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You will have no protection
Alice Walker, The Electronic Intifada, 4 June 2010 You will have no protection — Medgar Evers to Civil Rights Activists in Mississippi, shortly before he was assassinated, 12 June, 1963 My heart is breaking; but I do not mind. For one thing, as soon as I wrote those words I was able to weep. Which […]
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Klaxons and Gorillaz Sound System cancel Israel shows, apparently due to Gaza flotilla raid
Concert producer ‘troubled’ by the groups’ decision to cancel despite numerous attempts to convince them to still come. By City Mouse Online The Klaxons and the Gorillaz Sound System have both canceled their performances in Israel this week, apparently due to Israel’s deadly raid on the Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla and the ensuing worldwide political […]
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UK author Iain Banks urges Israel boycott
(Reuters) – Author Iain Banks called for a cultural and educational boycott on Israel Thursday following its deadly raid on a flotilla of ships carrying aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. The author, well known for his science fiction novels and other works, said in a letter to the Guardian newspaper that he had instructed […]
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Divide grows over Israel and Gaza
* The Guardian, Friday 4 June 2010 We applaud Iain Banks’s decision to refuse book translation deals with Israeli publishers (Letters, 3 June). The mentality behind Israel’s tortuous attempts to justify nine murders and many injuries on the Mavi Marmara was exposed for all to see outside the Israeli embassy in Kensington on Wednesday night. […]
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BDS-Related Responses to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre of 31 May 2010
Only a few days since Israel’s illegal and fatal act of aggression against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla,, BDS-related reactions around the world were quick and qualitatively consequential. Building on 5 years of international BDS activism since the Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS was launched on 9 July 2005, a year and a half since […]
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Margaret Atwood: Lessons in Selling Out
I felt a deep sharp pain in my stomach; I could swear that I saw the flotilla in the sea from my window; the water was red and I could swear that I smelled the blood, thick and iron-saturated. The pain hit for a split second; it couldn”t last longer. The sun was shining perfectly […]
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Joan Armatrading and her Lack of Conscience
The Israel Palestine conflict is a convoluted situation, entrenched by years of reinforcement, but this is a problem that we know can be solved. In apartheid South Africa, many people worked hard to put an end to a situation that looked hopelessly unendable, but it took two men to make that final and defining step […]
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The day the world became Gaza
By Ali Abunimah Since Israel’s invasion and massacre of over 1,400 people in Gaza 18 months ago, dubbed Operation Cast Lead, global civil society movements have stepped up their campaigns for justice and solidarity with Palestinians. Governments, by contrast, carried on with business as usual, maintaining a complicit silence. Israel’s lethal attack on the Freedom […]
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Small step towards a boycott of Israel
* The Guardian, Thursday 3 June 2010 Following the murderous attack on the Gaza-bound convoy, is it not time to revisit the idea of a full cultural and educational boycott of Israel (Report, 2 June)? The sports boycott of apartheid South Africa hit the Afrikaners where, arguably, they felt it most and helped them understand […]
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