All
A Bush in sheep’s clothing
Once you strip away the mujamalat – the courtesies exchanged between guest and host – the substance of President Obama’s speech in Cairo indicates there is likely to be little real change in US policy. […]
Month: June 2009
All
Settlers set fire to Palestinian field in West Bank
Haaretz, 3 June 2009 Settlers set fire to a Palestinian field and blocked a junction Wednesday just hours after security forces re-evacuated nearby illegal West Bank outposts. The settlers also returned to the site of […]
All
Galilee communities: We’re not racist, we just don’t want Arabs
By Eli Ashkenazi Published by Haaretz, 5 June 2009 Residents of the Misgav bloc of communities in the Galilee consider themselves to be liberal, peace-loving people who support coexistence with their Arab neighbors and even […]
All
Pressure on Israel
Letter published in The Scotsman, 5 June 2009 The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) applauds the decision of the Edinburgh International Film Festival to return funding from the Israeli Embassy, and welcomes the intervention on […]
All
The Carmel Academic Center in Haifa Closes Academic Track As Too Many Palestinian Students Registered
27 May 2009, The Alternative Information Center (AIC) The Carmel Academic Center in Haifa shut down the concentration in accounting within its Department of Business Administration because a majority of the students applying were Palestinian […]
Veolia
Why boycott Veolia
The Veolia parent company is Veolia Environnement, a French multinational. Veolia Transport, a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement, is a leading partner in the CityPass consortium, contracted to build a light rail tramway system linking west […]
All
Has Britain really become ‘much like Israel’?
Has Britain really become ‘much like Israel’? When did this happen? Is Britain now the most militarised society on Earth? Are Christians and non-Christians no longer allowed to marry in the UK? A defender of […]