George Hishmeh: A recent case reminds of that of American student Rachel Corrie , a member of the International Solidarity Movement , who was killed nine years ago when an Israeli military bulldozer ran over her as she was standing, as a human shield...
One day, Jacqueline Rose came across a troubling passage in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. The narrator, Marcel, lies beside his sleeping lover Albertine and masturbates against her. "It seemed to me at those moments," writes Proust in Carol Clark's recent Penguin translation, "that I possessed her more completely, like an unconscious part of dumb nature." Professor Rose, feminist and psychoanalytic critic, bristled. "I thought 'This...
First, I wish to thank Yesh Gvul for establishing this prize. Then I would like to thank the distinguished jury, who were so gracious as to award the prize to me and to Hagit Ofran, the granddaughter of Prof. Leibowitz, whose work in monitoring the settlements I have admired for years. And then I want to thank all of you for coming to this ceremony.
Uri Avnery: A Zionist warmonger masquerading as an activist for "peace." | Prelude: This is the first of a two-part series examining several critical positions of 'Israeli' "peace" activist Uri Avnery and how these positions relate to the overall rapidly-deteriorating status of the International Palestine Solidarity Movement. In this volume, Avnery himself is unabashedly slammed as an enemy of the Palestinian people and his piec...
International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. | When your land is occupied by those who harbor hatred towards you emanating from a belief that they are inherently superior to you, each day brings with it a genuine threat to the security of your life and the lives of your loved ones. | "They want to kill," is how Fares Muhammed Ibrahim simply put it. And on February 2nd, "they" very nearly did.
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.
Mariam Nabil: Every Tuesday we demonstrate at the Erez border crossing, in Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip. The demonstration started at about 11.00 am. We headed for the No Go Zone. The No Go Zone is an area that extends along the Gaza's entire northern and eastern border with Israel inside Palestinian territory.
The tiny Jordan Valley village of Khirbet al-Tawil, surrounded by encroaching Jewish settlements, launched a hunger strike to make the world notice their distress.
And of course, which came first? Happy New stars Alfred Enoch (Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter films) alongside Joel Samuels and Josie Taylor (above, Rachel Corrie in My Name is Rachel Corrie and Tamara Drewe) hapy - new - josie . jpg.
My Name Is Rachel Corrie at Tarragon Extra Space. It shows Bethany Jillard as Rachel Corrie. | €œWe have nothing to fear but fear itself,€ Franklin D. Roosevelt once said and there have been times in the past few years when I wish he€™d been running a Toronto theatre.
"... 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€."
Keywords: €” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest complaints about Palestinian "hate speech," after relatives of the killer of a Jewish settler family praised him in a phone call to the official Palestine TV, spotlight the intense animosity and mutual distrust that have blocked peace talks for years.
Yossi Gurvitz: Khader Adnan, aged 34 of €˜Araba near Jenin, is on the 48th day of his hunger strike, and is held chained to a bed in the Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak. So reports Israeli NGO Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I). Adnan is protesting his administrative detention. | Adnan was detained on December 17, 2011, and went on a hunger strike the following day. He refuses to consume anything but water.
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€."
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€."
Mariam Nabil: Palestinians decided to reactivate the membership bid of Palestine in the United Nations, and submit membership bids to the international organizations of the UN, after the Palestinian-Israeli meetings that was held in Amman, had failed. | Several Palestinian officers said on Wednesday, that this decision was taken to start working on the strategic alternatives for the negotiations and turn to the international society.
The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem is doing its part in trying to curb the violence. It has distributed cameras to dozens of Palestinians to capture glimpses of everyday reality in the occupied zone. The goal is to gather evidence and hold...
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€."
The thin line between art and political activism is being blurred by an exhibition portraying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of those who have experienced it firsthand and also from the more distant European perspective. | "We must realize the regions are not separated in this sense."
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€."
Keywords: by Uri Avnery The impossible has happened. The Egyptian parliament, democratically elected by a free people, has convened for its first session. For me this is a wonderful, a joyful occasion. For many Israelis, this is a worrisome, a threatening sight.
The Palestinian London embassy's "smart new website carries... nothing journalists can get their teeth into. It doesn't introduce us to Palestinian chiefs and their 'team'. It offers no strategic briefing material on current events. And, crucially, there is no attempt to set the news agenda."
The Palestinian London embassy's "smart new website carries... nothing journalists can get their teeth into. It doesn't introduce us to Palestinian chiefs and their 'team'. It offers no strategic briefing material on current events. And, crucially, there is no attempt to set the news agenda."
Alresalah - Arraf to CPDS: Israel losing the PR battle: Huwaida Arraf, the co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, chair of the Free Gaza Movement, and a prominent Palestinian-American activist, talked to Gaza activists about "The Palestine solidarity movement: Countering Zionist propaganda globally". | Choosing discourse to communicate with others is one of the basic requirements to get one's voice heard.
In a letter to Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Gush Shalom warns of a cynical game played by the occupation rule in the small village of Aqaba, the east of Jenin, which is over many years the target of repeated raids by the Military Government's Civil Administration...
In the case of Yasser Arafat, the filmmakers' prize interviewee is his widow Suha. Her recollections start with childhood memories of Israeli military curfews imposed on her home city of Nablus, when the army was searching for "Abu Mohammed" — the guerrilla Arafat under one of his noms de guerre. | She states that "he got married with me and had a daughter but he was really married to the cause"
The Poway Library presents two upcoming concerts. | Amy Lynn Kanner performs a free concert on the harp, playing an eclectic mix of harp pieces from Celtic to classical 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. | The Acoustic Showcase concert series presents bluegrass band Old Town Road 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. This event is also free. | The Poway library is located at 13137 Poway Road. For information about either event, call 858-513-2900.
The Poway Library presents two upcoming concerts. | Amy Lynn Kanner performs a free concert on the harp, playing an eclectic mix of harp pieces from Celtic to classical 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. | The Acoustic Showcase concert series presents bluegrass band Old Town Road 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. This event is also free. | The Poway library is located at 13137 Poway Road. For information about either event, call 858-513-2900.
The more outspoken international organisations, and some Jewish groups sympathetic to the Palestinian cause are often witnesses to shocking Israeli crimes. Most of these deadly attacks have lately been documented on an attractive website called http:/ / mondoweiss.net whose founder and co-editor is Philip Weiss, an American.