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Israeli Apartheid Week - an even bigger success in 2019
Thanks to your support, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) was an even bigger success this year! IAW featured more than 200 events, across 30 countries, on five continents, all under the theme “Stop Arming Colonialism.” Events included big panel discussions at universities, concerts, film screenings, protests, poetry readings, comedy gigs, street art, sponsored hikes, fashion shows and more!
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events that seeks to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid regime over the Palestinian people and build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Israeli Apartheid Week - an even bigger success in 2019
(COMMENT)While the Eurovision Song Contest isn’t appealing to everyone, Israel undoubtedly put on an impressive show for an estimated global audience of 200 million.
In the year since Israel was confirmed as the 2019 host on the back of winning the competition, the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign have run a coordinated effort in multiple countries to intimidate national broadcasters, competing artists and spectators alike to boycott the competition.
They failed.
However, with the eyes of the world on Tel Aviv, some media, particularly in the UK, took this an invitation to give platforms to some of the most vicious and hateful anti-Israel invective.
The narrative created by BDS was picked up by the media which attempted to normalize the view that holding the Eurovision in Tel Aviv was “controversial.” The real controversy was created by the media themselves, particularly the British media.
(full article online)
Eurovision Prompts UK Media Hate Fest | HonestReporting
Business Insider said:The most trusted news outlets in America, according to a new study from Pew Research Center, are actually British.
BBC and The Economist top the list of outlets that are trusted by every ideological group, while BuzzFeed and The Rush Limbaugh Show are at the bottom.
SOURCE: Here Are The Most- And Least-Trusted News Outlets In America, by Pamela Engel
Pew Research Center said:Publics around the world overwhelmingly agree that the news media should be unbiased in their coverage of political issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 38 countries. Yet, when asked how their news media are doing on reporting different political issues fairly, people are far more mixed in their sentiments, with many saying their media do not deliver. And, in many countries, there are sharp political differences in views of the media – with the largest gap among Americans.
SOURCE: Publics Globally Want Unbiased News Coverage, but Are Divided on Whether Their News Media Deliver
Deep political divides in many nations on satisfaction with news media; greatest is in the U.S.
By Amy Mitchell, Katie Simmons, Katerina Eva Matsa and Laura Silver
France’s Alstom quits settler railway, Israeli partners say
Two Israeli companies
sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asking for an urgent extension of the deadline for bids to build the next phase of the Jerusalem light rail.
The Israeli firms, Dan and Electra, asked for the delay after it emerged that French train maker Alstom intends to pull out of their consortium bidding to expand the settler tramway – citing human rights concerns.
This is the latest sign of trouble for Israel’s effort to expand the tramway which links Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank to each other and to occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel’s construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank is a war crime.
France's Alstom quits settler railway, Israeli partners say