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In the attack on Gaza, Israel’s war criminal leadership claimed that its use of phosphorous was only a ‘smokescreen’. In fact their ‘explanations’ were the smokescreen for a tissue of lies and deceptions. Below the respect reporter for Israel’s Ha’aretz daily paper, Amira Hass, describes just how lethal white phosphorous is and that people are…

More good news. The Boycott movement has even reached the decision makers in the Foreign Office! After much pressure, the British embassy has put an end to plans to rent Lev Leviev’s tower in Tel Aviv because of Leviev’s role in sponsoring and financing the settlements. To say nothing of his dubious dealings in African…

Shir Hever, an economist who writes for the Alternative Information Centre, has noted that Ha’aretz’s Economic Section has carried 4 articles recently about the growing effect of the Boycott movement on the Israeli economy. It’s often difficult for activists to guage the effect of what they are doing and it is easy to become disheartening.…

Sawt el-Amel Activists Lose Final Appeal in ‘Ein Mahel’ Trial. Below are reports of yet further State repression against attempts by Israeli Palestinian workers and unemployed to organise against the apartheid discrimination against them. In particular the targetting of Israeli Palestinians for the ‘Welfare to Work’ Wisconsin Plan which was first developed in the USA…

above Mark Gardener with the Mail’s racist columnist, Richard Littlejohn. The CST’s Well Paid Gravy Train We have written before about the Communist Security Thugs (Trust). This is a trust whose annual income last year £6.6m and the year before was £5.7m. After doing a bit of research, we have identified 78 Jewish charities which…

Above an example of the exquisite art of the Hebron settler – ‘Arabs to the crematoria’ and the graffitti that Israeli soldiers left behind in Gaza. Below is an article from Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot describing some of the ‘art’ that Israel’s model soldiers left in their wake. Tony Greenstein IDF soldiers leave racist graffiti…

An Israeli comments on the article below and its use of language: The rendering in Haaretz of the graffiti left in Gaza by Israeli soldierswent through curious mutations.The straightforward translation is “We came to exterminate you“. At first the online English version of Ha’aretz rendered this as “We came to slaughter you!”. But when I…

It’s good to see that Canadian trade union CUPE and the Ontario University Workers Co-ordinating Committee have come out in support of a Boycott of Israel and all its works. Below is a message of supporting welcoming their decision, from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Tony Greenstein 25…

“We actually don’t have any other way to exercise international pressure except calling our friends and supporters in the trade unions around the globe to call for this Boycott and Divestment.” stated Manawel Issa Abdellal, member of the Executive Committee of the 250 thousand member Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) in a recent…

One of the most oft-repeated criticisms of blogs like this is that you mustn’t compare Zionism and Israel to anything the Nazis did. Of course the Zionists do so with regular monotony, but we mustn’t do it. What Israel and Nazi Germany both forbade Jews from marrying non-Jews, as Hannah Arendt noted when the Prosecutor…