If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!By Ilan Pappe *
If there is anything new in the never-ending sad story of Palestine it is the clear shift in public opinion in the UK. I remember coming [...]
Israel's attempt to legislate loyalty to the Jewish state is proof of the failure of the Zionist/colonial project of Israelification.
by Azmi Bishara
What is behind the latest wave of legislative proposals flooding the Knesset agenda? I refer specifically to those intended to curb manifestations of Palestinian patriotism and to restrict the political activity of Arab Israelis.
[...]
By Dr. Elias Akleh*
In his foreign policy speech, Sunday 6/14 at the religiously extremist Bar Ilan University, the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu did not only put the cart of peace in front of the horse, but he also loaded that cart with tons of heavy rocks. The Palestinian senior negotiator, Saeb Erekat, explained "The peace [...]
By Dr. Elias Akleh
Young athletic Obama reflects active energy whether running up the ladder stairs into his Air Force One plane, or giving speeches, such as the song-and-dance so-called historic speech to the Islamic World in Cairo University last Thursday June 4th.
This was a very well written speech meant to touch the hearts of Muslims [...]
In a recently published report, Global Peace Index placed Israel only three steps from the less peaceful countries in the world.
In its third year study, an Australian nonprofit organization ranked 144 countries for how peaceful they are.
On top of the list, New Zealand followed by Denmark and Norway were ranked as the most peaceful countries [...]
Update (June 27th, 2009): As usual, youtube removed the original video (vimeo did the same too) (like many of my videos before - sample). Here is a replacement from my Blip.tv:
++++++
Imagine all the support offered by USA to Israel; this is what Americans and Mr. Obama gets in return (don't miss the racist slogans):
Warning: NSFW!
These [...]
Tagged hate, Israel, Israeli, Jew, Jewisj, Obama, Racism, Racist, videoThe following international report concluding that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories "has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid" was sent out by journalist Ben White. Another stinging statement from the report: "The Wall and its infrastructure of gates and permanent checkpoints suggest a policy permanently to divide the West Bank into [...]
Tagged Apartheid, Apartheid-Wall, Colonialism, Human Rights, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Wall, West Bank, Zionism, ZionistDr. Salim Nazzal*
This is a quick and generalized paper, which gives evidences of which might explain why the Zionist regime has been more capable of resisting the pressures of the culture of human rights and self determination while the apartheid regimes have vanished.
Despite the similarities between the white Racist regime, in earlier South Africa and [...]
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the Racist of them All
By Dr. Elias Akleh*
It seems that Durban Anti-Racism Review Conference II that started last Monday April 20th in Geneva has concluded with the worthless ineffective declaration with 143 articles calling for the protection of vulnerable minorities, and urging states to combat impunity for crimes [...]
Town Hall Meeting Under Intimidation of Violence
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 13, New York, NY - Adam Shapiro, a human rights activist and documentary filmmaker, who is scheduled to speak tonight at a public Town Hall Meeting hosted by Revolution Books, has had death threats issued against him by the Jewish Defense Organization. In the threats, [...]
Petition in support of call by United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D'escoto Brockmann for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/IJAN_Brockmann_BDS/?e
During the 57th Plenary Meeting on the Question of Palestine, President of the General Assembly Miguel D'escoto Brockmann broke a diplomatic taboo by describing Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as similar to those [...]
Danish writer Rune Engelbreth Larsen has teamed up with photographer Jacob Holdt to produce an open letter and YouTube video with an urgent appeal to president-elect Barack Obama concerning the rampant racism and xenophobia in Denmark.
Racist sentiment may be common in many countries, but Denmark is one of the only countries where actual demands to [...]
Gen. Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president yesterday and slammed McCain's smear campaign of Obama as some kind of secret Muslim terrorist sympathizer (see video). Powell talked about a Muslim-American soldier killed in the Iraq war. Kareem Khan was only 20 when he was killed by a bomb in Baquba-Iraq last year with only [...]
Tagged Barack Obama, Iraq, John McCain, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, Military, Muslim, Politics, ReligionWith all my personal reservation over Gen. Colin Powell's history and relation to Middle East wars and suffering; his recent stand against his party's racism is brave.
Today in 'Meet the Press' at MSNBC, he spoke up for all Muslims and fair minded-Americans and definitely let-down his own party and washed his hands from the republicans [...]
By Paul J. Balles
Paul J.Balles considers the chronic mindset of Americans which, thanks to the racial prejudices of Hollywood, vilifies Arabs and Muslims as "'rag heads', jihadists, Islamic extremists, terrorists and womanizing sheikhs".
Many people in America have their minds set against Arabs and Muslims. That's not simply because of the identification of Arab hijackers in [...]
