It is worth quoting in full the following statement by Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the end of the Durban II conference in Geneva: It was very difficult. I had to face a widespread, and highly organized campaign of disinformation. Many people, including Ministers with whom I spoke, told me…
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How much longer will Israel be allowed to occupy?
Jordan’s King Abdullah isn’t exactly the finest example of a human rights defender – yes, it’s yet another US-backed dictatorship – but these comments in Washington about Israel are spot-on: “Israel now has to make its choice,” the king said in a speech in Washington. The Jewish state can “integrate into the region … or…
Why can’t killing be more popular?
“Israel strives to re-brand image“, we’re told. Yet again. Get ready for more failure. “It doesn’t matter how many times we convince ourselves and our staunch allies that we are not war criminals, and that those who try to portray us as such are incorrigible Jew-haters,” wrote Anshel Pfeffer in the liberal daily Haaretz. Israel’s…
A showdown that should only end one way
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has given his first interview to an Israeli newspaper. After telling a Russian paper earlier this week that, “Believe me, America accepts all our decisions“, his latest thoughts are equally likely to get the vast majority of the world off-side: The international community has to “stop speaking in slogans” if…
We can say what we want
Here’s yet another case of the Zionist lobby in the US causing trouble for an academic who dared criticise Israel: Toward the end of February 2009, University of California-Santa Barbara Sociology and Global Studies Professor William Robinson received notice from the Academic Senate’s Charges Committee that two of his students had filed charges against him.… …
The world already knows this little secret
Seumas Milne, The Guardian, April 23: What do the US, Canada, …Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Italy and Israel have in common? They are all either European or European-settler states. And they all decided to boycott this week’s UN …conference against racism in Geneva – even before Monday’s incendiary speech by the Iranian…
When two bigots get in the room
The weekly Haaretz published statement by Israeli peace group Gush Shalom: The President of Iran, Who has built a career On incitement and appeal To the basest instincts, Made a speech at the Conference against racism. And who cried “Scandalous! Anti-Semitism!”? Our Foreign Minister, Who himself had built a career On Incitement and appeal To…
We will always be known as occupiers
The war in Afghanistan is a disaster. And a war crime. Just like Vietnam and Iraq. Some soldiers seem to know that:
Don’t mess with Jewish exceptionalism
Remember. The Jewish Holocaust is the worst genocide. Ever: Yad Vashem has fired an instructor who compared the trauma of Jewish Holocaust survivors with the trauma experienced by the Palestinian people in Israel’s War of Independence.
From Scotland and beyond
Global progress, step by step: 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…