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So here we go again:
[Via: CNN] NEW YORK - In the 67 years since its debut, “When You Wish Upon a Star” has been recorded by [...]

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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 [...]

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Abe Foxman fires New England ADL leader for speaking truth about Armenian Genocide.

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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 [...]

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But now it appears that Abe Foxman and the ADL have trademarked the use of any language pertaining to Hitler and the Holocaust. There is no denying the singular nature of the Holocaust’s impact on the Jewish people. But apparently, despite the fact that over 5 million non-Jews were also killed, the tragedy belongs not [...]

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A racist Jewish state
By Haaretz Editorial
Every day the Knesset has the option of passing laws that will advance Israel as a democratic Jewish state or turn it into a racist Jewish state. There is a very thin line between the two. This week, the line was crossed. If the Knesset legal counselor did not consider [...]

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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 [...]

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Iran is the latest country to sign up to “wall building” borders - in this case along the Iranian Pakistan border in the Baluchistan region. Iran’s justification for the wall is a familiar one. To prevent smuggling of drugs and guns and movement of illegal immigrants.

Whilst the Apartheid wall being built by [...]

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The silent ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Hebron never stopped since the Israeli occupation landed. Following are few examples of the endless crimes conducted by Hebron colonizers (a.k.a. settlers) and their terrorist army (IOF), against land and Palestinian families, documented and published by B’Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied [...]

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Sari Chreih and Razan Al-Ghazzawi – Interview with a Physician on Nahr el-Bared Tragedy
Q: What is your name and profession?
A: My name is Saleh Bhar and I am a pediatrician at American University Hospital (AUH, Beirut, Lebanon).
Q: We learned that you lost a member of your family during the bombings, which day was that?
A: During [...]

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First of all, please meet Handala (Hat tip: Ben Heine for his great artwork):

Handala (or Hanzala) is the most famous of the Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali’s cartoon characters. From approximately 1975 through 1987 Naji Al-Ali created cartoons that depict the complexities of the plight of Palestinian refugees. These cartoons are still relevant today and Handala, [...]

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We are leaving through Tel Aviv airport and the Israeli official catches my accent. “Are you South African?’ he asks in an unmistakable Gauteng accent. The young man left Benoni as a child in 1985. “How’s Israel?” I ask. “This is a f**ked-up place,” he laughs, “I’m leaving for Australia soon.”

“Down under?” I think. I’ve just been, like Alice, down under into a surreal world that is infinitely worse than apartheid.

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Ynet News reports that Lod residents protest Arab neighbors. Hundreds of demonstrators gather in front of home sold to Arab family in attempt to change owner’s mind; plan to protest all week.
Did I hear a RACIST Israeli campaign?
Oh, what’s new?
Hundreds of Jews protested against an Arab family moving into the Naveh Zayit neighborhood in Lod [...]

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By now, most of you have heard of Azmi Bishara. If not, Dr. Bishara is the Head of the National Democratic Assembly political party in Israel, a Christian Palestinian and a citizen of Israel who USED to represents Israel’s Palestinian minority in the Knesset until few days ago.
In this remarkable 30 minutes speech presented at [...]

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Israel has refused entry to the Muslim wife of a Jewish immigrant from Iran. The wife is currently in Turkey but could be sent back to Iran within days, where she is likely to be severely punished.
The immigrant, Puriya Hajaram on Thursday appealed to Haaretz for help in bringing his wife to Israel. “I was [...]

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[Cross posted at Daily Kos]
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Dr. Anthony Löwstedt, an independent Swedish researcher released his extensive research analysis titled :”Apartheid – Ancient, Past, and Present: Systematic and Gross Human Rights Violations in Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine.” (PDF File)
In his focus on the Middle Eastern conflict since the formation of the state [...]

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Dershowitz and other racists embarked on a program to press DePaul University to deny tenure to our friend Dr. Norman Finkelstein.
If you are not familiar with Finkelstein’s excellent work, take a look around his website. Anybody who read Beyond Chutzpah knows how meticulous is the research of Prof. Finkelstein. Dershowitz’s plagiarizing and garbage would not [...]

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“Recent poll reveals steep rise in racist views against Arabs in Israel; many participants feel hatred, fear when overhearing Arabic, 75 percent don’t approve of shared apartment buildings.”
Over half of the Jewish population in Israel believes the marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man is equal to national treason, according to a recent [...]

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Joint Letter of Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Submitted to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the Occasion of his Visit to the Occupied Palestine.
24 March 2007
Dear Secretary-General Ban,
As Palestinian organisations dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights, we welcome your decision to visit the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) at this early stage [...]

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Colonisation of Palestine - Zionism Must Go Forward!
The Iron Wall
by Mohammed Alatar
In 1923, Vladmir Jabotinsky – father of the Zionist right – wrote: “Zionist colonization… can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population – behind an IRON WALL, which the native population cannot breach.”
From that [...]

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