez-le-feu entre Israël et la résistance visant à mettre fin à onze jours d’intenses bombardements sur la bande de Gaza assiégée, semblait devoir s’appliquer tôt vendredi, malgré les attaques dans les heures qui ont précédé la trêve. (...)
Une des raisons de cette dissonance c’est que le « nationalisme (très) religieux » du Hamas ne déclenche pas l’enthousiasme sur nos rives. C’est parfaitement compréhensible. Il reste que, pour les Palestiniens, le 20 mai 2021 est leur première « victoire » depuis très très longtemps. Tant d’humiliations et même de honte expliquent, à défaut de justifier, leur joie, et avec eux celle de très nombreux Arabes...
Pierre Abi-Saab
@PierreABISAAB
Quelque chose a changé en profondeur, mes amis. Ou est-ce que je me trompe ?
▻https://twitter.com/PierreABISAAB/status/1395761245052096517
In pictures: Palestinians across West Bank and Gaza celebrate ceasefire agreement
If the ceasefire agreement holds, it would end the heaviest Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip since 2014
MEE staff
21 May 2021 01:20 UTC
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-across-west-bank-and-gaza-celebrate-ceasefire-agreement
Israel bombs Gaza building used by Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera and AP By Alex MacDonald
Published date: 15 May 2021 13:00 UTC | Last update: 2 mins 37 secs ago | Middle East Eye
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-israel-bombs-building-used-middle-east-eye-al-jazeera-and-ap
Israel has bombed a building in Gaza used by a number of news outlets, including Middle East Eye, Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press.
Reporters and media workers said they had fled the al-Jalaa tower in Gaza City after being issued a one hour notice by the Israeli army, who later destroyed the building. (...)
Covid-19: Virus ’spiralling out of control’ in Syria’s Idlib, warns charity | Middle East Eye
Covid-19 is “spiralling out of control” in Syria as hospitals in the country’s northwest run out of oxygen and beds for critically ill patients, a charity has warned.
Since the pandemic began, Syria has recorded at least 40,000 coronavirus cases, with more than half of reported cases in the country’s northwest, the last major stronghold for armed opposition to the government.
The pandemic has been compounded further in Idlib, with limited hospitals and medical facilities either damaged or destroyed by Syrian government bombardment.
Amjad Yamin, from Save the Children’s Syria Response team, said he believed the overcrowded camps and lack of access to water had allowed the virus to spread faster in northwest Syria in comparison to other parts of the country.
“The reason why the numbers are increasing is because there is no way of containing it in northwest Syria,” Yamin told Middle East Eye.
“And when you live under 10 years of conflict, people are more worried about the ongoing fighting than the virus and say that they need to escape the fighting.”
#Covid-19#Syrie#Pandémie#Santé#camp#Idlib#migrant#guerre#réfugiés#migration
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/coronavirus-idlib-spiralling-out-control-warns-charity
Israeli forces fatally shoot Palestinian child during village protest
By MEE staff |Published date: 4 December 2020
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-forces-fatally-shoot-palestinian-child-ali-abu-aalya
Israeli forces fatally shot a Palestinian child near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday evening, the local health ministry has confirmed.
The boy has been identified as Ali Abu Aalya and is believed to be either 13 or 14 years old. The teen was killed during clashes that broke out between Palestinian residents and Israeli soldiers in his village of al-Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah, the ministry said.
The Palestinian Red Cross told Israeli newspaper Haaretz that Israeli forces shot Abu Aalya in the stomach. He was then rushed to a local hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.
Clashes broke out in the village on Friday after Israeli forces responded to a protest held by local residents against a new settlement outpost in the area. Haaretz reported that the demonstration had taken place “far from the outpost”.
Palestinian communities often use Friday after midday prayers as a time to protest the Israeli policies of land confiscation, road blockades, and settlement expansion - among other issues.
Rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have condemned Israel’s response to such protests, which frequently result in the loss of life, accusing the army of carrying out a “shoot-to-kill” policy that encourages “extrajudicial killings”.
