Fascinating and disturbing story (via the US-based Southern Poverty Law Centre) about the largely ignored reality of skin-heads, white pride members and bigots inside US jails: David Arenberg had everything going for him. He was smart, the son of a research scientist and a teacher. He graduated in 1980 from the elite University of Chicago…
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BDS will continue to grow in Australia, regardless of comical attacks
The following statement was issued today by the Palestine Action Group (Sydney): Supporters of Palestine have responded to a May 2 report in… the… Australian… asserting that Max Brenner Israel has no direct shares in Max Brenner Australia as irrelevant to the solidarity campaign for justice in Palestine. Palestine solidarity activists are bemused that… the… Australian… has given front page coverage…
It takes skill to praise Israel caring for Palestinians (thank you Murdoch)
Today’s editorial in Rupert Murdoch’s Australian is a classic case of receiving a press release from the Israeli government and it somehow, mysteriously, appearing in the paper. Occupation is invisible. Hell, Israel is praised for cuddling Palestinians babies at West Bank checkpoints. Well, nearly. If the editors need some assistance to better understand the brutal,…
Memo to Murdoch/Zio lobby; BDS grows while occupation deepens
Another day and yet more faux outrage by the Murdoch press and Israel lobby in Australia. First this (via the Australian on its front page): Julia Gillard has denounced the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement ahead of anti-Israeli protest action planned at the University of NSW today. BDS action at UNSW has turned ugly, with…
We kill, drone and bomb Muslims and we wonder why some hate us?
Powerful column in the UK Independent by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: First, read this unconditional acceptance of facts that cannot be denied nor excused. Islamicist terrorism has inflicted atrocities and diffused panic and amorphous, long-term anxiety from east to west, south to north. Citizens of Nairobi and Baghdad, Madrid and London, Bamako and Dar es Salaam, New…
Palestinians using the black South African example to end apartheid
Gideon Levy, Haaretz: Not only Israelis but Palestinians, too, must learn the lessons of South Africa. The struggle of the black population focused on one issue: universal vote. Nelson Mandela’s demand for “one person, one vote” was more than a slogan, it was a strategic goal. It became reality on April 27th, 19 years ago,…
Getting creative to support BDS against Israel
“SAY NO!” MORGAN & JIAN from Albino Squirrel Channel on Vimeo.
Major BDS success: US academic boycott against Israel grows
Important move to stand against Israeli occupation (via Inside Higher Ed): The general membership of the Association for Asian American Studies has unanimously approved a resolution endorsing the boycott of Israeli universities, making it the first scholarly organization in the U.S. to do so,… according to… the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.…
