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Obama’s New Path To Mideast Peace?
David A. Love Philadelphia-based writer and Executive Editor, BlackCommentator.com Posted: April 21, 2010 10:39 AM Sometimes, desperate and difficult circumstances require that we change the game a little bit, shake things up, if you will. If recent reports are true, then President Obama plans to mint his own Mideast peace plan in an attempt to […]
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BDS is a long term project with radically transformative potential
by Ahmed Moor on April 22, 2010 I”m grateful to Jerry Haber for taking the time to engage me on the role of “liberal” Zionists in the BDS movement. Sometimes my tone borders on truculence, which is really just impatience. I”m impatient for “liberal” Zionists to discard the “Zionist” and become regular liberals like the […]
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Veolia tries to spin its involvement in the occupation
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 22 April 2010 By participating in the touring Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition, the French transnational company Veolia Environnement is attempting to spin its image that has been tarnished by the exposure of its involvement in the Israeli occupation. The UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign used the occasion of […]
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My Investment in Israel
April 21, 2010 Are You an Anti-Semite? By VIJAY PRASHAD I”m not Israeli. I”m not Palestinian. Nor Jewish, nor Arab, nor Muslim. I”ve never been to Jerusalem, nor Ramallah. I”m not sure if I”ll ever go there. I have no relatives who live there, no family who ever went there, or came from there. I […]
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The BDS Movement: Talk and Discussion with Omar Barghouti
The BDS Movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) is an effective voice bringing attention to the injustices of Israel”s treatment of the Palestinian community in the Middle East. Omar Barghouti is a founder of the BDS movement. In part 1 Mr. Barghouti provides his personal struggle to bring the movement forward and includes a very personal insight […]
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Boycotting Israel, Boycotting the Law of Return
We are Jews from the United States, who, like Jewish people throughout the world, have an automatic right to Israeli citizenship under Israel’s “law of return.” Today there are more than seven million Palestinian refugees around the world. Israel denies their right to return to their homes and land–a right recognized and undisputed by UN […]
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What does it take to get liberal Zionists on board with BDS, and is it worth it?
by Ahmed Moor on April 20, 2010 Jerry Haber”s call for liberal Zionists to join the broader BDS movement is laudable for what he”s attempting to do. Sadly, Haber”s Zionism informs his writing in a way that largely undermines his professed goal. The current of Jewish paternalism that runs throughout the list translates into both […]
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Will liberal Zionists come around to BDS?
by Adam Horowitz on April 18, 2010 The divestment debate taking place at Berkeley is creating waves. It is not only helping to build diverse and powerful coalitions on campus, but it is also sparking conversations in places that have, at least to this point, been allergic to BDS. Jerry Haber has an important post […]
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Israel’s shock doctrine
The organization Israel has been trying to join, the OECD, finds that the zionist entity has the biggest poverty rate in the industrialized world, in part due to the neoliberal policies enacted during Netanyahu”s term as finance minister. Watch out for news about whether the OECD decides to admit the hafrada regime in the coming […]
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