Killing Palestinians with Impunity

Rebel Newsflash: Killing Palestinians with Impunity (plus 5 more items)

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• Killing Palestinians with Impunity
• Palestinians take to Jerusalem streets after killing
• Copenhagen city council set to vote on divestment
• Activists face broad PA crackdown in West Bank
• Gatecrashing 'netroots' activism
• Kaplan University Ripping Off Poor Students for Profit

Killing Palestinians with Impunity Posted: 23 Sep 2010 02:54 AM PDT With peace talks underway in Washington; Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt; Jerusalem; then New York, Israel, almost daily, commits crimes of war and against humanity. Some of the latest include: -- air strikes against Gaza, killing two Palestinian civilians in another one; -- peaceful protesters attacked in Gaza and the West Bank;

Palestinians take to Jerusalem streets after killing Posted: 22 Sep 2010 12:50 PM PDT "At 3:30 or 4am I heard some noise outside of my window," Silwan resident Abdallah Rajmi told me as we stood on a narrow street in the middle of a battle between young Palestinian stone throwers and Israeli occupation forces from the Border Police. "I thought it was a simple drunken fight but then I heard a lot of noise coming from the people involved and my neighbors began waking up." Silwan is a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, near the walled Old City, and is the target of an ongoing Israeli government plan to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes and replace them with Israeli settlements and a Jewish-themed park.

Copenhagen city council set to vote on divestment Posted: 22 Sep 2010 12:32 PM PDT On 23 September, Denmark's Social Democrat party will have a decisive influence on a Copenhagen city council vote on whether the municipality should divest $2.3 million from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The divestment measure was already voted on earlier this month, when on 7 September the City of Copenhagen's financial committee rejected mayor of social affairs Mikkel Warming's proposal to divest from the 13 companies profiting from the occupation. Copenhagen has a system of governance lead by committees; the finance committee and six other standing committees each have its own mayor and area of responsibility. The committees make decisions relating to their area, but the mayor of the committee can in exceptional cases overrule the committee's decision and take a proposal to the city council. The Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, or the head of city council, is Social Democrat Frank Jensen who also serves as mayor of the financial committee.

Activists face broad PA crackdown in West Bank Posted: 22 Sep 2010 11:14 AM PDT "The Palestinian Authority (PA) forces came late at night and started shooting inside the camp," Shihab said. "They came in, shooting, acting like the Israeli military. They wanted to make the people afraid. Everyone went to the main street and started throwing stones, because people thought they were the Israelis, not the PA forces." Shihab, who didn't want to give his last name, is a spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist-Leninist political party, in Dheisheh refugee camp in southern Bethlehem in occupied West Bank. He told The Electronic Intifada that in the last few weeks, the PA's security services have been waging a campaign of intimidation and violence inside Dheisheh, intent on what he called "destroying the unity and community within the camp."

Gatecrashing 'netroots' activism Posted: 22 Sep 2010 07:20 AM PDT This opinion piece focuses on grassroots digital activism in the Arab world and the associated risks of an inevitable collusion with US foreign policy and national interests. My primary concern, above all else, is that by placing internet freedom within its core agenda of foreign policy, the US will be disinclined to engage in ventures which may compromise the 'stability' of dictatorial Arab regimes which are complicit in said foreign policy.

Kaplan University Ripping Off Poor Students for Profit Posted: 22 Sep 2010 02:55 AM PDT Like the old "Let's Fall in Love" lyrics: Bankers do it. Insurers do it. Even (privatized) universities with poor students do it. They steal and get away with it, a Danny Weil August 18 Daily Censored article titled, "Whistleblower Exposes How Kaplan University Cheats Low-Income Minority students and the Washington Post (parent company) Benefits." More on it below. Kaplan calls itself "an institution of higher learning dedicated to providing innovative undergraduate, graduate, and continuing professional education. Our programs foster student learning with opportunities to launch, enhance, or change careers in today's diverse global society. The University is committed to general education, a student-centered service and approach, and applied scholarship in a practical (online or campus) environment."

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