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Time for US to stop fueling the conflict
Josh Reubner, The Electronic Intifada, 25 May 2009 Seen in the Oval Office with Israeli President Shimon Peres in May 2009, US President Barack Obama requested $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel. (Pete Souza/White House Photo) In pledging to trim ineffective spending, US President Obama declared that “there will be no sacred cows and […]
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An Open Letter to Barack Obama from a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
May Day Weekend Edition May 1 – 3, 2009 Stand Up to Israeli Apartheid By MAIREAD MAQUIRE DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA, I found your book “Dreams from my Father” a moving and inspiring story of your own struggle to find your identity and purpose in life. You found it for sure, and today carry the hopes […]
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Palestinian workers and activists call on trade unions around the globe to increase solidarity
Release the Palestinian Activists Arrested in al-Ma”sara! After arrests and injuries on Workers Day, On May 1, people from the village of al-Ma”sara and the neighbouring villages in Bethlehem area commemorated Workers Day with a march in protest against the Apartheid Wall. The Wall continues to encroach on their land and isolates their villages. The […]
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Military exports to Israel reviewed following Gaza conflict
* Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent * The Guardian, Wednesday 22 April 2009 Britain announced last night that it is to review all its military exports to Israel in the light of the recent offensive in the Gaza Strip which killed around 1,400 Palestinians. In a written statement to MPs, the foreign secretary, David Miliband, […]
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UK campaigners score victory towards arms embargo
Yasmin Khan, The Electronic Intifada, 24 April 2009 It came as no surprise to campaigners in the United Kingdom to hear the British Foreign Minister David Miliband reveal this week that components supplied by Britain were “almost certainly” used by Israel in its recent military assault on Gaza. Despite Israel’s continued human rights abuses, the […]
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BDS: Thinking Outside the PLO Box
‘The tragedy of Gaza was not enough to wake the PLO up from its slumber.’ By Samah Sabawi Three months ago, the world stood still for one rare moment of absolute clarity as it grasped the implication of Israel’s imprisonment of a civilian population and its use of aid and medicine as a political bargaining […]
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A slander on our movement
Lichi D’Amelio responds to the charge, sadly made in a left-wing newspaper, that the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid is anti-Semitic. April 8, 2009 “PART OF the deepening pattern of Jew-baiting and anti-Semitism in the middle-class left worldwide.” You might think that such an ugly and provocative statement had to come from […]
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Key Dutch party: Sanctions against Israel if it thwarts peace
By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent The Netherlands must impose economic sanctions against Israel if the new government in Jerusalem thwarts the peace process with the Palestinians, the Dutch Labor party said last week. Members of Labor, which is a member of government as the country’s second largest party, said they intended to write a manifesto […]
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Amnesty International urges Obama to halt further exports to Israel
Submitted by kole on April 13, 2009 – 9:12am Ma”an News Agency, 11 April 2009 – The United States sent a massive new shipment of arms to Israel despite evidence that US weapons were misused against civilians in the Gaza attacks, Amnesty International revealed on 1 April. The human rights organization said about 14,000 tons […]
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A Harsh Reality for Palestinians
By AHMAD TIBI Published: April 6, 2009 JERUSALEM – The right-wing coalition of the new Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, does not bode well for Palestinians in Israel. With the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as foreign minister, the extremists are going after the indigenous population and threatening us with loyalty tests and the possibility of […]
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