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Beitar fans in Jerusalem, notorious for their anti-Arab racism, beat up Arab cleaners in a shopping mall to ‘celebrate’ their home side’s victory. What is though unbelievable, and is in itself a testimony to the deep racism within all sectors of Israeli society, especially the state, no one was arrested. The Police excuse was that…

EDL Cowers Behind Police Linesas Saturday Crowd Turns on Them Using the threats of the English Defence League, the ‘Quakers’ quaked and cancelled the room we had hired at the Friends Meeting Centre to launch my book on Fighting Fascism in Brighton and on the South Coast. Fortunately Labour History Workshop hired the Brighthelm Church…

Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon Over a decade ago, Ali Abunimah and Hussein Ibish issued a statement ‘Serious Concerns About Israel Shamir’ concerning the virulent anti-semitism of Shamir. Like Atzmon, Shamir too traded on his Israeli connections, yet his language about Jews as ‘a…

From the Slave Trade to Apartheid South Africa to Zionism in Israel – Barclays is there to make a fast buck On Saturday Brighton PSC and the Jordan Valley Solidarity Campaign held its 2nd picket of Barclays Bank urging people to tear up their credit cards and withdraw their accounts. Two weeks ago we held…

Although anti-Semites like the Wandering Fool, aka Gilad Atzmon, believe Israel is a Jewish plot, in fact the most supportive and dedicated lobby in support of Israel is the 30m+ Christians United for Israel group of Pastor John Hagee, a supporter of Hitler no less!Indeed modern political Zionism owes its origins not to Jewish support…

Israel currently holds approximately 300 Palestinians without charge or trial — a practice known as administrative detention. The human rights organization Amnesty International issued an urgent appeal today regarding the renewed administrative detention order against Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh. Last week I blogged that Israel had issued its third consecutive order to detain Qatamesh without…

Free Hunger Striker – Hana Shalabit As the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ Israel demonstrates its democratic credentials through locking up hundreds of prisoners in Administrative Detention i.e. without trial. Not that the trials are anything but a foregone conclusion but at least they have to present some evidence. In the case of those…

Jenny Tonge ‘will very quickly come to see the virtue of being at a distance from a rapidly sinking political party and its dead in the water leader.’Now is the time when all good men and women are called to come to the rescue of an endangered species, Jonathan Hoffman. Not only was he attacked…

Jenny Tonge – a True Friend of Palestine Principle is a word that is rarely heard these days in the Lib Dems. The most that Simon Hughes can manage is an envelope on which he makes political calculations as to what will most benefit a party headed for extinction. But then Hughes was the willing…