Israeli peace group Gush Shalom publishes the following ad in Haaretz today: In far-away Haiti A terrible disaster Has occured. Within a few hours An Israeli aid mission Was organized. In near-by Gaza Hundreds of houses Lie in ruins. The inhabitants do not ask For an aid mission. Only that the Israeli government Stops preventing…
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BDS brings justice to an occupied people
John Pilger writes in the New Statesman on the growing global call for BDS – it can’t be stopped and nor should it until Israel abides by international law (despite Zionists claiming that Arab “violence” justifies holding onto occupied territory forever): In the United States and Europe, trade unions, mainstream churches and academic associations have…
The struggles of a Palestinian student to finish her studies
Back in July, I visited the occupied city of Bethlehem and spent time at the world-renowned university there. Its head is New Zealand Father Peter Bray, a compassionate man dedicated to improving the lives of his students. He wrote a report just before Christmas and now adds another one, this time on his recent trip…
The humanity of the rabbis in Gaza
An Australian participant in the Gaza Freedom March, Donna Mulhearn, travelled inside Gaza in late December (her first report is here) and now writes another installment: Friends, When the orthodox Jewish Rabbi, in his long black coat and wide-brimmed black felt hat held out his arms and hugged Mahmood in the loungeroom of his bombed-out…
Please, Bono, don’t lend your name to oppression
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) writes to U2’s Bono and urges him not to visit Israel on tour: We call on you now not to grant legitimacy to a state that practices the most pernicious form of colonialism and apartheid.
European MPs visit Gaza and realise humans live there
At least some politicians in the West don’t regard the people of Gaza as toxic: The largest delegation of European MPs will visit the besieged Gaza Strip, in Friday, to be updated with the conditions in Gaza after a year of the Israeli war which left thousands of victims. “The European Campaign to End the…
Israel can only show power by belittling others
Israel’s attempt at humiliating the Turkish ambassador has back-fired spectacularly. It is the moves of a little nation, not a democracy, a country that wants to embarrass Jews. If they think this is showing Zionist strength, they are sadly mistaken. The Haaretz editorial: Israel’s fury at critics of its policies in Gaza is not new.…
IDF officer tells anti-settler protestors that they are traitors
The continually invaluable Israeli website Promised Land (along with Joseph Dana) link to a report on Israeli television that perfectly captures the upcoming (probably violent) struggle between the fundamentalist settler movement, secular Israelis and the IDF: A report from Friday Channel 10 news shows how a peaceful Palestinian demonstration – it’s the reporters who call…
Attacking the infrastructure of terror and occupation
I reported yesterday on moves in the US to hold Western multinationals accountable that behaved badly during the apartheid era in South Africa. Marjorie Jobson, the national director of the South African Khulumani Support Group that filed the lawsuit, tells Democracy Now! what the focus is (and why many of us are thinking about similar…