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Ali Abunimah puts Noam Chomsky in his place on BDS
This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we”ll have a conversation with Ali Abu Nimah, co-Founder of Electronic Intifada and activist and Middle East expert Jeff Blankfort, in which they each comment on an interview Voices of the Middle East and North Africa first taped and aired last month with Professor […]
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Winning the war for local produce in the West Bank
Rachel Shabi RAMALLAH // The cries of Hussam, the market-vendor, to buy his juicy winter “strawberries, strawberries” ring clear across the bustling street market in Ramallah. But this 25-year-old stall-keeper takes no pride in his trade. “They are from Israel,” he said, casting a gloomy eye over the gleaming pile of fruit. “Of course I […]
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South African Transport Workers’ Union international secretary calls for isolation of Israel
transcript Zico Tamela (at demo in front of UN in Cairo, Monday 28th Jan) ——— “I always say, remember in South Africa we also fought for the isolation of the racist labour movement from the international labour movement. So what is the difference now? It’s not a question of fighting Jewish workers, no, no, it’s […]
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Udi Aloni: Why We Support the Non-violent BDS Movement
[Aloni describes the BDS movement’s approach to the Palestinian Right of Return as “Legal and moral Recognition of the Palestinian refugees’ right of return (Obviously, each community’s position will be taken into consideration during the desired negotiations”. According to the Palestinian United Call for BDS (http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/52), that is not in fact the position of the […]
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‘Israel resembles a failed state’
By Ali Abunimah One year has passed since the savage Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, but for the people there time might as well have stood still. Since Palestinians in Gaza buried their loved ones – more than 1,400 people, almost 400 of them children – there has been little healing and virtually no […]
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Why it’s right to boycott Israel
Louise O’Shea The horrific war carried out by Israel against the people of Gaza last January marked a turning point in world opinion with regard to the Zionist state. The devastation led even some of its apologists to question the motives and nature of the Israeli state, and strengthened the resolve of many sympathisers with […]
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Press Release: on USACBI’s One Year Anniversary
December 23, 2009 Contacts: Jess Ghannam, jess.ghannam[at]ucsf.edu, Sherna Berger Gluck, shernagluck[at]gmail.com; David Lloyd, colles2012[at]sbcglobal.net For Immediate Release December 27, 2009 marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of “Operation Cast Lead,” Israel”s 22-day assault on the captive population of Gaza, which killed 1400 people, one third of them children, and injured more than 5300. During […]
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What is the Aim of the Gaza Freedom March? – Interview with Dr. Haidar Eid
By Bianca Zammit – Gaza As the days of December 2009 draw in, two events which each have a role to play in world peace draw closer. The first is on the 27th and is commemorating the start of the 22 day attacks on Gaza, an operation which targeted unarmed civilians, schools, hospitals, journalists and […]
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Long Live Gaza: Remembering one year since the massacre
One year ago, Israel launched ‘Operation Cast Lead’ – intense and unprecedented attacks on the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. The war crimes of this assault are part of a wider context: the continuing illegal blockade as well as Israel’s apartheid system of control of the Palestinians. Learn the facts – then act.
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