By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent Former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Lieutenant General (res.) Moshe Ya’alon left New Zealand this week, after a warrant was issued for his arrest for suspected war crimes. The New Zealand Justice Ministry issued the warrant on Tuesday, several days after a request by a New Zealand resident that [...]
Read more →Editor’s note: See also Tutu to head mission to Beit Hanoun, Al Jazeera, 11.29.2006 By Haaretz Service The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday blasted the United Nations Human Rights Council for appointing Desmond Tutu as head of its fact-finding mission to the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun. The mission is charged with investigating a [...]
Read more →EXCERPT: But in its latest release, on human shields, HRW plumbs new depths, stripping Palestinians of the right to organise non-violent forms of resistance and seek new ways of showing solidarity in the face of illegal occupation. In short, HRW treats the people of Gaza as mere rats in a laboratory — the Israeli army’s [...]
Read more →By Anna Bolman Anna Bolman is a sophomore at Ohio State University majoring in International Studies. She is a member of Ambassadors for Israel on Campus. As a nation, the Jewish people are stronger than ever, with many successes in medicine, science, technology, and other endeavors. The anti-Semitism that our grandparents experienced in the [...]
Read more →A wave of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe sparked by Israel’s war with Hezbollah occurred almost entirely in Western Europe, a new report found. The European Jewish Congress’ 53-page report, presented Sunday at a World Jewish Congress meeting in Paris, shows that the former Eastern Bloc and Denmark were exceptions to the anti-Semitic revival. The EJC [...]
Read more →From: womeninblackla[at]gmail.com To: WomeninBlackLA[at]gmail.com Subject: Thank you for your endorsement Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:04:30 -0800 Dear Endorser: We would like to thank you for signing on to Women in Black LA’s letter sent to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on October 30, 2006. In slightly over two weeks, we received 700 signatures, plus endorsements [...]
Read more →Editor’s note: The Guardian: Israel ups the stakes in the propaganda war, by Stewart Purvis, 11.20.2006 (how Israel-firsters use GIYUS to manipulate Western public opinion).
Read more →Desmond Tutu, the South African Nobel laureate, is to lead a UN fact-finding mission to investigate the killing of 19 Palestinians in their homes in Beit Hanoun earlier this month. The United Nation Human Rights Council said the mission would report back by mid-December. Luis Alfonso De Alba, the president of the UNHRC, said that [...]
Read more →By JOHN DUGARD Former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” is igniting controversy for its allegation that Israel practices a form of apartheid. As a South African and former anti-apartheid advocate who visits the Palestinian territories regularly to assess the human rights situation for the U.N. Human Rights Council, the comparison to [...]
Read more →* Human Rights Watch Statement on our November 22 Press Release (12.16.2006) * NEW: Reader letters; updated Dec. 26, 2006 06:25 PM. * Please write to Kenneth Roth & Sarah Leah Whitson of HRW. A comment by Norman G. Finkelstein 11.29.2006 Even by the grim standards of Gaza, the past five months have been cruel [...]
Read more →By Ian Traynor in Ambrus, Slovenia Miha Strojan was tending to his sick mother when the mob arrived. Wielding clubs, guns and chainsaws, several hundred villagers converged on the cottage in a clearing in the beech forest with a simple demand. “Zig raus [Gyppos out],” they called in German, deliberately echoing Nazi racist chants. “Bomb [...]
Read more →by Rebecca Anna Stoil Ingrid Steinitz, a 72-year-old Danish Jew, has alleged she was strip-searched and harassed by Ben-Gurion Airport security for hours and on a second occasion told to spread her legs and place her hands against a wall. But Ben-Gurion security officials said Monday that everything was done according to procedures, and that [...]
Read more →Both Israeli and Palestinian victims of violence feel abandoned by the world, the United Nations’ top rights official said in remarks released Friday. Louise Arbour, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said her talks with both Palestinians and Israelis during a five-day visit to Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip made apparent [...]
Read more →Jewish groups also target of lawsuit Claims they suggested he was anti-Semitic by LOUISE BROWN, EDUCATION REPORTER History professor David Noble is suing York University’s fundraising foundation and several Jewish organizations for defamation, claiming they suggested he is anti-Semitic to try to gag criticism of their activities. Noble, 61, who is Jewish, has brought a [...]
Read more →Editor’s note: Those deploring this disgraceful HRW statement should write Sarah Leah Whitson, who heads up the HRW’s Middle East Division: whitsos@hrw.org. Please cc letters to this web site for posting. Reader letters below, LAST UPDATED: Nov. 28, 2006, 12:45 AM OPT: Civilians Must Not Be Used to Shield Homes Against Military Attacks 11.22.2006 | [...]
Read more →The last hope of halting Israel’s steady ghettoization of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and calculated destruction of the Palestinian economy is the imposition of sanctions against Israel, especially the revoking of the $9 billion in U.S. loan guarantees. If we allow Israel to complete its massive $2-billion project to ring Palestinians [...]
Read more →By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent Converts will no longer be recognized as Jews under the Law of Return, according to a bill formulated by the Chief Rabbinate and presented to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert a few days ago. The revolutionary bill is now awaiting a decision by the prime minister whether to make it a [...]
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