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UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE OPENS IN GENEVA TO DISCUSS ISSUES SURROUNDING GAZA WAR
Speakers Call Attacks on Civilians War Crimes and Possibly Crimes against Humanity and Call for Independent Investigations 22 July 2009 An international meeting on the question of Palestine, organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, opened today in Geneva to discuss the responsibility of the international community […]
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Settlement builder Leviev dealt divestment blow
Press release, Adalah-NY, 25 August 2009 In another stunning blow to Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev, the Israeli business magazine Globes Online has reported that BlackRock Inc., one of the world’s largest investment management firms, has divested from Leviev’s Africa-Israel Investments. The Globes article follows a similar report by the Norwegian news service Norwatch. The move […]
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Derailing Injustice: Palestinian Civil Resistance to the “Jerusalem LightRail”
by Omar Barghouti Jerusalem Quarterly – Issue 38, Summer 2009 “I believe that this [Jerusalem Light Rail] should be done, and in any event, anything that can be done to strengthen Jerusalem, construct it, expand it and sustain it for eternity as the capital of the Jewish people and the united capital of the State […]
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Decolonizing Israel
By SOUSAN HAMMAD “An underdeveloped people must prove, by its fighting power, its ability to set itself up as a nation, and by the purity of every one of its acts, that it is, even to the smallest detail, the most lucid, the most self-controlled people.” –Frantz Fanon, “A Dying Colonialism” There is an echoing […]
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Queers Respond to Tel-Aviv Homophobic Violence, Call for BDS against Israel
If your own suffering does not serve to unite you with the suffering of others, if your own imprisonment does not join you with others in prison, if you in your smallness remain alone, then your pain will have been for naught. On the evening of August 1st in Tel Aviv, someone entered a youth […]
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Boycott “Israel”: Ann Arbor takes it to City Hall!
Just to show that people can (and should) get these issues having to do with public money and policy in the discussion at the decisional level, we have the video of the short talk given at the Ann Arbor (Michigan) City Council Meeting. It should serve as an example of ways to act and influence […]
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Can we talk? The Middle East “peace industry”
Faris Giacaman, The Electronic Intifada, 20 August 2009 Upon finding out that I am Palestinian, many people I meet at college in the United States are eager to inform me of various activities that they have participated in that promote “coexistence” and “dialogue” between both sides of the “conflict,” no doubt expecting me to give […]
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BlackRock Divests from the West Bank
By Erik Hagen Norwatch When the British Embassy in Tel Aviv was looking for new premises and was offered the opportunity of occupying a building owned by the investment company Africa-Israel Investments, the ambassador refrained. The reason was that the company was also responsible for settlements on the occupied West Bank. Africa-Israel Investments’ main owner […]
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Irish construction giant digs deeper in occupation
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 18 August 2009 A recent acquisition by the Israeli subsidiary of brick and mortar giant Irish CRH has placed the European conglomerate under increased pressure from Palestine solidarity activists.í‚ Irish CRH, formerly known as Cement Roadstone Holding, owns 25 percent of the Mashav Group, an Israeli construction firm.í‚ Mashav recently […]
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More than One S in Resistance
Nadia Hijab [Agence Global] 10 August 2009 – The American administration is hoping that this week”s Fatah conference will strengthen their peace partner, but Palestinian reactions have been mixed. Some have expressed anger that the conference is being held under Israeli occupation and hence control. Others are disinterested, having long ago lost faith in the […]
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