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VICTORY AS ISRAELI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TAKEN OFF AIR
Thanks to Lee Whittaker for 8 of the photos Proud to Disrupt the IPO 18 months ago I was proud to take part in the disruption of a concert by the Israeli Occupation Forces ‘Distinguished Musicians’ – the Jerusalem Quartet at London’s Wigmore Hall. But this was even better. The Wigmore Hall has a capacity…
Read MoreIs Sheriff Charles MacNair a Bigot or a Fool or Both?
Outrageous Decision to Convict Scottish Student Paul Donnachie of Racially Aggravate Conduct for Defacing Israeli Flag Clear Threat to Freedom of Speech for Palestine Supporters It is difficult to decide whether Sheriff Charles MacNair is just a malevolent old fool or a plain ignoramus. Clearly he is not the intellectual of the Scottish bench (one…
Read MoreFreiburg Conference on Free Speech for Holocaust Deniers in Dissaray
Gaby Weber Lashes Out as Speakers Refuse to Take Part Alongside a Holocaust Denier As will be immediately obvious from the two agendas above, there has been something of a change in the line-up of speakers for the Freiburg Conference on Confusing the Memory of the Nakba with Denial of the Memory of the Final…
Read MoreAnti-Arab Racism – Every Picture Tells a Story
Survey Shows that Racism is at the heart of the Zionist Project This is a very interesting article, despite its flaws. By its own admission it is not scientific and it readily accepts that it underestimates the degree of racism in Israel. But as Uri Davies says, whereas anti-Semitism is at the margins of Palestinian…
Read MoreHolocaust Survivor Promises to Walk Out of Freiburg Conference that Conflates Silencing the Palestinian Voice with Criminalisation of Holocaust Denial
Crisis for Gabi Weber’s Conference as Hajo Meyer Threatens to Withdraw because Gilad Atzmon Denies that Auschwitz was a Death Camp “Why does he not deny that the earth is round and that there was ever a First World War.” Hajo Meyer on fellow Conference Speaker Gilad Atzmon By Gabi Weber’s own admission two speakers…
Read MoreA Jewish State or a Democratic State? Kahane’s Revenge
Avi Dichter of Kadimah Proposes to Cut the Gordonian Knot at the Heart of Zionist Politics – The question of whether Israel could be both a Jewish and a Democratic state has been the conundrum at the heart of Israeli politics. The Declaration of Independence pledged that the Israeli Stated would ‘be based on freedom,…
Read MoreIsrael’s Tent Protests – A Gathering Storm or a One-Off Phenomenon?
Israel’s Protests Are Limited by a Shared Zionist Consensus Almost unremarked in the British media are the protests in Israel. They have also been ignored by much of the Arab world as not fitting into its nationalist template. Others, Israeli socialists and peace campaigners in particular, have seen them as heralding the possibility of a…
Read MoreJohn Pilger on the Hypocrisy of the British Establishment
A timely article from John Pilger starts with the routine violence of the Police against another stop and search victim. Finding nothing, having assaulted him already, they promise they’ll find something ‘next time’. Of course this isn’t violent for the forces of law and order. Likewise killing people abroad in the name of ‘freedom’ to…
Read MoreAgrexco and Veolia On The Ropes
Don’t trade with Apartheid as the Boycott Takes Its Toll For some years we have picketted and boycotted Agrexco, the giant conglomerate which exports settlement produce from the West Bank to Europe. Agrexco is now facing bankruptcy as is Veolia, another prominent investor in Israel. The lesson? Don’t trade with Apartheid. Tony Greenstein BDS campaigners…
Read MoreHow Many Will the Beast Take Down With It
An interesting article by Noam Chomsky who, although supporting the idea of a Jewish state has been barred from entering Israel. Presumably the Jewish State can’t stand criticism, even from an 80 year old soft-Zionist. As always with Chomsky, the analysis is interesting and more often true. Tony Greenstein America in Decline By Noam Chomsky…
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