31st July – 18th August 12noon – 6pm daily Return of the Soul by Jane Frere EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL EXHIBITIONS Entrance is Free. Disabled Access. Patriothall Gallery 1D Patriothall Off Hamilton Place Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5AY more info 2nd – 25th August 6.05pm (50 minutes) This is Not a Subject for Comedy Written and performed…
Scottish Interfaith Group’s Israeli Government-sponsored visit by Mick Napier (27 July, 2008) “A Scottish interfaith ‘pilgrimage’ to Israel, supported by the British and Israeli Governments, has just returned from a short trip to the ‘Holy Land’(10). There was outright dishonesty, denial, refusal to face up to basic realities, irritation at truth-tellers, and even scoffing at…
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“You cannot hope to bribe or twist thank God! The British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there’s no occasion to.” Humbert Wolfe BBC discusses suffering of two Israeli families, ignores 200 Arab families The BBC Today programme yesterday morning, Wednesday July 16th, had a short piece on the Israel – Hezbollah…
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10-year-old subjected to torture by Israeli soldiers A short time later, five soldiers entered the room and proceeded to destroy the family’s property using hammers. In all, the soldiers destroyed wooden ventilation panels in the attic, a small refrigerator in the bedroom and it contents, damage to the kitchen, a fan and the fireplace. Name:…
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An invention called ‘the Jewish people’ by Tom Segev in Haaretz We find, then, that the members of a variety of peoples and races, blond and black, brown and yellow, became Jews in large numbers. According to Zand, the Zionist need to devise for them a shared ethnicity and historical continuity produced a long series…
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The beating of a pre-pubescent youth by soldiers is just another example of human rights abuse in the occupied territories Seth Freedman guardian.co.uk, Wednesday July 16, 2008 Gerard Horton of Defence of Children International, an NGO which has taken up Muhammad’s case, pointed to the IDF’s flagrant violations of children’s rights as yet another example…
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