According to YNet News, an Israeli News Agency, Israelis in Tel Aviv had a demonstration in July 2008 against kidnapping – in South America! “We’re tired of the indifference, tired of the terror,” said Maria Marios-Rivera, a Colombian national residing in Tel Aviv…when we’re in Israel we care about these people’s lives and object what…
Netanyahu’s “brilliant” peace plan by Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada, 17th June, 2009 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a peace plan so ingenious it is a wonder that for six decades of bloodshed no one thought of it. Some people might have missed the true brilliance of his ideas presented…
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Full article at Yahoo News 16th June, 2009 “The starving of 1.5 million human beings of the necessities of life — never before in history has a large community like this been savaged by bombs and missiles and then denied the means to repair itself,” Carter said at a UN school graduation…
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Haifa University academic Ilan Pappe supports the university boycott of Israel. Here he explains why I appeal to you today to be part of a historical movement and moment that may bring an end to more than a century of colonisation, occupation and dispossession of Palestinians. I appeal to you as an Israeli Jew, who…
Israel pushes out its own people Netanyahu’s insistence on the term ‘Jewish state’ signals a rejection of Israeli Palestinians as rightful citizens Dimi Reider guardian.co.uk 10 June 2009 Are we facing the prospect of an ethnic cleansing? To a degree, ethnic cleansing has always been part and parcel of Israeli political life. Despite its bloody…
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The Carmel Academic Center in Haifa Closes Academic Track As Too Many Palestinian Students Registered Alternative Information Center (AIC) The Carmel Academic Center in Haifa shut down the concentration in accounting within its Department of Business Administration because a majority of the students applying were Palestinian citizens of Israel. This was revealed in a news…
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