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UC Berkeley Vote: A travesty of the “Democratic” process

by Debbie Menon May 2, 2010

By Debbie Menon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Disappointing, but this shows the immense power that “the Organization” has to overturn popular demand against amazing majority numbers in the face of all reason and “democratic” principle. And, it also illustrates the cupidity, weakness, and failures of moral principles of elected representatives worldwide to stand up [...]

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UC Berkeley Speaks Out Against Divestment Bill Veto [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah April 17, 2010

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFv7h_gfAfU April 16, 2010 – Almost one month after the UC Berkeley Student Senate voted 16-4 to divest from General Electric and United technologies because of their complicity in Israeli war crimes the Student Senate meets again to attempt to override a veto by President Will Smelko. The Meeting ended with the senate [...]

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do

by Haitham Sabbah April 11, 2010

Sent from Emily Schaeffer, human right lawyer in Israel/Palestine, who asked Archbishop Tutu to write the letter. Dear Student Leaders at the University of California – Berkeley It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4 vote in support of divesting your university’s money from companies that enable and profit from the [...]

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AIPAC is taking over the campuses

by Haitham Sabbah April 9, 2010

Just like they take over DC! Why bother with moral persuasion when you can just threaten to take U.S. government . . . everywhere? On March 18, UC Berkeley’s student senate voted 16 to 4 in favor of divesting from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation. A week later, in a move oddly predicted [...]

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Fourth Annual Brass Crescent Award Winners Announced

by Haitham Sabbah December 17, 2007

Just came to know the results of the Fourth Annual Brass Crescent Award and the “Best Mideast/Central Asian Blog” is “Raising Yousuf, Unplugged (Laila El-Haddad)”. Congratulation to Laila, she deserve it… and thanks to all those who voted for Sabbah’s Blog (I got a ‘Honorable Mention’)!

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Vote for Sabbah!

by Haitham Sabbah December 6, 2007

To my surprise, I just came to know that my blog is nominated for the Fourth Annual Brass Crescent Awards 2007. Polls close Friday, December 14! Vote for Sabbah! Go to “BEST MIDEAST/CENTRAL ASIAN BLOG” section and give me a tip ;-)

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken

by Haitham Sabbah June 2, 2006

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices! This week in the Arabic Language blogsphere: Let’s start with the hard stuff. Tara from Iraq, has some rare seen images: Tara then writes: ????? ??? ??? ? ?? ???? ??? ????? ????? ????? ?? ???? [...]

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