Keywords: by Stephen Lendman On February 2, notorious hatemonger Alan Dershowitz keynoted a Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia (JFGP)/Hillel of Greater Philadelphia "Evening of Unity Community Solidarity" with Israel . Inviting him was disgraceful.
I doubt much that the USA is seriously interested in real democracy in the region simply because real Arab democracy will challenge the USA interests. And Israel is very much scared of any democratic change in the region and this is obvious...
Ali Abunimah spoke to a full lecture hall in Meyerson Hall on Saturday night as the keynote speaker of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference. Abunimah is a Palestinian-American activist and the creator of The Electronic Intifada, an online publication focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. | €œI reiterate the spirit in which we came together: we stand against all forms of bigotry,€ Abunimah said.
Penguins in Dubai. Go Figure. | Egypt's Football Tragedy A Conspiracy? | €œUs democrats got rid of the Bushes. We got rid of Cheney who should have been put on trial for war crimes,€ the author said. €œWhat is going on in Turkey?
It's founding document said: PFLP's strategic aim is Palestinian liberation "from Zionist colonial occupation." In addition, it wants Palestinian democracy with Jerusalem its capital. It advocates a state "guarant(eeing) legal rights and equality...
NATO supporter and Zionist warmonger Uri Avnery; seen here as a young ethnic cleanser in the 'Israeli' occupation army. | It is mind-boggling that an €˜anti-war, pro-peace€™ activist would take a liking to any candidate of the American presidency, the figurehead of a military empire that has been used to fight one war after another for international Zionism since World War I, but that is exactly what Uri Avnery has done.
He called on the International Criminal Court and the Court of International Justice to investigate Israeli treatment of Palestinian prisoners. The West Bank Jihad leader, who was detained from his Jenin-district home on Dec. 17, was given four months...
Ramzy Baroud: Those of us who can see through such distorted thinking know that White is a principled writer who has never displayed a shred of racism in his work. Zoabi is very well-known civil rights leader with a long-standing reputation of courage and poise. How could anti- racist activists themselves become the subject of accusation by Halili and others like him?
"If we support justice , we should also support the Palestinian cause and realise the cruelty of Israel ," he said at a media conference after launching the Kuala Lumpur Palestinian Film Festival, here today. The programme, held in Malaysia for the first...
Addressing a crowd of more than 200 people, Abulhawa €” the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, an independent organization that establishes playgrounds as safe refuges for Palestinian children in Palestine and Lebanon €” spoke of the injustices Palestinians face in Israel and the Middle East.
International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. | Political prisoners, their families, and their concerns and causes enjoy massive support in Palestinian society. Palestinians who may have never joined a boycott campaign or acted to break the siege of Gaza routinely demonstrate for the rights of detainees and contribute to support their families.
The foreign ministry will soon open a representative office in Palestine and is currently studying how to do so as Indonesia does not have diplomatic relations with Israel which occupies Palestine . “We will not open an embassy but a representative...
In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as 'anti-Semitic'. He also denounced Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi for writing a forward to White's latest book, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. | Those of us who can see through such distorted thinking know that White is a principled writer who has never displayed a shred of racism in his work.
Yacov Ben Efrat: The elections in Egypt were the greatest and most significant achievement of the January 25 uprising and the Arab Spring. The elections decided the struggle between the revolutionaries and the army over the character of the future regime and the role of the military.
"... there must be speed, we must be fast in achieving those things because the settlements and the whole thing will go..." | No. Not until reports appeared that Jewish community leaders cancelled a meeting with him after intervention by Israeli PM Netanyahu's office and Israel€™s embassy in London, and Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi condemned the move as "seeking to suppress and manipulate Jewish public opinion€."
The presence of a few Palestinian members in the Knesset (MKs) is often touted as a sign of Israel's robust democracy. Yet elected representatives of the Palestinian community inside Israel face growing harassment by the state, by fellow MKs and the media. | Naffaa has denied the charges, insisting that "all his activities and meetings fall within the framework of his duties as an elected public official".
After announcing it would subsidize migration into settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israel this week called the decision a mistake and withdrew it.
In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as 'anti-Semitic'. He also denounced Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi for writing a forward to White's latest book, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. | Those of us who can see through such distorted thinking know that White is a principled writer who has never displayed a shred of racism in his work.
Establishing a government committee to search for ways to legalize illegal outposts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is nothing if not corroborating Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' accusations that Israel is continuing its attempts...
Wrapped up in the desensitizing politics of a long-standing Israeli and Palestinian conflict, citizens of other nations cannot gain a full understanding of the workings of the area from news sources, which often act as filters to the reality...
International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. | Burqin and Kufr Ad-Dik face daily obstructions in justice as nearby illegal Zionist settlements encroach on the livelihood of local Palestinians. The villages are surrounded by several hilltop illegal settlements and industrial sites with polluting factories and an army base.
The Party of Justice and Freedom, a political body of the Muslim Brotherhood (IM) in Egypt, reaffirmed support for the Palestinian people's struggle for the restoration of their rights and the establishment of a sovereign state.
