An Open Letter to Branford Marsalis from the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine info@bricup.org.uk 17 June 2008 you said what drew you to jazz is that it’s ‘about freedom’. Yet you will be playing to an audience whose government and army operate a rigid system of checkpoints that keep several…
Continue Reading A plea to Branford Marsalis not to play an apartheid gig in Tel Aviv on July 17th
HATE BRIGADE: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators vent their wrath against Israel outside the Hamilton ground by Marc Cowen 5 Sep 2002Original in Glaswegian, 5 Sep 2002 no longer available online: A stunned Israeli team manager Eli Rozen told me: “We came here to play football. We have to put up with these problems from the Palestinians in…
Raytheon 6 cleared Over the course of the last four weeks, the jury had heard that, following repeated bombing of Lebanese property in which numerous civilians died, the group of anti-war protestors forced their way into the Raytheon plant in Derry and caused significant damage to its server and computers. “We have not denied or…
Gestapo Tactics: the Israeli army attacks a village near Bethlehem and kidnaps an Arab man and his Jewish wife Saturday, 14 June 2008 During the invasion on Thursday morning the soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian man and his wife, who is of Jewish origin. Hamamerh, 25, met his wife Melissa, 23, several months ago when he…
Continue Reading Israeli Army kidnap Arab-Jewish couple on behalf of settlers
A dubious Israeli spring in Europe By Gideon Levy “…public opinion in Europe is still more sympathetic to the Palestinians. But the European governments are turning their backs on this sentiment and are conducting a quite amazingly sympathetic policy toward Israel. There is practically no country that has not sent an official to Israel…
Continue Reading European governments defy public opinion to reward Israeli settlment builders
israeli army uses live rounds in peacefull protest Here is the video link June 13 2008- Today a young man from Bilin was shot with live rounds during the weekly Bilin Protest. Ibrahim Burnat who was shot in his right thigh was taken directly to Sheik Zaid Hospital in Ramallah and was described by doctors…