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Protesters hold placards during a sit-in in support of Palestinians in the latest round of violence in Jerusalem, at Martyrs' Square in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May. 10, 2021
FACEBOOK banned the Lebanese Communist Party’s official page on Tuesday, claiming its coverage of Israel’s crackdown on Palestinians in Jerusalem and assault on Gaza violated the social media giant’s community standards.
The party said Facebook was acting “to silence all voices of opposition ... classifying resistance movements and the Palestinian uprising against occupation as terroristic.
“The real charges against the page of the Lebanese Communist Party are raised because it names killing as killing, occupation as occupation, massacres as massacres, and [population] transfer as transfer in the same manner as it names thieves as thieves, oppressors as oppressors, and terrorists as terrorists. We are proud of that and we are not apologetic,” the party said today in a statement.
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
This time it is joined by famed Amazon union organiser Chris Smalls and the new vessel, the Handala, will carry baby formula for Gaza’s starving children just weeks after Israeli forces abducted the Madleen’s crew in international waters, reports ANA VRACAR