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Activists call for a SodaStream boycott at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
A video produced by the Interfaith Boycott Coalition on the SodaStream boycott.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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Intense video challenges Catalan and Spanish collaboration with the Israeli occupation
A video that is part of a campaign to pressure the Catalan and Spanish governments to end military and security cooperation with Israel.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation
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Turkish PM raises Mavi Marmara at White House press conf, calls grow for Obama to investigate killing of Furkan Doğan
Yesterday, President Obama held a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Although the focus was on Syria, and the myriad scandals overtaking the White House in the past week, Israel/Palestine came up as well.
In 1948 the Nakba was carried out by the military, in 2013 it continues in courtrooms
Moriel Rothman uses the Shamasneh family eviction case in Sheikh Jarrah as an example of how the dispossession of the Palestinian people continues today, albeit in less dramatic fashion than 65 years ago.
Infographic: An Ongoing Displacement – The forced exile of the Palestinians
Visualizing Palestine has released its latest infographic to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the Nakba.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation
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‘Newseum’ folds under pressure, will not include Gaza cameramen in program honoring fallen journalists
Last week we reported that Israel supporters were pressuring the Newseum (above) to drop two Palestinian journalists, Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama, from its yearly event honoring reporters killed in the line of duty. Although the Newseum originally defended their inclusion, this morning the Washington, DC-based museum announced that al-Kumi and Salama would not be a part of today’s ceremony stating, “Terrorism has altered the landscape in many areas, including the rules of war and engagement, law, investigative and interrogation techniques, and the detention of enemy combatants. Journalism is no exception.”
Posted in Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics
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‘Newseum’ comes under pressure from Israel supporters for honoring Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza
On May 13th, the Newseum in Washington, DC will be holding an event to honor “newspeople who died or were killed in the pursuit of news” in the past year. Among the 84 journalists who died are Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama who were killed in Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip this past winter. Their inclusion in the ceremony has sent parts of the Israel lobby into overdrive as both worked for Al-Aqsa television which is affiliated with Hamas. The neocon think tank Foundation for the Defense of Democracies is threatening pull an annual policy summit out of the venue in protest.
Posted in Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics
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Video: Vomit for Civil Rights — Israeli performance artist protests racism in Nazareth Illit
A video of Israeli activist Asher Lev reciting and “regurgitating” a racist statement made by Nazareth Illit mayor Shimon Gafso where Gafso declared that he would do whatever it takes to maintain a Jewish majority in the Israeli city of Nazarath Illit
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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Israeli right-wing flys off the deep end following Hawking boycott
As can be imagined there have been a wide range of Israeli responses to Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the Israeli Presidential conference. While it would be a stretch to imagine a majority of Israelis would support the move, the baseness of some of the right wing responses is still rather shocking.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine
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‘The policy of the present Israeli government is likely to lead to disaster’: Stephen Hawking pulls out of conference hosted by Shimon Peres, backs academic boycott of Israel (Updated)
Controversy erupted over a Guardian report last night that Professor Stephen Hawking backs the academic boycott of Israel and cancelled an appearance at an academic conference organized by Israeli President Shimon Peres. Initially Cambridge University issued a statement that Hawking pulled out over health concerns, but now it has now retracted that statement and affirmed that Hawking’s decision was made out of support for the Palestinian call for boycott. Above, Stephen Hawking visiting staff and students at Birzeit University in 2006.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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Oberlin College Student Senate votes to support divestment from companies profiting from Israeli occupation
Oberlin College Student Senates votes to support divestment from Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar, Veolia, Elbit Systems, G4S, and SodaStream. Next step will be for the Oberlin College Board of Trustees’ Finance Committee to decide on the resolution.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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Israeli minister: Google decision to recognize Palestine ‘pushes peace further away’
The Israeli government has responded to Google’s decision to recognize Palestine.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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Anonymous sources in the Israeli US Embassy don’t like what they see on television
Ynet has an oddly anonymously-sourced story on a trend the Israeli embassy in Washington has noticed in American popular culture – Israel and the Israel lobby are increasingly portrayed as the bad guy.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, US Politics
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Close Guantanamo now
Morris Davis, the Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years, has authored a petition at Change.org calling for President Obama to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. He writes: “If any other country were treating prisoners the way we are treating those in Guantanamo we would roundly and rightly criticize that country. We can never retake the legal and moral high ground when we claim the right to do unto others that which we would vehemently condemn if done to one of us.”
Video: Olmert booed in NYC for saying Israel should re-engage in the ‘peace process’
Over the weekend former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke at a conference organized by the Jerusalem Post in New York City. As the the video above shows the crowd did not support his argument that a Palestinian state is in Israeli self-interest.
State Dept human rights report on Israel: ‘most significant human rights problems during the year were terrorist attacks against civilians; institutional and societal discrimination against Arab citizens’
Last Friday the U.S. State Department released its Country Reports for Human Rights Practices, including one for Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Utah school rejects Palestinian flag from ‘hall of flags’ because it might offend ‘Israeli students or conservatives in the community’
Utah Valley University will not display a Palestinian flag in its “Hall of Flags” because administrators say “the flag might offend Israeli students or conservatives in the community, especially since Utah is proudly ‘pro-Israel.’”
Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Politics
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Preparing for Iran?: US on verge of $10 billion arms deal with Israel, Saudi Arabia and UAE
New York Times: The Defense Department is expected to finalize a $10 billion arms deal with Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates next week that will provide missiles, warplanes and troop transports to help them counter any future threat from Iran.
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Marci Shore, an associate professor of history at Yale University, has a fascinating Op-Ed in today’s Times on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Extremists & traitors
Noah Millman has an odd, and disturbing, post up on the American Conservative website titled “Extremists in the Family” which deals with the intra-Jewish conversation on Israel/Palestine.
Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine
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Al Haq: Palestinian prisoners subjected to war crime of deportation
Al Haq: As Palestinians mark an emotional Prisoner’s Day, the Israeli authorities are currently coercing Samer al-‘Issawi to accept a deal that would see him deported to a United Nations (UN) Member State in exchange for ending his hunger strike. Samer has repeatedly refused to accept any such deal, which constitutes a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention and therefore qualifies as one of the most serious war crimes. As an organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of Palestinian human rights, Al-Haq would like to take the opportunity of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day to condemn, in the strongest terms, Israel’s repeated use of deportation rather than addressing the legitimate concerns of Palestinian prisoners.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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‘It is time to guard our house!’: Nazareth Illit mayor promises to prevent a Palestinian school in order to ‘stop the demographic deterioration’ of the city
A statement published by Nazareth Illit mayor Shimon Gapso.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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‘Obies’ urge Ben & Jerry’s to end complicity with occupation
Oberlin Students and Alumni urge Ben & Jerry’s to End Their Complicity in Israel’s Occupation and Illegal Settlements
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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Teachers’ Union of Ireland endorses academic boycott of Israel in unanimous vote
From an Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign press release: At its Annual Congress on Thursday 4th April 2013, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) became the first academic union in Europe to endorse the Palestinian call for an academic boycott of … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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‘Do not stand silent. Do not retreat. Do not back down’: Desmond Tutu and Roger Waters call on UC Riverside to stand behind divestment vote
Tonight the University of California Riverside Associated Students will vote on whether to rescind a March 6th vote in favor of divestment from Caterpillar and Hewlett Packard for their involvement in the Israeli occupation. This move comes after a month of intense pressure from pro-Israel activists and organizations. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Roger Waters have issued statements in support of the divestment vote.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, US Politics
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