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The Anti-Semites Feel the Heat
Can you imagine anything more ludicrous? At a time when over a million Palestinians are under siege from Israel, when hunger stalks the streets and fighter planes soar over the horizon, we are asked to sign a petition in solidarity with two well known anti-Semites – Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo! Petition: for two activists……
Read MoreINDYMEDIA UPDATE
Minutes have been published of the Indymedia network meeting this weekend in Nottingham.http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkNetworkMeeting2008 Although the Saturday meetings and the Sunday morning are reported, the Sunday afternoon meeting minutes are not available. Piecing together things from what is taking place on the web it would appear that there are serious divisions within the moderators and members…
Read MoreHow Indymedia UK Lost Its Way and became a safe haven for Anti-Semitism
Indymedia UK [IM] boasts that it is ‘a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.’ http://www.indymedia.org.uk/ When the issue of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism arose in October 2007, IM demonstrated that far from being an alternative, grassroots way of doing things, it…
Read MoreUniversity College Cork PSC Database – Edited by Paul Rooij, apologist for holocaust deniers and anti-semites
An anti-Zionist comrade, Roland Rance, informed me on the 6th January that what he described as ‘the usually-reliable Cork PSC database’ http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/home.php contained a hostile comment on my bio. page from one Paul de Rooij. http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=367 I confess I had never heard of Mr Rooij before, though he appears to be a freelance journalist writing…
Read MoreAn Open Letter to Indymedia
Antisemites and holocaust deniers promoted & protected on Indymedia UK I am writing to you concerning the question of anti-Semitism and holocaust denial being tolerated and condoned within UK Indymedia. I write both as someone who is Jewish and anti-Zionist. When I make an accusation of anti-Semitism I mean exactly that. This should not be…
Read MoreWhy anti-Zionists against anti-Semitism?
Twenty years ago it was take for granted that the reason for the support that the State of Israel received was because it was in the interests of western imperialism and the United States in particular. Unfortunately, with a general drift to the right in society in general, those who focus on the ‘Jewishness’ of…
Read MoreGilad Atzmon – Now an Open Holocaust Denier – Tony Greenstein
In the past week, reports have circulated that Sylvia Stolz, lawyer for Ernst Zundel, a neo-Nazi serving 5 years in a German prison for race hate crimes, had cited a newspaper report claiming that Gilad Atzmon had described the history of the 2nd World War and the Nazi Holocaust as ‘a complete forgery.’ This has…
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