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The thin veneer on US ‘democracy’ is giving way to naked corporate misrule
I filmed the LAPD assaulting me at pro-Israel demo – Ali Abunimah Ali speaking to Palestine rally With the revelations, as a result of the murder of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, that the American Police have machine guns, planes and other military equipment, the thin veneer of democracy covering US capitalism is…
Read More‘Anti-Semitism’ in France is State excuse for banning demonstrations by French Arabs
Violence outside Paris synagogue falsely attributed to anti-Semitism (Updated) The Post below taken from Mondoweiss, demonstrates that the allegations of anti-Semitism in the French Palestine Solidarity Movement march on July 13th, enabling the French state to ban Palestine solidarity marches in support of the people of Gaza. The trouble was entirely provoked by the fascist…
Read MoreGaza Reveals the Empty and Vacuous Heart of Owen Jones’s writing
Owen Jones – Concerned About ‘anti-Semitism’ and using the Holocaust to Excuse Israel’s murder of 2,000 Palestinians Jones on Question Time during the 2012 invasion of Gaza – then there were no excuses for Israel Alfred Dreyfus – Jewish Office Framed by French Army Perhaps one should expect no better from a Labour Party member…
Read MoreIrish senator David Norris condemns complicity of Irish Government
The Irish Government subservience to Western foreign policy demonstrates its ‘independence’ is an illusion Irish senator and former presidential candidate David Norris made a powerful speech on 31 July condemning Israel’s massacre in Gaza and the complcity of American, Irish and other European governments. One could take issue with his statements about the transformation of…
Read MoreSimon Cobbs, Chair of Sussex Friends of Israel, demonstrates alongside the EDL in Manchester
A Natural Alliance – Zionists and Fascists Demonstrate Together You couldn’t make it up. There is Simon Cobbs, along with the EDL and Beitar (an openly fascist Zionist group) shouting ‘racist’ at demonstrators opposing Kedem, a store claiming to be British but stocking goods sourced in the occupied territories of Palestine. The fact that many…
Read MoreStatistics of Attacks on Basic Service Facilities
Israel’s war against civilians – a war crime The statistics below are proof, if any were needed, that Israel’s assault on Gaza has nothing to do with ‘rockets’ or ‘self-defence’. It is a calculated assault on the civilians of Gaza. Al Quds hospital struck by white phosphorous It is the civilians who are blamed for…
Read MoreIsrael’s Changing Lies for its War on Gaza
But what are Israel’s objectives? The question is whether the Israeli State has any objectives other than perpetuating the misery of the Palestinians of Gaza and given vent to its own bloodlust. It appears to be destruction and murder for its own sake. See this excellent video.
Read MoreHAMAS – When Israel & Netanyahu Sang from a Different Songsheet
Why Israel Virtually Created Hamas Hamas, despite its reactionary politics (for example a Charter that noone reads which is anti-Semitic) has played the role of an effective resistance in Gaza. In particular it has acquitted itself well, unlike last time, and killed over 50 Israeli soldiers. However it should not be forgotten that Hamas is…
Read MoreRight-wing demonstrators in Tel Aviv wore neo-Nazi shirts
As the Israeli state’s war against the people of Gaza continues, Jewish neo-Nazis come out of the woodwork, wearing the exact symbols that European neo-Nazis wear. The reality of Israel as an occupier is influencing sections of the new generation of nationalist Israeli youth to identify with the Nazis. This is the legacy of Zionism.…
Read MoreHard Talk Interviews Ilan Pappe
Stephen Sachur’s Zionist Cliches Cut No Ice Stephen Sachur throws every cliché (‘Israel the only democracy in the Middle East’) at Israel’s foremost historian of the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians, Ilan Pappe. Sachur’s argument that Pappe’s family, which obtained refuge in Palestine after fleeing Nazi Germany demonstrates the necessity of Zionism, was not only…
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