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Archive for January, 2021
Israeli soldier shoots dead Palestinian after attempted stabbing, army says
January 31st, 2021 
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1 Comment »Luxembourg minister tells her Jewish family’s refugee story to students
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy “It is not because you ran away that you are a poor person.” “Some of [the refugees] had normal lives: a job, a family. They didn’t want to run. They had to.” It was in these words that Luxembourg’s Integration Minister Corinne Cahen spoke to high school students from around the world, explaining to them the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: family, Jewish, luxembourg, Minister, refugee, story, tells No Comments »WATCH: Massive blob of sea foam engulfs Irish town
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy A huge mass of sea foam covered parts of Ireland’s east coast. Bad weather and high winds blew an especially large mass of it into the town of Bray, located south of Dublin. Footage from the scene circulating online shows the town’s seafront entirely covered with the wobbly blob on Saturday afternoon. [embedded content] A […]
WHO team visits Wuhan market to probe origins of first virus outbreak
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy WUHAN, China — A team of WHO experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 visited a market in Wuhan on Sunday where one of the first reported clusters of infections emerged over a year ago. Members of the group arrived at Huanan seafood market — which has been sealed since January last year — driving into its barricaded premises as guards quickly blocked others […]
Water, electricity projects worth $1.13b put into operation
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani, on Sunday, inaugurated 13 major water and electricity projects valued at 47.76 trillion rials (about $1.13 billion) in Kordestan and North Khorasan provinces through video conference. Inaugurated in the 19th week of the Energy Ministry’s A-B-Iran program, 12 of the mentioned projects were put into operation in Kordestan province, while […]
Over third of Israelis received first COVID vaccine dose
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Trump, Navalny, WHO and Thunberg among nominees for Nobel Peace Prize
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the World Health Organization and climate campaigner Greta Thunberg are among those nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, all backed by Norwegian lawmakers who have a track record of picking the winner. Thousands of people, from members of parliaments worldwide to former winners, are eligible to propose candidates. Nominations, which […]
Over 3 million receive 1st vaccine shot, but COVID outbreak still raging
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Israel has administered a first vaccine dose to over 3 million of its 9.3 million citizens, the Health Ministry reported Sunday, as the country’s inoculation campaign continues to lead the world in vaccinations per capita, even while it struggles to contain a third outbreak of the virus despite a weeks-long national lockdown. According to figures […]
Israel to transfer 5,000 COVID-19 vaccines to Palestinian medical staff in West Bank
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in Jewish News Tags: covid, israel, medical, palestinian, staff, transfer, vaccines No Comments »Over $47m of development projects inaugurated at Mehrabad Airport
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy TEHRAN – Iranian Transport and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Eslami inaugurated 12 development projects worth 2 trillion rials (about $47.6 million) at Mehrabad International Airport on Sunday, in a ceremony held on the occasion of Imam Khomeini’s arrival in Tehran in 1979. As reported by IRNA, the inaugurated projects include the installation of a new […]
Invisible Blockade: the Media Is Silent on the Palestinian Authority’s Gaza Sanctions
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Hamas members wear protective gear as a precaution against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, April 13, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa. Ever since Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree for parliamentary and presidential elections to be held for the first time […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: authority, blockade, invisible, Media, palestinian, sanctions, silent No Comments »The Real Dangers of Lifting Sanctions on Iran
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photo: www.sajed.ir via Wikimedia Commons. In 2018, President Donald Trump announced that the US was withdrawing from the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal with the Islamic regime in Iran and reintroducing strict sanctions on the regime. Now that Trump has left the scene and Joe Biden has been installed in the […]
HELMUT LOTTI AND OTHER FAMOUS BELGIANS
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy . Famous Belgians include: Rose Bertram (above), a Belgian model. Tintin [embedded content]… Michael Junior – singer Prince Aymeric, Prince Nicolas and Princess Louise of Belgium. Prince Laurent and Princess Claire of Belgium visit Queen Paola. [embedded content]… Helmut Lotti. [embedded content]… Princess Eléonore, Princess Elisabeth, Prince Emmanuel and Prince Gabriel, the children of King Philippe, 56, and […]
Turkey’s Democracy Is Wasting Away
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses the audience during a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, February 20, 2020. Photo: Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS. Turkey’s Islamist leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has not lost a single election, be it presidential, parliamentary, municipal, or referendum, since he came to power in 2002. His […]
Stop the ‘Nazi’ Comparisons on the Left and the Right
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Robert Keith Packer see wearing a ‘Camp Auschwitz’ shirt during the Capitol Hill riot of Jan. 6, 2021. Photo: Screenshot. “No Soup For You!” If you are a Seinfeld fan, this line will transport you back to 1995, the year that the sitcom’s famous “Soup Nazi” episode aired. Its debut sparked such a comedic craze […]
Remembering Rabbi Louis Jacobs
