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An excellent biop in Haaretz by S.Rachlevsky, a prominent Israeli author and commentator, regarding the role of religion in driving the State to the Right, and how even those considered beyond the pale, like Rabbi Haim Druckman MK, are now considered ‘moderate’ by their fellows. What is also interesting is that in the West the…

This is a great victory. The international campaign against Zionist lawlessness, which results in the arrest without charge and the beating without limit of Palestinian peace activists, has forced and embarrassed even this Israeli government into releasing Mohammad Othman and Jamal Juma. Of course Israel will provide no explanation for the arrests, which were sanctioned…

The IHR’s Mark Weber Writes for Palestine ‘Thinktank’I recently broke a promise I’d made to myself and that was to post a comment on the site of the anti-Semitic Palestine Thinkthank site of Mary Rizzo. This was the site formed by her and Gilad Atzmon but the latter has now been sacked as co-editor and…

for an Unsung Hero of the Anti-Fascist Movement10.11.60 to 29.9.09. I had a phone call last summer from Dave Hann asking to interview me on my experiences in the anti-fascist movement in Brighton. It was for a book that he was in the process of writing. I was happy to see Dave and talk about…

About 10 days ago I read a quote from (Sir) Richard Dalton, Britain’s former Ambassador to Iran, saying how we, i.e. Britain, couldn’t ignore repression in Iraq and had to support those on the streets of Tehran. Well this was late at night, or rather early in the morning, and I became even more irritated…

Udi Aloni, an internationally recognised Israeli Film Maker and the son of Shulamit Aloni, founder of the Citizens Rights Party (Ratz), whose film Forgiveness was the winner of the Audience Award at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2006, has written an important article ‘Why we support the non-violent BDS Movement’ for which is on Ynet,…

Albert Einstein is, of course, one of the most famous Jewish people of the modern era. Someone who almost singlehandedly rewrote traditional concepts of physics. Indeed the Nazis, from whose regime he fled in 1933, being somewhat thick and dumb at the best of times, termed relativity and Einstein’s theorems ‘Jewish Physics’ which just about…

Egypt Threatens to Break Promise to Allow Viva Palestina Convoy into Gaza I have just received this from Scottish PSC. It would seem that having tricked the members of the convoy to taking a boat to the Syrian port of Latakia and then down to El Arish, the regime of Egyptian dictator Mubarak is now…

Two young men from Bil’in arrested on 29 December 2009 still held by Israeli military This is a Report from the International Solidarity Movement on the village of Bil’in, which has been subject to unremitting violence from the Israeli army in an attempt to provoke violent resistance and at the same time to destroy the…