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Response to Alan Dershowitz’s “Lets Have a Real Apartheid Education Week”
by Ziyaad Lunat / March 19th, 2010 Alan Dershowitz recently wrote an op-ed in the Huffington Post attacking Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). He argues that “radical Islamic students” are behind the event and their sole purpose is to “demonize Israel”. After painting the organizers as “extremists”, Dershowitz (a self-proclaimed “moderate” who supports torture and Israeli […]
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Book review: Higher education under occupation
Marcy Newman, The Electronic Intifada, 19 March 2010 Gabi Baramki’s Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University under Occupation (Pluto Press, 2009) is a memoir of Palestine’s flagship university, Birzeit, by its former acting president. The memoir is an indispensable tool for teaching Westerners about the ways in which Palestinian education exists and flourishes under a […]
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US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government
WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A 392 page legal filing presented by a four person IRmep delegation in a two hour meeting with top officials […]
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BDS Day of Action – March 30, 2010
BNC Call for Action Join the Second Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2010 The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to unite in your different capacities and struggles for a Global BDS Day of Action on 30 March 2010 in solidarity with the Palestinian people and for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions […]
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Israel: Image Management Crisis!
by Doug Minkler To All Academics, Artists and Entertainers: Israel Needs Your ENDORSEMENT! Doug Minkler: “Corporations want artists to glorify their wars, their products & their philosophies. I make posters for my own preservation, that is, planetary preservation. My prints are inspired not by rugged individualism, but by the collective humor, defiance, & lust for […]
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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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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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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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