Palestine
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A concerted effort from Europe against Israeli produce exporter Agrexco By Stephanie Westbrook
This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant. Continue reading
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The Israeli Occupation Archive 10 June 2011: Palestine-UN | East Jerusalem | Jordan Valley
10 June 2011 — The Israeli Occupation Archive Secret cables show Israel’s battle plan over Palestinian UN bid East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers Francis A. Boyle: Could Obama veto Palestine’s application to the United Nations? B’Tselem Jordan Valley report: Dispossession and Exploitation Palestinians in America: an intelligent socialist’s guide to Tony Kushner, with… Continue reading
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ELECTRONIC INTIFADA 9 June 2011: Rafah closed | Antony Loewenstein interviewed | Jordan Valley | Gaza-Jerusalem diary
9 June 2011 — Electronic Intifada RECENT BLOG POSTS ON THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Update/analysis: Cameron changes “no comment” stance on JNF departure Ali Abunimah: Busting the myth of the West Bank “economic boom” Ali Abunimah: Saeb Erekat denies Washington Post claim Palestinians dropped settlement freeze demand Video: Democracy Now! reports from the Rafah crossing in… Continue reading
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The rights of Israel By Joseph Massad
Israel’s entire basis for beginning negotiations lies in the false premise that it has a ‘right’ to exist Continue reading
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After the spring By Sama Ramadami
Sami Ramadani considers the response to the popular uprisings from the region’s dictators and other reactionary forces, as well as the role of imperialism Continue reading
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Promised Crossing Denied By Mohammed Omer
RAFAH, Jun 8, 2011 (IPS) – Many hoping to find free movement between Egypt and Gaza have found the border gates at the Rafah crossing closed. Egyptian officials closed the gates on Saturday, according to Palestinian officials. Continue reading
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Unarmed Naksa Day demonstration meets brutal Israeli repression
7 June 2011 Qualandia 5 June 2011 Continue reading
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Israeli bullets killed protesters, yet Syria is reponsible say Israel, US
The Government of Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has stated its intention to complain to the United Nations over the march from Syria on the occupied Golan Heights yesterday. At least twenty persons are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire during a protest marking Naksa Day or the… Continue reading
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Franklin Lamb: Israelis Rush for Second Passports
Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to exercise their right to depart, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepared to exercise their… Continue reading
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Video: Private Israeli security guard attacks protesters with live fire
Israeli private security opens live fire on unarmed Israeli and Palestinians demonstrators. Army arrives and throws tear gas on the demonstrators. Continue reading
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War Zone Qalandyia By Radically Blonde
It is Sunday morning, and I am at the Nakba Day protest in Qalandyia refugee camp. The long and beautiful march with the songs, slogans and high spirit has been dispersed quickly with massive shooting of tear-gas, and all attempts to resume the march have been dispersed as well, with ever growing violence. Continue reading
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In India and Israel, the burden of protest falls on the victims of injustice By Pankaj Mishra
At a dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose centenary falls this year, wrote: “We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton”. Continue reading
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Israel’s PR victory shames news broadcasters By Greg Philo
The propaganda battle over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached a new level of intensity. In 2004 the Glasgow University Media Group published a major study on TV coverage of the Second Intifada and its impact on public understanding. We analysed about 200 programmes and questioned more than 800 people. Our conclusion: reporting was dominated by… Continue reading
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Video: Bias at the BBC BY Lauren Booth
30 May 2011 — Uprooted Palestinians http://www.presstv.ir/player/player1.swf Continue reading
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Every President and Congress Are Complicit in Israel’s “War Crimes” by Mohamed Khodr
Under International Law and America’s War Crimes Act, all U.S. Presidents and the 535 members of the U.S. Congress are “complicitors” in Israel’s long history of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; and as such are “war criminals” themselves. Continue reading
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Every President and Congress Are Complicit in Israel’s “War Crimes” by Mohamed Khodr
Under International Law and America’s War Crimes Act, all U.S. Presidents and the 535 members of the U.S. Congress are “complicitors” in Israel’s long history of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; and as such are “war criminals” themselves. Continue reading
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Video: Israel and US Strategic Interests
Lawrence Wilkerson: Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are far more important than Israel to US strategic interests from view of US military Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bad News From The BBC – Part 2: The ‘John Motson Approach To Analysing News’
By now we had given Danahar several opportunities to respond seriously to highly credible analysis of BBC News reporting, including its heavily biased and misleading coverage of the Israeli killing of nine peace activists after he had taken over as BBC Middle East Bureau Chief. Danahar did not seem able or willing to answer sensibly. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 