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Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Child Near Ramallah
Dec 5, 2020
▻https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-child-near-ramallah-2
Israeli soldiers shot and killed, Friday, a Palestinian child in the al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
Amin Abu Alia, the head of al- Mughayyir Village Council said several army jeeps invaded the eastern area of the village, and attacked unarmed protesters with live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
He added that the soldiers shot Ali Ayman Abu Alia, 13, with a live round in the abdomen, before Palestinian medics rushed him to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, where he was immediately sent to surgery, but succumbed to his serious wounds despite all attempts to save his life.
Abu Alia also stated that the soldiers shot four young Palestinian men with rubber-coated steel bullets, and caused many others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.
Nickolai Mladenov, the United Nations’ Special Coordinator to the Middle East, called for a credible and independent investigation into the death of the child.
In a tweet, the UN official said, “Israel must swiftly and independently investigate the shocking incident,” and added that “Children enjoy special protection under International Law, and must be protected from violence.”
The Office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the slaying of the child, and said that this incident is part of Israel’s continued brutal and criminal violations against the Palestinian people, especially the children.
It also called on the international community to provide protection to the Palestinian people, and to ensure the establishment of an independent, contiguous, and sovereign Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Israel’s war on Palestinian children
Gideon Levy | Dec. 5, 2020 | 11:17 PM
▻https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-s-war-on-palestinian-children-1.9350708
Last week, we were in the Al-Arroub refugee camp, searching for an open area in which to sit, for fear of the coronavirus. There wasn’t one. In a camp in which house touches house, whose alleys are the width of a man and strewn with garbage, there’s nowhere to sit outside. One can only dream of a garden or a bench; there isn’t even a sidewalk. This is where Basel al-Badawi lives. A year ago, soldiers shot his brother dead, before his eyes, for no reason. Two weeks ago, Basel was snatched from his bed on a cold night and taken, barefoot, for questioning. We sat in his family’s cramped home and realized there was no “out” to go to. While we were there, Israeli soldiers blocked the entrance to the camp, as they occasionally do, arbitrarily, and the sense of suffocation only grew.
This is Basel’s world and this is his reality. He is 16, a bereaved brother, who was abducted from his bed in the dark of night by soldiers. He has nowhere to go to except for school, which is closed for part of the week due to COVID-19. Basel is free now, more fortunate than certain other children and teenagers. Around 170 of them are currently detained in Israel. Other children are shot by soldiers, wounded and sometimes killed, with no distinction made between children and adults – a Palestinian is a Palestinian – or between a life-threatening situation and a “public disturbance.”
On Friday they killed Ali Abu Alia, a 13-year-old boy. It was a lethal shot to the abdomen. No one could remain indifferent to the sight of his innocent face in photographs, and his last picture – in a shroud, his face exposed, his eyes closed, as he was carried to burial in his village. Ali, as he did every week, went with his friends to demonstrate against the wild and violent outposts that sprouted out of the settlement of Kokhav Hashahar, taking over the remaining land of his village, al-Mughayir. There is nothing more just than the struggle of this village, there is nothing more heinous than the use of lethal force against protesters and there is no possibility that shooting Ali in the abdomen could have been justifiable. In Israel, of course, no one showed any interest over the weekend in the death of a child, one more child.
Up until the current school year, around 50 children from the shepherding community of Ras a-Tin studied at the school in al-Mughayir, the village of the deceased boy. They had to walk about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) each day, round trip, to attend. This year their parents, with the help of a European Commission aid organization based in Italy, built them a modest, charming school in the village. Israel’s Civil Administration is threatening to demolish it, and in the meantime it is harassing the pupils and teachers with surprise visits to check whether the toilets had been, God forbid, connected to a water pipe – in a village that was never connected to the power grid or the water supply. The children of Ras a-Tin must have known Ali, their former classmate, now dead.
