Posts Tagged ‘Mahmoud Abbas’
My conversation with Ben Jamal of Palestine Solidarity Campaign on Zionism, Palestine Action and the Palestinian Authority
Having abandoned anti-Zionism, does PSC actually have any strategy other than Appeasing the Establishment and ‘Mainstreaming’? My interview on an independent Bristol radio station Ben Jamal, PSC and Zionism In the wake of my resignation from PSC, an organisation I helped found in 1982, Ben Jamal emailed me. His complaint was that I had misquoted…
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 MoreIsrael has officially declared itself an apartheid state
Earlier this week Israel’s Knesset passed the first reading of the Jewish Nation-state bill. In so doing it made it clear, beyond any doubt, that Israel is now officially an apartheid state. Israel has, of course, always declared itself to be a Jewish state, despite having a 20% non-Jewish minority. But now this has become…
Read MoreTime for Palestine Solidarity Campaign to Break with the Quisling PA
PA collaborates with Israel’s torture agency The Banana Position – A Torture Stress Position Used by Israel This is a shocking report from Electronic Intifada. Not only does the PA torture most of those arrested by its Preventive Security Forces but it also hands those it has tortured onto the Israeli military in order that…
Read MoreQuisling Palestinian Authority Arrests Dissident Professor in the Service of Israel
Professor Quassem Usually national liberation movements wait until they achieve national liberation and form the government before they start persecuting dissidents or their own people. The African National Congress first overthrew Apartheid before it formed an alliance with the mining companies, gunning down 34 miners at the Marikana mine. Mahmoud Abbas – Palestineian Quisling President…
Read MoreSaudis Overturn Death Sentence on Palestinian Poet Ashraf Fayadh – Flogging & Prison Instead
Ashraf Fayadh Mahmoud Abbas and the PA’s UK Representative Manuel Hassassian Keep Silent Whilst it is welcome that the death sentence on Ashraf Fayadh has been overturned, the sentence of 8 years in prison and 800 lashes is nonetheless a barbaric outrage. It speaks volumes that the British Government has supplied some $3 billion of weaponry…
Read MoreJerusalem – The Unholy City
Jerusalem – At the Forefront of the Resistance Uri Avnery November 21, 2014 IN ITS long and checkered history, Jerusalem has been occupied by dozens of conquerors. Babylonians and Persians, Greeks and Romans, Mamluks and Turks, Britons and Jordanians – to mention just a few. The latest occupier is Israel, which conquered and annexed Jerusalem in…
Read MoreIn South Africa, Abbas opposed boycott of Israel, drawing sharp condemntation from BDS activists
In South Africa, Abbas opposes boycott of Israel Zionist newspapers exploit Abbas Comments Ali Abunimah. Electronic Intifada — 12/12/2013 A BDS banner at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, site of the memorial service for Nelson Mandela (BDS South Africa) Mahmoud Abbas, de facto leader of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, has made his clearest statement in opposition to…
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