Zionism
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“The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners” with Professor John J. Mearsheimer
“Regrettably, the two-state solution is now a fantasy. Instead, those territories will be incorporated into a Greater Israel,which will be an apartheid state bearing a marked resemblance to white-ruled South Africa. Nevertheless, a Jewish apartheid state is not politically viable over the long term. In the end, it will become a democratic bi-national state, whose… Continue reading
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What if Bil’in held a demo and the army didn’t show up? By Emily Schaeffer
What would happen if the army didn’t show up one Friday in Bil’in, for instance? If the army hadn’t shown up on Friday, April 23, at the 5th Annual Conference Demonstration, then Eymad Rezqa (also spelled Imad Rizka, dedicated Palestinian-Israeli activist) would not have been shot in the head with a tear gas canister and… Continue reading
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Book Review: THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF ZIONISM By Israel Shamir
A more accurate title for this book might be“ The Psychopathology of Zionism.” In the bulk of its 299 pages, Kovel meticulously deconstructs Zionism’s deranged psychology, and the reader very soon appreciates that this author’s long years of education in psychiatry and psychoanalysis were not spent in vain! Continue reading
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Racism in Israel: There’s something seriously wrong By Stephen Lendman
The 2008 Knesset introduced 12 discriminatory bills, and the Supreme Court failed to disqualify the 2003 temporary Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law, renewed every six months. It makes West Bank and Gaza Palestinians ineligible for residency permits if they marry an Israeli citizen, a measure harmful to thousands of families yearly. Continue reading
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On the border By Michel Warschawski
Settlements around Jerusalem intended to make it a Jewish city Continue reading
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Israeli soldiers Fire “the skunk” into Houses in Nabi Salih By Joseph Dana
The weekly protest against the stealing of farm land took place once again yesterday in Nabi Salih. The IDF escalated its repression of the protest by firing a highly toxic chemical called the “skunk” into several houses in the village of Nabi Salih in an effort to break the resistance that is forming. The skunk… Continue reading
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Israel’s Negev ‘frontier’ By Ben White
On this year’s Land Day, tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel marched in Sakhnin, an Israeli city in the Lower Galilee, to protest against past and present systematic discrimination. But with the focus on Israel’s policies of land confiscation, there was significance in a second protest that day. In the Negev (referred to as… Continue reading
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Israel Destroys Gaza Dairy For Second Time By Rami Almeghari
It was not a chemical plant, nor a nuclear facility, nor a manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction. But almost all the rubble of the entirely destroyed factory was covered in white, with white chunks everywhere. These were pieces of cheese, butter and yoghurt — some of the products made by the Dalloul dairy factory… Continue reading
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Movie: Jaffa the orange’s clockwork by Eyal Sivan
The film is a political essay excavating the entwined visual and political history of that famous citrus fruit originating in Palestine and known worldwide as the ‘Jaffa Orange’. Continue reading
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Re: Jerusalem Quartet – Update – ‘But it’s not political’
Focuses on an argument which was prevalent at the time of the Anti-Apartheid Boycott (South Africa version) and is going to be heard increasingly from faint-hearted liberals who would like any struggle to be conducted within the bounds of normal, polite discourse (i.e. don’t mention the Arabs). I have therefore dug around a little regarding… Continue reading
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Jerusalem Quartet London concert disrupted
Protesters disrupted a lunchtime performance by the Jerusalem Quartet in London today. The concert at the Wigmore Hall was being broadcast live by the BBC. The protesters drew attention to the Quartets strong links to the Israeli Army, Israels crimes against the Palestinians, particularly its illegal occupation of Palestinian land, its ethnic cleansing of East… Continue reading
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Video: Myths of Progressive Zionism: Labour, Race, Gender and Colonialism
26 March 26, 2010 — Left Streamed Moderated by Herman Rosenfeld. Presentations by: * Katherine Nastovski – Graduate student, Social and Political Thought, York University; Labour for Palestine, Toronto * Dana Olwan – Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, Queen’s University; Solidarity for Palestinian Human Right (SPHR), Kingston. Organized by Not In Our Name (NION) Jewish Continue reading
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Dear Kibbutz: Can You Give Us Our Land Back?
I have come to ask you to return my family’s land. I am a descendant of the Hussein and Ayad families who, together, inhabited the village of Malkiya before it was stolen from them by Zionist colonists in 1948. All of our fields, homes, and property were lost, and you and your families are currently… Continue reading
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Disturbing findings of toxic uranium levels in Gaza
Studies conducted by a group of Italian researchers have revealed the presence of dangerous levels of toxins in the bodies of Palestinian victims of Israeli bombings during operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009. The results of tests conducted on a sample of 15 dead and wounded victims of the war on Gaza, in addition to another… Continue reading
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Notes on Israel’s Triumph to Disaster By Bashir Abu-Manneh
Who will stop Israel in its relentless expropriation of Palestine and from triumphing to disaster? Isaac Deutscher, from whom I borrow my title, believed that the occupation of 1967 would have catastrophic consequences for Israel. It wouldn’t end well, he feared. Continue reading
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Undercover police in Jerusalem protests
Riots took place all over East Jerusalem this week in protest of settlers threatening to force their way into the Al Aqsa Mosque. As a result, Israeli security forces shut down major areas of the Old City, including the mosque compound to Muslim men under 50. The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky spoke to Toufic Haddad,… Continue reading
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The True Meaning of Never Again – For Anyone
Camden New Journal article letters arising out of the House of Commons meeting of the Never Again – For Anyone tour on Holocaust Memorial Day. Continue reading
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Is Israel an Apartheid State?
The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, in its efforts to eliminate and prevent the kind of suffering the South African and Namibian people suffered under apartheid, commissioned a legal study of the Israel-Palestine situation. “The aim of this project was to scrutinize the situation from the nonpartisan perspective of international law, rather than… Continue reading
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The Decline of Israel: Interview with Jonathan Cook
In a wide-ranging interview with the New Left Project, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook describes the increasingly repressive nature of Israeli society and the prospects for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict Continue reading
The New Dark Age 