Tag Archives: apartheid

Avraham Burg: World must tell Israel it can’t be ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ & the last colonial occupier in the Western world

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Matthew Taylor

Former Israeli Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg endorses boycott of settlement products in The Independent.

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Stopped by apartheid on the way to Madonna’s ‘peace concert’

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Madonna fans from the West Bank village Nil’in have tickets to Madonna’s “peace concert” in Tel Aviv. They have to get through checkpoints and the separation wall to get there. Will they make it?

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It’s okay to say apartheid…but only about Bahrain

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Alex Kane

Nicholas Kristof tweets that Bahrain is “apartheid-like” on the news that the country has sentenced doctors to prison for treating demonstrators during this year’s uprising in Bahrain.  Anthony Shadid, the veteran New York Times Middle East correspondent, also used the … Continue reading →

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Israel’s apartheid policing

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Alex Kane

Israeli activists are hoping for a “million strong” march for social justice next weekend in protest of the high cost-of-living there and neoliberal economic policies. And while those demonstrations will likely shut down normal life in Israeli cities, there is … Continue reading →

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Levy: ‘ethnic cleansing… apartheid… 1948 never ended’

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Matthew Taylor

Gideon Levy unbound in Haaretz, following up on Akiva Eldar’s damning report: By the time of the Oslo Accords, Israel had revoked the residency of 140,000 Palestinians from the West Bank… In other words: ethnic cleansing… While we are still … Continue reading →

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Israeli Holocaust Scholar: ‘Apartheid, Colonial, Racist’

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Matthew Taylor

Nothing Goldstone (or anyone else) says changes this fact: Israel is an Apartheid State implementing a colonialist-racist project. Israeli Holocaust researcher Prof. Daniel Blatman in Haaretz: Israeli racism, whose natural “hothouse” is the colonialist project in the territories, has long … Continue reading →

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Whoa. Friedman drops the A-Bomb… five years too late

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Matthew Taylor

In the NYT, Thomas Friedman finally uses the A word. Why did it take a million Egyptians in the streets for him to say it? To put it bluntly, if Israelis tell themselves that Egypt’s unrest proves why Israel cannot make … Continue reading →

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MSM stirs– Wilkerson tells Olbermann Israel can’t be ‘democratic and Jewish’

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Susie Kneedler

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Last night Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson gently set a naive Keith Olbermann partly straight. Olbermann noticed (at 2:45 or so) that a 2007 cable in the WikiLeaks communiques gives … Continue reading →

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My meeting with Henry Waxman

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Brian Van Slyke

Disclaimer: I wrote the following a couple of hours after my encounter with Congressman Henry Waxman today. This is not verbatim, it is not a transcript, but it is my recollection of the conversation. I’ve kept in everything from our discussion … Continue reading →

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It’s time to dismantle the PA

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Ahmed Moor

Salam Fayyad is surviving on borrowed time – or money. By now everyone’s aware that the Netanyahu-engineered “economic miracle” is the predictable result of periodic cash injections into a closed economic space. Pretending that Palestinian growth in the West Bank … Continue reading →

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The new Jewish upside-down world: intellectual who calls for equal rights is likened to KKK

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Last month we picked up the news that Jewish groups in New Mexico are trying to stop Ali Abunimah’s talk at the University of N.M. next week. Well Abunimah’s blog contains the disgusting news that a local Jewish leader has … Continue reading →

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‘There is no such thing as tourism in an occupied city’

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Philip Weiss

There are days that I think that Israel can be redeemed without violence, and this video gives me hope. Watch these human-rights activists, many of them Israeli speaking Hebrew, leading creative protests of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and … Continue reading →

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The death of a child

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Lillian Rosengarten

From Middle East Children’s Alliance: Nasma Abu Lasheen died on Saturday, October 16, 2010 in Gaza. Israel failed to issue her an urgent entry permit for life-saving medical treatment at Ha-Emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel. She was two years … Continue reading →

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Spade, duck, fowl, apartheid, ghetto

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Eva Smagacz

 Lets talk about spades. Did you know that  saying “calling a spade a spade” may have originated as an early response to political correctness? When “black as an ace of spades” was a saying in use, it was describing a … Continue reading →

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When will apartheid greater Israel arrive?

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Matthew Taylor

 In John Mearsheimer’s latest, he says that in the future Israel “will” be an apartheid state, and “will” be a greater Israel, “and when that happens, we’ll be on the road to a binational state.” [quotes paraphrased] My question for … Continue reading →

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