The children did not know Malek Issa, of Isawiyah, in East Jerusalem. The 9-year-old boy lost an eye after it was hit by a sponge-tipped bullet fired by an Israeli police officer. On Thursday the Justice Ministry department that examines allegations of police misconduct announced that no one would be charged in the shooting, after 10 months of intensive investigation. It was enough for the policemen involved to claim that stones had been thrown at them, perhaps one of them hit the boy. But no video shows stones being thrown, nor is there any other evidence of this. Ali’s killers can also sleep in peace: No one will prosecute them. All they did was to kill a Palestinian child.
These and many other incidents are taking place during a period that is among the quietest in the West Bank. This is the terror taking place, committed by the state. When we hear of such incidents in vicious dictatorships – children who are snatched from their beds in the middle of the night, one boy who was shot in the eye, another who was shot and killed – it sends shivers down our spine. Shooting at demonstrators? At children? Where do such things happen? Not in some faraway land, but rather just an hour’s drive from your home; not in some dark regime, but in the only democracy.
What would you think of a regime that allows the shooting of children, that abducts them in their sleep and razes their schools? That’s exactly what you must think of the regime here in our country.
In New Crime of Excessive Use of Force, IOF Kill Palestinian Child and Wound 4 Civilians Northeast of Ramallah
Date: 05 December 2020 - Time: 17:00 GMT
▻https://www.pchrgaza.org/en/?p=15455
According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 11:00 on Friday, a peaceful protest took off in the center of al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, at the call of the villagers, towards lands under the threat of confiscation and in protest to the establishment of new settlement outposts in Ras al-Teen area near the eastern entrance to the village. The protestors raised Palestinian flags and chanted slogans against the Israeli occupation, settlers and annexation wall. When the protestors arrived at the area, they found a large number of Israeli soldiers awaiting them. Following the Friday prayer, the protestors chanted slogans again the Israeli occupation and settlers. IOF immediately suppressed the protest and fired live and rubber bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the protestors. As a result, 4 civilians sustained rubber bullets wounds in their lower extremities and received treatment on the spot. At approximately 13:30, as the clashes were ongoing, Israeli soldiers shot at ‘Ali Ayman Naser Abu ‘Aliya (14), wounding him with a live bullet in his abdomen below the lung on the right side of his body. Abu ‘Aliya was immediately taken via a Palestinian Red Crescent Socitey (PRCS) ambulance to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, where he underwent a surgery. At approximately 18:00 on the same day, medical sources pronounced him dead. The medical report showed that the bullet penetrated the liver and ruptured it.
Un adolescent palestinien tué par l’armée israélienne enterré à Ramallah
Avec notre correspondante à Ramallah, Alice Froussard - RFI - Publié le : 05/12/2020
▻https://www.rfi.fr/fr/moyen-orient/20201205-un-adolescent-palestinien-tu%C3%A9-par-l-arm%C3%A9e-isra%C3%A9lienne-en
Dans les Territoires palestiniens, l’émotion est vive après la mort d’un jeune Palestinien de 13 ans, tué vendredi 4 décembre en Cisjordanie occupée par des tirs de l’armée israélienne alors qu’il participait à une manifestation dans le village d’al Mughayir. Son enterrement, qui a eu lieu ce samedi, a rassemblé des centaines de personnes.
Israël/Territoires palestiniens - Q&R - Extrait du point de presse (07.12.20) - Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères
▻https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/israel-territoires-palestiniens/relations-bilaterales-4261/evenements/article/israel-territoires-palestiniens-q-r-extrait-du-point-de-presse-07-12
❝Q : Le décès d’un jeune Palestinien lors d’une manifestation organisée dans le village d’Al Mughair, près de Ramallah, contre la politique israélienne de colonisation, est-il susceptible de relancer les tensions entre Israéliens et Palestiniens ?
R : La France déplore la mort d’un jeune adolescent palestinien, Ali Abu Alia, survenue le 4 décembre, après qu’il a été touché par des tirs de l’armée israélienne lors d’une manifestation dans le village d’Al Mughair, près de Ramallah.
