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After having kept silent for fear of a racist backlash from the Israeli loving EDL and similar low-lifes, London shopkeepers, not least Muslim ones, have embraced a Boycott of Israeli  Dates.  Read a cross post from Inminds  below.  London Shopkeepers Embrace ‘Boycott Israeli Dates Campaign’     London Rhymes with Palestine12 July 2012Join the campaign…

BDS is Lawful – Settlements & Israel are Integral Yes well not quite.  What the opinion says is that boycotting Israeli settlements, which are a living example of the ban, in the 4th Geneva Convention, against an occupying power introducing its settlers into the territory it is occupying, is legal.  But because there is no…

Only Israel protects against Jesse Jackson, or another one of those black people   Birthright is the name of the programme to get Jews in the diaspora to settle in and identify with Israel.  As the name suggests, Israel belongs to the ‘Jewish people’ as of right, from birth. As the  Harvard student below describes,…

When I was young, if you were a revolutionary, the chances are that you would belong to one of a myriad of Trotskyist groups.  Reformists belonged to the Labour of Communist parties.  However those times have passed as Trotskyist groups imploded, moved to the right or became obsessed with their own marginal, sectarian differences. In…

The Oppression of Women Symbolises an Aborted Arab Revolution Once upon a time there was a radical Arab nationalism, best represented by Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser, who led an army coup against the British imposed King Farouk.  In 1956 Nasser nationalised the Suez canal, which had been owned by the Suez Canal company, in…

Chief Rabbi and Board Accuse the CoE of ‘anti-Semitism’ for supporting Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme EAPPI    I have a confession to make.   Before last week I hadn’t even heard of EAPPI – The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) .  After reading the hysterical article in the Jewish Chronicle (12th July) ‘Church endorses…

Protest for social justice, Tel Aviv, Israel  Israel is not only the most represssive state that claims to be a western democracy, it is one of the world’s most unequal societies.  It is the poor Israeli Jews who effectively pay for the Occupation of the West Bank and the military expenditure.  In turn they are…

Supporters of the Olympia Food Co-op before a court hearing on Monday, 27 February, which threw out a lawsuit designed to overturn a boycott of Israeli goods. (TESCDivest) The use of ‘lawfare’ by Zionists and their ilk has been an oft used tactic to stymie and prevent a boycott.  Board of Deputies of British Jews…

The village of Susya – under continuous attack Attacks on Palestinians continue, but police only arrest leftist activists Commentary is largely superflous.  Activists are arrested for painting over ‘death to the Arabs’ whereas Israel’s Police drop an investigation for ‘lack of evidence’ despite video footage of a settler attack.  I remember one of our first…

injured protestor attacked with bottles, stones and clubs at the Battle of Burntollet – Police looked on approvingly Irish Republicans Marian Price and Martin Corey are in jail because of an MI5-spun web of deceit  cross-post from Organised Outrage  Northern Ireland is the oldest colony in the world.  For over 800 years the British have…