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'McCarthyite policies to please Israel' only increase support for the BDS movement, says co-founder

RT
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:48 UTC

Omar Barghouti, who was banned from entering the US, says Israel makes Washington do its bidding in suppressing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, but it only results in greater grassroots support.

Last week, Barghouti was prohibited from traveling from Israel to the US by the American immigration authorities despite having a valid visa. Speaking to RT, the activist said the US was adopting "McCarthyite" policies to please Israel.

"We see this as Israel outsourcing its McCarthyite anti-democratic repression against the BDS movement for human rights in Palestine to the United States," he said. "The US administration has been mobilized now to do Israel's bidding in trying to silence Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights defenders, who are active in this extremely effective and very important non-violent BDS movement."

Barghouti said the travel restriction resulted in him missing several events in the US, where he intended to advocate the BDS cause. He added that the attempts by dozens of US states to ban the movement were a clear violation of the First Amendment.

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IDF soldiers injure 66 Palestinians, kill child in another barbaric assault

IMEMC News
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:15 UTC

Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday evening, the weekly Great March Processions in the besieged Gaza Strip, killing one child, and injuring at 55 others, including one who suffered serious wounds, and two medics.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that the soldiers shot a child, identified as Maisara Mousa Ali Abu Shallouf, 15, after shooting him with live fire in the abdomen, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The soldiers also fired live rounds and gas bombs at medics trying to reach the child to provide him with the urgently needed medical help, before he succumbed to his wounds.

Russian military: Over 1,300 refugees safely departed Syria Rukban camp in past 24 hours

Sputnik
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:47 UTC

More than 1,300 refugees have left the Rukban camp in Syria through the humanitarian corridor in the past 24 hours, according to Major General Viktor Kupchishin, the head of the Russian Centre for Syrian Reconciliation.

"1,358 refugees have left the Rukban camp through the provided humanitarian corridor in the past 24 hours," Kupchishin said late on Sunday at a daily news briefing.

Last week, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said at a meeting of the UN Security Council that Moscow intends to continue negotiations with the United Nations, the United States and Jordan on the issue.

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Highly decorated Louisiana cop charged with 20 counts of raping dogs - including his own police K9

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

A Louisiana cop was arrested and charged with 20 counts of sex abuse against dogs, including filming the interaction with his own police K9.

A police officer from the Bossier City Police Department was arrested in December for filming an unspeakable act with an animal. Officer Terry Yetman, 38, has been charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse of animals - and he produced the evidence himself. Now, however, it appears that one of his animal victims was his own police K9. Over 20,000 people have since signed a petition for his prosecution.

"Thousands of In Defense of Animals supporters were moved by this horrific case and want to see justice done," Doll Stanley, campaign director for In Defense of Animals, said. "A healthy society protects its innocents: vulnerable children, animals, elderly citizens. Sexual predators must be made to fear the loss of freedom and a stinging financial impact. We call on District Attorney Marvin Schuyler to take zero tolerance stance on bestiality and prosecute Yetman to the fullest if he is found guilty."

According to the Louisiana State police, Yetman was arrested on December 19 and charged with 20 counts of sexual abuse of animals by performing sexual acts with an animal, and 20 counts of filming sexual acts with an animal.

The IDF stops its female tank training program

RT
Sun, 14 Apr 2019 21:02 UTC

The Israeli military has announced that it can't afford to train female tank crews, months after 10 young women proved that they could operate and command tanks on par with men in a pilot program.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) put a lid on the prospect of having women as armor crews on Sunday. The decision was explained by reference to a cost-benefit calculation.

"The assessment of the situation in the Ground Forces with the Armored Corps revealed that the next stage in the experiment requires a significant increase in manpower and infrastructure for the realization of the process," the IDF said in a statement.

"In light of this, it was decided that at this time it is appropriate to strengthen the integration of combat units in existing units, and not to establish new combat units. The knowledge to implement the process, if it is decided in the future, has been acquired and exists."

Four people dead in drive-by shooting outside a Melbourne nightclub

Cameron Houston, Tammy Mills & Matilda Boseley
The Age
Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:01 UTC

A security guard is dead and three others injured after a gunman fired indiscriminately into a group of people outside a busy Melbourne nightclub.

Aaron Khalid Osmani, 37, from Narre Warren South was rushed to hospital after the drive-by shooting outside the Love Machine nightclub in Prahran on Sunday morning.

Three security guards and one patron were shot in the incident, which occurred just after 3am outside the nightclub on Little Chapel Street and Malvern Road.

