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A Welcome Statement From Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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…
Read MoreAn Objective Report on the Freiburg Flop
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…
Read MoreThe Boycott that the Cultural Hypocrites Don’t Mention
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…
Read MoreAhava – The Last Days Selling Stolen Goods
Stolen Beauty Falls Out of Behaviour Begun over two years ago by Jews 4 Boycotting Israeli Goods, there has been a constant picket every other Saturday outside the shop. Although in the early months there were relatively few protestors and we were in danger of running out of steam, we were fortunate in securing the…
Read MoreSupport Israeli Protests Without Illusions
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…
Read MoreIsraeli Land Apartheid – Now It’s Called ‘Community Acceptance’
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…
Read MoreThe Palmer Report on the Mavi Marmara: UN War Criminals Approve Israeli War Crimes
UN Committee Votes to Tear Up What Remains of International Law What a surprise. The former right-wing Prime Minister of New Zealand and Alvaro Uribe, former President of Columbia who presided over the use of death squads, torture and other human rights abuses, has pronounced that Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was lawful.…
Read MoreGive Generously – Help Spread the Cost of the Tickets for the IPO
Beethovians for Boycotting Israel Ask 4 Your Support As you will know, that wonderful new group, Beethovians for Boycotting Israel made their debut performance at the BBC Proms when the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra performed. Some 40 tickets were purchased and though some people don’t want recompensing or can afford it, others are unwaged or unemployed…
Read MoreThe Old Goat Explodes
Alan Hart Responds Alan Hart is someone whose politics seem to be something of a movable feast. His writings up to now have made a very clear distinction between Jews and Zionists e.g. his book ‘Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews’ yet he is beginning to make a habit of being a stand-in man…
Read MoreAtzmon Congratulates the ‘Crypto-Zionists’ Through Gritted Teeth
Freiburg Conference Speakers Can’t Justify Speaking Alongside Holocaust denier Atzmon – Ken O’Keefe Merely Resorts to Abuse Pity Gilad Atzmon. The man who sees Jewish power everywhere and who wrote that anti-Zionist Jews ‘do not understand that by fighting Zionism in the name of their Jewish identity they approve Zionism. They must fail to realise…
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