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An elephant calf has been rescued after getting trapped in an uncovered drain in Sri Lanka. Local residents in the port of Hambantota joined forces with rescue workers and wildlife officials to free the stuck animal. BBC YouTube video: The baby elephant was taken for treatment with a suspected broken leg, according to the BBC. […]
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Flash flood devastates town in southern Germany; four killed, cars washed away, hundreds evacuated
May 30th, 2016 
Awake Goy Floods have lashed southern Germany, killing at least four people and causing an underground carpark to collapse. The town of Schwäbisch Gmünd was the worst hit, with a volunteer firefighter drowning while trying to rescue a flood victim, Deutsche Welle reports. Two people died after a carpark filled with water and caved in. Scores […]
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No Comments »Chris Christie Approves Bailout of Atlantic City Government (In Part by Shaking Down the Casinos)
May 29th, 2016 Awake Goy Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey signed legislation on Friday that will allow Atlantic City to avoid bankruptcy, for the time being. Atlantic City will receive both a loan from the state and regular payments from casinos to help stabilize its finances. The money from casinos would amount to $120 million in the […]
Posted in World News Tags: BDS, call, dutch, governments, irish, join, speaking, Sweden No Comments »Palestinian rights groups try to stop Gaza executions
May 27th, 2016 Awake Goy Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 26 May 2016 Palestinian human rights defenders are urging Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to halt planned executions in the Gaza Strip. Ashraf Amra APA images Palestinian and international human rights defenders are urging Hamas authorities not to proceed with planned executions in the Gaza Strip. Earlier this month, Ismail Jaber, […]
Meet the Syrian Al-Qaeda Linked Rebel Who Freely Visited America Last Year
May 25th, 2016 Awake Goy With all the U.S.-trained fighters dead, captured or missing and their leader in the hands of Al Qaeda, top U.S. commanders are scrambling this week to determine how to revive the half-billion dollar program to create a moderate Syrian army to fight the Islamic State. The outgoing chairman of the Joint […]
Obama Lifts Arms Embargo to the “Police State” of Vietnam
May 24th, 2016 Awake Goy US President Barack Obama announced on Monday that Washington would fully lift an embargo on sales of lethal arms to Vietnam, despite human rights organizations describing it as “among the world’s most repressive regimes.” The decision to lift the arms trade ban, which followed intense debate within the Obama administration, suggested that US […]
‘Clinton scares the generals’ — Democratic Party divides over foreign policy
May 20th, 2016 Awake Goy The divisions inside the Democratic Party are breaking out in a big way, especially now the divisions in the Republican Party are last week’s headline. Many Democratic establishment types are openly wringing their hands about what Bernie Sanders’s young hordes will do at the convention and in the general election if they lose and are […]
US anti-Muslim groups fund Europe’s Israel lobby
May 19th, 2016 Awake Goy Asa Winstanley Lobby Watch 18 May 2016 Former European commissioner Antonio Tajani was also on the board of a key Israel lobby group. (EPP/Flickr) The Israel lobby has established a “firm presence in Brussels,” the de facto capital of the European Union, according to a new report. Launched in London on Friday, The Israel Lobby and the […]
New Law Introduced Into California Legislature Would Punish Companies That Boycott Israel
May 19th, 2016 Awake Goy A Republican California assemblyman introduced a bill into the state legislature on Monday that would forbid the state – whose campuses have been a focal point of BDS activity – from doing business with companies boycotting, sanctioning or divesting from Israel. Travis Allen, of Huntington Beach in southern California’s Orange County, introduced the […]
Posted in World News Tags: BDS, bill, boycott, businesses, canadian, claims, falsely, Jewish, legislature, Ontario, primary, purpose No Comments »Bill before Ontario legislature falsely claims ‘primary purpose’ of BDS is to boycott Jewish Canadian businesses
May 19th, 2016 Awake Goy On Thursday May 19, the Ontario Legislature will discuss the “Standing Up Against Anti-Semitism in Ontario Act, 2016.” The bill, however, has nothing to do with anti-Semitism, and does not conceal its purpose as a bill that targets the BDS movement and, both, its organizational and individual supporters. The bill seeks to enact penalties on […]
Posted in World News Tags: american, assimilating, BDS, disses, donors, Jews, Major, sharansky, stop, tells, universities No Comments »Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
