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GRITtv: Creative Movements for Change in Palestine
This week was the 34th anniversary of Palestinian Land Day, and also a day for awareness of the growing boycott, divestment, sanctions movement. Land Day commemorates the deaths of six peaceful activists in a demonstration, and today we talk about activism and its ability to make change. Remi Kanazi, a poet and activist, and Phyllis […]
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Should the EU subsidise Israeli security?
Transnational Institute March 2010 – The inclusion of Israel in the European Security Research Programme undermines the EU’s commitment to even-handedness in the Middle East. Since the European Community began funding research in 1984, both the amount of funding available and the range of topics on offer have steadily increased (the latest framework programme, FP7, […]
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Israel And Apartheid: By People Who Knew Apartheid
31 March 2010 1. André Brink, one of South Africa’s leading authors, whose opposition to the apartheid regime resulted in his novels becoming the first books in Afrikaans to be banned by the government. This extract is from his memoir, A Fork In The Road (in French, from which the excerpt is taken, Mes bifurcations, […]
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Israel’s acts against Palestinians exceed the worst of apartheid’s crimes, writes Iqbal Jassat
Building barriers to peace Mar 31, 2010 10:07 PM | By Iqbal Jassat The Big Read: I find the opinion piece by Benjamin Pogrund entitled “It still takes two to tango” (March 23) extraordinarily delusional. This is to be expected ever since Pogrund migrated to Israel and commenced a public profile that many have come […]
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What the Reut Institute really wants: NOT one person-one vote
Posted on March 29 2010 by Cecilie Surasky A week after his visit to AIPAC, I am left wondering if it is possible for anyone other than Bibi Netanyahu to so beautifully embody the notion of “strutting victimization”. And yet, it”s not just Bibi who can taunt Israel”s primary sponsor, the United States, with plans […]
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Israeli West Bank food company fakes address for EU markets
By Akiva Eldar Shamir Salads, an Israeli company located in the West Bank, is marketing its products in Europe using a false address west of the Green Line, violating an agreement between Israel and the European Union. Jewish activists last week gave the left-wing Gush Shalom movement a label from a Shamir Salads hummus tin […]
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Israel’s inclusion in economic organization a threat to democracy
Shir Hever, The Electronic Intifada, 25 March 2010 Membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which includes 30 of the world’s most developed countries, does not provide money or any special economic benefits. Yet it is easy to see why the Israeli government attributes great importance to Israel becoming one of its […]
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In the Final Analysis
By Sana A recent “policy paper,” written by McGill History professor Gil Troy and AICE”s Mitchell Bard, has been aggressively circulating around the internet. Supposedly to be presented at a meeting of Jewish scholars and activists in Israel, it condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a “full-blown political, economic, cultural, ideological struggle […]
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Mideast peace effort is a charade
By Ali Abunimah, Special to CNN March 23, 2010 — Updated 1646 GMT (0046 HKT) Editor’s note: Ali Abunimah is the author of “One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse,” and is a frequent speaker and commentator on the Middle East. (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Monday speech to America’s […]
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Israeli Apartheid and The Nakba
There can be absolutely no doubt that Israel has created an inhuman, illegal and utterly disgraceful Apartheid state, and the international community will never be able to excuse itself if it takes no action against this blatant, ongoing and in-plain-sight crime against humanity. Please join the millions of decent people around the world who are […]
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