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UK Jewish MP offers some scathing criticism of Israel
This video is from Israel’s murderous Gaza campaign in ’08/’09 but his words still ring true, especially today.
Norman Finkelstein on Israel’s War on Gaza
“In war parents bury their kids. In peace kids bury their parents. In Gaza, Israel buries whole families under the rubble.”
End the Occupation
If I could remove all content from my blog and just have the above header remain, I’d be content with having just that message on my blog as Israel continues to besiege an impoverished and beaten but not defeated people.
Chomsky on Israel’s claims of “self-defense”
Noam Chomsky: “When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing… You can’t defend … Continue reading
The Olympics: Palestinian Athlete Aims for Glory
I enjoy athletic competition and I especially enjoy following the NBA (I may be from So Cal, but I loathe Kobe!) but the Olympics and the World Cup and other events whereby people come out with their jingoism usually make me a bit nauseous. … Continue reading
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The Politics of the Aurora Theatre Shooting
It almost seems cliche to say so, but I find it necessary to say it anyway: Had the psychotic and imbecile shooter of the threatre been a Muslim, or was remotely connected to Islam or the region, i.e. his grandmother … Continue reading
The Film “Hunger,” Hunger Strikers, and Street Names
I was bedridden sick for about a week and after seeing “Prometheus” and Michael Fassbender’s captivating performance, I decided to make use of my downtime and check out some of his movies that I hadn’t seen, including “Shame,” “A Dangerous … Continue reading
ASU Senate approves divestment against Israeli military — unanimously.
This is HUGE: At the last Senate hearing of the year, the undergraduate student government at Arizona State University unanimously passed a bill demanding that ASU divest from and blacklist companies that continue to provide the Israeli Defense Force with … Continue reading
Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal
A surprise of a gem from the New York Times: I’m a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in … Continue reading
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On Israel’s system of segregated roads in the occupied Palestinian territories
You have to see this map of Israel’s apartheid via the roads in Occupied Palestine.
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Israeli settler violence caught on tape
This video shows how the Israeli Occupation Forces acquiesce to settler violence against native Palestinians. There are more than 400,000 illegal Israeli settlers colonizing the West Bank. Many are hard-line ideological types who believe that every inch of remaining Palestine … Continue reading
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2,000 Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike and Zero News Coverage
Huffington Post: There are currently 2000 Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, though judging by the lack of coverage of the story in the mainstream media you’d never know it. Two of the prisoners involved are now in a … Continue reading
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Israel Defense Ministry plan earmarks 10 percent of West Bank for settlement expansion
This is just getting absurd. They aren’t even bothering with the facade of peace anymore. I hope people reading this news brief can make the connection to this policy and the long term ethnic cleansing strategy involved here. Indeed, the … Continue reading
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South Africans recall their own history during Israeli Apartheid Week
EI: “As a South African who has lived and suffered under apartheid and spent nearly thirty years of my adult life in its jails for resisting it, I can and do humbly claim to know something about the meaning of … Continue reading
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Young Israeli Refusers
Never forget that not all Jews are Zionists and that not all Israelis support their government’s ethnic cleansing of the remaining native Palestinians. Indeed, these refuseniks are not a fringe group. I have met countless Israelis and Jewish American critics … Continue reading
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