Israel subjecting Palestinian children to ‘spiral of injustice’Guardian26 June 2012 The report…points out that under international law, no state is entitled to discriminate in the exercise of justice on the basis of race or nationality. It says, however, that “there are major differentials between the law governing the treatment of Palestinian children and the law…
Book review: fresh thought on Israeli colonialism offered by Global PalestineJimmy Johnson in Electronic Intifada 2 May 2012 Recent years have seen an increasing interest from Palestinians, human rights activists and academics in discussing Zionism as a form of settler colonialism, not just as apartheid and military occupation.Settler colonialism — or the relationship between the…
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Israeli cricket match cancelledBBC 09 August 2006An Israeli cricket team match which was due to take place under armed guard at RAF Lossiemouth has been cancelled. A spokesman for the organisers, the European Cricket Council, insisted the move was not due to any threatened demonstration. It is understood that Israel’s opponents Greece had suffered travel problems…
Rediscovering Abram Leon By John RoseAbstractAbram Leon (1918-1944), the Jewish revolutionary socialist who perished in Auschwitz, is best known for his manuscript, The Jewish Question, written during the Second World War and published posthumously. Leon analysed the Jewish trading role in medieval Europe. He developed Karl Marx’s argument that it is economics rather than religion…
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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…