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Fear, the African refugees and the cost of maintaining Israel as a Jewish state

Neta Golan was shocked, but not surprised, by the images of a Tel Aviv mob attacking African immigrants. As an Israeli, she was familiar with fear and anger being directed towards non-Jews in Israel and the occupied territories. She says this fear is the result of a never-ending demographic war seen as essential for maintaining Israel as a Jewish state.
UN Committee: Israeli system ‘tantamount to apartheid’
Ethnic Cleansing / Land Theft & Destruction / Occupation & Apartheid / Exile & Restriction of Movement / Refugees Report: Israel issued 13,000 demolition orders against Palestinian real estate Haaretz newspaper said the Israeli civil administration issued 13,000 demolition warnings … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
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And we live on…
In spite of the ‘birds of death, hovering two meters from our breath,’ the people of Gaza live on
Rafah march for deteriorating hunger strikers as family appeals for support
Hundreds of Palestinians, led by Scouts from throughout the besieged Gaza Strip, marched in Rafah today to demand that Israel release Mahmoud Sarsak and Akram Rikhawi, two detainees still on hunger strike.
Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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‘This is not fair play’: Mahmoud Sarsak’s family demands his release as he enters 67th day of hunger strike
Mahmoud Sarsak, a 25 years old professional soccer player from Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, is entering the 67th day of a hunger strike as he sits in Israeli prison. His family appeals for international solidarity to help win his freedom.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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Senate fight today over the number of Palestinian refugees
Senate fight today over Palestinian ‘refugees’ Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian “refugees” or just around 30,000 — a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate involving … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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‘Fail Again and Fail Better’: Matan Kaminer on J14 Protests in Israel
Max Ajl interviews Matan Kaminer on the state of the left in Israeli society after the controversial J14 social justice protests.
Why ‘Brand Israel’ is failing
Ambassador Michael Oren’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal is timely – and appropriate. Israel is less popular among young Americans than ever before. And it will only grow more unpopular as more facts about the occupation make their way into the American mainstream.
Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, US Politics
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Affirming a Judaism and Jewish identity without Zionism
Rabbi Brian Walt reflects on his journey from being a progressive Zionist to holding a belief in a Judaism and American Jewish identity that rejects Zionism as its core belief.
Israel Land Administration charged with race and gender discrimination
The Israel Land Administration (ILA), the powerhouse behind Israeli territorial expansion, is being challenged in Israel’s high court over race and gender discrimination. Currently, all of the council’s 22 members were Jewish men, and 10 are representatives of the Jewish National Fund.
‘Where is my children’s democracy?’ The Jilani family speaks out two years after the execution of Ziad

Alex Kane speaks with Moira and Iman Jilani about their campaign for justice for ZIad Jilani (above, with his daughter Yasmin), who was shot at point-blank range in Jerusalem two years ago. (Photo: ListenIn Pictures)
Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained
Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. link to news.yahoo.com Islamic … Continue reading
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Israeli judge to issue verdict in Rachel Corrie case
Nearly a decade after Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by the Israeli military with a weaponized Caterpillar D9 tractor, an Israeli judge will issue a ruling in August on the civil suit filed by the Corrie family.
Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, US Politics
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March of the Flags

Sahar Vardi, pictured above preventing the arrest of a Palestinian boy during the Jerusalem Day parade, explains the meaning of the parade and the single most threatening symbol to the marchers — a Palestinian flag. (Photo: Haim Schwarczenberg)
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, On the ground reports
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Israelis sling racial epithets to mark 45 years of a Jerusalem ‘unification’
On Sunday Israel celebrated 45 years of occupying East Jerusalem with thousands of jubilant right-wingers hurling racial epithets as they paraded through the Old City and Muslim Quarter during “Jerusalem Day,” a state holiday embracing the 1967 capture of the city.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists
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Nabi Saleh’s Bassem Tamimi convicted by Israeli courts based on coerced testimony from 15-year-old boy
Bassem Tamimi was arrested in March of 2011, indicted on protest-organizing charges, and has spent 13 months in jail before he was granted bail last month. His trial has shed light on systematic violations of Palestinian minors’ right during police interrogations, and the use of their coerced confession to persecute political leadership.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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The Messiah’s Donkey: Settlers fire on Palestinian villagers as the Israeli military watches
B’tselem: On Saturday, 19.5.2012, around four thirty in the afternoon, a large group of settlers descended on the eastern outskirts of the village ‘Asira al-Qibliya, from the settlement Yitzhar.
The Interior Minister’s call to expel African immigrants, in context
Eli Yishai, Israel’s Interior Minister, has a strong track record of racist anti-refugee remarks, and is representative of the “demographic threat” obsession that dominates Israeli politics.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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South African artists, intellectuals and gov’t ministers take steps to isolate Israel
How long before South Africans are accused of being anti-Semites? South Africa to ban labeling West Bank settlement products as ‘made in Israel’, Amira Hass Minister of Trade and Industry says South Africa recognizes the State of Israel only within … Continue reading
The awakening: Missouri paper runs a Jew’s call for equal rights for all
Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune runs article exposing the ‘Zionist mythology’ that covers up the Nakba
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation
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New US demographics make Israel’s demographic fears seem all the more prehistoric

How long will Obama be able to honor Israel’s demographic concerns without sounding like a total racist?
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, US Politics
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Danish right-wing: ‘Made in settlement’ labels preempt Israel’s expanding borders
Yesterday, Denmark announced that produce from Israeli settlements will no longer carry a “made in Israel” sticker, sparking criticism from the country’s extremist anti-immigration political party, Dansk Folkeparti, or the Danish People’s Party (DPP).
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists
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BDS victory: South Africa strips Ahava’s ‘made in Israel’ label
Earlier this month, South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry announced that products made in the West Bank but labeled “made in Israel” will no longer be sold in the country.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists
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Censored children’s art show returns to California in San Diego exhibition
After being censored in Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art, the art exhibit “A Child’s View from Gaza” is scheduled to appear at the World Beat Center in San Diego on May 24, 2012 alongside the local premier of the film “Tears of Gaza”.
In photos: San Francisco commemorates Nakba
Ramsey El-Qare photographs Palestinian activists and their political allies at a silent vigil in San Francisco’s Union Square, May 15, commemorating the “Nakba,” or catastrophe, an expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their homeland between 1947 and 1949.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, US Politics
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