Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights Watch’
Unprincipled, Opportunistic, War Mongering and Racist – The Green Party is NOT an Alternative to New Labour
Unprincipled, Opportunistic, War Mongering and Racist – The Green Party is NOT an Alternative to New Labour The Decision to Reject Ken Livingstone Because of ‘Anti-Semitism’ is Out of Keir Starmer’s Playbook To Register for the Discussion on Grassroots Labour click here https://www.tickettailor.com/events/labourgrassroots/649378 This morning Crispin Flintoft’s popular Not the Andrew Marr Show, which acts as a forum for those…
Read MoreOpen Letter to the Guardian’s Editor Kath Viner & its Zionist Gatekeeper, Jonathan Freedland
Open Letter to the Guardian’s Editor Kath Viner & its Zionist Gatekeeper, Jonathan Freedland Do You Not Have a Shred of Decency? Why did the Guardian remove from its coverage of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s death any reference to the Palestinians? Dear Kath and Jonathan, Yesterday’s Guardian has 4 pages dedicated to the life of Archbishop…
Read MoreThe Curious Case of Kenneth Stern and his Refusal to Accept Responsibility for how the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism Has Been Used to Chill Free Speech?
The Curious Case of Kenneth Stern and his Refusal to Accept Responsibility for how the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism Has Been Used to Chill Free Speech? Stern’s Dissembling over the IHRA is a Result of the Contradiction Between Being a Zionist and a Diaspora Jew Thousands of words have been spent analysing the Working Definition…
Read MoreMay Day 2021 – Brighton & Hove Trades Union Council Says Stop the Police Bill
May Day 2021 – Brighton & Hove Trades Union Council Says Stop the Police Bill Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP for Brighton Kemptown Defies the Board of Deputies 10 Pledges & Speaks on the Same Platform as Expelled Labour Member, Tony Greenstein UPDATE Labour MP’s platform rally with Tony Greenstein & Open Letter to Russell Lloyd-Moyle For the first…
Read MoreAbbas and Hamas Abuse and Torture of Palestinians is a Gift to the Israeli Government
Palestine: Authorities Crush Dissent A new Report by Human Rights Watch Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent finds that both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority systematically use torture as an instrument of policy. The Report begins with an overview of what the situation in the Occupied Territories is: In the 25 years since Palestinians gained…
Read MoreIsraeli Democracy in Action – Israeli Police Thugs Attack Haifa anti-war demonstration
21 Israeli Palestinians arrested as Police break the leg of Jafar Farah, a Human Rights Worker In the words of Ahmed Tibi, a member of Ta’al and the Joint List in the Knesset, Israel is a democratic state for Jews but a Jewish state for Arabs. Perhaps this should be corrected to acknowledge that for…
Read MoreLand Apartheid in Israel – Knesset Votes for New Bill to Demolish Arab Homes and Villages
Israeli Arabs are 20% of the population yet they occupy 2½% of the land Israeli policemen stand guard as bulldozers demolish homes in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, on January 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana) You might think that a new Bill to prevent building contrary to the planning…
Read MoreQuestion for Amnesty International – Is your Israeli offshoot still collaborating with the Israeli state?
What kind of state you might ask creates a fake offshoot of an internationally renowned charity in order to try and prevent that charity criticising it? A police state would be the obvious answer. Most western democracies are not to perturbed about human rights organisations that operate on their territory. Israel however bans people from for example Human Rights…
Read MoreThe Middle East’s Only Self Declared Democracy Refuses Visas to Human Rights’ Watch
What has Israel got to hide (apart from torture, internment, extra-judicial executions & state-sponsored child abuse)? It’s strange to think but some people still classify Israel as a democracy The effective functioning of civil liberties and human rights groups, free from state interference in their activities, is the hallmark of a democracy. In Israel civil…
Read MoreUN Special Representative Puts Israel on List of Serious Violators of Children’s Rights – Ban Ki-moon takes them off
UN’s Ban Ki-moon caves in, takes Israel off list of serious child abusers The cowardice of the UN General Secretary, when his own officials place Israel on a list of child abusers, is breathtaking. A concerted e-mail bombardment of the UN would be a start. No doubt Israel and the USA put Banki Moon under…
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