• BDS Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Part 3

    Posted on July 23, 2010

    The BDS movement: boycott, divestment and sanctions used to put pressure on Israel to respect the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the occupation, is rapidly growing around the world. This video examines the economic aspects of BDS. How did BDS evolve? Can it be an effective tool against Israel? Could it hurt […]

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  • “˜Governments Are Not Going to Change This. We Have To’: Antony Loewenstein on Israel/Palestine, the Internet and more

    Posted on July 22, 2010

    By Alex Kane July 21, 2010 With “peace talks” between the Palestinian Authority and Israel seeming more and more like a dead end, many people around the world, including dissident Jewish voices, are turning to grassroots activism to pressure Israel to end the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories. Recently, Jewish Voice for Peace launched […]

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  • GRITtv: Antony Loewenstein & Ali Abuminah: The Real Peace Process | GRITtv with Laura Flanders

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    Peace process, proximity talks, one state, two state…though these terms are often tossed around the mass media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, t … [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.958927&w=425&h=350&fv=] GRITtv: Antony Loewenstein & Ali Abuminah: The …, posted with vodpod

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  • Challenging the Jewish National Fund

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    Hazem Jamjoum, The Electronic Intifada, 21 July 2010 For anyone taking a road trip along the highways of the part of Palestine that became Israel in 1948, one is bound to spot a blue and green structure in the shape of a bird marked with the Hebrew letters KKL, which stands for Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael, […]

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  • Chomsky and Palestine: Asset or Liability?

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    In a recent interview renowned linguist Noam Chomsky called the BDS campaign “hypocritical”. Jeffrey Blankfort, who is the author of an earlier important critique of Chomsky”s position on Palestine, responds: When Noam Chomsky was stopped at Jordan”s Allenby Bridge and prevented from entering the Palestinian West Bank by Israeli occupation forces in May, the widespread […]

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  • Israeli right embracing one-state?

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    By Ali Abunimah There has been a strong revival in recent years of support among Palestinians for a one-state solution guaranteeing equal rights to Palestinians and Israeli Jews throughout historic Palestine. One might expect that any support for a single state among Israeli Jews would come from the far left, and in fact this is […]

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  • Are Arabs swimming with or against the BDS tide against Israeli Apartheid?

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    July 2010 by Mohannad El-Khairy Charles C. Boycott seems to have become a household word because of his strong sense of duty to his employer. An Englishman and former British soldier, Boycott was the estate agent of the Earl of Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. The earl was one of the absentee landowners who as […]

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  • “Palestinian Holocaust is ongoing”

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    July 20, 2010 In Letters to the Editor, at: http://www.annarbor.com/news/opinion/boycott-israel-proposal-deserves-local-discussion/ There is rarely an issue of AnnArbor.com that does not showcase Zionist propaganda to whitewash the crimes of Israel against Palestinians. One can easily find numerous entries for “Holocaust” when searching in AnnArbor.com, including today’s front-page Holocaust article showcasing Beth Israel Congregation (now famous for […]

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  • In an effort to combat BDS, the JCRC doubles down on the occupation

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    by Adam Horowitz on July 20, 2010 The leaders of the American Jewish community continue to struggle with how to respond to the the growing BDS movement. The Jewish Community Relations Committee of Greater Washington has adopted a particularly strange approach – they want their members to actively support the occupation. This call is in […]

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  • US voters can demand Palestine’s freedom

    Posted on July 19, 2010

    Cynthia McKinney, The Electronic Intifada, 19 July 2010 In response to Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla, more than 800 labor and community activists picketed America’s sixth largest port in Oakland last month. The result was a historic blockade of a large Israeli cargo ship for 24 hours. Across the world, dockworkers and […]

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