Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) Carleton in Ottawa, Canada, have released a stunning video explaining why their university should divest from companies intimately involved in the Israeli occupation. It’s just the latest example of civil society taking up the issue of Palestine when governments and the elites continue backing gross human rights abuses in Palestine.…
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Much of the world doesn’t believe Israeli arrogance anymore
The revealing statement by the Israeli government to the UN: You are worrying about the humanitarian rights of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza. You should be worrying about one Israeli who is being held there.
Israel only sees goodness in itself
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: They [the international community] know that no country has faced the kind of terror rocket attacks that we have faced, except for Britain during World War II, and that our response was the only sensible response. Operation Cast Lead was a more proportionate response than was meted out by Great…
Not if, but how, Israel uses the Holocaust as a political weapon
Even asking this question would be impossible in most Western media: Does Israel Use The Holocaust as a Blackmail Weapon? On Russia Today, a satellite channel funded by the Russian state, Norman Finkelstein and others debate the question. And as he rightly says, of course Israel uses the catastrophe to shield itself from criticism and…
Poles want legal remedy for Gaza crimes
A typical case of Israeli leaders playing the role of victim, yet again: Israeli leaders continue are still wanted in Europe, but not in a positive way: Knesset members visiting Poland for ceremonies marking International Holocaust Day were surprised to see ads against Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Opposition Chairwoman Tzipi Livni in the city…
Israel must fully investigate activities in Gaza, demand human rights figures
The following statement was released on 26 December by a host of Israeli human rights groups: Adalah — The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel | Association for Civil Rights in Israel | B’tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories | Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom…
Yet another way that hatred for Israel breeds every day in Gaza
The longer of prisoner’s families in Gaza is like torture with Israel illegally refusing to allow regular visits: Umm Faris Baroud of Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City wakes up early every Monday in the hope that she will be allowed to visit her son Faris, serving a life sentence in one of Israel’s…
Can the New York Times fairly see the Middle East when the IDF is front and centre?
In July 2009 I spoke to New York Times Jerusalem correspondent Ethan Bronner who told me, when asked, that he did not have any children serving in the IDF. According to Electronic Intifada, this may have changed: The New York Times has all but confirmed to The Electronic Intifada (EI) that the son of its…
LA Jews challenge Israel
It may not be a strong movement yet, but American Jews are starting to speak out against Israeli crimes. Here’s LA Jews for Peace and friends in front of the Federal building on the one year anniversary of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza:
A man dedicated to Palestine: Rich Wiles
British photographer Rich Wiles, who has spent years working and teaching in Palestine, has launched a website. His new book, Behind the Wall: Life, Love and Struggle in Palestine, is released next month: Of the approximately seven million Palestinian refugees around the world, more than 650,000 are living in camps along the West Bank and…