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Doc Jazz – Undhor! Anti-wall song and video

By Guest Post • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

This song is dedicated to Basem Abu Rahme, 29 years old, who was non-violently protesting the theft of his village's farmlands and was shot dead by the Israeli Occupation Forces.
The song expresses support for the people's struggle against the Israeli Apartheid Wall in Bil'in and Nil'in, on the West Bank in Palestine. People there are waging daily non-violent protests against the confiscation of their lands and their livelihood, while the armed forces of Israel respond with live ammunition and have injured and killed several people in this way.



Tear down THIS wall!

By Mary Rizzo • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

A group of Palestinians from the popular committees and Fatah movement tore down a part of the Apartheid Wall separating occupied East Jerusaelm from the rest of the West Bank.
  
On Monday 9 November a hundred Palestinians waving Palestinain flags and wearing florecent jackets saying "WE ARE GOING TO JERUSALEM" took down a piece of the [...]



More speech silencing: Michigan Student Assembly votes gag rule

By Guest Post • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Education, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

These ideas are not allowed to be expressed in an American University Student Union:
Boycott all Israeli products.
Take that $1 trillion you’re spending to kill Muslims, and spend it instead on re-building Detroit.
Stop 400 years of White Privilege—the University should admit every Black high school graduate. Read about it here.



Olmert visit sparks Palestine movement at US university

By Guest Post • Oct 25th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Emily Ratner *
On 13 October, Tulane University, an elite university in the southern United States, hosted former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a featured speaker. Forced from office due to corruption charges and under indictment in his own country, Olmert's speaking engagements at respected American universities should at the very least raise questions [...]



Lasse Wilhelmson – Liberate Al Quds and Palestine! (and the public attacks the speaker…)

By Guest Post • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Features, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

My speech and my own account of what happened at the Al-Quds manifestation in Stockholm on the 20th September 2009, with pictures to illustrate what went on.
Written by Lasse Wilhelmson
It should be said that the police played a dubious role, as they did not stop those who tried to sabotage the manifestation.  This ought to [...]



Palestine Yes We Can

By Guest Post • Oct 1st, 2009 • Category: Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY SONJA KARKAR
The sounds of “yes we can” still ring in our ears, Mr President, but we have yet to see the changes we can believe in. That was evident when you backed down to Israel on a settlement freeze in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. You made us believe that we can, [...]



Italian-Palestinian Concert in Gaza

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Grassroots Activism, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

In March 2009, at Theatre Shawa, Italian Tenor Joe Fallisi, arriving in Gaza on one of the Free Gaza boats, performs with a group of Palestinian musicians. Here is a bit of the concert.



2 Views on Norman Finkelstein's putting Zionism off limits in the debate

By Saja • Sep 7th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

Exclude Censorship, not Zionism, from the Debate
written by Saja
Dr. Norman Finkelstein spoke on Friday September 26, 2008 to a predominantly Muslim audience at the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn, Michigan. I'd liked a few things I'd read by and about him. His style was engaging and he had generally good things to say – [...]



Non-violent action in Gaza

By Sameh A. Habeeb • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War

WRITTEN BY SAMEH HABEEB AND AYMAN QUADER
If you are a young Gazan, how do you react to siege, blockade and war? It's time to hear about the struggle to be constructive in the midst of so much hatred and destruction, and to ask how long it can survive.
26 – 08 – 2009
 
The Gaza Strip has [...]



Kawther Salam – Fancy Title People and the IDF against Journalists

By Kawther Salam • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Documents, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

I strongly reject and condemn the “work” of the Israeli military censorship imposed on the work of journalists and the publications of the Palestinian in the West Bank. I also strongly condemn the continuous restrictions which the Israeli military censorship imposes on the foreign journalists, monitoring their reports, banning and censoring them in the office of [...]