Anti-Occupation Demonstration, London

10Jun07

Yesterday, there was a large demonstration organised by the Enough! coalition of NGOs and anti-war groups (e.g. Jews for Justice for Palestinians, War on Want, Stop the War Coalition, etc. etc.) in London against Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. We began at Lincoln’s Field Inns and marched to Trafalgar Square to hear numerous speakers articulate [...]

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Finkelstein Denied Tenure

09Jun07

Very sad news – Prof. Norman Finkelstein has been denied tenure at DePaul. This is despite the support of his department, which voted 9-3 in favour of tenure, and the endorsement of his scholarship by leading figures in his field(s) – Avi Shlaim, Noam Chomsky, Raul Hilberg, Sara Roy, etc. The decision [...]

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Tags: DePaul, Education, Free Speech, Norman Finkelstein

U.S. House of Representatives Affirms Support For Israel’s Occupation

08Jun07

Further to this post about the Democrats’ total divorce from reality regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict, yesterday saw the House of Representatives pass a resolution praising Israel’s “reunification” of Jerusalem, and urging the President to move the U.S. embassy there.
‘The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution congratulating Israel on the 40th anniversary of the reunification [...]

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Tags: International & Foreign Policy, International Law, Norman Finkelstein, Ronnie Kasrils

The Wall

08Jun07

Quite.

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Tags: Links, wall

‘Massive And Systematic Violation Of Human Rights’

08Jun07

From Der Spiegel:
‘In his second report on so-called “extraordinary renditions” of terror suspects, Council of Europe special investigator Dick Marty writes that there is “enough evidence to state” that American secret prisons in Poland and Romania existed. The illegal deportation of suspects by CIA kidnapping teams in Europe amounts to a “massive and systematic violation [...]

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Tags: CIA, Human Rights, International Law, rendition

Valley Of The Weirdo

08Jun07

The WordPress software used to manage this blog has a function that lets me know whenever someone links here. Every few days, I get a link from this blog called the ‘Valley of the Shadow’. It’s really strange because I’ve never (knowingly) interacted with this guy before, yet he seems obsessed with what I write [...]

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Tags: bloggery, loonies, Loony Watch, Uncategorized

Palestinians Under Siege

05Jun07

“For the first time in history, Jews are able to buy Judea and Samaria. By buying out just 1% of the Arab population in Judea and Shomron, Jews can reclaim 58% of the Land because 99% of the Arabs live in concentrated areas on the other 42%. With so-called Palestinians confined to Cantons, the option [...]

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Divide And Conquer

03Jun07

“If I take my hand and slap you, you don’t even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.”

For an excellent example of an oppressed people – or, more accurately, [...]

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Tags: Malcolm X, resistance

Martin Luther King: “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam”

01Jun07

Just came across this the other day. If only we had more people of his integrity and compassion speaking up against the destruction of Iraq.

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Tags: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, War