Congress should impeach David Friedman, too — Mondoweiss (10/11/19)

As Congress returns from recess next week, the House of Representative’s impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s solicitation of a foreign government’s help in digging up dirt on a political opponent will heat up. It’s possible that other administration officials will find themselves the subjects of related impeachment inquiries as well. Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Attorney General William Barr respectively aided Trump’s pressure campaign against Ukraine, refused to allow State Department employees to be deposed, and refused to investigate the whistleblower’s complaint, leading Washington Post columnist Max Boot to conclude that “all three richly deserve to join Trump in the dock.”

Facebook takes down page of Palestine news site — Middle East Monitor (10/11/19)

Our Boys: Another story of Israel's superior morality — Middle East Eye (10/10/19)

American Zionist cinematic efforts to represent the colonisation of Palestine as a "Jewish struggle for national liberation" scored a huge success with the 1960 film Exodus. The film popularised the Zionist cause and remains inspirational to young American and European Zionists. Exodus does not mention the conquest of the land of the Palestinians and the expulsion of the majority of the native population, as the native Palestinians are shown as nothing but a hateful obstacle to Jews attaining a homeland for them only. A more recent cinematic project, which, though successful, did not have the same effect as Exodus, was the 2005 Steven Spielberg film Munich. The film is concerned with the "soul" of Jews in Israel in the context of Golda Meir’s 1970s campaign to assassinate Palestinian intellectuals across Europe as retribution for the attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. As I argued in my review of the film, in focusing on the superior morality of Jews, Munich does not deviate much from Israeli propaganda, which claims that Jewish soldiers "shoot and cry".

Builders of Israel’s apartheid walls profit from US border militarization — Electronic Intifada (10/8/19)

On Racism and ‘Wild Beasts’: Why Israel Besieges Palestinians — Palestine Chronicle (10/8/19)

Palestinians have a right to demand freedom from torture — Al Jazeera (10/8/19)

Samer Arbeed, a 44-year-old Palestinian man, was violently arrested on September 25 by plain-clothed Israeli soldiers on suspicion of organising a deadly bombing in the occupied West Bank. After initially being beaten, he was taken to the infamous Maskobiyeh Interrogation centre in Jerusalem, where he endured torture so severe he had to be hospitalised. Arbeed remains in a critical condition and has been denied proper access to medical care and his lawyers. The Israeli media reported that a judicial body had authorised the Israeli Secret Service, Shin Bet, to use "exceptional methods" to extract information for this case, leading Amnesty International to condemn what happened to Arbeed as "legally-sanctioned torture".