
Joanna Thorne ☭🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
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The Jewish National Fund is stopping most of its funding of programs in settler outpost farms in the West Bank. JNF Chairman Eyal Ostrinsky: "Regretfully… it turned out we were supporting activities… to help dispossess Palestinians from their land,"




Damn. You gotta hear this crazy story, about a 63 year-old Palestinian Jew (!) who was murdered by the Israeli army today in the West Bank, it tells a lot about Israeli racism: During the 1929 riots in Hebron, Samah Zaytun's grandfather saved 25 Jews from being massacred. Samah was so moved by his grandfather's story that he decided to convert to Judaism. He tried to go through the official Israeli conversion process, but was denied, as the authorities refuse any such requests from Palestinians. He tried to insist but with no luck. Eventually he managed to be accepted to a conversion program run by a notable Rabbi from Bene Beraq. After a long process he was declared Jewish, and his name was changed to David Ben Abraham. The Palestinian Authority arrested him for 58 days (not sure what the charge was, but my guess would be suspicion of collaboration). He was beaten and treated badly while in custody. After his conversion, he expected to be accepted as an Israeli citizen. After all, he was now officially Jewish. He even kept studying Judaism in Jerusalem. But not only did the State of Israel refuse to give him a citizenship, he couldn't even get an entry permit to Israel and neither a work permit. Today he was waiting in a bus stop near Elazar settlement, in Gush Etzion. Israeli reserve soldiers suspected him and searched him. After a knife was found in his bag, possibly for self defense, a soldier shot him to death. The story on Ynet: ynet.co.il/news/article/h…


Ursula von der Leyen on Iran: It’s too early to lift sanctions. We need to see a fundamental change in Iran before any sanctions are dropped. This is about the suppression of human rights, particularly women’s rights.











The beach in Tel Aviv is littered with pieces of Palestinian houses destroyed in 1948

How do we coexist with people that want to murder us?


‘A new political current’: Sinijlawi on the rise of pragmatic Palestinian leaders jewishnews.co.uk/a-new-politica…




Germany’s state of Hesse proposes a law to criminalize "denying Israel’s right to exist", with penalties of up to 5 years in prison.





