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Celebrations of Zionist Apartheid Will Not Go Undisturbed From Paris to London to Scotland and San Francisco, the message is clear. No longer will Zionism be allowed to go undisturbed and unhindered. However close their links with the police and however many security goons they employ and whatever the silky PR of Mark Regev, the…

The Legal Basis for the Expulsion of the Palestinians of the West Bank is now Established As the editorial from Haaretz states, Israel’s new military orders 1649 and 1650 ‘is liable to give the world clear-cut proof that Israel’s aim is a mass deportation of Palestinians from the West Bank.’ Haaretz, being an impeccably Zionist…

Public Calls for the Execution of Journalists Anat Kamm and Uri Blau Gideon Levy, with Amira Hass, is one of the few decent Israeli journalists left and Ha’aretz is a beleaguered paper that is widely reviled in Israel . Haaretz is widely termed a ‘liberal’ paper but that is wrong. Economically it remains firmly on…

Peninsula Business Services and ‘How to Dismiss Troublemakers’ Early this morning about 20 protestors, from UNISON and Brighton Benefit Cuts, picketed a seminar held by a nasty little firm, Peninsula Business Services. I had received an invite, in my capacity of Director of Brighton Unemployed Centre, inviting me to the seminar. ‘How to Dismiss Troublemakers’…

Last September the Trades Union Conference passed policy in support of the Boycott of Israeli Goods. At least that is what PSC Executive argued had happened. In fact the TUC had voted for a policy of boycotting Israeli settlement goods not a boycott of Israel’s economy. A more radical Fire Brigades Union motion, which called…

Jailed For Revealing Israeli Army Death Squads and Assassination PolicyCourtesy of the Only Democracy in the Middle East As in South Africa, so too in Israel. The price of maintaining police state repression of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and an attitude to Israel’s own Arab citizens that they are a fifth column, is…

a s d f g h j k l ; ‘ d d d a f As the British General Election takes off, with New Labour and the Conservatives representing nothing more than different wings (at best) of the British capitalist class, a demonstration organised by the National Pensioners’ Convention with support from the TUC…

Wonderful news but not unexpected from Scotland. The trumped up charges of ‘racism’ that the Scottish Procurator Fiscal tried to frame the 5 protestors were thrown out at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court. How can you be ‘racist’ against a nationality that doesn’t exist? That was the problem the PF faced when trying to argue that…

The Debate Continues Throughout this affair of the Boycott of the Jerusalem Quartet, there has been one consistent argument on behalf of the Jerusalem Quartet. Two of their members play in Daniel Barenbom’sWEDO, which was co-founded by Edward Said.Now I disagree on principle with these type of organisations. They are the gloss on Apartheid and…