Palestine
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Israel: ANATOT POGROM VICTIMS SUFFERED SEXUAL ABUSE
anatot.jpg Image from publication, ‘The True Right’ with caption: ‘Nazileftist smashed with blows.’ If all I did in this post was tell you about the suffering of Israeli peace activists who were beaten and brutalized at a pogrom at Anatot a few days ago, I would be telling you little that was newsworthy or that… Continue reading
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Video: A Panel on BDS, in a synagogue
The relationship between American Jews and Israel is complex. On the one hand, numerous members of the former group tend to regard support of Israel as a major constituent of their Jewish identity (perhaps even the glue that holds them together), and Israelis as their Protégés. On the other hand, Israelis are also perceived as… Continue reading
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Palestine Self-Determination: UN Bid Heralds Death of Palestine’s Old Guard By Jonathan Cook
Amid the enthusiastic applause in New York and the celebrations in Ramallah, it was easy to believe — if only a for minute — that, after decades of obstruction by Israel and the United States, a Palestinian state might finally be pulled out of the United Nations hat. Will the world’s conscience be midwife to… Continue reading
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UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Statehood bid rallies and repression | Peres: peacemaker or thug? | Irvine 11 | And more …
23 September 2011 — Electronic Intifada A verdict is expected very soon in the Irvine 11 trial. Follow @intifadaLive on Twitter for immediate updates THE LATEST FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA BLOGS Why is there a peace center named after that thug Peres? By David Cronin, 22 September 2011 Continue reading
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BDS update: Buttressing an independent Palestine By Eric Walberg
Palestine’s move to become an independent state has benefitted from the growing BDS movement, as the world wakes up the enormous and unjust suffering of the Palestinian people, writes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Military whistleblower tells of ‘indiscriminate’ Israeli attacks By Donald Macintyre
Israeli troops fired tear gas indiscriminately and sometimes dangerously to enforce a daytime curfew inside a West Bank village to stop Palestinians holding a peaceful demonstration on their own land, a military whistleblower has told The Independent. Continue reading
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Israeli Impunity: The Queen has lost her royal marbles
Britain has amended a law that allowed for issuing arrest warrants against Israeli politicians who visit the country, British Ambassador Matthew Gould announced Thursday. Gould called opposition leader Tzipi Livni, against whom an arrest warrant was issued in 2009, and told her the Queen has signed the amendment ‘to ensure that the UK’s justice system… Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon: Being in Time
A talk given at the ‘Palestine, Israel, Germany- The Boundaries of Open Discussion Conference’, Freiburg 11th September 2011 Continue reading
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Ali Abunimah: Uncovered: Israel’s role in planned US lawsuit to fight BDS
Israel is busily attempting to disrupt the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement in support of Palestinian liberation and self-determination. Continue reading
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UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: EI exclusive: Israel involvement in BDS lawsuit exposed | Holy Land 5 interview | And more …
An exclusive investigation finds that pro-Israel activists, backed by an Islamophobic pro-Israel group and with the knowledge of the Israeli government is planning to take legal action to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its historic decision to boycott Israeli products. Continue reading
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Zygmunt Bauman: Palestinian persecution echoes the Shoah, which began with discrimination, ghettoes and pogroms By Paul Mutter, with Eva Smagacz
Several weeks ago, the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman gave a stunning interview to the Polish journal, Polityka, on Zionism, the Holocaust, and Israel’s cult of war. In it he charges Israel’s leaders with actively discouraging peace, with seeking war instead of peace, and accuses them of manipulating the Holocaust’s lessons to justify repression. In one… Continue reading
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Social justice also means ending the occupation By Zeev Sternhell
Be the internal ills of Israeli society as they may, and they are too numerous to count, most of them can be treated and even cured; but the occupation and colonialism are terminal illnesses. Continue reading
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How Could the Largest Social Justice Movement in Israel’s History Manage to Ignore the Country’s Biggest Moral Disaster? By Joseph Dana
The decision to exclude the occupation from the grievances of the July 14 Tent City movement was entirely organic. The key question is why. Continue reading
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Video: Qalandia barrier 26-8-11: Judaising Jerusalem
The Olive Revolution (popular revolution and the national humanitarian non-armed revolution against the Israeli occupation) starts the campaign ‘knocking on doors of Jerusalem’ Part of Alquds week activities as a response to all the Israeli policies of judaising Jerusalem. Continue reading
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Murdoch Press and the Fictional Jewish Chocolatier By Samah Sabawi
The Murdoch press in its zeal to attack the Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign has misrepresented facts and even ran an entire article quoting a fictional character that simply does not exist. The invention of Max Brenner the Jewish chocolatier demonstrated the lack of integrity and journalistic ethics employed within the Murdoch press’s campaign… Continue reading
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Video: Palestinian Refugees Right to Return – Al-Awda
21 August 2011 — Al-Awda Tears of Gaza Continue reading
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PCHR: In the Widest Military Operation since 2004, IOF Arrest Dozens of Palestinian Civilians in Hebron
In conjunction with the current escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched in the early morning of Sunday, 21 August 2011, a large-scale military campaign against many neighbors and streets and dozens of houses in Hebron. Continue reading
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Video: Social protest march in Tel-Aviv, and call for cease fire
An activists group against war demonstrated from within the social protest march in Tel Aviv, against continuation of the warfare in Gaza and to immediate ceasefire, 20 8 2011 Continue reading
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Video: Dubious Evidence Israeli Bus Attackers Based in Gaza
Following deadly terror attacks on Israel, Israeli Air Force kills 9 in Gaza despite lack of evidence connecting attackers to the Strip Continue reading
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The Israeli Occupation Archive 18 August 2011: J14 / Leahy Law / Beating Palestinians and more…
18 August 2011 — The Israeli Occupation Archive * Lia Tarachansky: The fight for equality in Israel’s J14 movement * Josh Ruebner: Hold Israel accountable with Leahy law * IDF officer who defended beating Palestinians to take over infantry Continue reading
