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Protest Against the Israeli Military is Itself Illegal Court Rules The arrest and conviction, on trumped charges, of Abdallah Abu Rahmah, for organising ‘illegal demonstrations’ [i.e. anything the military doesn’t like!] demonstrates that far from wanting to eradicte ‘terrorism’, the Israeli state is determined to prevent all peaceful opposition to its brutal occupation. Thus it…

There can be nothing more despicable than the mistreatment and torture of Palestinian children. Of the 10,000+ Palestinian prisoners that Israel holds, some 700 are aged 16 and under. There are no special rights for them. There is no right to see a lawyer in the first weeks of imprisonment or any other rights. Sexual…

Religion, when it gains power over the State, legitimates the worst evils. Be it in Iran or Israel. But in Israel there is no mass opposition to the rulers. On the contrary there is a solid civilian consensus behind its treatment of Arabs. So when the Orthodox Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who has just written a…

To those who say Zionism is not a form of racism and that the Israeli state is not racist, then there are a few questions that should be asked. Why is it that consistently in opinion polls we see a majority of those responding calling for the removal of democratic rights from Arab Israelis? In…

Report of Conference on Jews and Palestine It’s not often that you go to a conference and come away feeling that that was a really worthwhile and positive experience. Too many conferences are waffly and woolly and often set up to benefit primarily the speakers’ egos. Maybe it was because this was the first ever…

Saturday September 4, 2010The Magdalen Centre, Eversholt Street, London NW1 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 11.00 Registration 11.15 Welcome – Deborah Fink Introduction – Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi 11.30 Panel discussion with:Haim Bresheeth, filmmaker, Chair of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, member of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) Antony Lerman, former…

Ken O’Keefe is an ex-marine and one of those are individuals in the military who manage to make sense of the role of the institutions in which they served. They praise you when you are fighting and dying and then incarcerate you or impoverish you for the rest of your life. Remember the ‘heroes’ of…

Jonathan Hoffman, Co-Chair of the Zionist Federation Eats Humble Pie! We all get things wrong and by itself that is no reason to gloat. But Jonathan Hoffman, co-Chair of the Zionist Federation is in a different league. He is the personification of Zionist Hasbarah (propaganda). He deliberately lies whenever he feels that it will serve…

Jonathan Hoffman Threatens to Sue Tony Greenstein for Reporting the Zionist-EDL Connection According to his comment unless I take the story down about the joint demonstration between EDL and the Zionist Federation, of which he is the co-chair, Jonathan Hoffman’s lawyers will be talking to me from 8 am on Monday! Bit early I thought…