Posts Tagged ‘Nazareth’
What is remarkable about Zionism’s claim to the ‘Promised Land’ is how careless they are about preserving its history
The irony of Zionism’s colonisation of Palestine is that it’s the Palestinians who are descended from the original Hebrew tribes When I listen to spokespersons for the settlers, people like Daniella Weiss who claim that God gave the Jews the Land of Israel, that they are merely ‘returning’ home, I can’t help wondering why it is that…
Read MoreIsrael’s excuse for attacking Gaza, ‘Self Defence’, is no different from Hitler’s Excuse for Invading Poland – in both cases it was unprovoked
The real reason for the attack on Gaza lies not in immediate events but in the logic of Zionism – ethnic cleansing Last Monday 1st August Israeli soldiers arrested Bassam al-Saadi, a prominent figure in Islamic Jihad in Jenin refugee camp. Failing to provoke a response Israel decided anyway to restrict traffic around Israeli communities adjacent to the Gaza-Israel…
Read MoreIsrael’s Campaign of Repression & Terror Included a ‘Torture Room’ in Nazareth Police Station
Israel’s Campaign of Repression & Terror Included a ‘Torture Room’ in Nazareth Police Station Despite Video of the Beating Up of 50 Palestinian Prisoners in Ketziot Prison Israeli Police Were Unable To Find Out Who Was Responsible! When Human Rights Watch’s Report ‘A Threshold Crossed – Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution…
Read MoreHow Nazareth Escaped the Nakba
Nazareth was the one Palestinian city in Israel whose inhabitants were not evicted in the Naqba. Jonathan Cook tells the fascinating story of why Nazareth’s inhabitants escaped the massacres and expulsions. He also tells the story of how Upper Nazareth was founded, as a way of confining and suffocating Nazareth. In Upper Nazareth today, founded…
Read MoreThe Israeli War on Christmas…and Christianity
Lehava’s Benny Gopstein praises the Nazis’ mythical figure ‘The Eternal Jew’ Benny Gopstein is the leader of Lehava, a fascist organisation whose ‘charitable wing’ Hemla is part funded by the State of Israel. It runs a hostel which caters for poor Israeli Jewish women who’ve been ‘rescued’ from relationships with Arab men. Thanks to Tzipi…
Read MoreLand – the Basis of Israeli Apartheid
In which other country would one group of citizens be prevented, through planning laws, from building houses, whilst the dominant group is allowed to build? In Israel not only are half the Palestinian villages ‘unrecognised’ and liable to instant demolition, but even those which are recognised are not permitted to expand. Apartheid? Perish the thought.…
Read MoreTantura – the Massacre that the Zionists tried to Cover Up
An excellent article by Jonathan Cook, a British journalist who lives in Nazareth. He was blacklisted by the Guardian. Tantura was the scene of one of the worst massacres of the Nakba and there has been a concerted effort to cover it up. The University of Haifa was complicit in the brow-beating of Teddy Katz,…
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