Palestinian
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: WHEN FACTS AND PROPAGANDA COLLIDE – THE BBC BENDS OVER BACKWARDS TO ACCOMMODATE ISRAELI CLAIMS
When a Thai kibbutz worker was killed in Israel by a rocket launched from Gaza last week, BBC News online gave the incident headline coverage flagged up on its home page. By contrast, the killing of two Palestinian teenagers, Mohammad Qadus and Osaid Qadus, by Israeli soldiers on Saturday was buried at the end of… Continue reading
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Israel Owes Over NIS 8.3 Billion to Palestinian Workers from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
The State of Israel owes more than NIS 8.3 billion (including interest) to Palestinian workers from the Occupied Palestinian Territories who worked in Israel. This money was deducted from the Palestinian workers’ salaries for social benefits they did not receive. This is the conclusion of detailed research conducted by the Alternative Information Center (AIC) and… Continue reading
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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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Media Lens: “An Existential Threat”: The US, Israel and Iran
The sanctions threat is to ensure that Iran does “not compromise on uranium enrichment by the end of next month.” The Guardian told its readers that not only are sanctions supposed to pre-empt any Israeli military action against Iran, “they are also a bargaining chip offered in part exchange for a substantial freeze on Jewish… Continue reading
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Gaza: The Tip of an Iceberg By Francis Clark-Lowes
This is part of an intentional war on the part of Israel, and, moreover, it clearly coincides with the international legal definition of genocide. Continue reading
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Media Lens: An Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre – Part 2
The Israeli historian Ilan Pappé notes that more than half of Palestine’s native population, close to 800,000 people, were uprooted and 531 villages were destroyed. Continue reading
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No place to run, no place to hide By William Bowles
It is directly because of ‘journalism’ like Bowen’s that we have no understanding of our Palestinian brothers and sisters’ situation, where, according to Bowen resistance to Israeli slaughter comes not from a proud people defending what’s left of their homeland but from religious fanatics. Continue reading
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Remi Kanazi: To Exist is to Resist
Free Minds for a Free Palestine http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1849051Palestinian New Yorker, Remi performs 2 of his poems. In my mind Palestinian New Yorker, Remi performs 2 of his poems. In my mind I’ve freed Palestine Envisioned a dream That just needs to be seen Olive trees and fields of figs Orange groves That lead to our roads… Continue reading
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Poets for Palestine!
The works presented are by a wide range of (mostly) young poets. There is an overall feel of musicality and rhythm that is a soundtrack of the Palestinian urban experience as well as a facet of the Exile experience that many Palestinians live, where the need for space is always a pulsing demand. Yet, there… Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon in Valencia – And the Bush Burned
The concert, an hour and a half of intense musical emotions, was based on four themes taken from two important albums of the group, MusiK (2004) and Refuge (2007), in which Atzmon articulated and developed a line of reasoning and discourse that is explicitly dedicated to describing through chromatic scales the current Iraqi tragedy undertaken… Continue reading
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Media Lens: CHILDREN IN THE CROSSHAIRS
3 November, 2008 Media Silent On Evidence Of Israeli Targeting Of Youngsters <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media On the afternoon of Thursday 28 February, 2008, a group of <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Palestinian boys were playing football on some open ground near their homes in the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Gaza Strip. At around… Continue reading
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Middle East Report Online: Bypassing Bethlehem’s Eastern Reaches by Nate Wright
In late August, Israel completed refurbishment of the road dipping down from the Jerusalem-area settlement of Har Homa to the bloc of smaller settlements southeast of Bethlehem. The new bypass, meant to speed up the commutes of settlers to their jobs and schools in Israel, has opened another front in the battle over the extent… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Covering Israel-Palestine – The BBC’s Double Standards
22 April, 2008 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media An Exchange With The BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen The media reported last week that at least 22 people, including five Palestinian children, had been killed during Israeli ‘incursions’ into Gaza. The Israeli military ‘operation’ were ‘sparked’ by a… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 