Why Goldstone Crumbled Under Pressure

Following on from my previous blog Goldstone – A Broken Man the article below by journalist Charles Glass presses all the right buttons. It wasn’t so much his Zionism that made Goldstone change his mind so much as the pressure which was put on him personally. Of course this is in itself an example of…

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Goldstone – A Broken Man

The Weakness and Shame of Goldstone A lot of hot air, some of which is below, has been devoted to why Richard Goldstone has effectively ditched his own report on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. Omar Barghouti, of PACBI, the Palestinian and Academic Boycott Israel group, sent me and others an e-mail entitled ‘Dr Goldstone…

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The Murder of Juliano Mer-Khamis

The Jewish Palestinian film director Juliano Mer Khamis was shot dead by a masked gunman in Jenin, outside his beloved Freedom Theatre. The son of Arna Mer Khamis, a noted Israeli anti-Zionist, Juliano was both passionate and angry in support of the Palestinian cause. Who murdered him is cause for speculation but one can assume…

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Arab Revolutions at the Crossroads

Many on the Left are confused by the Western Intervention in Libya. After all the hypocrisy of the US and NATO’s bombing campaign (‘The No Fly Zone’) is in starked contrast to its endorsement of the shooting of hundreds of demonstrators in Bahrain and the intervention there by the medieval US dictatoship of Saudi Arabia.…

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A Sweet Victory – Ahava Driven Out of Covent Garden

Total Victory over Israel’s ‘Beauty’ Thieves It was little more than a year ago that Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods launched a campaign of pickets against the Israel’s Ahava shop in London’s prestigious Covent Garden. After a fortnightly picket and much direct action Ahava’s landlords have had enough of complaints by Ahava’s neighbouring businesses. Admittedly…

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Israel outlaws Palestinian memory of the Nakba

It is a sign of Israel’s political degeneration and how the mask of liberalism has slipped that a law has been passed which criminalises and denies funding to any organisation or group that commemorates the Nakba, the expulsion of some ¾ million Palestinian Arabs into neighbouring countries. There was a time when Israel attempted to…

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End the Imperialist Attack on Libya

Impose a No-Fly Zone on Gaza not Libya Anyone who believes that the imperialist assault on Libya has anything to do with a justified sense of anger at Col. Ghadaffi’s murder and terrorisation of the opposition needs their head examined. It hasn’t escaped notice that the same ‘supporters’ of the Libyan Revolution have also supported…

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