Tag Archives: jerusalem

Honored as a Freedom Rider

by on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD   I was honored to be a freedom rider and it was team effort at its best (those who rode and the many who worked behind the scenes). Two other Palestinians were also arrested with us who were there as a reporters/observers not participants. All eight of us were released eventually pending [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

The Nuclear Scientist That Wasn’t

by on 14. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

IAEA Errs on “Foreign Expert” in Iran N-programme   By Vladimir Radyuhin   The Hindu November 10, 2011   The latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) onIranappears to have falsified information about a Russian scientist who allegedly helpedTehranadvance its nuclear weapons programme.   The report published by aU.S.think tank on Tuesday said [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

How racist laws imprison a nation

by on 11. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

 November 3 2011 at 09:55am  By Nurit Peled-Elhanan  Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an Israeli peace activist, and one of the founders of the Bereaved Families for Peace. After the death of Elhanan’s 13 year-old daughter in 1997, she became an outspoken critic of the [...]

Read full story • Comments { 1 }

Ben Gurion University Punishes Professor for Resisting Military Service in Territories, Death Threats Against Peace Now Activist

by on 11. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Richard Silverstein   Tikun Olam November 8, 2011   BenGurionUniversityprofessor Idan Landau, author of the important Israeli blog, Not to Die a Fool, protested a decision by University President Rivka Carmi to punish Landau for refusing to perform his reserve military service in theOccupiedTerritories. For the week he spent in military prison, the University has [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Reporters again turn State Dep’t briefing into moshpit, scorning US ‘impotence’ in the conflict

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

by Philip Weiss   Mondoweiss    on November 3, 2011 The discourse is changing. Here is yesterday’s daily press briefing at theStateDepartment– and once again you see a group of reporters emboldened to ridicule the Obama administration’s position on Palestinian rights. Notice the scorn for the Obama administration for doing nothing in response to Israeli settlement [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }
romney_3

Stephen M. Walt: Romney flunks foreign policy … again

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

FOREIGN POLICY      Tuesday, November 1, 2011 – 11:54 AM In a remarkable statement of foreign policy myopia and domestic political pandering, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced last week that the United Statesshould largely subordinate its Middle East policy-making to Israel. In response to a reporter’s question about moving the U.S.embassy to Jerusalem, Romney said [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Amira Hass: Palestinians must say no to negotiations with Israel

by on 03. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Diplomatic moves in the United Nations, no matter how refreshingly daring, are not enough.    HAARETZ    Wed, November 02, 2011   Now thatPalestinehas been recognized by the United Nations’ cultural organization, UNESCO, it will be no more of a non-state and no less occupied than it was before. Its citizens will be no less unfree [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }
richard-falk-memo

Exclusive interview with UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk

by on 01. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Dr. Hanan Chehata   The Middle East Monitor   October 29, 2011   In an exclusive and extensive interview with the Middle East Monitor Prof. Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in theOccupiedPalestinianTerritories, talks about the on-going intransigence ofIsraeland its continued failure to abide by international law. In his frank interview Prof. Falk [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }
nieuwhof-wall

BDS Victory: Alstom loses Saudi Haramain Railway contract worth $10B

by on 01. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Palestinian BDS National Committee        October 27, 2011    The BDS National Committee (BNC) has declared a long sought-after victory as Alstom lost the bid for the second phase of the Saudi Haramain Railway project, worth $10 billion US dollars, after pressure from the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, including effective campaigning from the [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }
pg-26-king-abdullah_417862t

Robert Fisk: Why Jordan is occupied by Palestinians

by on 26. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

A powerful group of ex-army leaders say their country is being overrun – and they blame King Abdullah    Independent.      Thursday, 22 July 2010   Just opposite the Al-Quds restaurant in centralAmmanis a dull, grey-stone building spattered with old bullet holes. In 1970, this was where the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine staged [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

The Romance of Birthright Israel

by on 24. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Kiera Feldman   The Nation    June 15, 2011        This article appeared in the July 4-11, 2011 edition of The Nation.   The seekers are young, just beginning to face the disappointments of adulthood. Their journey is often marked by tears. They may weep while praying at the Western Wall, their heads pressed against the [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

No problem– Obama’s State Dep’t spokesperson is married to Romney’s neocon foreign policy adviser

by on 14. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

by Philip Weiss    Mondoweiss       October 12, 2011   Here is a crazy story no one is talking about that is evidence of theIsraellobby’s role in our politics. Last week, Mitt Romney announced a foreign policy team that includes Robert Kagan, a neocon who pushed for theIraqwar.   But Kagan is married to Victoria Nuland, [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }
Older Entries »