The betrayal of Gaza

24Dec09

In a report [.pdf] published this week, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Christian Aid and other leading aid agencies decried Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza. The siege amounts, they concluded, to the illegal “collective punishment” of a civilian population, and its effect is to “systematically … [destroy] the hopes of Gaza’s people for social and economic development [...]

Filed under: European Union, Israeli / Palestinian   |  12 Comments
Tags: collective punishment, EU, Gaza, Gaza Freedom March, Gaza massacre, humanitarian, nonviolence, Operation Cast Lead, siege

Long Live Gaza: Remembering one year since the massacre

22Dec09

A video by Ben White: See also lenin’s post here.

Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos   |  1 Comment
Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, siege, war crimes

Budrus

20Dec09

via Max: Tony Blair and others love to talk of “institution building” in the West Bank, but the basis for a decent Palestinian state lies not with Hamas or the collaborationist police state being constructed by the US and Israel in Ramallah, but with the grassroots resistance movement that has developed in both the West [...]

Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos   |  2 Comments
Tags: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, annexation wall, Bil'in, Budrus, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, occupation, resistance

The ‘demographic threat’

20Dec09

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is keeping vigilant: ‘Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Thursday rejected municipal recommendations and cut funding for a toddler health-care center in East Jerusalem, while approving aid to a similar center in a Jewish neighborhood. The funds would have gone to opening a branch of the “Drop of Milk” (Tipat Halav) program, [...]

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Tags: discrimination, Ehud Olmert, health, Israeli Palestinians, Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, Racism, Yitzhak Laor, zionism

British government covering for Livni – so much for the “war on terror”

17Dec09

The British government’s panic over the recent warrant issued by a British magistrate’s court for the arrest of former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and its subsequent determination to change the law to prevent a similar situation arising again, reveals a lot about the sincerity of much of the official propaganda we have been subjected [...]

Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, UK   |  1 Comment
Tags: BDS, boycott, Cast Lead, David Miliband, Gaza, Gordon Brown, International Law, Tzipi Livni, war crimes

Copenhagen

14Dec09

The incomparable Naomi Klein on the Copenhagen summit: Here’s Johann Hari on the ‘giant fraud’ being perpetrated by Western leaders: “Our leaders are aren’t giving us Hopenhagen – they’re giving us Cokenhagen, a sugary feelgood hit filled with sickly additives and no nutrition. Their behaviour here – where the bare minimum described as safe by scientists [...]

Filed under: Activism, Videos   |  2 Comments
Tags: Activism, climate change, climate crisis, Copenhagan, Environment, Mohamed Nasheed, Naomi Klein, police repression

Norman Finkelstein: Israel’s Disgrace in Gaza

14Dec09

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Tags: Cast Lead, Gaza, Goldstone report, Norman Finkelstein

BDS debate in Cambridge

14Dec09

A couple of weeks ago we held a meeting in Cambridge to oppose the Clare College choir’s decision to tour Israel, skipping the occupied Palestinian territories altogether except for a single fig-leaf performance in Bethlehem. I’ve been meaning to do a brief write-up of it, because I think our experience confirms what I already thought [...]

Filed under: Activism, Israeli / Palestinian   |  8 Comments
Tags: Activism, BDS, boycott, Cambridge, Cambridge Gaza Solidarity, choir, cultural boycott, Nancy Elan, Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Yazeed Said

Infamy, infamy…

13Dec09

Your humble blogger has once again been cited by the loony right as proof of the evil that is the soft-liberal, Democratic Party-aligned Obama lovefest that is Daily Kos: “On Israel-related news, one of the most frequent Daily Kos bloggers is one called Heathlander[31] who also maintains his own blog.[32] Heathlander has penned diaries – which [...]

Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, meta   |  10 Comments
Tags: Adam Levick, antisemitism, Glenn Greenwald, hasbara, Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, Intergalactic Institute for Preposterously Overblown Titles, meta, new-antisemitism