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Imagine the uproar if in Britain Christian Ministers issued edicts that property should not be let to Jews because property prices would decline and in any case their ‘way of life’ is different. In fact it did happen in the 1950’s and 1960’s and such things like a Race Relations Law and active anti-racist campaigning…

Atzmon blowing his own trumpet Atzmon Humiliated Atzmon is beginning to realise where holocaust denial and his virulent brand of anti-Semitism leads. At present it is the status of a leper, with all 3 fellow panellists deserting him. His explanation for Palestinian Ghada Karmi not attending is that she sent him an e-mail: “I’m delayed…

I was sent a post yesterday by a French comrade who asked why it was that British left-winger John Rose of the SWP and Ghada Karmi were speaking alongside an open anti-Semite and holocaust denier, Gilad Atzmon. I must confess I didn’t know. I therefore e-mailed a number of people making them aware of this…

Israel Wages War on Writers and Human Rights Advocates Below is information about Israel’s ruthless arrest of Dr. Ahmad Qatamesh, a prominent and highly respected Palestinian writer, academic and human rights advocate. A large Israeli force arrested him in the early hours of Thursday, April 21, after taking his wife, Suha Barghouti, and their 22-year-old…

SERTUC’s ‘Communist Leadership’ Under Megan Dobney Demonstrates its Loyalty to the TUC Hierarchy SERTUC is the biggest of the 3 TUC Regions in England. It stretches from Ipswich to Brighton and includes London. Each year it puts out a handbook which lists trade union addresses and details as well as information on other ‘useful’ organisations…

Ahava Picket Larger Than Ever as Zionist Numbers Dwindle Our joy that the Ahava store in Covent Garden is closing was tempered this week by the commemoration of the memory of Vittorio Arrigoni, who was so cruelly murdered by an insane Jihadist/Salafist group in Gaza last week. The beneficiary and responsibility for Vik’s murder though…

A group of 10 activists from Brighton & Sheffield are spending up to a month in the Jordan valley, to bear witness to and help prevent, where possible, the continued dispossession of the Palestinians and destruction of their property by the Israeli army and settlers. This is an extremely fertile area and it has always…

ATOS – Private Bloodsuckers After Your Disability Benefits An excellent demonstration was held in Brighton’s Churchill Square today against ATOS, the private company which conducts the Work Capability Assessment which is removing benefits at an alarming rate from the disabled and sick. Terminal illness madam? Don’t worry, as long as you can lift your index…

A story from the excellent Electronic Intifada site about the repression that is faced by anti-Zionists and supporters of the Palestinians in the ‘land of the free’. As the US’s budding establishment spend a few years enjoying the genteel surroundings and civilised debate of USC, the powers that be do their best to ensure that…