IMEMC 24 June — Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one resident was killed, and ten others were wounded, when the Israeli army bombarded, on Saturday evening, an area West of Gaza City. The latest attack brings the death toll to 16, including 4 children, in one week; at least 73 Palestinians,…
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Zionism and the Jews by Ralph Schoenman (chapter 6 of The Hidden History of Zionism) “The dirty secret of Zionist history is that Zionism was threatened by the Jews themselves. Defending the Jewish people from persecution meant organizing resistance to the regimes which menaced them. But these regimes embodied the imperial order which comprised the…
“Israel is for the White Man” – Note to refugees from South SudanRichard Sudan in the Independent 22 June 2012 “Note to refugees from South Sudan: Israel is for the white man.” These were the astonishing words uttered by Israel’s interior minister Eli Yishai in an interview recently in which he outlined the Israeli government’s…
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When Zionist youth leaders “travelled to India to help run a residential summer camp, they were invited to meet with the Dalai Lama, where they received his blessing for the project,” reported Haaretz.One Zionist youith leader “stayed to volunteer at a new, Israeli-initiated museum which documents the tragedies of the Tibetan people.” In 2001 a…
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Embargo: Thursday 21st June 2012 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release SCOTS PARLIAMENT URGED TO END GRANT TO CONTROVERSIAL ISRAEL FIRM A Palestinian human rights group launched a campaign today [Thursday 21 June 2012] to get MSPs’ support to end a £200,000 Scottish Enterprise grant to the UK branch of a controversial Israeli water cooler…
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According to the Herald on Sunday, “It wasn’t much fun being an Israeli footballer at Tynecastle yesterday. Lashed by the rain, barracked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators – and seven goals down at half-time…against a noisy backdrop of protests about the imprisonment of Palestinian footballers. The Israeli national anthem was jeered, and the players booed…the demonstrators’ chants…
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