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy A Torah scroll. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Any Anglo Jew from the 1960s will be familiar with the “Jacobs Affair” that divided the Jewish community more than any other religious debate in its history. There were other conflicts: between Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Reform and Traditional. But none as bitter or as lasting as this. I was […]
The DIY Detox – FREE 7-Day Online Event
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy No matter how hard you try, you’re still bound to accumulate toxins in your body. Many people are suffering from chronic symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, bloating or food intolerances and can’t quite get back to normal despite “doing the right things.” Toxins may be the culprit. Learn how to avoid toxins and detoxify them […]
Alexei Navalny: Hundreds arrested in 50 Russian cities as thousands protest
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Russian police arrested more than 1,600 people in protests across 35 cities in Russia by supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Protests are taking place in multiple Russian cities, from Siberia and Russia’s far east to St Petersberg and the capital, Moscow, in the biggest show of public dissent in Russia in years. “My […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: alexei, arrested, cities, hundreds, navalny, russian, thousands No Comments »Out of Europe, Britain looks to the Pacific for new trade partners
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy It may be on the other side of the world, but that’s not stopping the U.K. from applying to join a trade partnership in and around the Pacific Ocean. A year after it formally left the European Union, the British government said Saturday that it wants to join the 11-country Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for […]
Romania: Protests after hospital blaze leaves at least five people dead
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Hundreds of people protested outside Romania’s Health Ministry the day after a fatal fire at one of the country’s main hospitals for COVID-19 patients, calling Saturday for the resignations of the president, the health minister and the emergencies chief. At least five people died in the fire, which broke out early Friday on the ground […]
UK opens special visa route for Hong Kong residents to become citizens
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Hong Kong residents can apply from Sunday for a new visa offering them an opportunity to become British citizens after Beijing’s imposition of a national security law in the Asian financial hub last year. The move comes as China and Hong Kong have said they will no longer recognise the British National Overseas (BNO) passport […]
English Football Association announces push to stamp out racist abuse of players
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy England’s Football Association has vowed to work with the British government and social media platforms to tackle racism after a spate of incidents over the past week involving Premier League players from Chelsea, West Bromwich Albion and Manchester United being targeted by online abuse. In the aftermath of his team’s goalless draw with Arsenal on […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Abuse, announces, association, english, football, Racist, stamp No Comments »India’s cinemas get greenlight to go back to 100% capacity as Bollywood reels from Covid-19 restrictions
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy New Delhi has allowed cinemas and theaters all over the country, except for Covid-19 containment zones, to increase seating from 50 percent to full capacity in a move welcomed by the battered movie industry. The new guidelines, released by India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Saturday, pertain to “cinemas, theaters and multiplexes,” allowing them […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: bollywood, capacity, cinemas, covid, greenlight, India, reels No Comments »First, They Came For Our Masks
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy First, they came for our masks!Then they came for our muzzles!But… we’d been masked for so longWe all felt naked without them! We’d been muzzled for so long,We couldn’t find our voices!Naked and voiceless, we wandered in darkness.“Didn’t there used to be a sun?” someone wondered, Pointing…. “Didn’t there used to be a moon?”Someone else […]
A New U.S. Foreign Policy
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy President Biden has inherited a terribly flawed US foreign policy. For the past few decades, the pro-corporate US foreign policy has been a catastrophic failure, especially in the Middle East. Our criminal military interventions there have resulted in the devastation of much of that area, impoverished millions, created millions of refugees, and injured or killed […]
Rosa Parks and Equal Rights
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Rosa Parks learned to stand her ground for which she was hauled off to jail. This incident wasn’t the first time, nor the last time, that an Afro-American would be incarcerated for an act of civil disobedience. Her arrest was due to this event: A bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama ordered her to give up […]
Noam Chomsky – Why Does the U.S. Support Israel?
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy النيأ العظيم === [embedded content] Islam and Muslims مفهوم الحرية واستعمال العنف [embedded content] الاسلام والمسلمون [embedded content] Islamic jurisprudence crisis أزمة الفقه الإسلامي [embedded content] Pillars of Islam and the pillars of faith أركان الإسلام وأركان الإيمان [embedded content] More here (1 to 44) The Qur’an, Morality and Critical Reason (PDF)
Livelihood Crisis Greatly Aggravated in Covid Times
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Written by Bharat Dogra & Kumar Gautam While India had serious unemployment and livelihood protection problems even earlier, the Covid crisis accentuated these problems in unprecedented ways for some weeks, also leaving behind longer-term serious impacts. A report by Oxfam on Covid-time inequalities has highlighted this aspect of the crisis and recommended shorter as well […]
Trump parts ways with impeachment lawyers -source
January 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Former US President Donald Trump abruptly parted ways on Saturday with the two lead lawyers working on his defense for his Senate impeachment trial, a source familiar with the situation said, leaving Trump’s legal strategy in disarray.Butch Bowers and Deborah Barberi, two South Carolina lawyers, are no longer on Trump’s team, the source said. The […]
