• Growing outrage at the killings in Gaza

    Posted on January 16, 2009

    * The Guardian, Friday 16 January 2009 The massacres in Gaza are the latest phase of a war that Israel has been waging against the people of Palestine for more than 60 years. The goal of this war has never changed: to use overwhelming military power to eradicate the Palestinians as a political force, one […]

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  • A call from Gaza

    Posted on January 16, 2009

    A call from Gaza Gaza associations | | January 16, 2009 With the death toll in Gaza growing hourly, silence is complicity. It is imperative for concerned citizens to demand that their governments take immediate action in order to stop Israeli genocide in Gaza. Write your representative today and demand: 1. That Israeli war criminals […]

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  • LRB contributors react to events in Gaza

    Posted on January 15, 2009

    Tariq Ali A few weeks before the assault on Gaza, the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army published a levelheaded document on “Hamas and Israel”, which argued that “Israel”s stance towards the democratically-elected Palestinian government headed by Hamas in 2006, and towards Palestinian national coherence – legal, territorial, political and economic – has been […]

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  • 300 Canadian academics send letter to Harper, Call for Sanctions

    Posted on January 12, 2009

    Dear Prime Minister Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister Cannon: We the undersigned academics and educators express our condemnation of Israel’s attack on Gaza. With over 600 dead, including 100 children, we call on the Canadian government to demand an immediate cessation of Israeli hostilities. As per the position of UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights […]

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  • Dear President-elect Obama

    Posted on January 12, 2009

    The Daily Star (Beirut) / January 12, 2009 Open Letter Editor’s note: The following is a letter addressed to US President-elect Barack Obama calling for the United States to change its policies vis-a-vis the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, especially in light of Israel’s current onslaught against the Gaza Strip. It was signed by more than 900 academics, […]

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  • Enough. It’s time for a boycott

    Posted on January 10, 2009

    The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa Naomi Klein The Guardian, Saturday 10 January 2009 It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind […]

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  • “Stop the Massacre in Gaza – Boycott Israel Now!”

    Posted on January 10, 2009

    “Stop the Massacre in Gaza – Boycott Israel Now!” (Links to Arabic, Spanish, French and Portuguese version below) Occupied Ramallah, Palestine – 27 December 2008: Today, the Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in Gaza, causing the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including a yet unknown number of school children who […]

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  • End the Carnage in Gaza–Boycott the Israeli Academy Now!

    Posted on December 29, 2008

    End the Carnage in Gaza–Boycott the Israeli Academy Now! Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) | Press Release | December 29, 2008 The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees condemns in the strongest possible terms the bombing today of the campus of the Islamic University in Gaza. This […]

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