UN Fact Finding Mission finds strong evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Gaza conflict; calls for end to impunity Tues 15 Sep 2009 The UN Fact-Finding Mission led by Justice Richard Goldstone today concluded Isrel committed serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the Gaza conflict.…
All the potential witnesses agreed to provide testimony in support of the successful defence case, with the single exception of the Rt Hon Peter Hain, ex-campaigner against South African apartheid and later a New Labour Minister and supporter of Israeli apartheid: Leila Khaled, Palestinian refugee and resistance fighter, Member of Palestinian National CouncilOmar Barghouti PACBI (Palestinian…
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Time to boycott Israel by Neve Gordon Friday 21 August For the sake of our children, I am convinced that an international boycott is the only way to save Israel from itself Israeli newspapers this summer are filled with angry articles about the push for an international boycott of Israel. Films have been withdrawn from…
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Can we talk? The Middle East “peace industry” Faris Giacaman, 20 August 2009 Upon finding out that I am Palestinian, many people I meet at college in the United States are eager to inform me of various activities that they have participated in that promote “coexistence” and “dialogue” between both sides of the “conflict,” no…
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Amnesty int’l withdraws from Israel concert fund following campaign by PACBI, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, 19 August 2009 “We welcome Amnesty International’s withdrawal from this ill-conceived project which is clearly intended to whitewash Israel’s violations of international law and…
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A strange case of ethical schizophrenia – lamenting dispossession while celebrating the dispossessor
by Mick Napier (Chair, Scottish PSC) & Marion Woolfson (Honorary President, Scottish PSC) 20 August 2009 The Festival of Spirituality and Peace, which opened in Edinburgh on August 9th, will be running two exhibitions simultaneously during the week beginning Monday the 24th. One will show the ravages of Israeli ethnic cleansing in occupied Jerusalem while…