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Rare Video – Mandela on Palestine
Extracts from Interview with Ted Koppel I can remember how, at the picket of Sodastream, there were a few Black Zionists who claimed that Mandela was a Zionist! This video should dispel that particular nonsense as Mandela disposed of his American questioner. Tony Greenstein
Read MorePalestine 1896
Not so much an Empty Land as a Bustling One! One of the many myths of the settler-colonial ideology that is Zionism is that before the settlers came, Palestine was a land without a people for a people without a land. In fact even in 1896, Palestine was densely populated with some half-a-million people, including…
Read MoreIsraeli cargo ship cancels docking at Oakland Port
Palestine solidarity movement mobilizes to “block the boat” October 30, 2014 A significant step forward in the struggle against Israeli apartheid was taken this weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area. For the third time in less than three months, an Israeli cargo ship owned by the ZIM shipping company was prevented from unloading its cargo as…
Read MoreMore Child Abuse by the Israeli Military
Israeli Soldiers detain developmentally-disabled Palestinian child in Hebron, 19 Oct. 2014 As part of the wave of military repression soldiers briefly detained a developmentally disabled Palestinian boy, who is under the age of criminal responsibility, on suspicion that he had thrown stones. The boy, A. a-Rajbi, (full name withheld in interest of privacy) who will…
Read MoreShlomo Sand – Stops being that which he denies exists!
From Debunking to Denying History Two days ago I was sent a review from Ha’aretz (see below) on Shlomo Sand’s new book ‘How I stopped being a Jew’. Shlomo Sands wrote a best selling book The Myth of the Jewish Nation. This one is a dogmatic assertion (if Ha’aretz and others are to be believed – I haven’t…
Read MoreTunisia – Victory for the Left as the Islamists are Defeated
It is always welcome news, especially in the Middle East, to hear of the defeat of the Islamic Right, who use religion to reinforce the power of the market and the mullahs and their corrupt hangers-on. Tony Greenstein The richness of Tunisia’s new politics By Laryssa Chomiak October 29 Women look at candidate lists for…
Read MoreLEFT UNITY – Internal Strife and ‘Feminist’ Witchhunt
Personal Politics – the Divorce from Reality Left Unity – the group set up with such hope and optimism – has fallen foul to the same curse that has historically plagued the socialist and far-left of British politics – Sectarianism. The belief that one’s own petty concerns are of more importance than the wider movement…
Read MoreIsraeli Arabs Singled Out For Dismissal and Attack in Israel
Oppression targets Palestinians in Israel Israeli policemen arrest protesters as Palestinians living in Israel and left wing activists protest against the Israeli attack on Gaza in down town Haifa, July 18, 2014. Israeli police arrested 28 activists, as protesters took the streets and blocked roads calling to put an end to the attack. (Fiaz abu-Ramele/Activestills.org)…
Read MoreJerusalem – The Unholy City
Jerusalem – At the Forefront of the Resistance Uri Avnery November 21, 2014 IN ITS long and checkered history, Jerusalem has been occupied by dozens of conquerors. Babylonians and Persians, Greeks and Romans, Mamluks and Turks, Britons and Jordanians – to mention just a few. The latest occupier is Israel, which conquered and annexed Jerusalem in…
Read MoreLet Mads Gilbert Back Into Gaza – Norwegian doctor banned from Gaza for life
Israel – the only State where it is a crime to save life But see it from Netanyahu’s perspective. Israel spends much time and money killing as many Palestinian civilians as possible and then this upstart from Norway, who should be minding his own business, tries to subvert their efforts by saving peoples’ lives. Not…
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