US and “Israel” sign illegal agreement for permanent US embassy compound on stolen Palestinian land in Jerusalem

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“Israel” and the US have signed a 99-year lease agreement to establish a permanent US embassy compound in Jerusalem. The move is deeply contentious. It not only reinforces Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the Zionist state; it also involves land that was stolen from Palestinian families. Stolen Palestinian land On 1 July, Israeli occupation foreign minister Gideon Saar, US ambassador to “Israel” Mike Huckabee, and Jerusalem mayor Moshe Lion signed the agreement. But according to Adalah – the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – the land on which the embassy will now be built was…

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Thousands sign complaint ahead of hearing to remove ‘biased’ Filton judge

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More than 3,000 people, including legal experts, have signed a formal complaint accusing the security service-linked presiding judge in the trial of six ‘Filton 24’ Palestine Action activists of bias and discriminatory conduct. The complaint comes in advance of a hearing on Monday 8 June on an application by the defendants for Jeremy Johnson’s removal from the case. Justice Jeremy Johnson on the grounds of apparent bias and abuses of process. The jury had refused at the first trial to convict them on any of the state’s charges relating to damage to an Israeli-owned weapons factory, after police and security guards’…

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