A letter by Human Rights Watch in the Jerusalem Post chastises the paper for defending apartheid policies in the West Bank: JPost Dec26-10 [HRW Letter Demolishes Editorial]
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It’s Christmas
So happy holidays to all and yet occupation isn’t going anywhere: Church leaders in Bethlehem have called for peace and reconciliation at the annual Christmas mass held at what is said to be the birthplace of Jesus. Tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims are in Bethlehem for Christmas, in a record year for tourism. Only…
Who is Haaretz covering with unaccountable views?
Poor form, Haaretz. Ali Abunimah investigates for The Electronic Intifada: Haaretz has an international reputation as Israel’s most liberal and reliable newspaper. But The Electronic Intifada has discovered that one of the newspaper’s regularly-featured reporters, Cnaan Liphshiz, used his news reports for the publication to promote the agenda of an extreme pro-Israel group with which…
We are Israel and we build on Palestinian land
The true face of Israel is a colonising state: In the three months since Israel ended its settlement construction freeze in the West Bank, causing the Palestinians to withdraw from peace talks, a settlement-building boom has begun, especially in more remote communities that are least likely to be part of Israel after any two-state peace…
Breaking the Silence book lands in English
The landmark new book by the brave Israelis who detail the full extent of Israel’s apartheid regime in the West Bank. This is all about control and humiliation of Palestinians: Breaking the Silence Full Book ENG Dec22-10 [Occupation of the Territories — Israeli Soldier Testimonies 2…
There’s plenty in Wikileaks cable dump, if reporters care to look
One: This is why Wikileaks is so crucial: A June 2009 cable from France, days after the great Cairo speech of Obama, in which the Israelis are said to claim a secret deal with the US for settlement growth. I’m running. More to say later. And note too… where… Sarkozy says, Israel, the horse of history is…
Fun and games hating Arabs
Just another day in sunny Israel: Just weeks after several dozen state-employed rabbis ignited a major controversy by issuing a letter calling on Israeli Jews not to rent or sell their homes to non-Jews, and one day after an anti-Arab demonstration in Bat Yam, Tuesday saw two more incidents in the rising tide of hatred…
Seattle buses spread message of Zionist crimes
American civil society takes a stand: Buses in downtown Seattle will carry advertisements about “Israeli war crimes” to mark the second year since the Gaza war. The Seattle Midwest Awareness Campaign has paid $1,794 to place the advertisements on 12 buses beginning Dec. 27, the day Israel entered Gaza to stop rocket attacks on its…
Damaged Palestinian property is never investigated
Apartheid: The Yesh Din human rights group said that in cases of settlers’ violence against Palestinians, 90-92 percent are closed, mostly because the perpetrators are not found. These figures are based on 700 cases opened after claims of violence. In cases of vandalizing or destroying property, no charges are pressed in 100 percent of the…
Zionist violence isn’t violence at all, jokes Rudd
An editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald today that highlights an amazing recent comment by Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd showing the inherent racism of Western backers of Zionism: Rudd made a distasteful joke about Menachem Begin carrying out ”some interior redesign” of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel – referring to a terrorist bombing in 1946…