The spokespersons for the Israeli Embassy in London, the Israeli Information Office in Giffnock and Scottish Friends of Israel may sometimes appear deranged but they have a sense of where some of the campaign in Scotland for Palestine is coming from:According to the website of the Israeli Embassy in London, Since “There is a need to counter…
By Occupied Palestine and Syrian Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative (OPGAI) END THE ISRAELI MILITARY OCCUPATIONWe, the undersigned civil society organizations, are part of the Palestinian and Arab people who have struggled for decades against colonization and a military occupation imposed upon us by Jewish settlers via the Zionist Movement and the state of Israel.We are…
Continue Reading Joint Statement and Call for Action Presented to the 2005 World Social Forum
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 only believed when it comes from the West or an Israeli source. The people in Tantura were taken to a…
Continue Reading The Zionist massacres and violent destruction of much of Palestine in 1948
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 shows, in central Galilee, Upper Galilee and the northern Negev, as well as in the post-war expulsion of the Palestinians…
Continue Reading The expulsion of the Palestinians re-examined
“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 the “back to the Holy Land” types were irrelevant eccentrics – something like Back to Africa preachers among diaspora black…
Continue Reading Notes on Zionism, anti-semitism and Jewishness By Mike Marquesee
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 and Czarist Russia. Zionist plans for the Palestinian people anticipated the Ottoman solution for the Armenians, who would be slaughtered…