Miliband moves to protect Israeli politicians from UK lawsMick Napier, 15 December 2009 Israeli ex-Minister Livni called off her planned visit to London after a Westminster magistrate issued an warrant for her arrest for her involvement in the planning of war crimes in Gaza. Like the verdicts of British juries that the Israeli Army murdered…
Continue Reading Solidarity in crime: Miliband promises to protect Israeli Minister Livni
Israel must unpick its ethnic mythBy Tony Judt in the Financial Times, December 8 2009 “…we can begin to understand that the country’s insistence upon its exclusive claim upon Jewish identity is a significant handicap. In the first place, such an insistence reduces all non-Jewish Israeli citizens and residents to second-class status. This would be…
Continue Reading Israel as a Jewish state is problematic – Tony Judt in Financial Times
by Ben White, 3 December 2009 The Guardian A struggle over land, home demolitions, and an Israeli government working with Jewish agencies to “develop” the land for the benefit of one group at the expense of another. It could be a picture of the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, but in fact, it’s…
Why the Israeli Ambassador will be supporting Hapoel Tel Aviv at Celtic Park on December 2 Hapoel Tel Aviv attracts a Labour Zionist support in opposition to Revisionism. Labour Zionism, however, has been as much a violator of Palestinian human and national rights as its Revisionist competitor. Often the competition between the two camps is…
Continue Reading Hapoel Tel Aviv – the ‘left wing’ of ethnic cleansing and genocide
by Marcy Newman in The Electronic Intifadaon 27 November 2009 I still have so much difficulty with the PA. But I cannot just stay silent while the PA rapes my land, my country and my people. They are collaborating with the Israelis. They are coordinating with them on security matters. They have been arresting Palestinians…
Continue Reading Interview with PA dissident: “I cannot just stay silent”
by Natalie abu Shakra in International Solidarity Movementon 27 November 2009 “When we speak of peace, we will speak only of peace that leads to the implementation of Palestinian people’s legitimate rights.” The choice of civil resistance in challenging the Israeli occupation is considered by some as a form of “surrender.” In an interview [in…