Imagine that: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is weighing the possibility of traveling to the Gaza Strip in order to “break the Israeli blockade,” the Lebanese newspaper al-Mustaqbal reported on Saturday, according to Army Radio. Erdogan reportedly raised the idea in conversations with close associates and even informed the United States of his intention…
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Moving from watching Fox News to understanding Palestine
During my experience with the Gaza Freedom March in late 2009 in Cairo, I spent time with a remarkable American woman and mother, Debbie Mardon. She once was a right wing, Fox News watcher but is now a fiercely passionate activist for Palestine. Her transformation was documented in New York’s Indypendent newspaper last week and…
The “Jewish boat” moving towards Gaza
Soon Israel will be faced with Jewish anti-siege activists fighting to break the blockade on Gaza.
Israel needs a mass movement of sanity (which is sadly lacking)
The peace movement, anti-occupation, anti-Gaza siege and rational Israelis do exist and they made their voices heard this weekend. If only more of them existed: Thousands of demonstrators from across the left-wing of Israeli politics held a rally in Tel Aviv Saturday afternoon to protest 43 years of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, and…
Rachel Corrie is illegally boarded
Looks like Israel’s trigger-finger was on holiday this Sabbath: Israel Defense Forces soldiers on Saturday boarded the Gaza-bound aid ship “Rachel Corrie,” and directed it toward the the Israeli port city of Ashdod. The move came after warnings that Israel would not allow the vessel to reach Gaza, which is under blockade by Israel, and…
“The Israelis have behaved like pirates, no better than those who operate off the coast of Somalia”
Bestselling Swedish author Henning Mankell, who sailed on the ships trying to break Israel’s Gaza blockade, shares his diary of the journey.
The far-right shows its proud side
Israeli dissident Neve Gordon on Israel’s fascist turn. Remind me how we share “values” with Israel again? In Israel, almost all of the protests against the navy’s assault on the relief flotilla took place in Palestinian space. Palestinian citizens in almost every major town and city, from Nazareth to Sachnin and from Arabe to Shfaram,…
Some Swedes care about Palestine and show it
More progress: Swedish dockworkers will launch a weeklong blockade of Israeli ships and goods arriving in the Nordic nation to protest Monday’s attack on a Gaza-destined aid flotilla. Nine activists died after Israeli troops intercepted the convoy. Swedish Port Workers Union spokesman Peter Annerback says workers will refuse to handle Israeli goods and ships during…
Talk to Hamas now, says Turkey
While the New York Times calls for better relations between Israel and Turkey – and even urges Israel to end its siege on Gaza – Ankara has its own ideas about moving forward (via The Cable): As the crisis over a deadly Israeli commando raid on a vessel carrying Turkish activists continued to command the…
Major British union embraces BDS
Drip, drip: Britain’s largest union, Unite, has unanimously passed a motion to boycott Israeli companies at its first policy conference in Manchester on Wednesday. The motion, which passed unanimously, called the union “to vigorously promote a policy of divestment from Israeli companies”, while a boycott of Israeli goods and services will be “similar to the…