Zionism
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Khalid Amayreh – Netanyahu’s Kafkaesque vision of Palestinian statehood
Undoubtedly, Netanyahu’s speech caricatured a thoroughly arrogant and megalomaniac leader, not unlike Adolf Hitler, a Fuehrer who thinks non-Jews living the “Land of Israel” are children of a lesser God, or wretched Untermenschen, who should serve as “wood hewers” and “water carriers” for the Jewish master race. And if they refuse servitude and enslavement, they… Continue reading
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Palestine: Tesco defends right to choose illegal settlement goods
Tesco’s position was that their fundamental responsibility is to provide choice to customers. They stressed that they comply with the law, they do not make it, but at the same time their core value is “to treat people as we would like to be treated”. We made little progress when we pointed out the gross… Continue reading
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New Profile: Israel – Investigating the Investigation
The philosopher, Michel Foucault, dwelt in his writings on the consciousness developed by the hypothetical inmate of an eight-sided prison – a “panopticon”. Within such a structure, every prisoner is exposed to the jailer’s gaze in every corner of his or her cell. The jailer, who ostensibly watches the prisoners all day, every day, is… Continue reading
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Israel, the other apartheid state Address by Ronnie Kasrils
Such a colonial racist mentality which rationalised the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australasia, in Africa from Namibia to the Congo and elsewhere, most clearly has its echoes in Palestine. What is so shameless about this latter-day colonial sham is that Zionist Israel has been permitted by the West to aspire… Continue reading
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Gaza bonanza By Yotam Feldman and Uri Blau
bout two months ago, the COGAT officials allowed pumpkins and carrots into Gaza, reversing a ban that had been in place for many months. The entry of “delicacies” such as cherries, kiwi, green almonds, pomegranates and chocolate is expressly prohibited. As is halvah, too, most of the time. Sources involved in COGAT’s work say that… Continue reading
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Gaza Friends Video Update
We think we have a video that you will not forget… a video that is a testament to the grace and bravery of the Palestinians. Continue reading
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Lina Suleiman – State of “Caged” Palestinians
American rhetoric is full of devious political Language. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview with Al Jazeera in May 19 confirmed that “the US is going to be pushing for a two-state solution which, by its very name, implies borders that have to be agreed to”. But why the borders should be… Continue reading
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Video Free Gaza News 3 June, 2009
Video update, news from Free Gaza Continue reading
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Hajo Meyer, Auschwitz survivor: “I can identify with Palestinian youth”
One of the major annoyances in my life is that Israel by means of trickery calls itself a Jewish state, while in fact it is Zionist. It wants the maximum territory with a minimum number of Palestinians. I have four Jewish grandparents. I am an atheist. I share the Jewish socio-cultural inheritance and I have… Continue reading
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Thought crimes in Israel – Nadim Rouhana: This suppression is symbolic of a state that fears its past
It is not only that they have been excluded from belonging to their homeland, which has been claimed by people who immigrated there and made exclusively Jewish; it is not only that their people have been expelled, occupied or dispersed to all corners of the world; it is not only that they are legally unequal… Continue reading
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Racists for Democracy By Uri Avnery
The private member’s bill, proposed by MK Zevulun Orlev of the “Jewish Home” party, which sailed through its preliminary hearing, promises one year in prison to anyone who publishes “a call that negates the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State”, if the contents of the call might cause “actions… Continue reading
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Video: AL NAKBA: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 by Benny Brunner
Al Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 (58 min. documentary, Israel-Germany-The Netherlands, 1997). Arguably the first film that seriously tackles the historic events that lead to the creation of 750.000 Palestinian refugees at the end of the first Israeli-Arab war of 1948. Based on historian Benny Morris’ book “The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947-49”. Continue reading
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Video: The Concrete Curtain by Benny Brunner
The film chronicles the daily life of two Palestinian middle-class professionals who live in the shadow of “The Wall” in the greater Jerusalem area. Continue reading
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Video: Free Gaza Promo
We are returning to Gaza… and not just once but the boats will be sent all summer Continue reading
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Mohamed Khodr – The Three Branches of the AIPAC: The Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial
The very word AIPAC strikes the deepest fear and intimidation into the very souls of every American politician from the smallest town in America to the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court. This lobby for decades has demonstrated its power in electing subservient Congressmen and destroying those who dare speak against Israel. Every new… Continue reading
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Video: Free Gaza News 27th May 2009
Greta Berlin is asking questions, about Free Gaza summer plans, to Mary Hughes Thompson, one of the co-founders of The Free Gaza Movement Continue reading
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Aryeh Eldad: Israel’s Little Hitler By Khalid Amayreh
One of the proposals being discussed would criminalize the commemoration of Nakba by Palestinians holding the Israeli citizenship. Predictably, the brazenly racist proposal has infuriated Israel’s 1.5-million-strong Palestinian community. One Israeli Palestinian parliamentarian compared the proposed law with an imagined promulgation by Germany of a law banning all Jewish activities commemorating the holocaust. Continue reading
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Ken Loach open letter to the Edinburgh Film Festival
To be crystal clear: as a film maker you will receive a warm welcome in Edinburgh. You are not censored or rejected. The opposition was to the Festival’s taking money from the Israeli state. Continue reading
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Palfest closed by armed Israeli policemen BY BRENDA HEARD
Although a full programme had been publicly announced on 16 April 2009, the Israeli Ministry of Internal Security waited until moments before the Festival opening to dictate that the “event could not be held because it was a political activity connected to the Palestinian Authority.” Participants were ordered to leave and Israeli police were posted… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 