Media Release: Wed Jan 20th 2010 Holocaust Survivor starts UK tour at Edinburgh Sheriff Court One of the few remaining survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp will begin a ten-day speaking tour of the UK and Ireland at Edinburgh Sheriff Court tomorrow. Hayo Meyer, an outspoken critic of Israel’s treatment of the…
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To:Holocaust Memorial Day Trust18 January 2010 The UN’s Judge Goldstone added his voice recently to the condemnations of Israel’s massacres in Gaza and ongoing violations of human rights across the whole of Palestine. Those who remain silent concerning those crimes are sending a dangerous signal to Israel that it can indeed kill with impunity. We…
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“The state formation that will follow the defeat of the Zionist programme of ethnic cleansing and mass killings is not for us to decide. The commitment to full human rights for Palestinians alongside Jews and to the dismantling of the structures of Jewish supremacy throughout Israel/Palestine is enough to guide a campaign of solidarity through…
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Addameer’s Sahar Francis interviewed Adri Nieuwhof, 8 January 2010 The Electronic Intifada “Of course there is torture, ill treatment and abuse. I would say this happens at all stages…interrogators tie up detainees in painful positions…The health conditions in Israeli prisons are very bad. Prisoners who are in jail longer than ten years develop chronic diseases.…
If Britain’s foreign secretary has faith in his country’s standards of justice, this is the phonecall he should make by Daniel Machover, 16 December 2009 The Guardian According to news reports, David Miliband plans to call the leader of the Israeli opposition, Tzipi Livni, to explain the British government’s stance on the grant of an…
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Deputy FM: Arrest warrants harming Britain-Israel ties By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, 5 January 2010 Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon on Tuesday met Tuesday with British Attorney General Baroness Patricia Janet Scotland to protest the slew of arrest warrants issued against senior Israeli officials in the United Kingdom. A delegation of senior Israel Defense Forces…
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