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Loss of Innocence: Gaza Children's Artwork

By Guest Post • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Children's Corner, Education, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War

Loss Of Innocence: Gaza children's artwork, is an exhibition of paintings and drawings done by children in Gaza following the Israeli 22 day assault earlier this year. The exhibition, supported by UNESCO Gaza office, was collated by Rod Cox who went to Gaza early this year with the British overland humanitarian convoy. He stayed through March and April [...]



Paul J Balles – The Israel Lobby's Global Propaganda Manual

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Education, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Zionism

Paul J. Balles views a major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists. Written by Dr Frank Luntz, a US Republican political consultant and pollster, on behalf of The Israel Project, a US media advocacy group, it teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid [...]



Child Detention Figures Remain High

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Documents, Education, Iqbal's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

the average number of Palestinian children held in Israeli detention in 2009 remains high, at 375 per month



Nima Shirazi – Indoctrination and Education, Who's REALLY brainwashing our children?

By Nima Shirazi • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Education, Features, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. 
- Maria Montessori, physician and educator
I am certainly not in the habit of defending Barack Obama against his detractors, but the controversy drummed up by rabid right-wing hysterics over President's back-to-school speech on Tuesday is quite simply bizarre and absurd. However, the manufactured uproar and [...]



Helping Palestinian Children Confront their Trauma of the Occupation

By Iqbal Tamimi • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Education, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

Child psychologists have found that art therapy works to enable children to show in nonverbal ways what they have experienced and to deal with traumatic events in their lives.



Remember the Children of Palestine (Mary Rizzo talks about Hasbara)

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Education, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Video

Press TV's weekly programme Remember the Children of Palestine allows one of those rare opportunities to see brief reports about the daily life of Palestinians from a human framework. Each week, it features films and guests who talk about issues such as education, health, the family and holidays, as well as featuring music videos and [...]



Jeff Gates – How Israel Wages Game Theory Warfare

By Jeff Gates • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Education, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Religion, War, Zionism

In 2005, the Nobel Prize in Economic Science was awarded to Israeli mathematician and game theory specialist Robert J. Aumann, co-founder of the Center for Rationality at Hebrew University. This Jerusalem resident explains: “the entire school of thought that we have developed here in Israel” has turned “Israel into the leading authority in this field.”
Israeli [...]



Faris Giacaman – Can we talk? The Middle East "peace industry"

By Guest Post • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Education, Ideas and Projects, Interviews, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Upon finding out that I am Palestinian, many people I meet at college in the United States are eager to inform me of various activities that they have participated in that promote "coexistence" and "dialogue" between both sides of the "conflict," no doubt expecting me to give a nod of approval. However, these efforts are [...]



"The Good Ones" who act very, very bad

By Mary Rizzo • Aug 13th, 2009 • Category: Education, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

Being an apologist is different from apologising. Given the major loss of human life, including many unarmed and unthreatening men, women and children, just like those in the picture raising the white flag and later shot at, it has become almost ridiculous for Israelis to insist that their army has anything remotely resembling morals, but this [...]



Trial by Indymedia

By Guest Post • Aug 12th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Education, Internet and Communication, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Religion, Zionism

WRITTEN BY JAY KNOTT
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong" – Nietzsche
On 25 June, the Portland Indymedia website published an article entitled 'Rose City Antifa: Statement on Anti-Semites and their Collaborators' [1]. Rose City Antifa is part of the Anti-Racist Action Network.
Since its creation in 1999 during the protests against the World [...]