Monthly Archives: April 2020

Israel’s Anti-annexation Warriors Should Simply Surrender

Gideon Levy

Kahol Lavan’s Benny Gantz faction will not give up their last stronghold. Its leaders will fight it until the last drop of blood (except, of course, by refusing to join the government): Annexation. Annexation is extreme right, and they’re not. Annexation means diplomatic disaster and they’re opposed to that. This is how the story of annexation has turned into the last obstacle on the way to forming a government.

A struggle has been born, a seemingly ideological one. Ideology has returned from the land of the dead. Even the old boys’ network is aghast: Hundreds of members of Commanders for Israel’s Security publicized a petition this weekend against annexation. There is hardly a single general or brigadier general in the reserves who hasn’t signed it. Look at what an enlightened Kahol Lavan we have and what just and peace-seeking officers. Anyone who still dreams of achieving a settlement can rest assured. Kahol Lavan is on guard. There won’t be any annexation. (more…)

Media sources (including Israeli media sources) have confirmed the use of Israeli state-sponsored pharmaceutical testing of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. It has also been revealed that Israeli military firms are testing weapons on Palestinian children and carry out these tests in the Palestinian neighbourhoods of occupied Jerusalem. PAJU has previously made reference to Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s accusation that Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian occupied territories and the development of illegal Israeli settlements would result in a system of Judeo-Nazism.

PAJU adds to this weekly news item below information drawn from the Jewish Virtual Library concerning pharmaceutical testing done on inmates of the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. The parallel between the pharmaceutical testing done in the Nazi concentration camps and that done in Israeli prisons is clear enough.

Following this, at the bottom of the page, are references to legal definitions of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Note that there is no statute of limitations for war crimes or crimes against humanity, neither for perpetrators of those crimes nor for those who aid and abet the perpetrators of the aforesaid crimes.

Israel pharmaceutical firms test medicines on Palestinian prisoners

Israeli Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian revealed yesterday that the Israeli occupation authorities issue permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian and Arab prisoners, Felesteen.ps eported.

The Times of Israel also reported that in a recording from the event the Hebrew University lecturer also revealed that the Israeli military firms are testing weapons on Palestinian children and carry out these tests in the Palestinian neighbourhoods of occupied Jerusalem. (more…)

PAJU was founded in November of 2000. In February of 2001, PAJU began its series of weekly vigils every Friday based on the vigil held every Friday by Women in Black in Israel. We began our Friday vigil in front of the Israeli Consulate at the corner of René Lévesque Boulevard and Peel Street in Montreal along with the Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation. The vigil lasted every Friday – winter, summer, spring and fall – for seven years, at which point Israel moved its Montreal consulate to quieter corners, citing our vigil as its reason for moving.

Subsequently, the weekly vigil was moved to different points of the City of Montreal whereby PAJU distributed (and forwarded via internet)  a weekly tract drawn from a news item highlighting the abuses brought upon Palestinians by Israel’s illegal occupation of stolen Palestinian land, as well as explaining the nature of the Palestinians’ legitimate claims to justice and nationhood. Beginning with the first vigil, a PAJU committee chose a particular news item from different world sources – including Israeli sources such as Haaretz – to be printed and distributed to passersby at our vigils, one side of the tract in French, the other in English.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, PAJU has suspended its weekly Friday vigil until such a time as it is safe to begin anew. However, we continue to forward news items to our mailing list. The present news item regarding the emergence of women (and feminism) in Israeli politics is article number 1 000. In other words, PAJU is hereby sending out its 1 000^th consecutive weekly news item which began in February, 2001. We will continue to express our solidarity with the legitimate claims of the Palestinian people for peace with justice. END THE OCCUPATION!

Meet the women of the Knesset’s Joint List

Eetta Prince-Gibson

Women have not fared well in the recently instated Knesset. All the major parties are currently led by men. The number of women in the Knesset has decreased from 35 to 30, and women make up only 25% of the overall elected members of the Knesset.

Yet women in the Arab Joint List have done well: Out of the Joint List’s 15 members, four are women — double the two in the previous Knesset.

The Joint List is made up of four different parties running together as a bloc, and each party has one woman member. (more…)

At a point in time when the Coronavirus pandemic poses a worldwide threat to the well-being of the earth’s human population, here is further proof of the inhuman and dehumanizing policies of the rogue state called Israel. PAJU salutes Israel’s human rights organization, B’TSELEM as a model of the upholding of the principle of human rights for all in contrast to those Judeo-Nazis – as Yeshayahu Leibowitz  labeled them – who effect these criminal policies against the Palestinian and Bedouin populations.

There are only 60 respirators in Gaza for a population of 2 million inhabitants, which represents one of the densest populations on earth. There is no doubt whatsoever, given the effects of Israel’s illegal and criminal blockade of Gaza, that Coronavirus will spread there like wildfire. Gaza desperately requires medical equipment (as does the occupied West Bank). Those responsible for denying that necessary medical equipment, including respirators and beds, will also be held responsible for the deaths of Gazans due to the pandemic. A reminder to the  political class: there is no statute of limitations for war crimes and crimes against humanity. There will eventually be a reckoning. End the blockade of Gaza now! (more…)