May 18th, 2016 Awake Goy Source: Guardian If the founders of a new face recognition app get their way, anonymity in public could soon be a thing of the past. FindFace, launched two months ago and currently taking Russia by storm, allows users to photograph people in a crowd and work out their identities, with 70% reliability. […]
Posted in World News Tags: american, assimilating, BDS, disses, donors, Jews, Major, sharansky, stop, tells, universities No Comments »Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
May 18th, 2016 Awake Goy Source: Guardian If the founders of a new face recognition app get their way, anonymity in public could soon be a thing of the past. FindFace, launched two months ago and currently taking Russia by storm, allows users to photograph people in a crowd and work out their identities, with 70% reliability. […]
Posted in World News Tags: american, assimilating, BDS, disses, donors, Jews, Major, sharansky, stop, tells, universities No Comments »How Israel helps settler groups grab Palestinian land
May 13th, 2016 Awake Goy Charlotte Silver Rights and Accountability 12 May 2016 A Palestinian woman stands near graffiti spray-painted on her home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem in September 2011. Ryan Rodrick Beiler ActiveStills Last November, Muhammad Abu Ta’ah arrived at his property in Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem only to find it had been […]
Resolution 242 does not mean what you may think it means
May 11th, 2016 Awake Goy It is generally accepted by the Palestinian leadership, the international community, and liberal Zionists that the territorial parameters of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict are already determined. They would leave Israel within its current borders: Palestine would consist of the 22 percent of Mandatory Palestine outside those borders, namely the West Bank and […]
Posted in World News Tags: BDS, church, community, conference, Jewish, leaders, local, pits, sabeel No Comments »Sabeel BDS conference pits local church against Jewish community leaders
May 11th, 2016 Awake Goy On April 29-30 Friends of Sabeel North America organized a highly successful conference in Santa Cruz CA, titled “Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions at the Crossroads of Campus, Church & Community.” Local rabbis and other leaders in the Jewish community, including the director of Santa Cruz Hillel, tried hard to shut it down, focusing on the Peace […]
Reebok cancels sneaker celebrating Israel’s "independence"
May 11th, 2016 Awake Goy Ali Abunimah Activism and BDS Beat 10 May 2016 The “Israel 68” special edition sneaker from Reebok was announced in The Jerusalem Post. International sportswear maker Reebok has canceled and repudiated plans to market a special edition sneaker celebrating what Israel calls its “Independence Day.” “Reebok would like to distance itself from the shoe,” the […]
Posted in World News Tags: ban, barghouti, BDS, cofounder, imposes, israel, omar, travel No Comments »‘Love of country fills his soul’: Daughter of imprisoned Palestinian astrophysicist speaks out on her father’s case
May 11th, 2016 Awake Goy Palestinian astrophysicist Imad Barghouthi, a professor at Al-Quds University, is currently being held in Israeli administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or trial. His three-month sentence is indefinitely renewable on the basis of “secret evidence” to which he and his lawyer are denied access. Barghouthi’s imprisonment has touched off protests from scientists and academics around […]
Ford’s Jewish Critique Was Largely Accurate
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Posted in World News Tags: antisemitic, BDS, bloom, calling, clinton, day, desert, israel, miracle, modern, vibrant No Comments »Trump and the war for ‘Western Values’
April 30th, 2016 Awake Goy Donald Trump’s campaign inspired a rowdy, rock-throwing, freeway halting, cop-car-window-smashing protest against his message of division and hatred he was delivering in Orange County. Some of the hundreds of protesters carried Mexican and American flags, the Los Angeles Times reports. Trump threatens Los Angeles and the Southwest by presenting a vision of the nation state […]
Posted in World News Tags: bars, BDS, brooklyn, Censorship, coop, events, food, israel, meeting, related, room No Comments »Vice News spins Israeli army propaganda as ‘leaked report’
April 29th, 2016 Awake Goy Vice News is now carrying water for the Israeli army. The the self-proclaimed “news organization for a connected generation” published a report yesterday from what is claimed to be a “leaked” Israeli military document into the investigation of Elor Azarya, the soldier-medic who summarily executed Palestinian man Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sharif in the occupied West Bank city […]
