Fascinating letter by Shelby Tucker, Jr published September 25, 1978 in The Memphis Commercial Appeal after the author threatened a law suit after he was defamed as an “anti-Semite” for criticizing Israeli policies. Still worth reading and pondering some thirty years later. Tucker became even more an advocate of human rights since then. Sadly some [...]

Not a single Israeli academic institution complains about these atrocities: High Court has been wrongly besmirched [By Amira Hass, Haaretz]

In the most recent Israel Defense Forces raids in the Gaza Strip, during which dozens of people were detained for interrogation by the Shin Bet, the security service adopted a procedure unknown in recent years: The detainees were forced to undress in the presence of another detainee and a soldier or a member of the [...]

A State Department employee was indicted yesterday on charges that he threatened and intimidated employees of the Arab American Institute, including James Zogby, the president of the organization.

“The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead Arab,” Syring said in a voice-mail message left late July 17, 2006, after [...]

Here is a sample of Israeli occupation practices against Non-Violent demonstrations south of Bethlehem against apartheid wall construction.

[Hat tip: Sami Awad]

I have been invited to Haiti by “Haiti Solidarity” so am off there shortly. I will be staying and meeting with women activists from the Lavalas movement. I have a pretty good knowledge of Haitian history and contemporary politics but there is always more to learn and I needed to focus on [...]

The invasion of ‘Ein Beit Al Ma’ refugee camp by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued on Friday, July 20, 2007 at 10:20 am when several jeeps returned to the main street of Nablus and entered the camp. International human rights activists present created a human roadblock on the main thoroughfare of the camp [...]

CAIR Representative Ahmed Bedier and Arab-American author Samar Jarrah (Palestinian-American Muslim and the author of “Arab Voices Speak to American Hearts”) appear live on FOX 13 to discuss the results of a recent Pew Global Attitudes report that found support for violence in Muslim countries has declined. Bedier repeated condemnations of violent extremist actions as [...]

Via: Amnesty International

Palestinian villagers’ homes under threat

Since the Israeli army’s threat to demolish their homes, most of the people living in the village of Hadidiya have moved their tents and shacks a few hundred metres to the hamlet of Humsa. However, on 29 May Israeli forces delivered a written warning to the villagers in Humsa, [...]

Thanks to the Zionist ‘Anti-Defamation League’ (ADL), the ‘Free Gaza Movement’ is getting a free publicity by the coverage here.

I already covered the story of Free Gaza few months ago, but the more, the better.

Project Description

This movement is an international nonviolent resistance project to challenge Israel’s siege of Gaza. Israel claims that Gaza is no [...]