Angela Godfrey-Goldstein

Peace/anti-apartheid/human rights terrrist, poet, heart belongs to Sinai & all things freedom. Jahalin Solidarity Jerusalem. Usual caveats / retweet≠endorsement

[Angela Godfrey-Goldstein @AngelaJerusalem]

When talking of E-1, settlements, settler terrorism and UK + others sanctions in response: let’s not forget East Jerusalem as the other side of the 2SS coin of a viable Palestine. It is being deliberately targeted by forcible displacement of Palestinians.

https://t.co/NzT5UeFT2X

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

At UNGA @AndyBurnham, @EmmanuelMacron, @MarkJCarney and @FaisalbinFarhan brought together countries to discuss practical steps to improve humanitarian access in Gaza, support recovery and stand up for the two-state solution.

The global community will not be silent in standing up for peace and an end to this conflict.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Top envoy for the US-led Board of Peace says Gaza is at risk of being "gone for good" without reconstruction, Israeli withdrawal and demilitarisation in the territory.

Nikolay Mladenov tells Al Jazeera worsening conditions for Palestinians could fuel another security crisis.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 Journalist Muhammad Shehada is pressing Trump’s Board of Peace to disclose whether Gaza reconstruction funds are paying Israeli contractors or the Israeli military to remove rubble that may contain human remains and pave roads over potential mass graves.

🔹 Shehada reported that EU diplomats told him Israel had quietly removed hundreds of thousands of tons of rubble mixed with human remains from Gaza. He later reported that the Board was financing the operation using reconstruction money.

🔹 The Board of Peace responded within hours, calling his report “total fake news” and accusing him of “recklessly spreading lies” based on anonymous sources.

🔹 Shehada then published the cover of a May 20 tender issued under the Board’s name. He said it includes “levelling & compacting” work and asked whether the Board is funding Israeli company Terra Firma’s rubble-clearance work while Israeli forces pave roads near Erez.

🔹He asked again: “If you are involved, can you explain whether any effort is being made to separate human remains from rubble or detect potential mass graves under the roads being paved? The Israeli government is silent on this.”

The Board has not publicly answered his detailed questions.👇

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

A joint criminal enterprise:

The UK is in clear violation of a clear ruling by the @CIJ_ICJ, making the government a partner to the maintenance of Israel's illegal occupation and apartheid against the Palestinian people.

[Angela Godfrey-Goldstein @AngelaJerusalem]

"Imagine the feeling of taking a sledgehammer to your home’s kitchen, bathroom or child’s playroom," writes @Jahalin in @DAWN_Journal, describing Israel's rapidly advancing efforts to end coexistence in occupied East Jerusalem through forced displacement.

https://t.co/xq4TvETvOa

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

This speech has been circulating in MAGA circles, and they’re absolutely horrified by it.

[Yehuda Shaul @YehudaShaul]

Bogie Ya’alon, former IDF Chief of Staff and former right wing Minister of Defense gives important context for the events in the village of Tel last Friday (24th).
“this is not a terror attack… This is friction initiated by Israelis.”

[Patrick Wintour @patrickwintour]

In the event Labour is changing its leader to change policy, rather than his accent, here are five proposals tabled today by @Caabu and the British Palestinian Project as how Labour could adopt a stronger policy towards Israel. Trump's sudden volte face about Israel's conduct may impact what Labour considers possible.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Stop ‘Greater Israel’ to make peace — #AJOpinion by Jeffrey D Sachs and Sybil Fares.

🔗: https://t.co/7oOhATxZiy

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism.

And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel.
https://t.co/xUqPAHxsab

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The United States, the U.K., and much of Europe are helping Israel slowly exterminate Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians. Palestine’s envoy to the U.N. explains how Israel is deliberately blocking the most basic humanitarian aid needed for survival, more than eight months into a so-called ceasefire.

[Angela Godfrey-Goldstein @AngelaJerusalem]

So now FM Gidon Sa’ar wants to boycott HR VP Kaja Kallas. That could have interesting repercussions…

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

A leaked memo shows the European Union has known since 2017 that it had the legal right to freeze Israel's trade deal due to Israel's persistent violations of international law in the occupied West Bank. https://t.co/0lkP43NBaV

[Ofer Cassif עופר כסיף عوفر كسيف @ofercass]

The Israeli Supreme Court, supposedly the last bastion of Israeli "democracy", just signed Dr Husam Abu Safiya's death warrant.

The court rejected his appeal and ordered for the continuation of his unlawful detention, knowing full well that he is being held in abhorrent conditions, without cause or indictment and being subjected to torture on a regular basis.

Hostage taking, torture, rejection of the most basic human rights; with this kind of democracy, who needs fascism?

Free Dr Husam Abu Safiya now!

[The New Arab @The_NewArab]

More than 2,000 Palestinians near Jerusalem’s holiest sites risk displacement as Israeli authorities move to demolish homes in Al-Bustan in Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem.

