Smile on the face of the tiger by John Pilger 11 June 2009 from The New Statesman Obama’s speech in Cairo on the Middle East peace process was seductive, but its content was as morally bankrupt as any of Bush’s spiels. During the January massacre, Seymour Hersh reported that “the Obama team let it be…
Is Barack Obama Hitler?Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, 27 October, 2008 How can the same people who pride themselves on maintaining the importance of Holocaust memory invoke the real horrors of the past as a political tool? Ironically, mobilizing that kind of fear and memory of past defeat was used by early Nazis to mobilize Germans in…
Egyptian Authorities Punish Two Activists for their Pro-Palestinian Solidarity Work: Inhuman conditions at Rafah crossing The following day, the 28th of June, after many hours of waiting, a bus carrying Palestinian passengers, as well as the two activists, were let through into the Egyptian terminal. Palestinians were made to sit on filthy floors in the…
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Anti-Israel protest in Amman by Abdul Jalil Mustafa in Arab News 6 July 2009 AMMAN: Jordanian police yesterday used force to disperse a group of trade unionists and politicians who tried to stage a sit-in before the Ministry of Agriculture against fruit and vegetable imports from Israel, reports said. Eleven people were arrested and taken…
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Tom Hickey is a Principle Lecturer in Aesthetics and Political Economy at the University of Brighton and member of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) that was established 5 years ago by Professors Hilary and Steven Rose. Tom is also an elected member of the National Executive Committee of the University and…
Mary Senior, Assistant Secretary, Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) speaking at ISM France conference, 30 June 2009 I have seen the apartheid wall, the checkpoints, and the displacement of people from their homes and their land. This is ethnic cleansing. … It is not the STUC, and those that support BDS, that are the racists.…
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