Mr Osmani was rushed to hospital in a critical condition. He died later in hospital. A 28-year-old is still fighting for life at The Alfred hospital. Two others, aged 50 and 29, sustained non-life threatening injuries.

Twenty-seven 'clandestine graves' found at Florida reform school notorious for abuse

Carol Marbin Miller
Miami Herald
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:51 UTC

The building at Dozier known as the White House is where some of the worst abuse occurred.

Workers who were preparing for a massive cleanup of a fuel storage site near one of the nation's most notorious reform schools have discovered something far worse than ground pollution: evidence of 27 possible "clandestine" graves.

A company hired to evaluate underground storage tanks adjacent to the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna performed a series of ground-penetrating radar tests on a parcel a little less than 500 feet from what is called the Boot Hill burial grounds at Dozier, an infamous youth prison linked to more than a century of chilling abuse.

A report on the study said there are 27 "anomalies" on the parcel consistent with human burials. If the 27 anomalies are, in fact, human remains, the total number of known burials on the campus would rise to at least 82 - though University of South Florida researchers who have studied the campus extensively believe there may have been 100 or more deaths at Dozier since its opening in 1900.

"Unmarked graves, by conscious design, are made to be hiding places," said Jack Levine, a Florida children's advocate who had raised concerns about Dozier when he was a young social worker for the state. "What stays hidden almost forgives the crime."

NYC Yemeni bodegas called to boycott NY Post as row over Ilhan Omar's 9/11 comment heats up

RT
Sun, 14 Apr 2019 17:28 UTC

The Yemeni American Merchants Association has called on all the community - which runs quite a few newsstands in NYC - to boycott the New York Post after it scathed Congresswoman Ilhan Omar over her controversial 9/11 comment.

The Rupert Murdoch-owned daily has drawn the ire of Yemeni Americans after it accused Omar of downplaying the grave human cost of the 9/11 attacks.

"Here's your something: 2,977 people dead by terrorism," the paper's front page said on Thursday, referring to Omar's comment in which she described the terrorist attack as "some people did something." A full-page photo of the World Trade Center towers burning on September 11, 2001 was used as a backdrop.

Israel converts confiscated historical mosque into bar and event hall

Middle East Monitor
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:17 UTC

Al-Ahmar Mosque, Safed

The Israeli municipality in Safed has turned Al-Ahmar Mosque into a bar and events hall, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported yesterday.

As one of the most historical mosques in the Arab city, which was occupied by the Jewish gangs in 1948, the building was first turned into a Jewish school, then into a centre for Likud's elections campaigns and then into a clothes warehouse before finally being converted into a nightclub.

The London-based newspaper reported that the mosque was turned to a bar and wedding hall by an firm affiliated to the Israeli municipality. Its name was changed from Al-Ahmar Mosque to Khan Al-Ahmar.

Comment: Israel does go out of its way to insult the people it claims it wants to make peace with.

The nation's only all black, all-male college will begin admitting transgender students in 2020

WTKR
Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:14 UTC

Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Morehouse College, a historically black all-men's school in Atlanta, will begin admitting transgender students who identify as men in 2020, according to a news release from the school.

The new policy, known as the Gender Identity Admissions and Matriculation Policy, applies to all students who enroll in the private college by the fall 2020 semester.

The announcement comes after Spelman College, a private historically black all-women's school in Atlanta, adopted a similar policy in 2017.The announcement comes after Spelman College, a private historically black all-women's school in Atlanta, adopted a similar policy in 2017.

"In a rapidly changing world that includes a better understanding of gender identity, we're proud to expand our admissions policy to consider trans men who want to be part of an institution that has produced some of the greatest leaders in social justice, politics, business, and the arts for more than 150 years," said Terrance Dixon, Morehouse vice president for enrollment management. "The ratification of this policy affirms the College's commitment to develop men with disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and service."

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Society's Child

'McCarthyite policies to please Israel' only increase support for the BDS movement, says co-founder

IDF soldiers injure 66 Palestinians, kill child in another barbaric assault

Russian military: Over 1,300 refugees safely departed Syria Rukban camp in past 24 hours

Highly decorated Louisiana cop charged with 20 counts of raping dogs - including his own police K9

The IDF stops its female tank training program

Four people dead in drive-by shooting outside a Melbourne nightclub

Twenty-seven 'clandestine graves' found at Florida reform school notorious for abuse

NYC Yemeni bodegas called to boycott NY Post as row over Ilhan Omar's 9/11 comment heats up

Israel converts confiscated historical mosque into bar and event hall

The nation's only all black, all-male college will begin admitting transgender students in 2020

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