The area is designated for the “King’s Garden” tourism and archaeology Israeli project linked to the City of David.

Palestinians say their homes were built decades ago but are now declared illegal, while building permits are nearly impossible to obtain.

Activists warn this could become one of the largest waves of expulsions in East Jerusalem since 1967.

[Yair Golan - יאיר גולן @YairGolan1]

שוחחתי אתמול בערב בטלפון ארוכות עם אלכס סינקלר. אזרח ישראלי, שוחר טוב, שישב בבית קפה במודיעין ומצא את עצמו נגרר לתא מעצר, ללא שום עילה חוקית, רק בגלל שהכיפה שלראשו לא מצאה חן בעיני מישהו. אותה כיפה, אגב, שהוא חובש כבר עשרים שנים.

הסיפור של אלכס הוא לא רק סיפור על כיפה שנגזרה בגסות על ידי שוטרים. הוא סיפור על קריסתה של משטרת ישראל. מה שראינו במודיעין אינו קשור לאכיפת החוק, אלא ביטוי להתפרקות המוחלטת של המשטרה והפיכתה למיליציה ��וליטית מסוכנת בשירותו של בן גביר. משטרה שאמורה להגן על אזרחים, מתנהגת כמו כנופיה שרודפת אותם על סמך השקפת עולמם האישית.

כששמעתי את אלכס, הרגשתי כעס עמוק. כעס על השרירותיות, על האלימות הממסדית, על כך שיהודי שחובש כיפה נאלץ לעבור השפלה כזו במדינת היהודים, פשוט כי כיפתו מבטאת מורכבות ששלטון הפחד מסרב להכיל.

גזירת הכיפה של אלכס היא סמל לגזירת הנשמה הדמוקרטית והסובלנית של החברה שלנו. השחתת סמל דתי על ידי לובשי מדים היא מעשה של טירוף מערכות מוחלט.

אבל בתוך הכעס הגדול הזה, יש לי גם תקווה אמיתית. התקווה הזו נשענת על אנשים כמו אלכס, שלא מרכינים ראש, שמתעקשים על הזכות הבסיסית לחופש ביטוי ומחשבה, ושיוצאים להילחם על דמותה של המדינה. ישראלים רבים כל כך מבינים היום היטב שהמאבק שלנו אינו רק על מוקדי השלטון, אלא על עצם נשמתה של מדינת ישראל.

החושך הקיצוני שבן גביר ושותפיו מפיצים לא ינצח. אנחנו נחזיר את המשטרה להיות גוף ממלכתי, מקצועי ונקי מכפיפות פוליטית מסוכנת. אנחנו נחזיר את השפיות, נשקם את ההריסות, ונבנה פה חברה שבה כל אזרח יכול לשבת בבית קפה, עם כל כיפה שיבחר, מבלי לפחד מהאנשים שאמורים לשמור עליו.

אנחנו בדמוקרטים לעולם לא נוותר על המדינה הזאת.

[EU and Palestinians @EUpalestinians]

1/2Following productive discussions with the PA, the BoP & int’l partners at this week’s AHLC meeting in Brussels, Henrike Trautmann (EC DG MENA), Christian Berger (Senior Liaison CMCC) & Alexandre Stutzmann (EU Representative WB&Gaza) met today with NCAG members in Cairo.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Smotrich: West Bank Settlement Expansion Has “Full Backing” of Trump Administration

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told the Jerusalem Post that Israel’s accelerating settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank is being carried out with full U.S. support, coordinated directly with President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Ambassador Mike Huckabee.

▪️ Since the current government took office in 2022, over 51,000 housing units have been approved for the West Bank, according to Smotrich’s office.

▪️ The Sa-Nur settlement in West Bank, evacuated 20 years ago under Israel’s Disengagement Plan, was reestablished Sunday, with over a dozen families already in residence. Smotrich said more settlements would follow “very soon.”

▪️ Smotrich called on Netanyahu to order the IDF to prepare for the “full conquest” of the Gaza Strip and the establishment of Israeli settlements there as well.

▪️ He said Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are “part of the Iranian axis of evil” and dismissed documented Jewish extremist violence against Palestinians as “one of the biggest false campaigns there is.”

▪️ On international condemnation: “In the past, even building 50 housing units would lead to condemnation. Today it is very different.”

Smotrich acknowledged Trump has not yet backed full West Bank annexation, but claimed “we will also succeed in that.”

[Italy in Lebanon @ItalyinLebanon]

Following the damage to a crucifix in Debel, South Lebanon by IDF, 🇮🇹 peacekeepers with @UNIFIL_ stepped in to replace it. A gesture beyond faith, speaking to dignity, respect, and coexistence.
PM @GiorgiaMeloni called it a powerful message of peace, hope, and dialogue.