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Posts Tagged ‘Racism’

Haitham Sabbah – Photo of the Day

By Haitham Sabbah • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Photos, Zionism

As they say, a picture is worth more than a thousand words.
The attached photo is from the slideshow entitled "Fervent Believers" which accompanies this New York Times article:
Resolve of West Bank Settlers May Have Limits
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/world/middleeast/14settlers.html

The photo captions reads:
A settler tosses wine at a Palestinian woman on Shuhada Street in Hebron. The approach of some [...]



Haidar Eid – An Open letter to Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa

By Guest Post • Sep 10th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

(in the photo: People in Johannesburg March in Solidarity with Palestine.) Dear Mr. President,
I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment with both your attendance at the national conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies – a racist organization by any standards – as well as the content of your speech at [...]



Ronnie Kasrils – The Other Apartheid State

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

Address by Ronnie Kasrils: CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: RE-ENVISIONING ISRAEL/PALESTINE 12 JUNE 2009
 
May I start by quoting a South African who emphatically stated as far back as 1961 that “The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel like South Africa, is an apartheid state” (Rand [...]



Video: These Israelis are so well mannered!

By Haitham Sabbah • Jun 7th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Video, Zionism

Thank you, America! Israeli style!



Int'l study: Israeli control in occupied territories 'is a breach of the prohibition of apartheid'

By Haitham Sabbah • May 17th, 2009 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The following international report concluding that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories "has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid" was sent out by journalist Ben White. Another stinging statement from the report: "The Wall and its infrastructure of gates and permanent checkpoints suggest a policy permanently to divide the West Bank into [...]



Sami Jamil Jadallah – We Will Not Forgive The Jews For Their Silence; for Turning Israel Into a Racist, Criminal State.

By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Mar 26th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

The Jewish War on Gaza and its resultant destruction of the Gaza Strip and the horrible killings of innocent women and children in cold blood and as reported in series of articles in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and in statements made by UN officials were not surprising since Jewish soldiers are educated and trained to [...]



Ramzy Baroud – Durban II: Politicising Racism

By Ramzy Baroud • Mar 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Many countries are set to participate in the Conference against Racism, scheduled to be held in Geneva, April 20-25. But the highly touted international meet is already marred with disagreement after Israel, the United States and other countries decided not to participate. Although the abstention of four or more countries is immaterial to the proceedings, [...]



Reham Alhelsi – You Harvest What You Plant: Debunking the myth of "Palestinian Hate"

By Reham Alhelsi • Nov 26th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

Last week a friend of mine told me that she’d been invited to a debate at her University about the “Palestinian Mickey Mouse” Farfour, which is a Hamas-created children's show that was broadcast on the Al-Quds TV in Gaza. The show was accused of conveying messages of hate by Israel, the US and a number [...]



Encyclopaedia of Race and Racism under Zionist Attack

By Haitham Sabbah • Nov 17th, 2008 • Category: Education, Features, Haitham's Choice, Newswire, Petitions, Zionism

Earlier this year, Macmillan Reference USA – a leading publishing house – published a "The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism".
The Encyclopaedia is the first such work examining the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modern era. The set delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and [...]



Kawther Salam – We are Sick of the American-Israeli Interference

By Kawther Salam • Nov 10th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

I am writing this article after I escaped from the criminal action of Israelis on November 1, 2008, who came to Vienna to watch and to harass me. I wonder if the mission of these criminals to terrorize me in exile was coordinated between the Israelis and the Palestinian "security" team, just like what is [...]