The Observer 8/6/2014 Link A group called Breaking the Silence has spent 10 years collecting accounts from Israeli soldiers who served in the Palestinian territories. To mark the milestone, 10 hours' worth of testimony was read to an audience in Tel Aviv. Here we print some extracts Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian after clashes at …
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Geographically, the EU covers the whole of Europe but scientifically and culturally it includes only one non- EU state, Israel. It plays football and other sports in Europe, sings in the Eurovision Song Contest and is now to join the UE's Horizon 2020 research programme. A signing ceremony is to take place on Sunday 8/6. …
Continue reading The European Horizon exceptionally includes Apartheid Israel, why?
Image from http://www.imemc.org The following Early Day Motion was submitted on 5/6/2014 in the UK Parliament. Please ask your MP to sign it. Early Day Motions (EDMs) are formal motions submitted for debate in the House of Commons. However, very few are actually debated. EDMs allow MPs to draw attention to an event or cause. …
Press release by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign 5/6/2014 The annual general meeting of global security company, G4S, was severely disrupted today by campaigners protesting about the company’s alleged complicity in human rights abuses and breaches of international law. Instead of discussing issues such as capital growth, the AGM was dominated by the subject of G4S’s …
Image from the Guardian Western powers have been adamant over the years that they will not firmly criticise, let alone sanction Israel because any act could derail the peace process. Let us out to one side the fact that the process has become an illusion that has not led to peace. In fact it has …
Continue reading No more ‘we must avoid any act that will derail the peace process’ please
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Image from the Telegraph I am not jumping to conclusions and assuming the US, or the EU for that matter, is making a radical change in policy towards Israel. Should a veto be required in the UN Security Council, the US Index finger will rise without hesitation. But for the …
Continue reading Is Israel’s reliance on unconditional backing coming to an end?
Will be speaking at GMB Conference Fringe meeting in Nottingham
Wattan News Agency today carried a story about how the IDF arrested and abused wounded prisoner Abu Hayye. Daoud Abu Hayye (27) from Nablus described how he was arrested by the Israeli army to the Prisoners' club lawyer who visited him in Alramle prison surgery. On the 11th of March an Israeli force raided his …
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I attended the recording of Aljazeera's Head to Head with Professor Norman Finkelstein at the Oxford Union on the 30th of May. Finkelstein is a well known supporter of an end to the occupation of Palestine. He has been writing and speaking about this iussue for 30 years and believes that his anti-occupation stance has damaged his …
Continue reading Which Norman Finkelstein turned up to Aljazeera Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan?
I will always remember where I was when Israel attacked the peaceful Gaza siege breaking flotilla. I was watching live transmission of interviews with some of the passengers on the lead ship, the Mavi Marmara. I remember feeling excited but worried. Could the siege really be broken? Could this peaceful protest achieve what the Palestinians …
Continue reading The anniversary of the attack on the Mavi Marmara, and the Gaza siege
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