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Israeli authorities ban Palestinian Cultural Festival

25 March 2009

Press release, Al-Haq, 22 March 2009 Israeli police dispersed a meeting at the Ambassador Hotel in East Jerusalem of the organizers of the planned cultural activities, and confiscated related material and computers. The Israeli authorities […]

Histadrut: Israel’s racist “trade union”

23 March 2009

Tony Greenstein, The Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2009 Histadrut has always been a strange creature. In most countries one joins a trade union which is affiliated to a national trade union federation. In Israel one […]

Herzl saw opposition to racism, anti-Semitism as 'futile'

Zionism, Anti-Semitism & the People of Palestine

15 November 2008

Noel Ignatiev Zionism as a political movement developed in the late 19th century. Its founder, Theodore Herzl, was influenced by two phenomena: the extent of French anti-Semitism revealed by the Dreyfus Trial, and nationalist ideals […]

Shlomo Sand on the danger of Zionism’s racist mythology

15 September 2008

Shattering a ‘national mythology’By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz March 21, 2008 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second president of the State of Israel, wrote in 1929 that, ‘the vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their […]

Shlomo Sand's book debunking Zionist myths

Myths of Zionism refuted. Biblical Jews, for example, became the Palestinians

17 July 2008

An invention called ‘the Jewish people’ by Tom Segev in Haaretz We find, then, that the members of a variety of peoples and races, blond and black, brown and yellow, became Jews in large numbers. […]

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

Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine and ‘new anti-Semitism’

4 July 2008

Power and History in the Middle East: A Conversation with Ilan Pappe “I do not think there is a new anti-Semitism. There is anti-Semitism, rooted in the extreme right in Europe and the United States. […]

Why Israel should be expelled from the World Archeological Congress (2)

28 May 2008

Israeli army steals historical artifact from northern part of the West Bank May 27, 2008 by Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC News Whilst in Palestine 2003 to 2005, I volunteered with a local group, Palestinian Association […]

“Living in a house which was taken from the owners is stealing. It’s that simple.”

21 May 2008

Hell hath no fury like a liberal Zionist scorned by a settler. Jerry Haber, May 16, 2008 “Several years ago I privately began inquiries with Palestinians to see if I could find the original owners […]

Sixty years of Israel is six decades of planned horror

20 May 2008

Dancing on graves – Israel celebrates 60 years By Leslie Bravery – April 14, 2008 Political ideology The signatories to Israel’s May 14, 1948 Declaration of Independence, identified themselves thus: “. . . We members […]

Israel still exploits the memory of the nazi mass killings to 'justify' its crimes

Germans faced up to the Nazi past – they can help Israel own up to the Nakba (‘Catastrophe’)

16 May 2008

Israel, the Holocaust and the Nakba Ilan Pappe, May 2008 Very few matrixes can be as sensitive as that of the Holocaust, Israel and the Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948 (known as the Nakba). It is […]