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Right-wing Israeli group creates booklet listing businesses that employ Palestinians

by on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Saed Bannoura   November 21, 2011   A grandson of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, best known for his belief that Arabs should be ethnically cleansed from historic Palestine, is leading a movement to document and boycott all businesses in Israel that employ Palestinians.   The plan was discovered when 19-year old Meir Ettinger was [...]

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Response to Richard Goldstone ‘Israel and the Apartheid Slander’

by on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

By Mutasem Awad and Hiyam Noir   November 20, 2011   Richard Goldstone’s op-ed published for New York Times and dated October 31 2011, with the offensively noticeable title: “Israeland the Apartheid Slander”, astounded us because of the fallacies, aimed at blurring the truth and to justify the policies pursued by the Israeli occupation for [...]

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A message from Kairos Palestine about BDS

by on 25. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

A Frantic Counter BDS Campaign Under Way in Israel   Kairos Palestine November 18, 2011   A Frantic Counter BDS Campaign Under Way in Israel   Statement by Kairos Palestine on “Buy Israel Week”   Bethlehem, 17.11.2011. Anything but subtle – that sums up the desperate campaign recently launched by an assortment of anti-Palestinians conglomerates. [...]

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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 [...]

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Hero of the French Resistance and concentration camp survivor expresses his outrage over Israel

by on 14. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Dr. Hanan Chehata   Middle East Monitor November 11, 2011   Stѐphan Hessel was one of the jurors of this year’s Russell Tribunal onPalestineheld inCape Town. Mr Hessel, who is of Jewish origin, is lauded as a hero of the French Resistance who survived torture in Nazi concentration camps following his capture by the Gestapo [...]

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Max Blumenthal: Despite major rebuke, Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin endorses slaughtering Palestinians

by on 14. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Al-Akhbar English Wed, 2011-11-09 13:52- Gadfly   On October 25, here at Al-Akhbar, I drew attention to Washington Post “Right Turn” columnist Jennifer Rubin’s re-tweet of a call by professional neocon Rachel Abrams for the mass murder of Palestinians. In my post, I urged readers to write Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton and inquire if [...]

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Ali Abunimah: Bill in Congress seeks to investigate US Boat to Gaza for “terrorist” ties

by on 14. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

The Electronic Intifada November 11, 2011   A bill introduced in the United States Congress last month would require the State Department to investigate “The sources of any logistical, technical, or financial support for the Gaza flotilla ships, including the Audacity of Hope, that were set to set sail from Greece on July 1, 2011.” [...]

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The Zionist lobby’s First Lady in US Congress

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

By Alan Hart     Information Clearing House   November 02, 2011    After UNESCO voted to give the Palestinians full membership, the words of State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland contained a hint that the Obama administration at the highest levels is quite seriously concerned about the possible consequences forAmericaof cutting off funds to the UN [...]

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Apartheid-era divisions linger among S. Africa’s Jews

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

By MOIRA SCHNEIDER / JTA    The Jerusalem Post    Wed, Nov 2, 2011    A conference on apartheid imparts painful episodes from the country’s past, and shows how old fault lines still divide the Jewish community.     CAPE TOWN – When anti-apartheid activist Lorna Levy first became involved in politics as a student in the [...]

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Robert Fisk: Assad’s army remains defiant as it buries its dead

by on 27. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Syrian officers told me 1,150 soldiers have been killed in Syria in the past seven months – an extraordinary death toll    Independent    Wednesday, 26 October 2011   Sergeant Jassem Abdul-Raheem Shehadi and Private Ahmed Khalaf Adalli of the Syrian Army were sent to their graves yesterday with the send-off their families would have wished [...]

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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 [...]

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Robert Fisk: Lessons in humanity from a Libyan family, a tale of Dickens from Cairo – and the wrong shark

by on 24. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Middle East Notebook   Independent    Saturday, 22 October 2011   It’s an ill wind, etc. Today my thoughts are not with the Gaddafi family but with Bassam and Saniya al-Ghossain, whose daughter Raafat was killed inLibyaon 15 April 1986.   She was the victim of President Reagan’s insane air raids onTripoli– in revenge for the [...]

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