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by David Swanson
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Let’s Try Democracy
February 27, 2018
David Sheen on Israel Deporting African Refugees
David Sheen is an independent journalist and filmmaker born in Canada, now reporting from Israel/Palestine. His work focuses primarily on racial tensions and religious extremism. In 2017, Sheen was named a Front Line Defenders Human Rights Defender, the only person in Israel to receive that honor in a decade.
Learn more: http://www.davidsheen.com
Total run time: 29:00
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David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. War Is A Lie: Second Edition, published by Just World Books on April 5, 2016. I’ll come anywhere in the world to speak about it. Invite me! Support David’s work.
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Israel Pays a Bounty of $5,000 and Arms for Each African Asylum Seeker Expelled
TheRealNews on Feb 5, 2018
Israel was the main driver behind the 1951 UN Convention on the Rights of Refugees, but after signing it, it has never respected the rights of refugees. In fact, it has created one of the biggest refugee crisis the world has seen, says Journalist and Filmmaker Lia Tarachansky.
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Ethnocracy in the Promised Land: Israel’s African Refugees
Naretiv Productions 2015
A Film by Jesse Freeston and Lia Tarachansky
How the Israeli government succeeded in ending refugee migration to the country, in the name of the Jewish ethnocracy. Using imprisonment, deportation, and constant harassment, it encouraged the remaining refugees to self-deport to Uganda and Rwanda, sealing the deal with a massive fence that for the first time in human history, cut off Africa from Asia.
from the archives:
Norman Finkelstein: Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Chris Hedges: Bring Down the Israeli Apartheid State
Palestine 101: Not That Complicated
Demystifying US and Israeli Power by Susan Cain and Mark Mason (must-read)
Europe’s Shameful Refugee Policy by Graham Peebles
Abby Martin: Anti-Black Racism Reveals Israel’s White Supremacy
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