Israelis Burn Olive Trees

The Israeli extremism the American media never chooses to highlight:

Israel settlers burn olive trees

A settler is arrested during an incident at Hawarra checkpoint, near Nablus (20.07.09)
The arrests followed the removal of a structure at an outpost

"Ten people have been arrested during a series of disturbances caused by Jewish settlers in the West Bank after Israeli authorities removed an illegal caravan.

Two Palestinians were taken to hospital after settlers threw stones at cars and tried to block a road near Nablus in the northern West Bank on Monday night.

Settlers also set fire to a Palestinian olive grove in the area.

The caravan was part of an "outpost", a settlement illegal under Israeli law, which Israel has agreed to remove.

Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law."

- -

Why is it that something like this would never be featured on CNN/MSNBC/FOX news? When we talk about extremism in the Middle East it is almost always in the context of Palestinians being portrayed as evil, corrupt, crazy people. When presented with this type of information people refuse to believe there is extremism on both sides or they simply will excuse it for the Israelis while condeming Palestinians.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Why is Israel scared of accusations of apartheid?

Why is Israel scared of accusations of apartheid? By: Nathan Feldman               Recently, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) released a human rights report on Israeli practices that concluded, from Reuters, that “Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole”. This report, published by Richard Falk, is the first of its kind originating from the UN. Soon after, the Israeli government, the Trump administration, and the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres pressured Rima Khalaf, the head of ESCWA, to rescind the report. She refused and instead resigned in protest through a series of actions thoroughly outlined by Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept (article linked at bottom).               Now, my personal view is that this report is both accurate and long overdue, and it was a pleasant surprise that a UN age...
Read more

Palestine 101

The Palestinian Occupation can seem massively complex at first glance, so we've compiled a list of "Palestine 101" resources to help you understand why we're so passionate about Palestine solidarity work.  http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/content/israeli-palestinian-conflict-101 This youtube video and accompanying Q&A section gives a brief overview of the history of the conflict and current human rights violations occurring in Occupied Palestine.  http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/ Breaking the Silence is an Israeli organization composed of former Israeli Defense soldiers (IDF). This website posts stories of what these soldiers have seen and done in Palestine.  http://mondoweiss.net/ Mondoweiss is a prolific blog and news source that focuses on the Middle East and specifically the Israeli Occupation. http://badil.org/ The Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights provides a lot of great historical and statistical info...
Read more

End Hate Speech in the Diamondback!

Image
Sign the petition here *Updated 1/29/15* Racism has been allowed to cozy up to our student paper. The Diamondback has published a series of advertisements paid for by a far-right think tank called FLAME (“Facts and Logic About the Middle East”) that whitewashes the documented human rights violations of Israel. These ads are anti-Arab, Islamophobic propaganda. One ad, published in the September 30 th , 2013 edition of the paper, begins by denying the existence of the Palestinian people—it characterizes all Arabs as a monolithic group of people with no cultural, historical, or linguistic distinctions. So, it follows, the Palestinian people don’t exist —therefore Israel really is a land without a people for a people without land. Except that, inconveniently for the FLAME’s narrative, Palestinians have lived on that land for centuries, and are in fact a distinct people with a rich culture.   The ads continue by denying that the West Bank or the Gaza Strip have ever bee...
Read more