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By their own admission about 12% (650,000 ) of Israeli Jews have emigrated from Israel. A quite remarkable figure which itself gives the lie to the idea that Jews have been longing to ‘return’ to Israel for 2,000 years. No sooner do they get there than they want to leave! Among European Jews in particular,…

One might expect the Baptist and Fundamentalist Christian Churches in the United States to support their brethren in Palestine and Bethlehem in particular. But that would be to misunderstand the nature of fundamentalist Christianity in the USA. Christian Zionism in particular is first and foremost Zionist and imperialist. The idea that the Christian churches in…

A Double Whammy – Ahava, London & Agrexco Bite the Dust When J-Big, (Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods) began the protests over two years ago, we little thought that we would be successful in closing a shop whose trade was in stolen goods. Yet for two years there has been a constant picket every Saturday…

Racists and Holocaust Deniers are Not Welcome in the Palestine Solidarity Movement. Four years ago we tried unsuccessfully to persuade PSC AGM to pass a motion dissociating itself from Deir Yassin Remembered, Gilad Atzmon and those at the fringe of the movement who were dabbling in the politics of holocaust denial. The response of PSC…

Atzmon denies that he is a Holocaust denier – or that there is any such thing as holocaust denial! As readers of this blog will know, I carried a few articles on the Freiburg conference last Sunday 11th September which was purportedly about the silencing of the Palestinian voice in history, but also involved Gilad…

Boycott is Very Wrong When Directed at the Powerful But a Boycott of the Bombed and Persecuted is OK – Norman Lebrecht You know it’s very strange but consistency doesn’t come easy to the elites in our society. Freedom of speech is fine for racists but if you are a member of the London Symphony…

Widen Israel’ July 14th Movement to Encompass Israel’s Arab Citizens You Cannot Have Social Justice Without Equality On 3rd September a march, not quite a million but approximately 450,000 took part, in protest at the neo-liberal free market policies of Netanyahu and Likud, ably supported by ex-Labour leader Barak and Kadima. In fact neo-liberal policies…

The Zabeidats Win After 5 Years as the Israeli Land Administration Concede to Avoid Court Ruling It would be nice to say that the decision of the Israel Lands Administration to allow an Israeli Arab couple, the Zabeidats, to live in Rakefet, despite a decision of the towns admissions committee and 4 out of 5…