2021-05-23: Social Media Postees

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On Contact: 'Except For Palestine'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-23
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses why American liberals refuse to speak out about the crimes the Israeli apartheid state carries out against the Palestinians, with political analyst and author Mitchell Plitnick. | Mitchell Plitnick's new book, with co-author Marc Lamont Hill, is: Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. | …
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What is Joe Biden's Israel Policy, Exactly?
Phyllis Bennis | indybay.org | 2021-05-23
The Biden administration thought it could muddle through with the usual pro-Israel platitudes, but rising awareness of Israeli apartheid is making that impossible.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/22/1884268…

Digital Apartheid: Palestinians Being Silenced On Social Media
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-23
Nassar's research, like many others before it, clearly demonstrates that more than three decades after the publication of Said's landmark essay, the exclusion of Palestinian voices from mainstream media narratives in the West — and the attempts to erase the humanity of the Palestinians or whitewash Israel's crimes against them — continue unabated.
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Tuesday 5/25: George Floyd Commemoration
NAACP Santa Cruz | indybay.org | 2021-05-23
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'Crown: Freedom' — Tribute to Black women activists
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2021-05-22
"Crown: Freedom" adorns wall of Municipal Services Building. WW Photo: Joe Piette "Crown," Philadelphia's newest series of Black Lives Matter murals, now adorns three sides of the Municipal Services Building, the city's most prominent government building. Facing City Hall, it is surrounded by Thomas Paine Plaza, a major site for . . . | Continue reading 'Crown: Freedom' — Tribute to Black women activists at Workers.org
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Historic turnout in Southeast for Palestine; thousands in Raleigh, NC, demand end to Israeli apartheid
Liberation Staff Raleigh | liberationnews.org | 2021-05-22
This historic turnout for Palestine this past week in cities in the southeast is also the influence of the nationwide 2020 summer rebellion against police brutality and racism that brought tens of millions of people into the streets.
liberationnews.org/historic-turnout-in-s…

Roger Waters and Gabor Maté on Israel's apartheid wars and the price of speaking out for Palestine
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2021-05-22
In a Grayzone livestream, Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters and renowned psychotherapist Gabor Maté discuss Israel's latest assault on Gaza, the rising power of Palestine solidarity activism, and their own paths to clarity on the issue…
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Palestinians brutalized despite ceasefire | Protests continue to demand end to Israeli apartheid
Answer Coalition | answercoalition.org | 2021-05-22
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What Is Joe Biden's Israel Policy, Exactly?
Phyllis Bennis | zcomm.org | 2021-05-22
The Biden administration thought it could muddle through with the usual pro-Israel platitudes, but rising awareness of Israeli apartheid is making that impossible…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-is-joe-bidens…

Israeli Forces Attack Muslim Worshipers in al-Aqsa Mosque, 80 Palestinians Injured
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-22
Israeli forces stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem al-Quds in a move condemned as "provocative" amid international efforts to de-escalate tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories. | Eighty Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces stormed al-Aqsa Mosque after noonday prayers on Friday, May 21, and fired sound bombs and rubber bullets at worshipers. | The Israeli troops also arrested a number of young people, some of them wounded, at Bab al-Asbat (Lions' Gate) during the raid, and prevented medical staff from attending to the wounded. | The Palestinian presidency condemned the Israeli regime…
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