By Amir Oren, Haaretz – 20 Sept 2012Israel expressed its strong opposition on Wednesday to an Arab initiative, supported by the Obama administration, to hold a conference that would debate the possibility of a nuclear-free Middle East. The conference would take place in Helsinki toward the end of 2012, or early in 2013. Brig.Gen. (Res.)…
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Boycott campaigners turned the empty Zionist slogan “Culture unites, Boycotts Divide” totally on its head in Edinburgh last weekend, drawing some of Scotland’s best known cultural figures, many theatre–goers and Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Israel’s world-renowned Batsheva dance company, into public dialogue about its role as a state-funded “cultural ambassador.” In an unprecedented encounter…
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Public meeting: 30 year commemoration of the Sabra & Shatila massacreEye-witness report by Dr Ben Alofs Ben Alofs was working as a nurse in West Beirut in the summer of 1982, which at the time was being besieged by the Israeli army. He was an eye-witness to the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre. Ariel Sharon’s complicity…
by Liz Lochhead, poet, dramatist and Scottish Makar2 September 2012 …I was glad to join other Scottish artists and writers in signing a letter protesting the appearance of the Israeli Batsheva Dance Company at the Edinburgh International Festival this week. Why? Because I have been profoundly changed by what I witnessed and experienced first hand…
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BBC Radio 4’s World at One yesterday, Tuesday 28th August, can be heard here for a week after transmission. The programme covered the verdict which exonerated the Israeli military of any blame for the death of Rachel Corrie, crushed under an Israeli military bulldozer carrying out one its frequent missions to bulldoze Palestinian homes. On this…
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IF you are angry at the Israeli court blaming Rachel Corrie for her own death under an Israeli bulldozer, while trying to intercede against a – routine – Israeli bulldozing of Palestinian homes and propertyIF you are angry at Israel shelling of Gaza yesterday and its other cruelties IF you want to send a message…
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