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kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Below are 2 articles on the Bedouin of the Negev, Israel’s southern desert. They are the victims of Israel’s policy of ‘Judaification’ – the purification of the ethnic composition of key areas of Israel – the Galilee and East Jerusalem are the other major areas. Israel’s standard lie as to why Palestinians in…

It was with great sadness that I learnt of the death of Steve Cohen – socialist and anti-racist – on Sunday 8th March. I am posting below an obituary from his close friend and another indefatigable anti-racist campaigner, David Landau. But I would like to give my own recollection and personal appreciation. I first heard…

The articles below speak for themselves. Having gone to Gaza and committed their war crimes, with the encouragement of senior officers and military rabbis alike, it is only natural that the soldiers should want some momento to remind themselves of what it was like when you could shoot a pregnant Palestinian woman and her child…

Lenni Brenner is a legend in his lifetime. An American Trotskyist, albeit unaffiliated, he has documented painstakingly the close affiliations between Zionism and anti-Semites of all shades, including Nazis. He has been a thorn in the side of the Zionist establishment for over 20 years. He has written some excellent books, including the pathbreaking ‘Zionism…

Dr. Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada, 22 January 2009 “Where can I bring him a father from? Where can I bring him a mother from? You tell me!” These are the desperate words of Subhi Samuni to Al-Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent. Subhi lost 17 members of his immediate family, including the parents of his seven-year-old grandson.…

This article by Tony Greenstein first appeared in Electronic Intifada. Histadrut has always been a strange creature. In most countries one joins a trade union which is affiliated to a national trade union federation. In Israel one first joins Histadrut and then one is allocated to a union. It is only outside Israel that Histadrut…

After the attack by Egyptian state thugs on the convoy on the night of Sunday 8th March, it is pleasing to note that convoy has finally got through to Gaza. Below there is a report of the attack and also news that the convoy has got through. Yvonne Ridley reports from Viva Palestina 9th March…

Well fancy that! In an irony too delicious for mere words and in a story barely covered in the Western media, an arms cache was recently discovered in a Jewish synagogue, Hod Sharon, in Israel. The arms, contrary to the suggestion in Israel’s right-wing Yediot Aharanot, belonged to the main Zionist terrorist group, Haganna. The…

Throughout Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza, the standard response of Zionists was that opponents of Israel’s barbarism supported Hamas, the effective Government of Gaza. In fact this is and always a deliberate misrepresentation. We support the right of the Palestinian people to elect the Government of their choice – something the Western ‘democracies’ fail…