In the US and Britain, there is a campaign to smear anybody who tries to describe the plight of the Palestinian people. The Independent, May 8, 2008 It is an attempt to intimidate and silence – and to a large degree, it works. There is nobody these self-appointed spokesmen for Israel will not attack as…
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How Israel kills 1,000 children, denies it, blames Palestinians, then says it was another ‘accident’
Israel says it doesn’t mean to kill Palestinian children, yet they keep on dying B. Michael Published: 05.04.08 We really didn’t mean to do it. Again we didn’t mean to do it. We have never meant to do it. Yet as usual, even though we didn’t mean it — we hit them. We hit them…
May 6th, 2008 Mike Marqusee spoke to lively SPSC meetings, one large, one modest, on his new book: “If I am not for Myself – Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew”. The meeting in Edinburgh was hosted by Edinburgh University Palestine Solidarity Society, held in EU Old College and was chaired by a Palestinian student, Mohammed…
The UN agency that provides food for Palestinian refugees says it can continue to distribute aid in Gaza for another 20 days The situation is deteriorating every day, with waste, water supply and transport problems increasing. John Ging of the UN’s UNRRWA said, “Now the estimate is that 60,000 litres [of raw sewage] per day…
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All 29 West Coast ports shut down as some 25,000 dockworkers went on a one-day strike against the war in Iraq Democracy Now May 02, 2008 In the largest labor strike since the invasion of Iraq, ports along the West Coast–all twenty-nine of them–were shut down as some 25,000 dockworkers went on a one-day strike…
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Unions War Protest Shuts West Coast Ports New York Times, May 2, 2008 SEATTLE: West Coast ports were shut down on Thursday as thousands of longshoremen failed to report for work, part of what their union leaders said was a one-day, one-shift protest against the war in Iraq. Cranes and forklifts stood still from Seattle…
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