Thirteen-year-old Mohammed Saadi was kidnapped, blindfolded, beaten and threatened with a gun to his head by five men in his hometown of Umm al-Fahem.
It was May 20 and Saadi was among thousands who gathered for a funeral procession held for Mohammed Kiwan, a 17-year-old boy who was shot by Israeli police a week earlier.
At the time, tensions escalated in occupied East Jerusalem over Israel’s planned forced expulsion of Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah, attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, and Israel’s military assault on Gaza, leading thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel to protest on a near-daily basis across towns and cities in Israel.
Former Israeli diplomat Lenny Ben-David said that he has 'never seen worse anti-Israel propaganda,' calling Times coverage 'a blood libel' demonizing the Jewish state.
There’s been multiple BDS victories over the past week or so. Let’s round them up.
South Africa
South African dockworkers refused to off-load cargo from an Israeli vessel in the port city of Durban. The workers are members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union and were acting in solidarity with a call from the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions.
“We do not want Israeli ships or goods in South African ports and shops,” a member of the South African BDS Coalition told
Middle East Eye. “We salute our dockworkers and will continue to work in struggle with them to ensure that South Africa becomes an ‘apartheid free zone’.”
At issue are not only an avalanche of harshly anti-Israel
Times opinion pieces, but news coverage faulting Israel for inflicting what the newspaper has described in news articles as a “high civilian death toll” in Gaza.
For example, a top-of-the-front page headline on Friday reported, “More than 250 Dead, Mostly Civilians.” An article by Ronen Bergman in Sunday’s
New York Times reported that Israel “claims to have killed about 200 Hamas operatives.” The math is hard to reconcile, unless the
Times is double-counting as “civilians” the people Israel is describing as “Hamas operatives.” That’s certainly possible, given that Hamas is not a uniformed conventional military force but rather an Iranian-backed terrorist group that also controls religious and civil affairs in Gaza. But describing Hamas operatives merely as “civilians” could convey to
The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution on ensuring respect for international human rights law and international humanitarian law.