News Highlights:
- Palestinian leader Dr. Mustafa Bargouthi says Israel recently began construction on 100 new settler housing units near Bethlehem, despite its announced “freeze”.
- Human rights groups in Gaza say Israeli soldiers killed 5 Palestinians in the month of June and intensified work on the “buffer zone” destroying Palestinian farmland.
- A Palestinian mother of five is killed by Israeli artillery fire in Gaza, as Palestinian ambulances were prevented from reaching the woman and her family for several hours.
- UN agencies say Israeli control of water supplies in the occupied West Bank have led to severe shortages for Palestinians.
Feature:
A live interview with Sid Shniad, a member of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), about the group’s recent delegation that went to Israel/Palestine. Sid began by explaining about how IJV was formed and its objectives and activities. He then talked about the recent trip to Israel/Palestine, of which he was a part; he detailed their conversations with both Israeli and Palestinian human rights activists and the places they had visited, including the village of Bilin where the weekly protests against the apartheid wall take place. The interview concluded with a discussion about the pending anti-boycott legislation in Israel and the importance of supporting the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions BDS movement.
Focus on Zionism:
Highlights of a July 19th, 2010 press release from the Olympia BDS group about how the Olympia Food Coop had voted to remove Israeli products from its shelves, the first U.S. grocery store to take such an action.
Here is an audio file of this show: