June 2012 – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

palestinians swarm over the Israeli wall dividing occupied Golan from Syria

Joint Statement and Call for Action Presented to the 2005 World Social Forum

29 June 2012

By Occupied Palestine and Syrian Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative (OPGAI) END THE ISRAELI MILITARY OCCUPATION We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are part of the Palestinian and Arab people who have struggled for decades against […]

The Zionist massacres and violent destruction of much of Palestine in 1948

29 June 2012

Mechanisms of ExpulsionBy Salman Abu Sitta, Journal of Palestine Refugee Studies Vol 1/2 Autumn 2011 “This is an example of orientalism that people in the West would not believe what the Palestinians said. It is […]

Palestinian refugees on the move in 1948 - many were massacred by Zionist militias

The expulsion of the Palestinians re-examined

29 June 2012

By Dominique Vidal in Le Monde Diplomatique December 1997 “…250 killed, some of whom were unarmed prisoners. This was followed by a forced evacuation characterised by summary executions and looting…Similar scenarios were enacted, as Morris […]

Notes on Zionism, anti-semitism and Jewishness By Mike Marquesee

29 June 2012

“Until 1945, most Jews rejected the Zionist analysis – which was that anti-semitism was a permanent feature of non-Jewish societies, could not be challenged, and the only solution was a separate Jewish homeland…Most Jews thought […]

Zionism would bring back civilization and guard the Suez Canal for Britain

Zionism was an explicitly colonising movement under the protection of an imperial power

29 June 2012

Zionist Objectives Ralph Schoenman (from The Hidden History of Zionism Chapter 2)The Zionist movement would seek alternative imperial sponsors for this bloody enterprise; among them the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Germany, the British Raj, French colonialism […]

Notes on Anti-Semitism, Zionism and Palestine by Tariq Ali

28 June 2012

Il Manifesto 4 March 2002 1. Anti-semitism is a racist ideology directed against the Jews. It has old roots. In his classic work, The Jewish Question, A Marxist Interpretation, that was published posthumously in […]

Sharett was the 'moderate' wing of the Zionist ethnic cleansing programme

Zionism has a built-in imperative towards ethnic cleansing

28 June 2012

Erasures by Gabriel PiterbergNew Left Review 10, July-August 2001 How the founding myths of Israel dictated conceptual removal of Palestinians, during and after physical removal. The invention of ‘retroactive transfer’ and ‘present absentees’ as […]

They play for an army involved in war crimes, e.g the routine use of human shields

UK Government-backed lawyers find “undisputed” evidence of Israeli violations of Palestinian children’s human rights

28 June 2012

Israel subjecting Palestinian children to ‘spiral of injustice’Guardian26 June 2012 The report…points out that under international law, no state is entitled to discriminate in the exercise of justice on the basis of race or nationality. […]

Israeli settler colonialism and Palestinian freedom

28 June 2012

Book review: fresh thought on Israeli colonialism offered by Global PalestineJimmy Johnson in Electronic Intifada 2 May 2012 Recent years have seen an increasing interest from Palestinians, human rights activists and academics in discussing Zionism […]

The Israeli cricket team had to play behind barbed wire inside a UK military base

Protests force Israeli team out of Glasgow

27 June 2012

Israeli cricket match cancelledBBC 09 August 2006 An Israeli cricket team match which was due to take place under armed guard at RAF Lossiemouth has been cancelled. A spokesman for the organisers, the European Cricket […]