June 2010
45 posts
Yes, Kahane lives
Yitzhak Laor:
On July 29, 1986, extreme right-wing MK Meir Kahane submitted another no-confidence proposal: “The government’s refusal to discuss the disintegration of Zionist ideology, which endangers the existence of the Jewish state.” According to Kahane: “Since the beginning of political Zionism, the movement’s thinkers have ignored and avoided the terrible and...
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IHH report on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Why Israel?
…But in the second place, Garrard speaks as if there was nothing distinguishing the case of Israel from that of other advanced economies that also violate or help violate human rights. Which, of course, is not true. Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians is unique as it displays three simultaneous features:
It’s ongoing.
It’s systemic.
It’s apologized for.
...
Palestinian Queers for BDS: A Struggle Against...
Palestinian Queers for BDS (PQBDS) is a newly launched group of Palestinian queer activists who live in the Palestinian Occupied Territory and inside Israel, who came together to promote and stand for the Palestinian civil society call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, that was launched in July 2005. Four days after PQBDS’ first public statement, Bekhsoos got a chance to...
Stéphane Hessel: Gaza Flotilla: Global Citizens...
Israel’s illegal and immoral attack on the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian aid convoy, which left at least nine dead and dozens injured, has rightfully stunned the world. The all-civilian convoy of 6 ships carried over 10,000 tons of critically-needed humanitarian aid and nearly 700 citizens from 40 countries. The Flotilla was an ambitious attempt to break the siege imposed by Israel on the...
Noura Erekat: Integrating Palestine into the...
Hardly an Arab or Palestinian living in the United States does not desire their fellow Americans to carry the banner of Palestinian justice and shift U.S. policy toward the conflict. Even the revered Columbia Professor, Edward Said, who commanded respect and attention in a broad spectrum of fields echoed this sentiment. At a 2002 Al-Awda rally in New York he called upon the impassioned throng...
Israelis agree with their government, thats why...
In the aftermath of the recent ship-boarding incident, three-quarters of Jewish Israelis say Israel should not open the Gaza Strip to international aid shipments. Narrower, yet still solid, majorities also say Israel should not accept an international investigation, nor adjust its tactics to win favorable international consideration.
Even more surprising, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
“BDS campaigns puncture holes in this security narrative by assuming an offensive...”
– Middle East Report 255: BDS in the USA, 2001-2010 by Noura Erakat (via clingtomymouth)
US Social Forum gives "Stand with Us" platform to...
Arab queer organizations respond:
“Don’t Stand With Zionism!”
We, the undersigned queer Arab organizations, are appalled by the US Social Forum’s decision to allow Stand with Us to utilize the event as a platform to pinkwash Israel’s crimes in the region. Stand with Us is cynically manipulating the struggle of queer people in the Middle East through its workshop entitled “LGBTQI...
Some things get you fired, some things don't stop...
Matt Yglesias in 2002:
AFTER THE LATEST DEPRESSING news from the Middle East I think we have to start asking just how inhumane it would be for Israel to just expel the Palestinians from the occupied terroritories. The result would probably be out-and-out war with the neighboring Arab states, but Israel could win that.
All forced population transfers are humanitarian disasters, of course, but so...
WatchIara Lee’s unedited footage from the Mavi Marmara.
(Warning - disturbing images)
Stephen Colbert on Helen Thomas
“If anything, the Palestinians should go back to where they came from.”
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WatchMSNBC: Growing up behind the blockade in Gaza
Tony Judt on talking to Hamas
“As American officials privately acknowledge, sooner or later Israel (or someone) will have to talk to Hamas. From French Algeria through South Africa to the Provisional I.R.A., the story repeats itself: the dominant power denies the legitimacy of the “terrorists,” thereby strengthening their hand; then it secretly negotiates with them; finally, it concedes power, independence or a place...
Demographic realities
“And if you look at the region, the area between the Mediterranean sea, Israel’s coast, the Gaza sea and the border between Jordan and Iraq to the east…within that area the Palestinians approximately number 8.5 million and so do all the others (Jewish Israelis and East Bank Jordanians), and the Palestinians are the ones who have no sovereignty anywhere. I don’t see that...
Musicians think twice before dealing with an... →
seriously the comments are great.
berniceshaw:
(via goingbacktopali)
Must read the comment section.
Uprising Radio - Sonali Kolhatkar interviews...
James Zogby on Counterspin - Zogby talks about the...
“As for the Helen Thomas condemnation fest and subsequent resignation today, the...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (via curate) (via berniceshaw)
Rabbi Who Brought Down Helen Thomas Has Great... →
This weekend, thirty seconds of video surfaced in which veteran DC reporter Helen Thomas, in a snippet of an informal interview, is asked about her views on Israel. In the uproar that’s followed, the 89-year-old Thomas has announced her retirement, ending a career that spans back to President Eisenhower and opening a literal front-row seat to Fox News.
The Flipcam video in question was shot and...
“Two simultaneous convoys – one by land the other by sea – will set forth on...”
– George Galloway announces new convoys to break the siege of Gaza (via clingtomymouth)
The Economist on Israel’s blockade of Gaza...
Juan Cole's message to the Tea Party
“Hey, Tea Party. A foreign navy boarded an unarmed ship flying the flag of a NATO member in international waters and shot dead an American citizen with four bullets to the head and one in the chest on Memorial Day. It did this while the head of the belligerent state was on his way to a state visit to Washington, DC, to be awarded a further $200 million in aid on top of the $3 billion of...
““Here We Shall Stay”
As though we were twenty impossibilities
In...”
– Tawfiq Zayyad
Of Course, They Were Asking For It →
berniceshaw:
Brilliant piece of satire by Mark Steel with the Independent UK.
To strengthen their case the Israelis have released a photo of the weapons they found on board, (which amount to some knives and tools and wooden sticks) that the naive might think you’d expect to find on any ship, but the more astute will recognise as exactly what you’d carry if you were planning to defeat the...
Evergreen State College votes to divest from the...
On June 2, 2010, students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, made history by passing two resolutions supporting human rights, upholding international law, and promoting a just peace in the Palestine/Israel conflict. 1. The first resolution calls for The Evergreen State College Foundation to divest from companies that profit from Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, as part...
PACBI: University and College Union cancels all...
Note: As well as regularly contributing to the economic oppression of Palestinians, Histadrut recently gave its full support to the Israeli military’s savage and illegal murder of humanitarian workers aboard the Gaza Flotilla.
30 May 2010 - The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) expresses its profound appreciation for the courageous positions...
Juan Cole on the historic UNSC condemnation of...
“As long as Israel, therefore, continues its blockade of the general Gaza population, it is no less in contravention of the United Nations Security Council instructions than Saddam Hussein was with regard to his weapons programs in the early 1990s.”
Informed Comment
WatchGritTV: Huwaida Arraf and Norman Finkelstein interviewed by Laura Flanders.
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“As Americans suffer extreme cuts in education for their own children and a...”
– Glenn Greenwald on ending military aid to Israel (via berniceshaw)
