Gaza
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: HEADSHOT – PROPAGANDA, STATE RELIGION AND THE ATTACK ON THE GAZA PEACE FLOTILLA – PART 2
As discussed in Part 1, media coverage of the non-violent Iranian capture of 15 British sailors (in Iranian waters) focused on the humiliating failure of the sailors to open fire in self-defence. Journalists took a very different view of the May 31 Israeli attack on the ship Mavi Marmara carrying human rights activists and supplies… Continue reading
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Israeli Occupation Archive has posted 8 new items 5 June, 2010
* Israel arrests Free Gaza chief * Noam Chomsky Interview: speaking of truth and power * Graham Usher: No change at the UN * British survivor of Gaza flotilla raid: ‘Israelis ignored SOS calls’ * Hamas officials given one month to leave Israel * Charles Glass: The Gaza Flotilla and Israels Many, Many Rights *… Continue reading
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Moshe Machover: Colonizers’ Hutzpah
This astounding piece of hutzpah is actually quite instructive, inasmuch as it typifies and constitutes a reductio ad absurdum of the age-old method of hasbarah, the propaganda machine of the Zionist project and its Israeli settler state. Continue reading
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NEW WEBSITE: The Gaza Flotilla archive from delegitimize.com
Thanks to Ali Abuminah, this website will give you all of the facts and figures and testimonies from the Freedom Flotilla. Greta Co-founder and webmaster of Electronic Intifada has created an inspired website supporting the flotilla: http://delegitimize.com Includes fact sheets, media coverage, statements, videos, and protests. Great resource. http://delegitimize.com/ is a new media library project… Continue reading
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The Gaza Siege: A Fact Sheet By Yousef Munayyer
In recent days, coverage of the attack on the aid flotilla headed to Gaza has danced around the many pressing issues of the siege, and has limited its focus to merely the lack of availability of certain humanitarian goods. This fact sheet is a brief reference for informed discussion of the siege and its effect… Continue reading
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Hostages on the Way Home – But How Many?
The latest news on those peace activists who have been illegally held by the Israeli Government is encouraging. We understand that the majority of those being held have been released and are heading back to their homes, via Istanbul. However, we have been told that not all the hostages have been released, with certain activists… Continue reading
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Israeli Occupation Archive has posted 10 new items 2 June, 2010
* Israeli MP’s terror on aid ship * Outlaws of the Mediterranean * Robert Fisk: Western leaders are too cowardly to help save lives * Israelis opened fire before boarding Gaza flotilla, say released activists * Women in Black vigil: Jerusalem, 4 June 2010 * FT: Israel is lost at sea * MK Hanin Zoabi:… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 