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 Scotland amidst a rise in anti-Zionist political activity across the country. The results of this survey give the lie to…
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 official holy sites,” 2010 US State Department Report. The 1967 law stipulates a punishment of seven years’ imprisonment for anyone…
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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 concert at Saint Anne Church in East Jerusalem on Saturday night, 30 June. The concert was organized with the assistance…
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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 dig the West Bank, where most of the biblical stories are supposed to have occurred, said, because they are honest…
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 the German state in the east Prussian marshes to dispossess the Poles who had a hold on the land there…
[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 of this alienation, to think that those who stood in his way were the exilic Jews, or the unmodernised Jews.…