The extremist centre

19Feb09

Yisrael Beiteinu:
“If it were up to me I would notify the Palestinian Authority that tomorrow at 10 in the morning we would bomb all their places of business in Ramallah.”
“World War Two ended with the Nuremberg trials. The heads of the Nazi regime, along with their collaborators, were executed. I hope this will be the [...]

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Tags: Avigdor Lieberman, elections, extremism, far-right, Kadima, Likud, Tzipi Livni, Yisrael Beiteinu

BDS in the US

15Feb09

Students at Hampshire College explain why they have become the first college in the US to divest from Israel’s occupation:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu comments:
“This is a monumental and historic step in the struggle for Palestinian equality, self-determination and peace in the Holy Land by non-violent means. I see what these students have [...]

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Tags: apartheid, BDS, divestment, Hampshire College, protest, students

Free Philip Rizk!

08Feb09

Philip Rizk, an Egyptian-German journalist and activist, was kidnapped by Mubarak’s secret police after organising a recent demonstration in solidarity with Gaza (Reuters report; eye-witness account):
“State security came for Philip Rizk on Friday night. He had just finished a six-mile protest walk with about 15 friends to raise support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip [...]

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Tags: Egypt, Gaza, Mubarak, Philip Rizk

A choice between extremists

06Feb09

As the election looms the political landscape in Israel looks increasingly consumed by militarism and right-wing nationalism. The Washington Post reports that “elections here often turn on a single question: Who looks tougher on national security?” This is a polite way of saying that killing Palestinians is a guaranteed vote-winner for Israeli politicians. Throughout its [...]

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Tags: Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, elections, Kadima, Labor, Likud, Meretz, Racism, settlements, settlers, Tzipi Livni, Yisrael Beiteinu

“They want us to live as orphans”

02Feb09

The 10 year-old girl in the clip is Mona Samouni. She is describing how  more than 30 members of her family, including her parents, were murdered when Israeli forces coralled them into a building and then repeatedly shelled it, and then prevented ambulances from evacuating the wounded for four days.

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Tags: al-Samouni, Cast Lead, children, Gaza, IDF, Mona Samouni, war crimes, Zeitoun

The contrition of Seth Freedman

01Feb09

After Israel launched its “shock and awe” assault on Gaza on December 27, timed to inflict maximum casualties and incinerating dozens of people in a matter of minutes,  CiF’s resident critic of Israel Seth Freedman came out in support of the “devastation” in Gaza. After having been “provoked” for months – presumably by Hamas’s disciplined [...]

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Tags: Cast Lead, CiF, Gaza, Seth Freedman