The plight of Palestinians is too profound.For over 60 years, Palestinians have been waiting for justice.They have been waiting for UN resolutions affirming rights to statehood to be put into practice. | Copyright Business Recorder, 2012No content from Business Recorder shall be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication, or redistributed directly or indirectly in any...
Though he claims to have been moved by last year's massive social justice protests, little is known about his actual stance on issues and where exactly he'll fall on the Israeli political spectrum. His positions, gleaned mostly from a press conference...
International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. | The recent Arab uprisings throughout the Middle East and North Africa have proven that the Arab people are no longer willing to tolerate oppression and tyranny. They send a strong message to Western hegemonic powers and their oppressive regional allies that a new wave of nonviolent civil resistance will ultimately prevail over injustice and occupation.
The illusion of a "secular majority" has been with us for many years, sabotaging the prospect of forging a pluralistic Jewish melting pot in Israel. The reason this did not happen is that atheists who believe they constitute a majority are as domineering as Haredim.
Israeli apartheid is not only a bunch of racist laws, it is a state of mind, fashioned by education". The summation of such a policy appeared in a book entitled Palestine in Israeli Schoolbooks: Ideology and Propaganda in Education authored by Israeli human rights activist Nurit Peled Elhanan."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in London recently. | Did anyone know? Did western media care? | No. Not until reports appeared that Jewish community leaders cancelled a meeting with him after intervention by Israeli PM Netanyahu's office and Israel€™s embassy in London, and Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi condemned the move as "seeking to suppress and manipulate Jewish public opinion€."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has forgotten both of these lessons. Before passing judgment on the merits of yet another article criticizing failed Israeli and Palestinian policy, ask yourself this question: have Jews and Arabs been fighting...
GateHouse Media, Inc.: Can we do anything to help bring about a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Some North Shore residents think so and have just launched a new Jewish political advocacy group, J Street North Shore. | J Street North Shore, and its regional parent, J Street Boston, are part of the grassroots network of J Street. | What is J Street and what does it stand for?
The 1 percent are united, and so must we, the global 99 percent. Our aspirations overlap, our struggles converge. Unity is now a necessity, not a nicety.
DAMASCUS, Feb 2 (KUNA) -- The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) condemned on Thursday UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's refusal of meeting the families of Palestinians detainees at Israeli jails. "This stance is a manifestation of double...
Alresalah - Palestinian Colors not Holding Hopes for Ban€™s Visit: Gaza, (Alresalah.ps)--The Palestinian factions underestimated the importance of the UN Secretary General's visit to the Arab region in order to forward the Palestinian-Israeli negotiating process. | Islamic Jihad leader Ahmed Al-Mudalal said to (Alresalah.ps) that "we do not trust in Ban Ki-moon with our Palestinian cause and interests; the U.S."
EGYPTIANS celebrated on Jan 23 the first anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the 30-year Mubarak regime. By contrast, America's reaction to this historic event was tellingly muted. | Egypt contains a quarter of the Arab world's people. In Egypt, the US had a golden opportunity to encourage genuine democracy. | Instead, it long opposed demands by Egyptians for real democracy and an end to Mubarak's police state.
But it is not just the uprooting and stealing of trees that is used by Israel as a tool in the occupation. They actually plant trees on Palestinian land, covering up ethnic cleansing with environmental concerns. This is called €˜greenwashing€™; using greenery to cover up evidence of violent displacement and destruction.
The 1 percent are united, and so must we, the global 99 percent. Our aspirations overlap, our struggles converge. Unity is now a necessity, not a nicety.
Israel is in a race with time. The 11 million Palestinians are not going to go away, and those in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon have gained powerful new friends because of the Arab uprisings of 2011. Israel can only survive in some recognizable form...
After being blocked by Jewish lobbyists in Oakland, California, an exhibit of drawings by Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip will be coming to Swarthmore on April 6. The project's originator and organizer, Susan Johnson, met with the Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (SPJP) on Monday night to discuss the specifics of their collaboration effort. | The drawings were collected by Johnson herself, who, in 2009, visited the Gaza Strip...
Participants of the Occupy Oakland movement voted to back the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement during a regular general assembly (GA) meeting Wednesday evening at Oscar Grant plaza. In a near-unanimous passage of the proposal by 135 people voting yes, 12 abstentions, and 1 no vote, Occupy Oakland vowed to stand with the BDS movement.
Munther Fahimi, proprietor of the American Colony Hotel's English-language bookshop, was born in East Jerusalem, but lost his residency rights after moving to the U.S.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was in London recently. | Did anyone know? Did western media care? | No. Not until reports appeared that Jewish community leaders cancelled a meeting with him after intervention by Israeli PM Netanyahu's office and Israel€™s embassy in London, and Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi condemned the move as "seeking to suppress and manipulate Jewish public opinion€."
Contrary to common belief that fundamentalism only lies in Islam alone Walter Russell Mead of the US Council of Foreign Relations (God€™s country Foreign Affairs September/ October 2006) described the US, the only super power in the world today, as a nation where religion shapes its character, helps form America€™s ideas about the world, and influences ways Americans respond to events beyond its shores. Currently three strains...