This is a call to action for everyone who stands in solidarity with Palestinians fighting for their human rights. On February 25, 2010 activists around the world will participate in an international day of action to raise awareness about the lack of freedom of movement in the Palestinian city of Hebron. The closure of Shuhada…
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Amnesty protest Israeli impunity over Gaza and justice
Amnesty UK release a report this week that concludes Israel’s siege on Gaza is collective punishment. The human rights group also issued this statement, in the wake of the attempt to arrest Tzipi Livni in London for war crimes over Gaza: The UK Government are planning imminent changes to the law, to avoid any future…
Israeli peace group calls for a growing BDS movement
Jeff Halper, founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), ups the ante: The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) was the first Israeli organization to endorse a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign and formulate a statement calling on the international community to pursue it. Indeed, ICAHD issued its call in January, 2005.…
What’s the chances of Israeli politicians being caught in Australia?
Greg Barns writes in Tasmanian newspaper (owned by Rupert Murdoch) The Mercury about the human right’s double standard when our political and media elites discuss war crimes, refugees and Israel: Last week the Right-wing media and their political friends worked themselves up into lather over an assessment by ASIO that a small number of Tamil…
Israel threatened West Bank as a “second Gaza”
Palestinian civil society is not just calling on Israel to account for its crimes (remember this next time one reads that Palestinians are only obsessed with holding Israel responsible for human rights violations) Eleven Palestinian human rights organizations have called on the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government in Gaza to endorse the Goldstone report…
Israel will love you if you’re pro-government, pro-war and pro-state
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel released its annual report in late December. The findings are devastating and reflect Israel’s gradual descent into a proud monoculture that slams alternative groups, racial classes and anti-mainstream perspectives: Freedom of Expression – If they like what you say: In 2009, there has been a disturbing increase in…
What is the best way to end Israeli apartheid? Chomsky or Abunimah
Mondoweiss discusses the role of the Left in acknowledging and managing the catastrophe of modern Zionism and its brutal treatment of the Palestinians. Noam Chomsky is on one side – reluctant to fully embrace boycott, divestment and sanctions – and the other is Ali Abunimah, arguing that Israel will only change when it feels the…
Returning to Gaza to find a land still destroyed
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Gaza infertility specialist, lost three daughters during Israel’s massacres in late 2008/early 2009. Now living in Toronto, he returned recently to Gaza for the first time since July 2009.
Using white phosphorous on Palestine cannot be forgotten
The call for Zionist accountability is growing: Israeli officials who authorized the use of white phosphorous in densely populated Gaza should be tried for war crimes, a British Labour Party legislator said Friday, after entering the Hamas-ruled territory with 60 European parliamentarians. … “The lawmakers are visiting Gaza to draw attention to the territory’s evil…
Gaza is a man-made disaster, eyewitness account
During the recent Gaza Freedom March, I became good friends with Nitin Sawhney, a research affiliate at MIT. He’s currently in Gaza and writing a fascinating blog about his experiences. There’s much to digest but here’s something from the latest post: The devastating events of the recent earthquake in Haiti linger in my mind as…