Last night (Tuesday 11 November) the North Korean government reported a bumper harvest and in an equally militarised country, the Jerusalem Post reported over 350 people attending a meeting in Edinburgh addressed by the Israeli Ambassador, Ron Prosor. The absurd claim was accompanied by an attack piece suggesting that the protestors were motivated by anti-Semitism. In…
The well-funded group One Voice held a meeting on Monday 10th November with Glasgow University Rector Charles Kennedy. One Voice claims to represent both Palestinian and Israeli grass-roots opinion and to oppose ‘extremism on both sides’. The first claim is bogus; their so-called ‘balance’ is between ongoing Israeli ethnic cleansing, carried out by both state and…
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Execution of 47 in Kafr Qassem Commemorated:Message of Massacre Lives On for Palestiniansby Jonathan Cook In a conflict that has produced more than its share of suffering and tragedy, the name of Kafr Qassem lives on in infamy more than half a century after Israeli police gunned down 47 Palestinian civilians, including women and children,…
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by Action-Palestine on 15 October 2007 The manner in which One Voice dealt with the events surrounding the cancellation of a concert planned to have taken place in Jericho on the 18th of Oct exposed the complete hypocrisy of the organisation. In reality no further proof of the hypocrisy was needed as whilst they claim…
by Savera Kalideen and Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada, 2 October 2008 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9869.shtml The strategic value of international solidarity with the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, refugees in the Diaspora and Palestinians in Israel raises some fundamental questions. The most immediate and urgent are: what the nature of international solidarity should…
Analysis by Another Voice – October 21, 2007 An Analysis of OneVoice’s 10 Pillars http://www.anothervoice-palestine.org/content.php?page=en.pages.10pill〈=en Despite OneVoice’s recent efforts to minimize the attention on its “10 Pillars,” especially in the wake of widespread grassroots criticism, the fact remains that OneVoice created these 10 pillars to present as a basis for negotiations, under the guise that…