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From the Salt Lake Tribune: Boycott Israel
Public Forum Letter Updated: 03/16/2010 12:34:04 PM MDT Israel’s announcement of plans to build 1,600 more housing units for Jews in Palestinian East Jerusalem is for me the last straw. According to international law, that’s not Israeli land — it’s Palestinian land — a point the United States has reaffirmed for decades. Clearly, Israel doesn’t […]
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Support Our Troops: Boycott the Israeli Occupation
Tuesday 16 March 2010 by: Robert Naiman, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed I don’t know about all you commiepinkos, but I believe we should Support Our Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. General Petraeus, Admiral Mullen and Vice President Biden say that Israel’s actions toward the Palestinians are putting our troops […]
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“Week against Israeli Apartheid” at the AUB campus in Beirut
Film screenings, poetry readings, debates, workshops, roundtables, conferences and concert … that was the agenda of the Week against Israeli Apartheid held from March 1 to March 6 in several cities worldwide and for the first time in the Lebanese capital, at the American University of Beirut. For five days, these activities have sought to […]
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It is Time to Hear the Palestinian People
Israel”s dangerous and arrogant escalation in settlement building, house demolitions and evictions of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem indicates that the government of Netanyahu-Lieberman”s is pushing for overt clash and conflict– and demonstrates that it has absolutely no real intention of resuming peace negotiations. Israel”s provocations are leading the region toward a violent period, at […]
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Just the beginning: Ahava London shut down on the weekend
In response to a call for action from the popular committee of Bi”lin village in Palestine, on Saturday the 13th of March, over 30 people from different Palestine solidarity groups (including ISM London) turned up for the first fortnightly demonstration outside Ahava in Covent Garden, central London. Ahava is an Israeli cosmetics company based in […]
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Israel’s apartheid: Making Palestinians pay for Hitler’s crimes
By Suzanne Weiss This speech was given by Suzanne Weiss on March 2, 2010, to a meeting of students at the University of Waterloo in Canada, held as part of the Israeli Apartheid Week. Suzanne Weiss, a holocaust survivor, is a member of Not in Our Name: Jewish Voices Against Zionism and of the Coalition […]
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Israel’s Reut Institute removes “sabotage” and “attack” language to hide its true intentions
Israel’s leading think tank the Reut Institute recently recommended that Israel’s government and intelligence agencies “sabotage” and “attack” peace and justice groups around the world that have been critical of Israel, as EI reported in February. Reut was obviously embarassed by the wide exposure its underhand, and possibly illegal recommendations generated, so it has cleaned […]
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Reut Institute report author lies about Naomi Klein
Let”s review shall we? Reporters questioned the Reut Institute about their use of the terms “sabotage” and “attack” in a set of recommendations for how the Israeli government should respond to human rights group who said things they consider a threat. In response, Reut didn”t say, “We were misunderstood and we reject violence of any […]
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Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Download: Is Israel an Apartheid State? (pdf, 5.57 MB) Do Israel”s practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law? Summary of a legal study by Human Sciences Research Center of South Africa. Summary written by Frances H. ReMillard. Rhetoric […]
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IU Professor: U.S. must immediately stop funding Israeli colonial project
March 15, 2010 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Vice President Joe Biden’s rebuke of Israel over proposed settlement expansion in Greater East Jerusalem is not only ineffective, it’s hypocritical, said Professor Rafael Reuveny, a researcher on Middle East violence and political economy at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington. “The United States […]
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