Palestine
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BDS VICTORY: Veolia tries again to sell off its share in the Jerusalem Light Rail
After losing billions of dollars worth of contracts, largely due to a concerted international BDS campaign against it in many countries, Veolia is bowing to pressure and trying again to get rid of its heavy financial burden by signing a contract to transfer its shares in the illegal Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR) project to an Israeli company over a… Continue reading
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Robert Wyatt & Gilad Atzmon in Haaretz By Yaron Frid
Haaretz published today a massive interview with Robert Wyatt and myself. It is a very interesting piece. I may also mention that the Israeli paper didn’t censor me. It let me say it all (Jews, Judaism, Jewishness, Jewish left, Zionism, Israeli collective barbarism etc’) Continue reading
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AID CONVOY SET TO SAIL FOR GAZA
There are now 147 vehicles about to board two ships together with 380 people from some 30 countries stretching from New Zealand and Australia to Canada and the United States carrying aid worth some 5 million dollars. This includes 40 people who were on the Mavi Marmara flotilla which was attacked by Israeli commandos murdering… Continue reading
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Settler-style thugs operating inside Israel By Jesse Bacon
One after another, the parallels to fascism pile up in Israel, like the sticks (which is what the root of Fascism means) on a fire. Now a town in Israel has adopted perhaps the most visible feature of many a dictatorship: paramilitary police. The settlers have long functioned in this role in the Occupied Territories,… Continue reading
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Israel Requires New ‘Oath of Allegiance’
Knesset will vote on new citizenship law requiring a loyalty oath to a “Jewish and democratic state” Continue reading
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Video: Looting the Holy Land
Since 1967 countless artifacts have been unearthed and removed from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Many are displayed in Israeli museums and private collections, while others are sold to tourists. Al Jazeera searches through the evidence, unearthing the facts and exposing a power struggle in which every stone has meaning. Continue reading
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Nuclear whistleblower denied basic freedoms by Israel
The whistleblower who revealed details of Israel’s nuclear programme in the 1980s is at the centre of another court case. Lawyers for Mordechai Vanunu are demanding he be allowed to live outside of Israel. Continue reading
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“We will not be citizens of a fascist state purporting to be Israel” say hundreds of Israeli academics and public figures.
A protest rally against the government’s “Loyalty Oath Bill” was held outside the Tel Aviv house where Ben-Gurion read the 1948 the Declaration of Independence. There, today, the “Declaration of Independence from Fascism” was signed. Continue reading
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No positive evidence supporting accusations against Ameer Makhoul By Rela Mazali
On May 8th, Jewish Peace News posted news of the arrest or, more precisely, abduction, of human rights defender Ameer Makhoul, “Director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations – … in the dead of night, while he and his family slept in their home in Haifa.” The arrest of this “Israeli citizen… Continue reading
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Free Gaza’s investigation has shown the following….
Regarding the attack on the flotilla, below is what we have found out. In addition, we are providing a link to the attack on the Irene from the ‘most moral army in the world.’ Continue reading
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Tell Me Again, Who Made The Desert Bloom? By Lawrence of Cyberia
In December 1945 and January 1946, the British Mandate authorities carried out an extensive survey of Palestine, in support of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The results were published in the Survey of Palestine, which has been scanned and made available online by Palestine Remembered; all 1300 pages can be… Continue reading
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Video: Settler Attacks on Wheels By Yousef
A well-known leader of an Israeli settlement in Jerusalem, who generally works to get rid of Palestinians by expanding his settlement onto Palestinian land, took his actions a step – or a step on the accelerator – further this morning. Gruesome photos emerged of the Israeli settler leader driving over Palestinian boys demonstrating in Silwan. Continue reading
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IDF Soldier Belly Dances Beside Bound Palestinian
Newsy: Video of an Israeli soldier dancing around a bound female prisoner causes outrage. Continue reading
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Jazza Music Festival 12 & 13 October 2010 @ THE SCALA
Cleveland Watkiss takes his place in this glittering lineup, alongside Gilad Atzmon’s Orient House Ensemble and the Sigamos Strings, plus the Jazza All-Stars (with saxophonist Peter King and Polar Bear’s Seb Rochford), singer Sarah Gillespie, folk luminaries Rory Mcleoud and the Unthank Sisters, and more. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: DEATHLY SILENCE: OBAMA’S LETTER, NETANYAHU’S REJECTION AND THE MEDIA’S NON-RESPONSE
Earlier this week, independent journalist Jonathan Cook reported facts that blow a hole through the standard deceit that the United States is an “honest broker” for peace in the Middle East. Continue reading
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Israel in America: Obama’s dance of death By Eric Walberg
The writing is on the wall: Obama is a one-term president. That is if he is even allowed to finish his first term. Obama was never popular in Israel. When he tried to add Israeli critic Chas Freeman to his team as chair of the National Intelligence Council in 2009 AIPAC blew a fuse. Now… Continue reading
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The Impending Collapse of Israel in Palestine By Francis Boyle
On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council (P.N.C.) meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine. Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally recognized de jure by about 130 states. Palestine has de facto diplomatic recognition from most of Europe. It was only massive political pressure… Continue reading
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What really happened when the boat was boarded By Glyn Secker Captain, the ‘Irene’
The IDF brought two boats alongside us, one on port side one on starboard side. All the crew and passengers (apart from myself as I was steering) linked arms.They boarded us simultaneously from both sides. At that moment we cut the engines and sat over the access points to the cut offs to prevent them… Continue reading
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UN: Israel Executed Flotilla Activists By Gareth Porter
The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos. Continue reading
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Ken Loach on the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Film director Ken Loach explains why he supports the Russell Tribunal on Palestine Continue reading
The New Dark Age 