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Jeffrey Blankfort – Why Israel Always Prevails

By Guest Post • Mar 20th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

If the State Department had issued travel advisory warnings to US government officials about to travel to Israel, Vice President Joe Biden would have no doubt ignored them.  A better friend to Israel could not have been found in the 36 years that Biden represented Delaware in the US Senate and there was speculation that [...]



Henry Herskovitz – Will IJAN Challenge Jewish Power?

By Guest Post • Mar 20th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

Right out of the box, she shows her hand – Tumposky's and IJAN's opposition to apartheid is rooted not in universalistic notions of justice and human rights but in Jewish chauvinism/exceptionalism. Thus, they appeal to Jews on the grounds of "our varied traditions of social justice." And Tumposky wants to make sure – absolutely certain – that fighting anti-Semitism is prioritized in any work on freeing Palestine from the genocide brought on by the Jewish state.



Silvia Nicolaou-Garcia – On the absurdity of a "Palestinian incitement index"

By Guest Post • Mar 20th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

A common blueprint of Israeli hasbara, or official propaganda, is to deflect criticism of its actions in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip by stressing that within the 1948 boundaries, it is a model of democracy incomparable to other societies in the Middle East. The reality however is far from this. In fact, Israel [...]



Please Help Little Amal from Gaza!

By Guest Post • Mar 19th, 2010 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War

WRITTEN BY AVIGAIL ABARBANEL: All the children of Gaza need help; all the people of Gaza need help. I would like to help everyone and the way to do this is to do everything possible to end the siege, open the borders and ultimately end the occupation of the Palestinian people. It is unacceptable that people should live the way the people in Gaza do. Jewish Israel cannot be trusted to end this nightmare out of the goodness of its heart. Israel is going very fast down the slippery slope of war crimes and human rights violations. Despite its relentless protest and cries of ‘poor me’, Jewish Israel is a morally bankrupt state that is rapidly losing the legitimacy it should never have had in the first place.



Wave of Divestment Resolutions Destroys Israel's legitimacy on campus!

By Guest Post • Mar 19th, 2010 • Category: Education, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

Compiled by Blaine Coleman: Faster than we can keep count, the Educational Institutions refusing to do business with Israel is growing. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions…. a start on the road to NO NORMALISATION with a racist state!



Shadi Nassar – A Very Dangerous Racial Israeli Publication in Jerusalem! بالعربية , English and French

By Guest Post • Mar 18th, 2010 • Category: Documents, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

These are translated copies (English and French) of the publication which was published by the Israelis in Arabic to people of Jerusalem within their savage campaign to judaize Jerusalem and the historical holy land of Palestine:
النص الأصلي باللغة العربية بالاسفل
Call for all Muslims living in "Israel "
In this message, we would like to explain the [...]



"Fourth Reich Israel" Blogger: Deceptive "Geneviève"

By Guest Post • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

…a desire to disrupt the communities of people working for Palestine, to entrap young Muslim men in a "honey trap", a need to find "radical anti-Zionists" and get their private contact information to threaten them or worst of all, to damage the Palestinian cause by bringing it to disrepute. Is she a Zionist? A few of us had suspected as much, due to the "over the top" blog name, but then again, it is hard to tell, but there are signs pointing towards the affirmative, and the damage this person intentionally does points VERY much in that direction.



Israeli Apartheid and the Nakba – video by Anthony Lawson

By Guest Post • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Video, Zionism

Very good video that explains how it is logical that Israel is aptly described as an Apartheid State. Although it is actually worse.



Brenda Heard – The Complex Business of Assassination

By Guest Post • Mar 12th, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

“Event”? An assassination, an international scandal steeped in fraud and political greed, is laughed off as an “event” suitable for parody. Clever salesmen ridicule the justice system to joe-public, who parades the untouchable crime and criminal on his t-shirt. A cold-blooded con-man who ordered executions like room service is remembered for his cunning and polished accent.



Mazin Qumsiyeh – Back in Palestine

By Guest Post • Mar 12th, 2010 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

It was hard to say goodbye to my wife and friends in the US.  The last night was very meaningful as we were in New York seeing the performance of Najla Said, daughter of my friend and mentor, the late Professor Edward Said (for an earlier statement from Najla, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMrmRCbvA0 ). I cried while she [...]