Holocaust survivor finds haven as Muslim in Israel

Born in Auschwitz, living in Umm el Fahm A sad and moving story of how a holocaust survivor, born in Auschwitz (itself highly unusual since pregnant women were automatically selected for death on arrival), who came to Israel in 1948, eloped with a Palestinian man and began living in Umm-el-Fahm, the largest Arab town in…

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The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat – Leader of the PFLP

Netanyahu’s Campaign to Kill Ahmad Sa’adat Palestinian leader Ahmad Sa’adat transferred to Ramle prison hospital from isolation in Ramon For all it’s talk of ‘Islamo-fascists’ and similar nonsense, the main enemy of the Zionist movement and the Israeli State has always been the Left within the Palestinian movement. That was why, in the 1980’s the…

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Bin Laden – Had He Already Been Retired?

An interesting story about Osama Bin Laden.  If Gareth Porter is correct, he had effectively been pensioned off when he was killed by US Special Forces. Al Quaeda itself, as Hilary Clinton has recently admitted, was created by the US when anti-communism was the order of the day.  But as is often the case with…

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EDL/MFE – We Won the Day

The Humiliation of the EDL/March for England Two independent film makers, Brosan and Godfrey, have posted a film on YouTube, you may like to view:   As I have alread posted  on April 22nd a massive turnout from people in Brighton, prevented the EDL and their sock puppets, MFE, from marching more than 1/3 of…

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Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye receives sentence of 25 lashes for ‘insulting ‘ caricature drawing of a local MP

Iran’s Clerical Regime Is Threatened by a Cartoonist – Religion & Humour Never Did Mix Mahmoud Shokraye drew conservative MP Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani in a cartoon deemed ‘insulting‘ An Iranian cartoonist has been sentenced to 25 lashes for a caricature of a local MP, the semi-official Ilna news agency has reported. Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani, MP…

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The Great Book Robbery

When the Israeli military launched its blitzkrieg on Lebanon in 1982 and the siege of Beirut, one of its main targets was the files and archives of the PLO cultural department.  When you  try to destroy a people you also try to destroy their culture. That is one reason why the Nazis burnt books of…

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Sometimes with the Islamists, Never with the State

Protesters marching on the Egyptian Parliament to protest the Abbassiya crackdown. Image by Hossam el-Hamalawy. Socialists Working with Islamists Whilst Retaining Their Independence  A very interesting article on the work of revolutionary socialists in Egypt, which Israeli socialist, Moshe Machover, has distributed.  It is interesting on two levels.  Firstly when a large section of the…

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Police in the ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East’ Prevent anti-Government Demonstration Police in action to prevent demonstration Israel’s major opposition party Kadimah, which was facing political annihilation, joined Netanyahu’s government last Tuesday.  Kadimah, a so-called centrist Zionist party, had just replaced its previous leader Tsipi Livni, with Shaul Moffaz, a former Chief of Staff…

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