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Ali Abunimah – Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions: Strategies for a Just Peace in Palestine-Israel
Co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, talks about the prospects for a just resolution to the conflict in Palestine-Israel, the debate over one-state or two-state solutions, and the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions campaign to bring an end to the illegal Israeli occupation in the West Bank, and the blockade of Gaza. Ali Abunimah spoke in Portland, Oregon, […]
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An open letter to Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations from Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel
Gaza March 21, 2010 Your Excellency: You are already well aware of the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza consequent on Israel”s devastating military attacks and its siege. As recently as December 27of 2009, you called the blockade of Gaza “unacceptable.” While this statement is certainly valid, it constitutes a gross understatement of the actual situation […]
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Why I Boycott Israel – Sam Nichols
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTve0ktjA2A For more information see: http://bdsmovement.net/ In 2005, Palestinian civil society called upon people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel, similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era, until Israel meets its obligation to recognize the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination […]
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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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Support Our Troops: Boycott the Israeli Occupation
Tuesday 16 March 2010 by: Robert Naiman, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed I don’t know about all you commiepinkos, but I believe we should Support Our Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. General Petraeus, Admiral Mullen and Vice President Biden say that Israel’s actions toward the Palestinians are putting our troops […]
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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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Israel’s Reut Institute removes “sabotage” and “attack” language to hide its true intentions
Israel’s leading think tank the Reut Institute recently recommended that Israel’s government and intelligence agencies “sabotage” and “attack” peace and justice groups around the world that have been critical of Israel, as EI reported in February. Reut was obviously embarassed by the wide exposure its underhand, and possibly illegal recommendations generated, so it has cleaned […]
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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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