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The Universities College Union national conference voted today to ‘sever all relations’ with Israel’s Apartheid ‘Union’ Histadrut, as well as boycotting Ariel College, the settler institute in the West Bank. Histadrut began its life in the 1920’s waging a campaign for Jewish Labour i.e. a Boycott of Arab Labur. For the first forty years of…

Israel Offered Nuclear Weapons to South Africa’s Apartheid Government under Vorster There is a certain irony in the fact that, in their determination to demonise Richard Goldstein, the South African judge who produced a report cataloguing some of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, Israel’s racist propagandists hold themselves out to be shocked by the fact…

I have already covered the arrest of Ameer Makhoul, Director of Ittijah, a group of Palestinian Israeli communities and chair of the Public Committee for the Defence of Political Freedom. This is part of the attack of the current far-right Zionist government on any protest by those they deem an enemy. But as brutal as…

Is ‘Refugee Rights‘ a Hamas Flag of Convenience? There are those who say that in the face of the Zionist siege and Israeli attacks on Gaza, we should not comment on or even publicise internal divisions amongst Palestinians. What this effectively amounts to is silence over the oppression of Palestinians by Palestinians in the cause…

Why Israel cannot be a Democratic and a Jewish State – Ahmad Tibi The achilles heel of supporters of Two States, as well as Zionists, is the question of the Arabs in Israel. Two States supporters usually prefer, like Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the problem.…

Let us not beat about the bush. Elton John played in South Africa’s Sun City despite the Boycott of Apartheid South Africa. Elton John has made it clear that he is equally determined to play in the Apartheid State of Israel. Why? Because all his ‘gay politics’ are self-centred. His is a lifestyle form of…

This is forwarded by that indefatiguable human rights campaigner, Dr Derek Summerfield. Derek Summerfield waged a long war of attrition against the last president of the World Medical Association Yoram Blachar, who was also head of the Israeli Medical Association. In that capacity Blachar had dismissed all allegations of the use of torture by the…

As I have already pointed out http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2010/04/prelude-to-transfer-military-orders.html the Israeli State is, at this very moment, beginning the process of transfer from the West Bank, which is a precondition for the maintenance of a ‘democratic, Jewish state’. It can be democratic as long as there are as few Arabs as possible! Of course the Western leaders,…

When I first heard that the Zionist State of Israel had just barred Noam Chomsky from entering it, the first thing I thought was ‘thank god for Netanyahu/Liberman’. They can achieve far more than we will ever manage when it comes to explaining why Israel is not a normal or democratic state but a racial…

Coming after the cancellation of concerts by Santana, Gil Scott-Heron and U2, Elvis Costello, who topped the big Brixton Rock Against Racism concert in Brixton thirty years ago is the Crème de la Crème! Just as the sporting boycott of South Africa caused immense shock to the psyche of White South Africans, so a Cultural…