News and Analysis

‘Boycott Israel’ protest held Friday in Bil’in village; two injured by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Report post Sunday August 01, 2010 12:46 Despite the Israeli attack on the demonstration, the hip-hop musicians managed to jump on a truck with a sound system and speakers, and gave a rap performance with songs focused on the…

Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing Robert Fisk, Independent, Saturday, 31 July 2010 The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline. There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that’s OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a…

Israel Controls 6.25% Of Gaza by Brian Ennis – IMEMC & Agencies Thursday July 29, 2010 17:18 Wednesday, farmers in Gaza gathered in Beit Hanoun to protest the ever-expanding internal buffer zone Israel has established inside the Gaza Strip. Farmers demonstrated against the seizures of usable land for the buffer zone within Gazan territory.  …

Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah ‘worse than Hiroshima’ The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about battle Patrick Cockburn, Independent, Sat, 24 July 2010 “Of particular significance was the finding that the sex ratio between newborn boys and girls had changed. In a normal population this is…

Divestment Movement Breakthrough by Aaron Levitt Jewish Voice for Peace July 20th 2010 I can’t tell you what it meant to have so many people at the TIAA-CREF meeting asking them to do better. 15,300 people to be exact. Each one had signed a petition or a postcard, or secured hundreds of postcards in their…

Last Saturday, as with virtually every Saturday, SPSC members were out at street level carrying the message of Israeli crime, British Government complicity, Palestinian resistance and the call from Palestine for boycott of Isrel that is resonating world-wide. Support for Israel is virtually nil: our only opposition comes from a few drunks, and a tiny handful…