The New Dark Age

20 April, 2010: electronicIntifada.net

PALESTINE : OPINION/EDITORIAL:

GIL SCOTT-HERON: DON’T GO TO THE MOON By Matthew Cassel, The Electronic Intifada, 20 April 2010

In an open letter to musician Gil Scott-Heron, The Electronic Intifada’s Matthew Cassel urges him to cancel his upcoming concert in Tel Aviv: “Your scheduled concert in Tel Aviv is in direct violation of the call by Palestinian civil society for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. A similar boycott, which you full-heartedly supported, was called for in South Africa and helped bring an end to apartheid in that country.”

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PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:

HAMAS VOWS TO CARRY OUT MORE EXECUTIONS By Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 21 April 2010

GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – The Hamas authorities in Gaza have vowed to carry out more executions of those on death row despite intense international criticism and condemnation from both Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups.

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PALESTINE : MULTIMEDIA:< /p>

VIDEO: US JEWS BREAK ISRAEL’S “LAW OF RETURN” Video, Breaking the Law of Return, 20 April 2010

As US Jews, we have an automatic right to Israeli citizenship under Israel’s “Law of Return,” while many Palestinians have not been able to return home in over 60 years. It is not right that we may “return” to a state that is not ours while Palestinians are excluded and continuously dispossessed.

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PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:

EL AL SUED FOR RACIAL PROFILING By Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 20 April 2010

Two Palestinian citizens of Israel have won $8,000 in damages from Israel’s national carrier, El Al, after a court found that their treatment by the company’s security staff at a New York airport had been “abusive and unnecessary.” Jonathan Cook reports.

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PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:

ISRAELI FORCES BESIEGE PRISONERS DAY COMMEMORATION By Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 20 April 2010

BEIT UMMAR, occupied West Bank (IPS) – A young Palestinian man died in Israeli custody as hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of villages and towns across the West Bank and Gaza to commemorate Palestinian Prisoners Day on Friday, 16 April.

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PALESTINE : ART, MUSIC & CULTURE:

BOOK REVIEW: NORMAN FINKELSTEIN’S “THIS TIME WE WENT TOO FAR” By Ziyaad Lunat, The Electronic Intifada, 20 April 2010

Despite Israel’s attempts to spin its 2008 Gaza invasion, global public opinion of Israel has sunk to an all-time low. In his latest book, “This Time We Went Too Far,” Norman Finkelstein argues that Gaza marked a turning point in public opinion reminiscent of the international reaction to the 1960 Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. Ziyaad Lunat reviews for The Electronic Intifada.

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