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Israel – Apartheid South Africa’s Best Friend
Lest We Forget – Israel’s Support for South Africa As true today as when Mandela spoke For decades Israel supported the “A-word” regime and its military with advanced weapon systems at a time when Western sanctions meant no one else would. According to Haaretz editor Aluf Benn, the cooperation reached its peak in the late…
Read MoreInternational Campaign Against Sodastream
International Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Activists in Chico Activists in Houston Activists in Italy Stickers say no Israeli products French Campaign Against Boycott US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation — Store owners in Rome, Italy remove all SodaStream… This contains a link to the page of the Italian BDS website on Sodastream,…
Read MoreHillel’s Swarthmore Chapter Rejects Zionist Impositions on Students
Hillel warns Swarthmore chapter over rejection of Israel guidelines [See below Eric Fingerhut’s letter to me and my reply, the day after this was posted] Swarthmore College This is one of the most significant developments in the United States and shows the depth of disillusion with Israel amongst the Jewish community. Rabbi Hillel, (110 BCE,…
Read MoreSodastream walks into a boycott
Sodastream’s Failed Campaign in Brighton. A Xmas Boycott The Brighton Boycott Boycott has spread internationally Goods plastered When Sodastream opened its first and only so-called flagship eco-store in Brighton last year, there was talk in the local press about this shop being the first of many in the UK. Brighton had been chosen because of…
Read MoreIn South Africa, Abbas opposed boycott of Israel, drawing sharp condemntation from BDS activists
In South Africa, Abbas opposes boycott of Israel Zionist newspapers exploit Abbas Comments Ali Abunimah. Electronic Intifada — 12/12/2013 A BDS banner at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, site of the memorial service for Nelson Mandela (BDS South Africa) Mahmoud Abbas, de facto leader of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, has made his clearest statement in opposition to…
Read MoreU.S. Lionizes Mandela In Death … But Labeled Him a Terrorist While He Was Alive
The Hypocrisy that Makes Nelson Mandela into an Icon Mandela and Palestine Rabin, Begin and Moshe Dayan have a friendly word former Nazi, John Vorster Ezer Weizmann a Likud hawk turned dove shakes hands with Arafat as Mandela looks on It’s strange how little comment there has been about the absence of one leader,…
Read MoreLeft Unity Conference
A banner headline which didn’t match the strap lines Another Missed Opportunity as feminists and reformists link-up Left Unity is the brainchild and founding father, the distinguished socialist film maker Ken Loach who has produced more radical and socialist films that I can remember. Ken Loach – Left Unity’s guiding light According to its own…
Read MoreVeteran Israeli Peacenick Clings to Zionist Delusions
Does Uri Avnery know so little about Israel? Below is a reply by British journalist Jonathan Cook, who lives in Nazareth to the nonsense spouted by Uri Avnery. Avnery, of Gush Shalom, has a record of opposing the occupation and repression of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. He risked jail when it was a…
Read MoreThe Question of Dual Loyalities
Allegiance to Israel Threatens Safety of Jews in America General Ulysses Grant who issued an order expelling the Jews from Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee, the most anti-Semitic official order in American history because of Jewish clothing manufacturers’ decision to move southern cotton northwar It is a long-standing canard of anti-Semites that Jews are not members…
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