Israeli woman denied social benefits for visiting Palestinian husband by Dana Weiler-Polak in Haaretz, 22nd June 2009 S. was born in Lod, where she lived all her life and is raising her four children. Her only sin, apparently, was in marrying a resident of the territories. That was enough for the National Insurance Institute to…
PACBI on McCarthyist campaign against Omar Barghouti 3 May 2009 ‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you. Then you win.’ Gandhi. The impressive growth of the Palestinian civil society campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, particularly after its criminal war of aggression on the occupied Gaza…
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…