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Rabbinic Text or Call to Terror? By Daniel Estrin
The marble-patterned, hardcover book embossed with gold Hebrew letters looks like any other religious commentary you’d find in an Orthodox Judaica bookstore — but reads like a rabbinic instruction manual outlining acceptable scenarios for killing non-Jewish babies, children and adults. Continue reading
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UN, US ask Israel to send cops to Haiti By Yaakov Lappin
“Israeli aid to Haiti not only expresses moral values of the highest order, but is also a Jewish and Israeli tradition that provides the opportunity to demonstrate Israel’s commitment to international efforts to assist disaster victims,” he said. Continue reading
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Gaza: Our Guernica – A series of events to commemorate Gaza one year after Israel’s attack
Gaza: Our Guernica organized by the Palestine Societies at SOAS University College London Imperial College Kings College Goldsmiths University of Westminster Continue reading
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What say you, BBC?
It has been a year since Israel’s savage assault on Gaza that killed more than 1400 civilians. For the duration of the attack the BBC did not have a single man or a woman inside Gaza to cover it. This would be understandable if there weren’t any means available to get a journalist into Gaza.… Continue reading
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Statement by SA Palestine Solidarity Movement and COSATU
We salute the gallant and heroic actions of over 1,400 people from around the world – especially the South African delegation – who went to Cairo to embark on the historic Gaza Freedom March (GFM). The South African delegation truly represented the revolutionary and humanitarian character of our country even when faced with the harassment… Continue reading
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Abdul Aziz Tarakji – “Israel” has committed in Gaza, all crimes under international criminal law
Israel has committed a crime against humanity, known as a series of criminal acts committed as a part of a planned, systematic and widespread attack against civilians, including murder, torture, and the crime of apartheid and oppression against the Palestinians, and this would deprive some or all of population, intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental… Continue reading
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Viva Palestina mission to Gaza By Eric Ruder
THE VIVA Palestina convoy to deliver humanitarian relief supplies to the besieged people of Gaza is calling on solidarity activists everywhere to call, e-mail and fax officials of the Egyptian government and gather outside consulates and embassies around the world as the convoy embarks on the last leg of its attempt to cross from Egypt… Continue reading
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Dan Margalit vs. Jamal Zahalka – an example of how media in Israel is not only biased, but racist.
The so called ‘journalist’ Dan Margalit defending Ehud Barak, and proofs again how racist and biased the media in Israel. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: From the pyramids to the checkpoints, we have had many victories in Egypt By Emily Ratner
The Gaza Freedom March announced the Cairo Declaration to End Israeli Apartheid on January 1st, and so yesterday hundreds of Marchers smuggled freedom’s smoke signals in our luggage as we climbed into buses, vans, and taxis and made a mad dash for the Rafah border crossing. My own van was pulled over at the first… Continue reading
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Cairo Declaration To End Israeli Apartheid By Gaza Freedom Marchers
Cairo: 01 January, 2010: Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Continue reading
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Commemorate Gaza – 1,417 “bodies” needed for January 16, Defy the Israeli military machine January 18
Check the links below for full information on the die-in planned for Trafalgar Square on Saturday January 16 and the national protest against the Israeli military on Monday January 18. Continue reading
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Gaza Freedom March Wrap Up
I’m sure its going to take me some time to process everything that has happened in Cairo with the Gaza Freedom March over the past week or so but here are some of my initial thoughts and feelings. Bear in mind, these are my own opinions and reflections and they surely are not the same… Continue reading
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Protests held against Gaza siege
Activists, both from Gaza and abroad, have held demonstrations on either side of an Israeli border crossing to the Palestinian territory, protesting against its continued siege by Israel. Continue reading
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Gaza Freedom March in Israel
For months international, Israeli, and Palestinian activists have been planning the Gaza Freedom March. Organizers hoped an international delegation of 1300 activists from around the world would break the siege on Gaza by marching through Gaza to the northern border and through the Erez crossing, join the Israeli march. The Real News attended the Israeli… Continue reading
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Stuart Littlewood – Reaching the Gates of Hell is not so Easy
31 December, 2009 — Palestine Think Tank (VIA Redress) Egyptian ruler Mubarak torpedoes international voluntary aid to Gaza Stuart Littlewood considers the predicament of the Viva Palestina international humanitarian convoy – the culmination of voluntary work by thousands of supporters, fund-raisers and donors in the UK, Europe and internationally – whose journey to besieged Gaza… Continue reading
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Shoeless in Cairo by Mary Hughes-Thompson
In about an hour the Gaza Freedom Marchers in Cairo will be meeting in Tahrir Square to celebrate the beginning of 2010. January 1st will be the fifth day of my hunger strike. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina: Today we marched!
Nur it was wonderful … Tahrir Square we swarmed the place like ants. French, British, Egyptians, Palestinians we were everwhere flying flags, waving Kafeyahs … shouting and chanting … It was wonderful … The Egyptians hung out of windows and we cursed Mubarak … Continue reading
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Cairo meets the movement, with tears and chaos and exaltation By Philip Weiss
Over the last week, as the international marchers arrived in Egypt, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry made it very clear that it did not want them going into Gaza, and it would arrest them short of that goal. But these 1400 are not tourists or milquetoasts, they are activists; and they were not going to be… Continue reading
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Truth cast in lead By Michael Sfard
Many groups are observing the one-year anniversary of the Gaza “Cast Lead” campaign, which is part of the many-year war against Gaza, with no end in sight. Gaza remains under a cruel and barbaric siege. Of the commemorative articles I have read, this piece, written by Israeli lawyer activist Michael Sfard, and translated by the… Continue reading
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Viva Palestina Update 30 December, 2009
The problem has been this: On first arriving we had a legal ban placed on us. Europeans have organised on a basis where we do not take any notice of the law. Codepink have used those activities to put pressure on the Egyptian authorities. Continue reading
