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Archbishop Tutu barred by U. of St Thomas because of criticism of Israel [via: Muzzle Watch]
Rumors have been circulating for some time that [...]
University of Bradford student trapped in Gaza
Image by: Benjamin Heine
Urgent Appeal: Support Khaled al-Mudallal’s Right to Education
Khaled al-Mudallal is a Palestinian and a Business and Management student at the University of Bradford. He is currently trapped in Gaza due to the restrictions on freedom of movement imposed by Israel. Khaled needs to return to Bradford [...]
In last week’s New York Times there is a great article about the movement gaining momentum in Egypt to end the brutal and senseless practice of female genital mutilation (a.k.a. circumcision). However, it is important to say that circumcision is an inaccurate term for it. Female genital mutilation is the preferred and more accurate [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One more brain fart by Saudi Mutaween:
Saudi Arabian religious police call for sex-segregated sidewalks - Saudi Arabia’s religious police are insisting that authorities of Medina, one of Islam’s holiest cities, should build separate sidewalks for women, the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said Friday.
The country’s Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), [...]
Via: B’TSELEM - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Qalqiliya, 29 August 2007: Extensive destruction of houses and gross humiliation of residents
Around four o’clock in the morning of 29 August 2007, a large contingent of soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers, entered the Naqar neighborhood of Qalqiliya. According to the media, the soldiers [...]
American-Palestinian family was separated by force at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Steve Yacoub, the children’s father, owns a convenience store in Lakeland. He is a native of Palestine, but has been an American citizen for about 30 years.
On Aug. 18, as they tried to return home, Israeli security officials told the children their [...]
Not a joke, but yes sick…
The Israeli government forbade the entrance of paper for making text books to children from Gaza Strip, denounced Palestinian-Israeli Information-Investigation Center (CIIPI).
A released issued by the institution revealed that Palestinian children will attend the classrooms in September without their pens, pencils, books and more if the military command withholds the [...]
Israeli Violations Documented during the Reporting Period (16 - 22 August 2007)
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
16 Palestinians, including 3 children, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
10 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF.
18 [...]
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 [...]
George Bisharat
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
When does a citizen-led boycott of a state become morally justified?
That question is raised by an expanding academic, cultural and economic boycott of Israel. The movement joins churches, unions, professional societies and other groups based in the United States, Canada, Europe and South Africa. It has elicited dramatic reactions from Israel’s [...]
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 [...]
Even if that land happens to be owned by Palestinians… Israel has over a million non Jewish (Palestinian/Arab) citizens, and while it pretends to be a “democracy” - and as politicians and media the world over parrot the phrase “the only democracy in the Middle East” as if saying it made it so, and as [...]
Thanks as well as a hat tip to the great ladies at Jordan Journals for making this article available. (Unless you have a print subscription to the Jordan Times, this article is not freely available online, the only other site that has it requires subscription). Cross-posted at Reclaiming Space at http://peoplesgeography.com by Ann El [...]
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” - Aldous Huxley
Lies and Truths
By Mazin Qumsiyeh
Compiling Zionist lies and distortions is by necessity a work in progress. It obviously can be rather lengthy since the lies and mendacity of those who either participated in or still participate in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine goes [...]
Here is a new sample of the “peace loving Israeli occupation“.
The following video testimonies produced and published by B’tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) shows a sample of Palestinian daily misery life under the Israeli occupation:
Video testimony - Maysun al-Hayek:
In February 2002, Maysun al-Hayek and her husband were on [...]
(Image by Abu Mahjoob)
While brothers were killing each other, and President Abbas is packing his bags to go for a tan at Sharm El Sheikh resort along with his new old “buddy” Olmert, the Israeli occupation continued it’s terrorist crimes against Palestinian lives and land.
Here is a summery of last week report of Israeli human [...]
Agenda item, this is all what the international community can make:
Of the council’s 47 member states, the sole opponent of the decision to make Israel a permanent agenda item was Canada.
Several American Jewish organizations condemned the council’s decision. (Source: Haaretz)
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