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Archive for September, 2007

Miss Bahrain, Miss Arab World 2007 and Stereotypes

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

I admit I have missed the news when it was announced end of last July, but better late than never.

Honored to be Bahraini by soul for living in Bahrain for the last four years, I am very happy to know that Wafaa Ganahi, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, won the [...]

Intellectuals urge Olmert to talk to Hamas

Friday, September 28th, 2007

AB Yehoshua, Amoz Oz, David Grossman, Yehudit Katzir, etc. petition Olmert to talk to Hamas.

Digital Resistance: Palestinian Youth Media

Friday, September 28th, 2007

In January 2007, a group of media makers and youth organizers from NYC and the Bay Area traveled to Palestine and joined an intergenerational team of Palestinian facilitators to lead digital storytelling workshops with Ibdaa and Lajee, two youth centers in the Bethlehem area of the occupied West Bank.

Twelve youth from Aida and Dheisheh refugee [...]

Go in Peace, Haidar Abdel Shafi

Friday, September 28th, 2007

As most of you know, Dr. Haidar Abdel Shafi died. Abdel-Shafi was the chief Palestinian negotiator at Madrid Peace Conference - 1991. At the time, Abdel-Shafi and the other Palestinian delegates had to participate as members of the Jordanian delegation, because Israel was then refusing to recognize that Palestinians exist and/or talk to the PLO [...]

ACTION ALERT: From the Palestinian American Congress

Friday, September 28th, 2007

According to news sources, Israel’s cabinet took a decision to begin to apply large scale collective punishment on the people of the Gaza strip. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that any cutoff of vital services like fuel and electricity would violate international law and punish the already suffering civilian population. The Palestinian American Congress [...]

For American Jews, Dissent Against Israel Has Become Mainstream

Friday, September 28th, 2007

A MUST READ ARTICLE

The exceedingly narrow range of “correct opinion” on Israel for American Jews isn’t holding together like it used to. Is a Jewish glasnost coming to America?

For American Jews, Dissent Against Israel Has Become Mainstream
By Tony Karon
[Via: AlterNet]

First, a confession: It may tell me that I hate myself, but I can’t help loving [...]

ACTION ALERT: Israeli authorities deny entry to clergyman

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Israeli Authorities Deny Entry to Clergyman

Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt), A Grassroots Campaign for the Protection of Foreign Passport Holders Residing in and/or Visiting the oPt.

In a continuing demonstration of Israel’s arbitrary denial of entry policy and disregard for the Palestinian population’s right to practice their religion and [...]

Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Pressure Builds on University of Michigan

Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby
By ROGER van ZWANENBERG

About three weeks ago Pluto books and the University of Michigan Press - our US distributor - came under attack by Stand With Us (a Zionist lobby group) who were objecting to the publication of Overcoming Zionism by Joel Kovel which [...]

How The Towers Fell

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Richard Gage, member of the AIA and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, gave the following presentation to a packed house at the University of Manitoba on May 29, 2007.

Watch one of the best technical analysis of the World Trade Center “controlled demolition theory” on September 11, 2001.

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Dutch church to reexamine policy of solidarity with Israel

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Via Haaretz: After 37 years of boasting of “inalienable solidarity” with the people of Israel, the Netherlands’ second largest church plans to reexamine its stance this fall. A group of notables from the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PCN) warned last week that the organization, which has over two million members, is in danger of [...]