Zionism
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Support the U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
I’m writing to ask you to join more than 50 international scholars, over 300 U.S. academics along with dozens of writers, poets, musicians, and other cultural workers by adding your name to the list of academic endorsers, listed on our website. Continue reading
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No gourmets in Gaza: The blockade of Gaza is approaching its third year. Is hunger a legitimate way of defeating an enemy? By Alex Renton
Every consignment of fruit, vegetables or processed food for the 1.5 million Palestinians living in what has been called the world’s largest refugee camp is, according to the paper, inspected by high-level Israeli officials. For what? For unsuitable tastiness, apparently. An official told Ha’aretz :”We don’t want Gilad Shalit’s captors to be munching Bamba right… Continue reading
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Video: Free Gaza News Press Conference
Video: In three days, the Free Gaza movement sails 240 miles from Cyprus to Gaza, its eighth mission to break Israels draconian siege on 1.5 million Palestinians there. In the holds of the FREE GAZA and the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY will be tons of cement, and suitcases full of toys, crayons and coloring books for… Continue reading
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A Sunday With Vanunu By Eileen Fleming
It was Vanunu who inspired me to became a citizen journalist, and three weeks after my first trip to occupied east Jerusalem I established my website and have been reporting from day on Vanunu’s historic FREEDOM of SPEECH trial in the ‘democracy’ of Israel which began on January 25, 2006. Continue reading
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Palestine: Work for Justice, Go to Jail? By David Shulman
Bad times bring out the best in some people. Most of us remain passive, even willfully blind, in the face of great crimes that we see perpetrated on others, whether they are strangers or our next-door neighbors. But there will always be someone, probably just an ordinary decent person, to whom this rule doesn’t apply… Continue reading
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A world away, Palestinian seeks justice By Iain Marlow
First came the fence, which splintered the olive trees from Bil’in, the Palestinian village that tended them. Then came the tear gas canister that hit a local, well-liked man named Basem Abu Rahme in the chest, killing him. Continue reading
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Deepa Kumar, “Obama’s Cairo Speech: A Rhetorical Shift in US Imperialism”
But if the speech marked a rhetorical shift, it did not chart new ground in terms of U.S. foreign policy. Instead, it signals the reemergence of liberal imperialism, packaged deftly and skillfully through the person of Barack Hussein Obama. Continue reading
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When Netanyahu Invalidated Camp David and Wadi Araba By Ahmad Barqawi
“The simple truth is that the root of the conflict has been and remains – the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish People to its own state on its historical homeland”. Never have I heard the entire Arab-Israeli conflict summed up so concisely yet so deceptively. Continue reading
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Saree Makdisi – The language that absolves Israel
On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the quest for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Continue reading
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The censored video: Max Blumenthal: Feeling the Hate In Jerusalem on Eve of Obama’s Cairo Address
Max Blumenthal writes: On the eve of President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt, I stepped out onto the streets of Jerusalem with my friend Joseph Dana to interview young Israelis and American Jews about their reaction to the speech. We encountered rowdy groups of beer sodden twenty-somethings, many from the… Continue reading
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Tell YouTube not to censor Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana’s video
Blumenthal posted the video to YouTube called “Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem on Eve of Obama’s Cairo Address”. Then, without explanation, YouTube took down the video and has stonewalled all attempts to find out what happened. Continue reading
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Video: Israeli troops humiliate Palestinians – and put it on YouTube
19 June, 2009 – Ha’aretz http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2765705 Forty-three seconds: that’s the duration of a video clip uploaded to YouTube less than a year ago under the category of “Comedy.” For the “hero” of the clip, an unidentified young Arab, they were probably eternally long seconds and far from amusing. He was forced to slap himself and Continue reading
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Netanyahu’s “brilliant” peace plan By Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah
Netanyahu wants Palestinians to become committed Zionists. They can prove this by declaring, “We recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own in this land.” As he pointed out, it is only the failure of Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular to commit themselves to the Zionist dream that… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Absurdity Is the Norm in the Gaza Strip By Stephanie Westbrook
Gaza itself remains frozen in time; for nearly five months after the ceasefire, aside from a few rare cases in which cinder blocks have been used to fill gaping holes in the sides of buildings, no reconstruction whatsoever has begun. The blockade keeps the necessary building materials out of Gaza. Continue reading
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Video: GazaFriends – Getting ready to go
This week’s update is lighter in tone than last week’s update. It gives you an idea of what we are doing to get the Free Gaza ready. We are hoping this time to entertain you a bit (our first mate would do well at open-mike night) and to let you know that we have enjoyed… Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon – Yearning for a Minyan
The images of Israeli youngsters calling Obama ‘F**k Head’, ‘S**t Head’ and ‘Ni**er’ are rather effective PR materials at the hands of the friends of Palestine and it seems as if the Israelis are aware of it. Haaretz reported the other day that Netanyahu is convinced that “Obama seeks a clash with Israel to appease… Continue reading
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Report: Palestinian Child Prisoners – The systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities
From the moment of arrest, Palestinian children encounter ill-treatment and in some cases torture, at the hands of Israeli soldiers, policemen and interrogators. Children are commonly arrested from the family home in the hours before dawn by heavily armed soldiers. The child is painfully bound, blindfolded and bundled into the back of a military vehicle… Continue reading
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Video: Seven Jewish Children – A Play for Gaza by Caryl Churchill
Video: SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN – A PLAY FOR GAZA by Caryl Churchill Continue reading
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Susan Abulhawa – Does Israel Really Have a Right to Exist?
That Israelis simply take property belonging to Palestinians is not a right. That is theft. That Israel cut off the movement of food, medicine and other basic goods to the Gaza strip, causing massive malnutrition, economic collapse and misery because Palestinians elected particular leaders is not a right. That is an affront to humanity. That… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 