#FranceDiplo
Occupation of UK factory involved in Israeli drone manufacture enters third day | Middle East Eye
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-israel-drone-elbit-factory-palestine-occupation
A direct action group is pushing to end the UK’s military complicity with Israel’s human rights abuses
Coronavirus: Iraq’s ’Covid-19 generation’ faces forced labour, lack of school | Middle East Eye
Yusuf, a 10-year-old Arab boy originally from Iraq’s central Salahaddin province, sells plastic bags in the centre of Sulaymaniyah.
Yusuf is one of hundreds, if not thousands, of children working across northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region to help their families - or just to survive - at a time that Iraqi government coffers have shrunk due to the crash in oil prices, an economic crisis and a pandemic that has caused mayhem around the world.
“I never attended school [and] have been working here for more than two years,” he told Middle East Eye. “My parents were killed by the Islamic State.”
Many Kurdish families, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and Syrian refugees are forced to take their children out of school and send them to work in dangerous conditions in order to make ends meet.
#Covid-19#Iraq#Déplacés#Précarité#Société_civile#migrant#migration
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/coronavirus-iraq-covid-19-generation-forced-labour-education-school
Coronavirus: First cases confirmed at Jordanian camp for Syrian refugees | Middle East Eye
The UN agency for refugees has confirmed two coronavirus cases in Jordan’s Azraq camp for Syrian refugees, reigniting fears of the potential for a large-scale outbreak at the cramped camps.
There are more than 100,000 Syrians displaced by war living in refugee camps in Jordan. Azraq camp is home to some 36,000 refugees, while the larger Zaatari camp houses some 76,000.
In total, Jordan hosts more than 650,000 refugees from Syria and about 100,000 others from various countries.
In June, the United Nations warned that refugees living in Jordan were suffering from extreme poverty, particularly as a result of the coronavirus pandemic
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/coronavirus-two-syrians-refugee-camp-jordan-test-positive-un-agency-s
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#Covid-19#Jordanie#UE#Réfugiés#santé#éducation#Camp#Aide#Économie#migrant#migration
Coronavirus: Leaked letter says over 200 UN staff in Syria have contracted Covid-19 | Middle East Eye
More than 200 United Nations staff members have contracted Covid-19 in Syria, as the global body stepped up its contingency plans to combat the fast spread of the pandemic in the country, medical workers and UN officials have said.
The UN’s resident coordinator and humanitarian coordinator in Syria, Imran Riza, told UN heads of agencies in a letter to distribute to staff that the UN was in the final stages of securing a medical facility for the treatment of cases.
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/coronavirus-leaked-letter-says-over-200-un-staff-syria-have-contracte
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Rep. Ilhan Omar wins contentious primary election in Minnesota
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WASHINGTON – Several primary elections happened around the country Tuesday, but perhaps none gathered the attention as much as Rep. Ilhan Omar’s competitive Democratic primary in her bid for reelection in Minnesota, where she emerged victorious.
Omar, a former state representative, was elected during the 2018 midterms as part of the “Blue Wave” that hit the U.S. Capitol, and she gained a national profile as a leading progressive voice in the House of Representatives.
She was challenged by Antone Melton-Meaux, a Black lawyer and mediator, who raised millions of dollars, nearly matching Omar overall and outraising her in the most recent cycle.
Melton-Meaux trailed significantly with more than 90% of the vote counted, leading him to concede.
Tuesday’s primaries: Ilhan Omar fights for political survival and QAnon believer hopes to join the House
Omar tweeted Tuesday night: "In Minnesota, we know that organized people will always beat organized money. Tonight, our movement didn’t just win. We earned a mandate for change. Despite outside efforts to defeat us, we once again broke turnout records.
“It has been the honor of my life to represent you in Congress and I look forward to continuing to serve the people of the 5th District in the years to come,” she continued.
Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District is strongly Democratic, and Omar will likely go on to victory in November.
