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Don't dance over mass graves to prettify apartheid

Protest Batsheva 30 & 31 Aug, 1 Sept

16 July 2012

Israeli-state funded Batsheva Dance Company’ will dance at the Edinburgh International Festival on 30th, 31st August and 1st September while Israel commits atrocious crimes against the Palestinian people:Send off a letter now to the EIF […]

Scotland: ‘little or no antisemitism’ is coupled with ‘rise of anti-Zionist political activity’

16 July 2012

by Mick NapierChair, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign15 July 2012Being Jewish in Scotland, a survey of Scottish Jewish opinion funded by a Scottish Government grant of over £21,000, found that there was virtually no anti-Semitism in […]

Another mosque fire-bombed by settlers, this one near Safed in Northern Israel

Israeli oppression of religious minorities – Muslims

14 July 2012

Israeli Eradication of History: Disappearing MosquesBy: Jonathan Cook July 9, 2012 “Non-Jewish holy sites do not enjoy legal protection under [Israel’s 1967 Protection of Holy Sites Law] because the government does not recognize them as […]

Half the Ramallah Orchestra at St Anne Church

Israeli military checkpoints prevent Palestinian cultural event

10 July 2012

Ramallah Orchestra’s performance of ‘Eroica’ in Jerusalem is cancelled due to Israeli interference by Tom Suarez July 2, 2012 The Ramallah Orchestra, an initiative of the music conservatory Al Kamandjati, was to perform a free […]

Biblical stories are uncorroborated

8 July 2012

Gabriel Piterburg on Facts on the Ground By Nadia Abu El-Haj“…she has been vindicated by Israeli archaeologists themselves. A group of Israeli archaeologists that had been sent after the 1967 war by the state to […]

Shafir explains why Israel is the product of a settler colonial project, European Zionism

Zionism as a settler colonial project

8 July 2012

Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 By Gershon Shafir [Shafir] “excavated the impact of settler colonial thinking in Europe upon the early Zionist settlers. For instance, the impact of the attempt by […]

Gebriel Piterberg looks at a biography of Herzl by Jacques Kornberg

What drove Herzl to Zionism?

8 July 2012

[Herzl’s] “alienation from his own Jewishness and his deep underlying desire to be a Gentile himself. Kornberg shows how Herzl really wanted to be accepted as a white Christian man and how he came, because […]

The prevalence of torture in 1988

7 July 2012

(from Chapter 10, The Hidden History of Zionism, The Prevalence of Torture) The use of torture in Israeli prisons has been the subject of extensive inquiry. In 1977, the London Sunday Times conducted a five-month […]

The short book is an excellent general introduction.

Four key myths of Zionism

7 July 2012

By Ralph Schoenman (The Hidden History of Zionism Chapter 1 The Four Myths) “…when we study what the Zionists have written and said – particularly when addressing themselves – no doubt remains about what they […]

Looted Palestinian books, labelled 'absentee property'

Israel’s war on Palestinian culture

7 July 2012

by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon 24 Oct 2011 In a new article made available today by the journal Jerusalem Quarterly, activist and The Electronic Intifada contributor Hannah Mermelstein discusses a lesser known part of […]