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 An Oireachtas Committee is to write to the Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamonn Gilmore, calling for a ban on imports from illegal Israeli settlements This is a great victory for all of us struggling to hold Israel accountable for its egregious and ongoing violations of Palestinian rights and international law. We sincerely hope…

No more tax deductables for funding settlements in occupied territory Israeli settlements under construction near Jerusalem, occupied West Bank  (Issam Rimawi / APA images)  Following advocacy-work and pressure from Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) and the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees (NUMGE), the Norwegian Ministry of Finance today announced their decision to exclude the Norwegian organisation…

Butchered by Israel’s Fascist Friends The Palestinians have known many tragedies.  When I went to Lebanon in 1979, at the invitation of the PLO, it was via Syria because the Lebanese Embassy in London, controlled by the Phalangists, refused to issue a visa. The Phalange, named after the Spanish fascist Falange, were founded by Pierre…

A lively protest outside Ecostream Sodastream/Ecostream –  On the Rocks I have been getting a steady drip of comments from a couple of mentally unhinged Zionists.  They seem to be suffering from a psychosis best summed up as ‘haunted by Ahava.’ The EDL turned out to ‘defend’ Ahava Ahava, some readers might recall, was the…

Palestinians take to the streets of the West Bank against neoliberalism and economic dependency agreements with Israel Related Story: “Phantom Control”: Israel’s Secret Service and the Occupation Watch full multipart The Real News in the Middle East The protests erupting in the West Bank against former World Bank Executive and unelected Palestinian ‘Prime Minister’ Salam…

Despite Police Harassment Almost Total Public Opposition to the Ethnic Cleansing Shop Local Argus newspaper covers the protest – and gets it wrong as per usual! Sodastream has turned into Ecostream – a Greening of Ethnic Cleansing Not a customer in sight The shop manager resorts to offering free drinks to entice custom Over the…

  Another attack on a non-Jewish religious organisation, this time a Christian monastry.  Usually it is mosques which are the target for vandalism and destruction, but in the eyes of Jewish zealots from the West Bank settlements and the religious Orthodox, the original evil was Christian. As normal the Israeli police will investigate and as normal…

Founder of Jenin’s Freedom Theatre Threatens Hunger Strike to Death  The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, a symbol of Palestinian culture, saw its artistic director, Juliano Meir-Khamis murdered by unknown assassins last year.  Almost certainly the work of Israel and PA, both have used the murder to further harass the Freedom Theatre. Zubeidi has been imprisoned,…

Join the Picket of Sodastream in Western Road, Brighton this Saturday As Sodastream realise that their presence is going to cause protests, they have issued a Disinformation Sheet below to try and distract peoples’ attention from the fact that they are based in an industrial park Mishor Adumim, which is part of the Jewish only…

Head of South Yorkshire Police’s Black Propaganda Unit – Sir Norman Bettinson – Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police and ex-Merseyside Police Chief – Doesn’t Get It But Will Soon They Libelled the Dead to Flatter A Violent & Corrupt Police Force Kelvin MacKenzie – BBC Low Life and Editor of the Infamous Edition –…