Omar was born in Somalia and came with her family to America as a refugee in the early 1990s. She and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., were the first Muslim women ever elected to Congress.
Omar and Tlaib, along with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., came to be known collectively as “the Squad” – first-term congresswomen, all women of color, who established themselves as perhaps the four most progressive members in the House.
Ilhan Omar
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4:23 AM · 12 août 2020
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In Minnesota, we know that organized people will always beat organized money.
Tonight, our movement didn’t just win. We earned a mandate for change. Despite outside efforts to defeat us, we once again broke turnout records.
Despite the attacks, our support has only grown.
Ilhan Omar comfortably wins re-election race
Muslim-American congresswoman beat well-funded challenger Antone Melton-Meaux who was backed by pro-Israel groups
By Ali Harb in Washington - 12 August 2020 02:39 UTC
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Muslim-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has comfortably beaten a well-funded primary challenger, securing the nomination for her heavily Democratic district.
The result on Tuesday night puts Omar on a secure path for a second term in the House of Representatives in a major setback for pro-Israel groups that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for her opponent, Antone Melton-Meaux.
With a 28,000-vote lead, Omar was projected as the winner by the New York Times less than two and a half hours after polls closed. (...)
Rashida Tlaib wins re-election race with ease
By Ali Harb | in Washington | 5 August 2020 | Middle East Eye
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Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib comfortably fended off a serious primary challenger, all but securing re-election for a second term in her heavily Democratic district in Michigan.
Tlaib quickly rose to national prominence after being elected to the House of Representatives in 2018, becoming one of the first two Muslim women in Congress.
An outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, she became the target of frequent right-wing attacks, including by the president himself.
#Rashida_Tlaib
On Tuesday, she defeated Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones. Preliminary results showed Tlaib with a substantial lead of almost double of Jones’s vote tally (61,090 to 31,487). The congresswoman declared victory early on Wednesday.
Tlaib thanked her friends and supporters, stressing that “the work continues”.
“Headlines said I was the most vulnerable member of the Squad,” she wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, referring to the notable group of progressive congresswomen of colour in the House of Representatives.
“My community responded last night and said our Squad is big. It includes all who believe we must show up for each other and prioritize people over profits. It’s here to stay, and it’s only getting bigger.” (...)
Rashida Tlaib gagne les primaires dans le Michigan
Par l’Agence Média Palestine, le 7 août 2020
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Mardi dernier, Rachida Tlaib, première démocrate d’origine Palestinienne à siéger au Congrès Américain, a été réélue lors des primaires dans la circonscription de Détroit aux États-Unis.
La députée américaine Rashida Tlaib, l’une des démocrates progressistes les plus visibles du Congrès, a remporté ce mardi les élections aux primaires démocrates contre Brenda Jones, la présidente du conseil municipal de Détroit. Selon les résultats officiels publiés par l’État du Michigan, Tlaib a obtenu 63 650 voix contre 32 582 pour Jones.
Cori Bush was attacked over BDS before election; she did not back down
By Ali Harb in Washington | date: 5 August 2020 | Middle East Eye
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A few days before Cori Bush defeated 10-term Congressman William Lacy Clay, ending a political dynasty that represented St Louis in the House for more than a half century, she was attacked by the incumbent over her support for the right to boycott Israel.
Her response? Bush doubled down on backing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
“Cori Bush has always been sympathetic to the BDS movement, and she stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people just as they have stood in solidarity with Black Americans fighting for their own lives,” her campaign said in a statement on Saturday.
She went on to shock the Democratic establishment and defeat Clay by a 3-percent margin on Tuesday. Palestinian rights advocates were quick to hail her victory, which they said proves that criticising Israel is no longer necessarily a costly stance in Democratic Party politics.
“Blind support for Israel now no longer is helping candidates, but is even becoming a hindrance for them,” said Ariel Gold, national co-director of Code Pink, an anti-war feminist group.
