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Jim Lobe: “Israel’s Advocate” to Leave White House for Pro-Israel Think Tank

by on 14. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Jim Lobe’s blog on U.S. foreign policy can be read at http://www.lobelog.com.   IPS — November 11, 2011   WASHINGTON, Nov 10, 2011 (IPS) – Dennis Ross, President Barack Obama’s topMiddle Eastaide who has attracted criticism for his allegedly strong pro-Israel sympathies, will leave his post at the end of this month, the White House [...]

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Gideon Levy: Insanity, not logic, guides Israel’s leadership

by on 11. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

The mens’ men who are threatening Iran now are the real cowards’ cowards. The brave ones are in fact those who are trying to thwart the insanity, from former Mossad chief Meir Dagan to Interior Minister Eli Yishai.   Haaretz Wed, November 09, 2011   IfIrandares mount a nuclear attack againstIsrael,Iranwill be committing public, painful, [...]

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(Video) Ali Abunimah: Mass walkout at Wayne State leaves “IDF” spokesman lecturing to empty room

by on 11. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Students at Wayne State University in Detroit staged a silent protest and mass walk-out that left Israel Army reserve spokesman and Jerusalem Post correspondent Gil Hoffman lecturing to a virtually empty auditorium on November 1.   A video of the event just posted on YouTube shows Hoffman lecturing to hundreds of students. Many of them [...]

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The Bedouin vs Israel’s bulldozers

by on 08. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

As Jewish settlers move into the desert to make it ‘bloom’, an ancient way of life is under threat. In Alsra, Catrina Stewart speaks to Arab families on the fault line   Catrina Stewart   The Independent Friday 04 November 2011   At the top of an unmarked track leading into the smallvillageofAlsra, in theNegevdesert, [...]

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The Guardian of Israel

by on 08. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

By Gilad Atzmon Gilad Atzmon is a musician-composer. He is particularly well-known his political analysis which is widely published. His website Gilad.co.uk   Information Clearing House November 05, 2011   Israeli hasbara insists that an attack onIranis compatible with both Western interests and NATO strategy. For example, this weekIsraelreleased information about an IAF exercise in [...]

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Protest builds over Manchester University interference in Finkelstein tour

by on 08. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Posted on 5 November 2011 by jews4big|   ManchesterUniversityis facing growing protests after caving in to Zionist pressure and forcing students organising a speaking tour by Professor Norman Finkelstein to move his planned lecture off campus.   In a letter to university Head of Governance, Martin Conway, J-BIG said it was astonished “that a respected [...]

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The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: Cape Town Session: Summary of findings, 7 November 2011

by on 08. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

“May this tribunal prevent the crime of silence” Bertrand Russell, London, 13 November 1966 The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) is an international citizen-based Tribunal of conscience created in response to the demands of civil society (NGOs, charities, unions, faith-based organisations) to inform and mobilise public opinion and put pressure on decision makers. In view [...]

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Gideon Levy: Israeli leaders’ price tag against the Palestinians

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

This price tag meted out by the forum of eight is not much different than the settlers’ price tag; it’s violent, uncontrolled and seeks vengeance. Haaretz    Thu, November 03, 2011   What, for heaven’s sake, is so terrible aboutPalestinebeing accepted to UNESCO? Why is this considered an “anti-Israeli” step? And in general, what’s so bad [...]

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Prof. Ran Greenstein: Israel, apartheid, and the Hasbara machine

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Ran Greenstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa. He has written extensively on the genealogies of the conflicts in Palestine/Israel and South Africa.   Ran Greenstein responds to the recently published pieces by Richard Goldstone and Benjamin Pogrund which reject the analogy of [...]

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European Poll: Israel Biggest Threat To World Peace

by on 03. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

The Jewish Federations of North America   Results of a new poll commissioned by the European Commission show thatIsraelis believed by Europeans in 15 countries to be the greatest threat to world peace, greater thanNorth Korea,IranorAfghanistan.   While the European Commission will release the full results of the poll on Monday, the International Herald Tribune [...]

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UNESCO — 2 articles

by on 02. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Craig Murray: Palestine Can Now Join the International Criminal Court   Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist   by craig on Nov 1st in Uncategorized   Palestineis now a state. Membership of the United Nations is not in international law a pre-condition of statehood, and indeed is not compulsory for states. The existence of states not [...]

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Russell Tribunal — 3 articles: Richard J. Goldstone / Ali Abunimah / John Dugard

by on 02. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Richard J. Goldstone: Israel and the Apartheid Slander   By RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE Richard J. Goldstone, a former justice of the South African Constitutional Court, led the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict of 2008-9. The New York Times     Published: October 31, 2011    THE Palestinian Authority’s request for full United Nations membership [...]

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