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Once again there is more news to warm the cockles of your heart! Straight from the horses, or in this case, the asses mouth. No less than the Executive Director of AIPAC, the main Zionist lobby group in the USA, is ‘invading the mainstream discourse’. I’m sure you will be pleased to hear that, as…

The Yes Men, a group of international pranksters who announced, on behalf of Dow Chemicals, that they were fully compensating the victims of the Bhopal disaster on BBC Television! are the latest group to join the Boycott of Israel. They have withdrawn their new and highly acclaimed film, ‘The Yes Men Fix the World’ from…

When I was younger, in the 1960s and 70’s, the number of Jewish opponents of Zionism could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Very few Jews or Israelis stood up to be counted. Today more and more Jews have come to realise that the Jewish tradition of fighting racism is incompatible with supporting…

It was one of the ironies of Watergate and the near impeachment of President Nixon that he was hounded out of office, not for the deaths of up to a million people in the secret war against Laos and Cambodia, but for having told trivial lies about a break-in at the HQ of the Democratic…

The Israeli State struck another blow against ‘terrorism’ when it surrounded and threatened to fire upon the Spirit of Humanity, a boat carrying cement and medical supplies to Gaza. For over 2 years an vice-like siege has been imposed upon the people of Gaza for voting the wrong way. The fact that stopping boats and…

Below is an example of the horrific oppression that Palestinian workers experience in Israel. Histadrut, the apartheid ‘union’ for Jewish workers, has consistently ignored and turned a blind eye to such attacks. Although they were happy to deduct, in conjunction with the Israeli Labour Exchanges, 1% of the workers’ wages, they always refused as a…

700 Doctors call for Dr Blachar, head of the Israeli Medical Association, to quit as President of World Medical Association Blachar is like the 3 wise monkeys – he neither sees, hears nor speaks of torture in Israel. According to his letter (below) to the British Medical Association torture ‘does not exist” in Israel. According…

It is one of those myths beloved of the settler-colonial that the natives want nothing more than to drive the settlers into the sea, murder them in their beds, eat their babies…. But the phrase about ‘driving the Jews into the sea’ has a particular resonance amongst Zionist apologists. But now we have the truth…

One of the most tireless campaigners for Palestinian rights and against Israeli Apartheid, Victoria Buch, sadly passed away 3 days ago. She was the editor of the Occupation Magazine, an essential source of information on Israel’s repressive policies. Tony Greenstein Our friend and co-editor, Victoria Buch, has passed away22/6/09 We have the sad duty to…