La sympathisante de BDS Cori Bush gagne la primaire dans l’élection pour le Missouri
Michael F. Brown, The Electronic Intifada, le 5 août 2020
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Coronavirus: Israeli court rules Palestinian prisoners have no right to social distancing | Middle East Eye
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Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that Palestinian prisoners have no right to social distancing protection against coronavirus.
In a ruling on Thursday, Israel’s top court rejected a petition made by the Adalah legal centre for minority rights, which called on Israel to implement Covid-19 protective guidelines for inmates at Gilboa prison, a facility in northern Israel housing about 450 Palestinians classified by Israel as “security prisoners”.
The Supreme Court justices accepted the argument promoted by Israeli state authorities that Palestinians held in prison were no different than family members or flatmates living in the same home.
Coronavirus: Lebanon reimposes lockdown amid spike in infections - Middle East Eye
❝Lebanon said it was reimposing coronavirus restrictions on Monday for the next two weeks, shutting places of worship, cinemas, bars, nightclubs, sports events and popular markets after a sharp rise in infections.
Officials said they were alarmed by a spike in cases in recent days, with at least 132 new infections and eight deaths confirmed in the last 24 hours. Lebanon has recorded just 51 deaths from the coronavirus since February.
“We have to go back a step back and work with determination as though the pandemic has now begun,” Minister of Health Hamad
#Covid-19#Liban#deuxièmevague#confinement#migrant#quarantaine#pauvreté#santé
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Flights between Turkey and Iraq suspended over rising coronavirus cases - Middle East Eye
Flights between Turkey and Iraq are to be suspended over a rise in coronavirus cases, Iraq’s aviation authority announced on Sunday.
Iraq had reopened Baghdad and airports in the south of the country last week for international travel after months of closure.
Iraqi authorities lifted other restrictions last month, allowing malls and shops to reopen and delaying the start of overnight curfews to 9:30 pm (18:30 GMT).
Restaurants and coffee shops remain closed to customers but are allowed to fulfil takeaway or delivery orders.
#Covid-19#Turquie#Iraq#FermetureFrontière#Aeroport#Politique_internationale#migrant#migration
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Israel demolishes Palestinian coronavirus testing centre in Hebron
By Akram Al-Waara, Mustafa Abu Sneineh | 21 July 2020 | Middle East Eye
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Israeli authorities have demolished a Palestinian drive-through coronavirus testing centre in the city of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank.
The West Bank is struggling to contain a second wave of coronavirus infections, after appearing to successfully ward off the pandemic with a strict weeks-long lockdown implemented in March.
Hebron, the territory’s largest city and powerhouse of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) economy, has been hit particularly hard. The PA recorded 65 coronavirus-related deaths in the Palestinian territories on Tuesday.
Hebron municipality has set up a coronavirus crisis centre, but social stigma and the difficulties caused by the Israeli occupation have hindered its response.
Raed Maswadeh, a 35-year-old engineer whose family owns the land in which the drive-through test service was being built, told Middle East Eye that three months ago the municipality had appealed to Palestinians to raise funds to build the facility.
“My family decided to donate our land at the northern entrance of Hebron for the purpose of constructing a Covid-19 test clinic,” Maswadeh said. (...)
#coronavirus #Palestine #le_sens_des_priorités #stratégie_du_choc #cruauté_sans_répit
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Palestinians accuse Israel of stealing 1,500-year-old Christian relic from Bethlehem | Middle East Eye
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Palestinians have accused Israel of an “abominable act of thuggery and cultural appropriation” after a 1500-year-old Christian relic was “stolen” by Israeli forces early on Monday.
Video footage posted online by the PLO Department of Public Diplomacy and Policy showed Israeli forces escorting a large flatbed truck out from the town of Tuqu, in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem.
The rare artefact, which dates back to the Byzantine period, was used as a water basin for baptisms and is one of three known relics of its kind.
The other two include one recently discovered at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and another belonging to a church in Beit Jibrin, an ancient Palestinian town left in ruins following Israel’s 1948 invasion.
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Explained: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam | Middle East Eye
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