By Uri Avnery HOW MUCH did the boycott of South Africa actually contribute to the fall of the racist regime? This week I talked with Desmond Tutu about this question, which has been on my mind for a long time. No one is better qualified to answer this question than he. Tutu, the South [...]
Israeli Organ Harvesting By ALISON WEIR, Couterpunch.org Last week Sweden’s largest daily newspaper published an article containing shocking material: testimony and circumstantial evidence indicating that Israelis may have been harvesting internal organs from Palestinian prisoners without consent for many years. Worse yet, some of the information reported in the article suggests that in some instances Palestinians [...]
Army’s West Bank tactics imported to Negev Jonathan Cook in Amra The inhabitants of the Bedouin village of Amra have good reason to fear that the harsh tactics used by the Israeli army against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been imported to their small corner of Israel’s Negev desert. Over the [...]
By Neve Gordon Israeli newspapers this summer are filled with angry articles about the push for an international boycott of Israel. Films have been withdrawn from Israeli film festivals, Leonard Cohen is under fire around the world for his decision to perform in Tel Aviv, and Oxfam has severed ties with a celebrity spokesperson, a [...]
Israel denies access to dozens of Palestinian holy places By Jonathan Cook in Beersheva The walls have been freshly plastered and painted white, the sculpted stone window frames are filled with frosted glass and the builders are hanging spotlights from the ceiling. The municipality of Beersheva, the capital of southern Israel, is racing [...]
Palestinian National Initiative 16 August 2009 Mustafa Barghouthi, at of of the 700 checkpoints across the West Bank Ramallah, 16-08-09: In a gesture of solidarity with the Palestinian people and their just struggle and steadfastness, France offered the highest medal of honour –the legion of honour- to Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, the Secretary General of the [...]
Uri Avnery MY FIRST thought was: Good God, this man was responsible for the lives of our soldiers! The second thought was: What’s the big surprise? You always knew what kind of person he was! After all, during his years as the army’s Chief of Staff he quietly supported the setting up of “illegal” settlement [...]
ISRAEL-OPT: UN report details grim effects of Israeli blockade on Gaza GAZA CITY, 23 August 2009 (IRIN) – A new UN report describes the devastating humanitarian impact of two years of Israel’s “unprecedented blockade on all border crossings in and out of the Gaza Strip”. CLICK ON LINK BELOW FOR FULL REPORTHttp://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85822
By Sam Bahour Last week, Amb. Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled, West Bank Success Story . Given the level of half-truths and deliberate attempt to misread the reader, I was inspired to submit my own op-ed (see below) which is published in today’s [...]
Uri Davis says ANC should be model for Palestinians by Jonathan Cook in Jerusalem If a single person deserves the title of serial thorn in the side of the Israeli state, Uri Davis, a professor of critical Israel studies at al Quds University on the outskirts of East Jerusalem, might be the one to [...]
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