Release, Leeds PSG, 24 November 2008 Electronic IntifadaLeeds University Union agreed last week, by a vote of 12 to 11, to send a motion to referendum which will label anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism and silence pro-Palestinian groups on campus. The motion, shrouded in the language of combating anti-Semitism, is a reversal of a motion passed two…
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From The Jewish Chronicle Anshel Pfeffer and Candice Krieger November 20, 2008 Senior Israeli diplomats and members of President Shimon Peres’s entourage have expressed their disappointment at the absence of pro-Israel demonstrators around the events in the presidential visit. “In every visit that Peres makes abroad,” said one of the president’s aides, “there are anti-Israel…
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Noel Ignatiev Zionism as a political movement developed in the late 19th century. Its founder, Theodore Herzl, was influenced by two phenomena: the extent of French anti-Semitism revealed by the Dreyfus Trial, and nationalist ideals then popular in Europe. Herzl held that Jews cannot be assimilated by the nations in which they live, and that…
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by Omar Barghouti, The Electronic Intifada, 11 November 2008 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9948.shtml There has been a spate of recent news reports on international companies moving out of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) to locations inside the internationally-recognized boundary between Israel and the West Bank. The impression is made that boycotting products originating in Israel’s illegal colonies in…
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by John HilleyOne Voice is a project which apparently promotes peaceful joint Israeli-Palestinian efforts towards a “two state solution”. When stripped bare, however, we find a more stealthy agenda serving to disguise Israeli power through appeals to ‘moderation’ and challenges to ‘extremism’. Despite it’s elite allies and the failure of a supposedly critical media to…
OneVoice Europe will be conducting a tour of UK Universities from 10th-15th November. This organisation, whose badge was prominently displayed by Paul McCartney on his recent trip to Israel (despite numerous calls for him to stay away), has an impressive Honorary Board of advisors which includes everyone from Dr. Saeb Erekat to Sir Jonathan Sacks,…