Take a lawyer’s advice – visit the occupied territoriesBy David Middleburgh,Jewish Chronicle 24 January 2014 “…conviction rates are 99.7 per cent…there is no longer any point in fighting for basic rights…the court system was clearly a figleaf for a system of arbitrary justice where the guilt of the child is beside the point…a system that…
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Below is an example of the appeals that Burdon received to remain true to his long-term hostility to racism and Jim Crow in the US South. SPSC deplore any threats made to Burdon, if there were any, and welcome his decision to follow in the tracks of Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, Carlos Santana,…
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Israeli football, racism and politics: The ugly side of the beautiful gameJonathan Cook 25 April 2013 Rifaat Turk, the most successful Arab player in Israeli football and the first to be selected for the national team, in 1976, recalled that it “started to rain” every time he stepped on the pitch there was so much…
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Mahmoud Sarsak: ‘Football is my weapon of resistance’Friday 14 JuneFIFPro World – Anti-racism FIFPro – represented in the person of anti-racism spokesman and FIFPro Division Europe board member Tony Higgins – finally met Mahmoud Sarsak – the Palestinian footballer, former political detainee and hunger striker – on Tuesday night June 11th in Edinburgh. In a…
The Almond Tree Michelle Cohen Corasanti Garnet Publishing, 2012 £7.99 I would like to be generous in my review of this book, but that’s no easy matter. Sure enough, the author gives a graphic description of the horrors visited upon a Palestinian family from 1955 onwards and culminating in a searing account of…
Israeli musicians also have military strings attached SHELLEY KLEIMAN, World Zionist Press Service 19 June 1998 Jerusalem Quartet members serving in nation’s army They’re young, winsome and talented, and they play classical music. What more could a mother want? It’s not only that Amichai Gross (18), Alexander Pavlovsky (20), Sergei Bressler (19) and Kyril Zlotnikov…