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PICTURES: Playgrounds for Palestine Susan Abulhawa (USA) - Founder and General Director of Project (susie@playgroundsforpalestine.org)
Born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugees who fled the 1967 war. She spent 2.5 years in an orphanage in East Jerusalem in the early 1980's before coming to the US at the age of 13. She holds a Master's degree in biomedical science and works in pharmaceutical research. Additionally, she holds several volunteer positions with human rights and social justice advocacy groups. Susan is a single mother ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2003 2:07am PDT
A day in a life under Israeli Occupation The Boston ISM delegation has spent the last two weeks accompanying Jayous villagers through the one access gate to their land. The Israeli government promised unencumbered passage, but after several beatings from the machine gun toting private security guards at the gate, many farmers are too terrified to approach it. As a result, the village with its 4000 inhabitants is dying a slow death. Should the gate be closed for any length of time, that death will come more quickly with the resulting...
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2003 12:49am PDT
Edward Said: Imperial Arrogance and the Vile Stereotyping of Arabs At least since World War II, American strategic interests in the Middle East have been, first, to ensure supplies of oil and, second, to guarantee at enormous cost the strength and domination of Israel over its neighbors. In the U.S., "Arabists" are under attack. Simply to speak Arabic or to have some sympathetic acquaintance with the vast Arab cultural tradition has been made to seem a threat to Israel. The media runs the vilest racist stereotypes about Arabs--see, for example, a p...
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2003 11:16am PDT
Purifying the Land Transcript and screen captures of an Australian Broadcasting report on IDF stormtrooper activities in the occupied territories.
(link to downloadable 1.8MB real audio report - *please* distribute)...
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2003 8:34pm PDT
VIDEO: People and the Land (Documentary on Israel's occupation of the territories) (video/x-pn-realvideo 32.5MB) Why should you watch this documentary? Because it is your money that pays for the occupation....
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2003 7:18pm PDT
Criminalizing the Palestinian Solidarity Movement While the University has recognized the conference as an example of student free speech and freedom of political association, the conference, and its local sponsor, New Jersey Solidarity -- Activists for the Liberation of Palestine (NJS), are under attack from various media outlets and state politicians. The attacks are not confined to merely trying to stop the conference but, instead, seek to criminalize New Jersey Solidarity and by extension, the Palestinian solidarity movement as a whole. ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2003 3:51am PDT
Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith twisted CIA data in order to justify a war against Iraq ...an ad-hoc committee called the Office of Special Plans, set up [by] Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and other high-profile hawks rewrote the intelligence information on Iraq that the CIA gathered and gave it to White House officials to help Bush build a case for war, according to three Senators on the intelligence committee....
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2003 3:40am PDT
VIDEO: The Jenin Massacre. Firsthand Report of the Israeli Assault on Jenin IMC reporter Kevin Skvorack got into the camp as Israeli troops, tanks and bulldozers withdrew. His camera records the destruction of lives and homes....
Posted: Sun, Jul 20, 2003 3:17am PDT
Irish peace activist arrested by Israelis and held for days on trumped up charges ......
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2003 11:54pm PDT
WILLIAM A. COOK: Defining Terrorism from the Top Down For the past six months, criticism of Israeli IOF actions against civilians in Gaza and the West Bank has increased exponentially as reported in British, French, and Greek newspapers, and in Ha'aretz. Ha'aretz has condemned this reaction as "rising anti-Semitism." The nature of the criticism, however, is not against the Jewish people, but against the kinds of actions taken by the Sharon forces against civilians, actions that can only be labeled as "terrorist" acts....
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2003 11:38am PDT
AUDIO: John Reese (ISM) on Israel's Apartheid Wall and ISM's roles in the Territories ......
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2003 11:06am PDT
NOT AGAIN!: IMPUNITY A LA G. BUSH-RIOS MONTT soon we will hear G. Bush and Rios Month promoting human rights and social justice in Guatemala; this manipulation is intolerable!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2003 3:29pm PDT
Kristen Ess: Report from Occupied Palestine Each week Kristen Ess files reports and gives voice to Palestinians, providing a necessary forum for understanding and ending the human rights disaster in Occupied Palestine....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 3:22pm PDT
Digital Divide: The icy ideological grip If progressive politics is to have any meaning, it must start from the reality that you can't overcome global poverty through reliance on the market....
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2003 1:06am PDT
Norman Finkelstein - 'I Won't Take The Insults' "You're supposed to lie down and take the insults, and I'm not going to do it," Finkelstein says. "The level of arrogance of these people just boggles the mind."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 11:19pm PDT
Edward S. Herman: The road map, Israeli racism, and unmentionable discourse in the media But Ignatieff would never say that "racial contempt is an official ideology" in Israel, although the facts in that case would warrant such a statement....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 4:52am PDT
VIDEO: Ralph Nader on the Iraq war, Israel/Palestine and the solution to this conflict On June 14, former Green Party Presidential candidate and Lebanese-American Ralph Nader gave his first major address on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He was speaking at the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee convention in Washington D.C. He talked about civil liberties; the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and in this speech gave the most comprehensive address he has to date on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The national listener-sponsored radio and television show Democracy ...
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2003 3:38am PDT
Prominent Israeli History Professor, Ilan Pappe Praises Jenin Book Despite a year of a ceaseless attempts by the Israeli government and media to discount the war crimes committed in the refugee camp of Jenin in April, 2002, the truth of what many believe to have been a massacre, has forced itself on the conscience of humanity in a forceful and compelling way. Many believe that “Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion”, edited by Ramzy Baroud, with a preface by Noam Chomsky, played a key role in reversing the tide, by presenting a worthy ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2003 10:05am PDT
Evidence of Zionists bombing Jewish neighborhoods in Arab countries to get them to migrate ......
Posted: Sat, Jul 5, 2003 1:09pm PDT
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