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If there’s no success like failure, as Dylan once wrote, then equally there’s no failure quite like success!  Speak to any Zionist and they are eager to profess how ineffective BDS is.  On the other hand the Israeli government has been going to extraordinary lengths to combat Boycott, culminating in a law passed last year…

Another victory in the cultural boycott as Alice Walker, who took part in the boycott of Apartheid South Africa, declares Israel to be even worse.  Psychologically, the Cultural Boycott is of crucial importance in undermining the morale of the settler-colonial state of Israel, just as it did in South Africa.   Because, although we trumpet the…

How Gerry Gable ended up defending racism in the name of anti-fascism Regan’s racist rhetoric about ‘Mad Dogs’ appealed to Searchlight  Editor  and Police informant Gerry Gable The centre of the new Nazi Axis consisted of an obscure British fascist, two third world leaders and a Black Separatist. Another Searchlight prediction gone wrong – the…

Looking pleased after another drone attack on some poor dead family Bin Laden – an All-American Creation   The May be Sons of a Bitch – But they were Our Sons It’s not often that members of the ruling elites come clean so we should, I guess, savour the moment when Hilary Clinton admits that…

This was article was sent to me by Eran Torbiner, producer of Bunda’im, a lovely and very moving film about the surviving (and sadly dying) remnant of the Bund in Israel and their determination not to compromise their beliefs in a society based on everything the Bund fought against This is a tribute to the…

Minister declares Israel “belongs to white man” “I have nowhere to go,” says Moses Gadia. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours The Electronic Intifada 12 June 2012 ( Jillian Kestler-D’Amours / IPS) EILAT (IPS) – Moses Gadia speaks quietly, a detailed and colorful map of South Sudan on the wall next to him. In the courtyard outside, a group…

The article below is worth crossposting, although I don’t agree with all of it.  In particular it doesn’t draw the connections between the ‘threat to our identity’ that Netanyahu expresses and the Zionist aim of creating a purely Jewish state.  Where Friedman talks about ‘Israeli racism (which exists, as it does everywhere)’ she forgets the…

Ultra-Orthodox Sect Reported to Have Spoken at a Meeting of National Front Supporters If the Jewish Chronicle are correct, Strictly Orthodox Neturei Karta’s new alliance with extreme right  and there is no reason to believe otherwise, then one Rabbi Aharon Cohen from NK spoke to a meeting consisting of fascists, holocaust deniers and assorted anti-Semites.  …

Protest in France The BBC – the British Government’s main propaganda organ – has consistently refused to carry news of the Palestinian hunger strikes – now or earlier in the year.  But the BBC were more than willing to cover Gilad Shalit when he was captured by Hamas Palestinian players play in handcuffs to symbolise…

As the Pogroms Against Africans Continue with the Encouragement of the Israeli State As the Israeli government continues on its racist course, defending the ‘Jewish’ nature of the State against African asylum seekers, with the Israeli Labour Party, doing nothing to prevent what is happening and the Histadrut – the so-called Zionist ‘trade union’ remaining…