Israeli soldiers poured dirt, stones and toxic chemicals in the only well in the hamlet of Khirbat Makehl near the village of Ya’bad in the northern West Bank overnight on Saturday, according to Palestinians in the community. The village’s official representative, Walid Hamdan, said soldiers riding in three military jeeps entered the…
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US professors: Support for Israel eroded Jerusalem Post, 29th June 2009 Unwavering support for Israeli policy has eroded dramatically both on American college campuses and within the United States as a whole, according to a group of American university professors who on Sunday concluded an academic exchange program here, sponsored by the Yitzhak Rabin Center……
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Palestinian academic union urges colleagues to back boycott in support of ‘struggle for justice’ Dr Amjad Barham (President of the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees ) While we value academic and institutional forms of support, we feel that this is not sufficient. Decades of life under military occupation have taught…
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The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) today (Wednesday 24 June) rejected the Foreign Office’s “dismay” at trade union’s supporting boycotts of Israel, and suggested this is an indication that the UK Government is out of step with the views of workers on this matter. The Foreign Secretary David Miliband MP yesterday stated that: “The Government…
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From the Daily Mail It is traditional that every Tory leader should address the annual lunch held by the Conservative Friends of Israel at some grand central London address…It was Cameron’s first opportunity to address such an audience since Israel’s attack on Gaza at the beginning of this year. Yet Cameron does not seem to…
By Robert Burns27 June 2009For large parts of last Tuesday’s perfect day for the outdoors, the fairways and greens at Bonnyton Golf Course near Eaglesham were empty. Unofficial police reports confirmed the obvious – numbers were down, mainly due to the Gaza massacres but possibly due also to noisy protests in previous years that spoiled…