Painting and description by: Luke Kendall when a building is disassembled, you lose its facade and its very structure is revealed, you see what it is made up of. The same can be said of when countries decide to partake in strategies such as the ‘Dahiya strategy’: it removes the facade and the PR illusions, [...]
Read more →Experience a dynamic and intensive eight day exploration of Israel’s struggle for survival and security in the Middle East today: “a military, humanitarian, historical, judicial, religious, and political reality check.” Mission Highlights Briefings by Mossad officials and commanders of the Shin Bet. Briefing by officers in the IDF Intelligence and Operations branches. Inside tour of [...]
Read more →Dear Norm, I am writing to you this email while I am watching a movie called “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” …It is about a young man who on his way to London to become a doctor witnesses his friend being murdered by the Black and Tans because he refused to say his name [...]
Read more →WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Pakistani man living in New York was sentenced to 69 months in prison for broadcasting the Hezbollah television station Al Manar. Javad Iqbal, 45, pled guilty to providing material support to a foreign terrorist group in December. Prosecutors said Iqbal, who owned the satellite television company HDTV Ltd., transmitted the Beirut-based [...]
Read more →By Huwaida Arraf WE Palestinians are often asked where the Palestinian Gandhi is and urged to adopt nonviolent methods in our struggle for freedom from Israeli military rule. On April 17, an Israeli soldier killed my good friend Bassem Abu Rahme at a nonviolent demonstration against Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land. Bassem was one of [...]
Read more →Joel Michaelsen, Academic Senate Chair Henry Yang, Chancellor University of California, Santa Barbara Dear Professor Michaelsen and Chancellor Yang, We, the California Scholars for Academic Freedom, are all deeply disturbed to hear about the charges brought against Professor William Robinson. The charges of anti-Semitism and of violation of the Faculty Code of Conduct, based on [...]
Read more →Dear Friend: American Jews for a Just Peace is now six months old and we have come a long way in a very short time. Since our organizing conference in Boston in September 2008, we have grown to 100 active members and over 1000 on our general mailing list. We have working chapters in Albuquerque, [...]
Read more →Join CODEPINK on our upcoming trips to Gaza. May 28-June 5, through Egypt; June 5-14, through Israel. In Gaza, we will be hosted by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). We will visit schools, hospitals and areas most affected by the Israeli invasion, as well as build an International Friendship Park. If the [...]
Read more →By Gideon Levy Lord have mercy: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has relinquished for the moment his demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as “a Jewish state” as a condition for negotiations. He has deigned to postpone the demand until future stages. Listen up, world: Perhaps, just perhaps, Netanyahu will also see fit to utter the [...]
Read more →JERUSALEM (AFP) – Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire on Tuesday accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" policies in annexed east Jerusalem, where the municipality plans to tear down almost 90 Arab homes. "I believe the Israeli government is carrying out a policy of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians here in east Jerusalem," said Maguire, who won the [...]
Read more →Scotland today joined Ireland and South Africa when the Scottish Trade Union Congress, representing every Scottish trade union, voted overwhelmingly to commit to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. This is the third example of a national trade union federation committing to BDS and is a clear indication that, while Israel can kill Palestinians with [...]
Read more →By Hanna Ingber Win Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf has become a popular book among students in India looking for tips on management tactics, reports the Daily Telegraph. Students striving to become successful businessmen and women are using the Nazi leader’s infamous autobiography as a self-help book. Sales of the book over the last six months [...]
Read more →By By Amy O’Brian, Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER — A major Canadian outdoor-equipment chain could be setting up camp on the thorny soil of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. A motion is expected to be presented next week at Mountain Equipment Co-op’s annual general meeting in Vancouver, calling for a boycott of all products produced in Israel. "We [...]
Read more →By Kobi Ben-Simhon He stuffs a pouch of tobacco into his shirt pocket and then pauses to light a brown pipe. “I have brain damage,” he says, almost shouting to make himself heard above the traffic. “Otherwise I don’t understand why I write. I have no logical explanation for why people write. I am certain [...]
Read more →By Ghassan Khatib There are several reasons to believe that the chance of success for the Palestinian unity dialogue now is very small, if not non-existent. The Egyptian-led mediation effort has now seen three rounds of meetings, sometimes involving all 13 Palestinian factions, sometimes between only the two main rivals, Fateh and Hamas. None has [...]
Read more →By Amira Hass The total separation of the Gaza Strip from the West Bank is one of the greatest achievements of Israeli politics, whose overarching objective is to prevent a solution based on international decisions and understandings and instead dictate an arrangement based on Israel’s military superiority. In view of the violent rivalry between the [...]
Read more →Please Distribute Widely Dear colleagues, UCSB has become the latest front in the war against Academic Freedom. Professor William I. Robinson, a Sociology and Global Studies professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been attacked by the Anti-Defamation League and two of his former students. In January of this year, he forwarded an [...]
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