Mr. Ban Ki Moon,

UN security general,

In the early morning hours of Monday, 25 June 2007, a large contingent of Israeli police forces, along with support from the Israel Border Patrol and under orders from the Israeli Ministry of Interior, sadly demolished 28 structures, including 25 houses, in the Unrecognized Village, of Attir - Umm al-Hiran [...]

This must be the one of the worst jokes I’ve heard, ever… [Hat tip: Akram Awad]

NY’s 1st Arabic School Occupied by a Zionist Principal!

ISLAM PROF IS ‘ZION’-HEARTED
By CHUCK BENNETT and JOHN MAZOR

New York Post - August 15, 2007

The new principal of the city’s controversial Arabic-themed school is an ardent Zionist who considered moving to Israel, [...]

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, [...]

Finally, Olmert confirmed what I have mentioned over a months ago about the increase of military AID to racist Israel. But the smell of death does not stop there. US also announced that it will increase military SALES to some Arab regimes.

One ironic part in both the stories… It’s an AID to Israel, but SALES [...]

Via: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

ACTION ALERT
July 25, 2007
Contact: (202) 939-6050

Academic Boycott - Yes or No?

Boycotts, divestments and sanctions are nonviolent methods of protest. Nevertheless, the recent proposal adopted by the UK’s University and Colleges Union congress to just discuss whether it should boycott Israeli academic institutions has caused a furor.

Supporters of [...]

(By Latuff)

The following letter is self explanatory. Please read and act:

Dear Reader,

We @ thepeoplesvoice.org need your help! Anti-democratic forces have succeeded in making Google take us off its news list. It is important for web sites like ours to be listed there, so that more people will have access to alternative points of view, [...]

Following is a letter from a Bahraini friend working with a NGO providing emergency relief to newly displaced refugees from the Nahr el Bared refugee camp in the North of Lebanon:

Dear friends,

Hope this email finds you safe and well.

From the Shatila (Palestinian) refugee camp in Beirut, I am working at an NGO called the Children [...]

The petition states:

“We, the undersigned, demand the immediate release of BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston. We ask that everyone with influence on this situation increase their efforts to ensure that Alan is freed quickly and unharmed.”

The Bedouin community in Israel are an ignored part of Israeli society that are facing the same systematic ethnic cleansing that we all faced in 1948, 1967, 2000, and through today.

Please support the attached “Call for a letter-writing campaign” issued by: Recognition Forum Association Forty, Association for Support and Defense of Bedouin in Israel, Coalition [...]

I was honored to know that my blog referred enough new members to join “One Million Blogs for Peace” project, and awarded a gift certificate, which means a lot more than it’s humble value. It means that readers if this blog are mostly “Peace Advocates”. So thank you all!

I promoted the project couple of time [...]