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UK actress Emma Watson. (Photo: via Wikimedia Commons) English actress and activist Emma Watson has expressed her solidarity with the Palestinian people via a post on her Instagram official page on Monday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The 31-year-old Harry Potter star took it to her massive platform on the popular photo-sharing website, Instagram, and posted a photo from a solidarity protest with Palestine “Solidarity is a Verb”. ＪＫ⁷@aneeesaaaxEmma Watson showing her support for Palestine This is why we love her “Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future,” the actress said in the photo caption. “Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as w...

Yair Lapid says that in 2022 the debate over Israeli apartheid will be "unprecedented in its venom and in its radioactivity," and Israeli journalists repeat the claim without reviewing the facts. BY JONATHAN OFIR ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER YAIR LAPID AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, OCT. 13, 2021. FROM LAPID’S TWITTER FEED. We think that in the coming year, there will be debate that is unprecedented in its venom and in its radioactivity around the words ‘Israel as an apartheid state’, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said during a Zoom briefing with Israeli journalists, as reported today by The Times of Israel. Lapid called the apartheid appraisal “a despicable lie” and added that “in 2022, it will be a tangible threat”. The briefing included Israel’s pet-d...

Nazi soldiers abducted, Tuesday, a former political prisoner in Bir al-Basha village, south of Jenin in northern West Bank, after ransacking his home, in addition to confiscating cash and mobile phones. Montaser Sammour, the head of the Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the Nazi soldiers stormed and ransacked the home of Wisam Walid Khassan, causing damage, before assaulting and abducting him. He added that the Nazi soldiers also confiscated three thousand Shekels from the property in addition to four mobile phones. It is worth mentioning that Khashan is a former political prisoner who was held by Nazi for six years. Also at dawn, the soldiers abducted five Palestinians from Beit Sahour city and the Deheishe refugee camp in the Bethlehem governo...

Nazi soldiers abducted, on Monday at night, three Palestinians from several parts of the Nazi occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the Nazi soldiers abducted two teenage boys, who remained unidentified at the time of this report, near Bab al-Amoud, in the Old City of Jerusalem, and took them to a nearby interrogation facility. They added that the Nazi soldiers also abducted a young man, identified as Moath Yousef Shiokhy, from his home in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and stormed the home of Amer Zidani to abduct him, but he was not there.

A group of several hundred armed paramilitary colonizers, accompanied by dozens of Nazi soldiers, stormed the village of Awarta, south of Nablus, on Monday to perform religious rituals at a site located on Palestinian land in Awarta. To prepare for the arrival of the paramilitary Nazi JEWISH colonizers, Nazi troops fired sound bombs at the roofs of Palestinian homes in the village, causing distress to the residents and terrifying the children in their homes. According to Saad Awad, the head of the Awarta Village Council, after terrorizing the villagers with military vehicles and sound bombs, the paramilitary settlers invaded with more than twenty buses. They entered the shrines of al-Fadil and al-Eizar, which are ancient sites in the village. Awad added that although right-wi...

Amid tensions over the fate of the West Bank outpost of Homesh, settler attacks on Palestinians have surged — often abetted by Israeli security forces. By: Oren Ziv Family and friends attend the funeral of Yehuda Dimentman in the outpost of Homesh, West Bank, December 17, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90) This article was published in partnership with Local Call. The murder of Yehuda Dimentman by Palestinians two weeks ago has brought Homesh, the West Bank settlement outpost he called his home, back into the Israeli public consciousness. The outpost was built on the ruins of another settlement of the same name just north of Nablus, which was evacuated as part of the 2005 Gaza “disengagement.” For Palestinians in the area, the outpost has for years been a symbol and source of d...

By: Natasha Roth-Rowland Emma Watson at the launch of the HeForShe campaign in the United Nations Headquarters, New York, September 20, 2014. (UN Women/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) This article originally appeared in the “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. We are just about a week into 2022, and already the efforts to redefine antisemitism — or, rather, make the term so self-contradictory and amorphous that it is emptied of all meaning — are continuing apace. Mere days before the first anniversary of the Capitol assault, in which an armed, conspiracy-fueled, antisemitic mob tried to sabotage Congress’ electoral vote count, a high-profile Israeli official suggested that posting a picture of Palestinian flags at a protest alongside an ope...

Nazi soldiers injured, Friday, dozens of Palestinians in Sbeih Mountain in Beita town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Emergency Unit at the Nablus office of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said the soldiers shot ten Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets, including two who were suffered head injuries. Jibril added that 44 Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, and five others sustained cuts and bruises to various parts of their bodies. He also denounced the ongoing Nazi violations against Palestinian medical teams and said that the Nazi soldiers closed the roads leading to the area of protests, preventing the ambulance from crossing. The Palestinians have been holding weekly processions in...

Nazi soldiers injured, Friday, several Palestinians during protests that took place in the Bab az-Zawiya area, in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the Nazi occupied West Bank. The soldiers also invaded Biddu town, northwest of Jerusalem, and abducted two Palestinians. Media sources said the Nazi soldiers, stationed at the permanent military roadblock at the entrance of the Shuhada neighborhood in Hebron, attacked dozens of Palestinians who marched in the area, protesting the constant Nazi regime violations and the ongoing occupation. They added that the Nazi soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades, shooting two in the arm and leg, and causing many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation. In related news, the Nazi s...

Nazi soldiers abducted, Friday, three Palestinians in Ya’bad town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and injured several residents in the al-‘Arqa village, west of the city. Media sources said several Nazi army jeeps invaded Ya’bad, before abducting three young men, identified as Ahmad Yousef Abu Bakr, Samih Nasr Abu Bakr, and Roshdi Jawad Jarrah, all in their twenties. They added that the three Palestinians were taken to the nearby Dotan Nazi military base, which was built on stolen Palestinian lands near Jenin. In related news, the Nazi soldiers invaded the al-‘Arqa village, leading to protests, before firing live rounds and gas bombs, causing many residents to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation. Many army jeeps were also deployed around Ya’bad and th...