Archive for the 'Israeli / Palestinian' Category
The BBC’s report on the ‘Breaking the Silence’ testimonies of IDF soldiers describing the commission of serious war crimes during Operation Cast Lead is pretty representative of its output on the topic: there’s nothing outrageous, but there is nonetheless a systematic bias that underplays or ignores the most serious accusations levelled against Israel, juxtaposes Palestinian [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Media | 2 Comments
Tags: BBC, bias, Cast Lead, complaint, Gaza, IDF, Tarik Kafala
When Gandhi’s doctrine of non-violent resistance (satyagraha) is invoked in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, it is invariably as a propaganda weapon intended to undermine the legitimacy of Palestinian resistance and shift the blame for the continuing occupation on to its principal victims.
Leaving such dishonest rhetorical jabs aside, the question of whether any of [...]
Filed under: Activism, Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 28 Comments
Tags: Activism, blockade, collective punishment, Gandhi, Gaza, non-violence, Norman Finkelstein, protest, siege
Living in graves
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Tags: Gaza, house demolitions
Daily humiliations
What was that phrase Obama used? The “daily humiliations — large and small — that come with occupation“.
[Ha'aretz] ‘Border Policemen have filmed themselves abusing and humiliating Palestinians in videos they have posted on YouTube over the past year.
In one clip uploaded to the video sharing website an Arab youth is [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 9 Comments
Tags: border police, IDF, occupation, Racism
Life under occupation
‘In the course of the past few years, Palestinian children from two small villages in south Hebron, who walk every day to the elementary school in At Tuwani village, have faced regular harassment by Israeli settlers, including being verbally abused, physically assaulted, chased and having stones thrown at them. Though the Israeli authorities have failed [...]
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Tags: children, Hebron, IDF, occupation, settlers
‘We, United Nations and non-governmental humanitarian organisations, express deepening concern over Israel’s continued blockade of the Gaza Strip which has now been in force for two years..
These indiscriminate sanctions are affecting the entire 1.5 million population of Gaza and ordinary women, children and the elderly are the first victims.
The amount of [...]
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Tags: blockade, CARE, collective punishment, Gaza, Oxfam, siege, UNRWA
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh today declared that Hamas is “prepared to accept a state in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967″. He continued:
“We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital…
“If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian | 5 Comments
Tags: Binyamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Mesha'al
Still torturing children
A Defence for Children International report published earlier this week contains the testimonies of 33 children subjected to abuse by Israeli soldiers.
The report finds that,
‘illegally obtained confessions are routinely used as evidence in the military courts to convict around 700 Palestinian children every year. And the most common charge against these [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Torture | 2 Comments
Tags: abuse, administrative detention, children, Defence for Children International, IDF, Torture
Free Ezra Nawi
Join Naomi Klein, Neve Gordon, Noam Chomsky and thousands of others and tell Israel not to jail Ezra Nawi, one of Israel’s most courageous human rights activists.
His crime? He tried to stop a military bulldozer from destroying the homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the South Hebron region.
Nawi, a Jewish Israeli of [...]
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Tags: Activism, Ezra Nawi, house demolitions
Obama’s ‘bold’ vision
So here I am back in the UK, bleary-eyed and smelling like I’ve been travelling for three months. Curious, I switch on the computer to see what the you’ve all been up to in my absence: shocking revelations that MPs can sometimes be a bit crooked have England in revolt, another mortal threat to national security [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, US | 13 Comments
Tags: "peace process", Binyamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Hamas, settlements
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