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The End of Palestine or the End of Norman Finkelstein?
The Madness of King Norman Once Upon a Time the brightest star in the firmament was Norman Finkelstein. With his prodigious academic talents he put to flight all those he conquered. It was Norman Finkelstein, more than anyone else, who exposed the forgery of Joan Peter’s From Time Immemorial which went from adulatory reviews in…
Read MoreBoycott Goes International
Britain’s main Jewish Boycott Group Boycott goes prime-time in Israel As people can see Boycott is going international with campaigns springing up across Europe and even causing ructions in the Italian Jewish community. Also Israel’s most popular Channel 2 Channel devoted a whole programme to it. Israelis are worried. What ‘degitimisation’ means is a refusal…
Read MoreWhy Israel Doesn’t Want Peace
It is often taken as given that Israel wants peace. In a sense it does, but it is the peace of the vanquished. Peace on its terms. The failure of the current talks is predictable. Netanyahu doesn’t want any agreement. He therefore continues to add conditions which even Abbas has difficulty selling. Zionism has always…
Read MoreThe Most Obnoxious Participant in the Demonstrations Against Sodastream
An Odball Named Shaike Rozanski His name is shaike Rozanski although at first I though he was referred to as ‘shaker’ on account of his unusual mannerisms. His appalling behaviour, although no doubt typical of the average Israeli settler (note – not the average Israeli) even casts the JDL’s Simon Cobb’s in a (relatively) good…
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Gaza fishermen suffer 85 percent income loss as Israeli siege, attacks continue Joe Catron , The Electronic Intifada, Gaza City 29 December 2013 Palestinian fishermen bring their catches ashore at the port in Gaza City. (Mohammed Asad / APA images) Fishing Boat poses real threat to Israeli warship On 17 December, Palestinian fishermen and their…
Read MoreThe Attacks on the Christian Village of Tel Rumeida
Only in a Police State do the Police Arrest The Victims of the attacks of Thugs tel rumeida Words can’t describe how the Christian Palestinians of Tel Rumeida (whose disperson our fundamentalists here support who are attacked by the neo-Nazi settlers of Kiryat Arba (where the supporters of Meir Kahane are extremely strong) are arrested…
Read More3 Videos in Which Simon Cobbs Makes A Fool of Himself
Simon Cobbs of Sussex Friends of Israel – a common and garden thug who poses as an intellectual The Israeli who is concerned about Assad killing Syrian children (presumably only Israel has a monopoly on killing) who knows full well that the West militarised a popular struggle against Assad, is the director of a security company…
Read MoreBiblical Rights and the theft of land
Biblical Rights and a new Conservatory Don’t be anti-Semitic. In a spoof with a political purpose, political activists visit premises near the Israeli Embassy to say that a new conservatory is being built and that Biblical Rights mean that they must make way for the Embassy of Land Theft. This is, of course the excuse…
Read MoreA New Break for Freedom by the US’s Hillel
Hillel students increasingly reject the Zionist Thought Police in favour of Free Speech The attempt by national Hillel to keep Jewish students in the fold, i.e. Zionists are increasingly breaking down as Jewish students can see when an attempt is being made to censor them. I recently posted an article on Swarthmore Hillel. Here Zionist…
Read MoreTony Greenstein’s 60th Birthday Party
60 Years of Fighting Oppression Together with my longstanding comrade from the Trades Council and Socialist Party, Bill North, I celebrated my 60th Birthday Party at the end of last year and Bill his 61st. Below are the lyrics to a birthday song written by Deborah Maccoby and…
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