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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

• Right Wing Americans Tell me to Go Back Home; as a Palestinian, I wish I Could

• 500 American journalists call for revealing facts of Israel's oppression of Palestinians

• Ireland becomes first EU country to declare israel is involved in de facto annexation

• The dueling histories in the debate over ‘historic Palestine’

• As U.S. Jews Cool To Israel, Evangelicals Flock There As Tourists (August 25, 2019)

• The Truce Quieted Israeli-Palestinian Hostilities — But Not the Jerusalem Disputes That Triggered Them’

• Hating Jews—the Enduring Curse by Rabbi Michael Lerner

• “Find me a new lie to tell my children" — Parenting in Gaza amid Israeli bombardment and siege, May 24, 2021 by Mohammad Abu Rukbeh

• Israel's Assault on Gaza Left 400,000 Without Regular Access to Clean Water: Oxfam Tuesday, May 25, 2021

  "We stay up all night looking for water to fill plastic buckets," said one mother in northern Gaza. by Jake Johnson, staff writer at Common Dreams

• Over 500 Democratic staffers urge Joe Biden to ‘hold Israel accountable’ Open letter comes amid a deepening split in Democratic ranks between progressives and more centrist figures

• To get closer to a two-state solution, Biden should make these four diplomatic moves (Gidi Grinstein)

THE WEEK BEGINNING June 7, 2021

• The Western Methodist Justice Movement invites you on June 12, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) to join Friends of Wadi Foquin for this important update on the struggle for justice in the Holy Land

  "Destruction of Palestinian Land and Life: Annexation & Settler Colonial Expansion"
  Friends of Wadi Foquin will be sponsoring this webinar to provide us with an update on recent news of land confiscation orders to build an apartheid road through the eastern part of the village. Ata Manasra, coordinator of the  Narjes Community Development Committee and liaison to Friends of Wadi Foquin will provide us with the update.

  Register in advance for this meeting here.

• This is not what God intended — two-minute video from the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church USA

• New generation: Israel crackdown spotlights Palestinian ‘icons’

• Israelis Actively Plotted “indefinite” Occupation of Gaza, West Bank, back in 1960s– the 6 Day War was just a Pretext: Haaretz – JUAN COLE, 06/05/2021

• ‘The Palestinian Struggle with Erasure and Instrumentality’– Jeff Halper; see especially the final section: “Where Do We Go From Here?”

  ICAHD is the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.

• Call To Action United Methodist Kairos Response

• Israel and the religious right: A bad bet Dr James J. Zogby

• Israeli opposition unite to oust Netanyahu

• NY Times & Israeli paper feature photos of all 67 Palestinian children killed in Gaza

• Rabbi Michael Lerner: Embracing Israel & Palestine

• At an art school in Gaza, creation prevails amid destruction Bombings have halted classes in the city’s only accredited arts academy, but its founder keeps hope alive Hadani Ditmars

• Lapid tells Rivlin: “I have succeeded in forming coalition with Bennett” — Bennett, Abbas finalize coalition deal * New governing coalition has been formed and is prepared to replace Netanyahu by GIL HOFFMAN   JUNE 3, 2021 01:28

• In first for Israel, Arab party speaks with official voice in coalition talks

• Netanyahu is out, but do liberal American Jews have anything to celebrate?

• Support for Israel is even dropping among evangelical Christians

• An open letter to nine college administrators united in opposition to BDS