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Boycott Israel? It's Illegal
oppose the apartheid wall, the occupation and the efforts of Israel to seize most of the occupation territories from the Palestinians, and believe that a boycott would be a good way to try to force change? forget it, it's illegal, as apparently, there are no First Amendment rights in regard to this issue...
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 10:09pm PDT
10/2 This Saturday: Conference on Palestinian Rights
See you there. Bring your friends. An excellent opportunity to learn more and share information and network with others for a just cause. "Palestine is still THE issue."...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 11:51pm PDT
21 Palestinians and three Israelis killed in Gaza fighting
Twenty-one Palestinians were killed by army fire and at least 108 wounded as Israeli troops pushed deep into the largest Palestinian refugee camp today.
Three Israelis - two soldiers and a woman jogging in a Jewish settlement - were killed.
The highest single-day Palestinian casualty count in four months came after a Palestinian rocket killed two children in an Israeli border town....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 4:41pm PDT
Christians beaten by settlers in Hebron
Two American peace activists beaten by unknown assailants in West Bank...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 2:56pm PDT
Report from Health Workers in Gaza
UHWC teams who are doing all this call all International and human rights
organization, Red Cross, United Nations, and all those who are seeking just peace in
the area to urgently interfere to stop this massacre against our Palestinian people.
At the same time to pressure on the Israeli government to stop its harassments
against the medical teams and civilians....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 12:30pm PDT
9/30 Update from Hebron
This morning children from the South Hebron village of Tuba were able to reach
school safely in Tiwani....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 12:10pm PDT
New Book Breaks Censorship on Palestinian Issue
In a groundbreaking departure, a recently released book by a major progressive
institution dedicated to exposing "censorship" in the American media reveals that
the organization itself also omitted information on the Israeli-Palestinian issue
over its 20-plus years of operations....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 12:07am PDT
10/14: Women, Peace and Social Justice in Israel and Palestine
Saturday October 14th 7pm
St. Boniface Church
741 Golden Gate Ave
between Jones x Leavenworth
2 blocks from Civic Center BART...
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 10:28pm PDT
Pro-Palestinian Activists Beaten with Baseball Bats by Pro-Israel
Israeli settlers frequently attack the nonviolent Christian Peacemaker members,
throwing them to the ground, kicking them, cursing them, using obscenities against
their religion etc., while Israeli soldiers look on. This incident, however, is the
most brutal to date....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 7:38pm PDT
Action Alert Update: Budrus Arrests and Peace Activists Beaten
International Solidarity Movement Activists Beaten
Palestinian Non-Violent Activist and German National Arrested
Israelis Targeted by Israeli Army...
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 12:20am PDT
Israeli settler 'gets away' with murder
A Jewish settler who killed a Palestinian driver has been freed from police custody and placed under temporary house arrest, Israeli state-run radio has reported....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 9:42am PDT
Elite officers criticize IDF actions in territories
Four officers in the elite Air Force unit "Shaldag" recently sent a letter to senior Israel Defense Forces officers in which they leveled harsh criticism at the army's operations in the territories....
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 8:01pm PDT
Terrorism Began at Deir Yassin
We are constantly reminded by our elected officials (and those who steal their elections) and the pro-Israel filtered media, of the acts of revenge that Palestinian and Muslim groups have committed against the people of Israel, however, we are almost never told about the brutal and inhumane acts of state terrorism that the government of Israel has been inflicting against the people of Palestine, ever since its inception....
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 5:51am PDT
Hamas member assassinated in Syria
A car bomb has exploded in the Syrian capital killing a member of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas....
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2004 9:49am PDT
IT'S ALWAYS PALESTINIAN PROPERTY THAT IS SEIZED FOR THE APARTHEID WALL.
No Justice. No Peace.
http://www.btselem.org/English/Separation_Barrier/Index.asp.
A Blessing on the Olive Trees! and the people of Palestine!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 1:45pm PDT
Boycott of Israel strikes a responsive chord
In a report to the to the UN General Assembly early last month, [John] Dugard [South African law professor] said there is "an apartheid regime" in the territories "worse than the one that existed in South Africa".
Dugard was a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the end of the apartheid regime. In May, he called for an arms embargo against Israel similar to the one imposed on South Africa in 1977....
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 7:41pm PDT
Protest Warriors plan to disrupt rally in Berkeley
the protest warriors plan to disrupt a
"jews for a free palestine" rally in berkeley...
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 2:58pm PDT
UN Conference on Palestine Sets Stage for the 59th UN General Assembly
UN Conference on Palestine creates background for UN General Assemby Action...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 11:00pm PDT
Gary Leupp: Kerry's Middle East foreign policy is little different from Bush's
Kerry continues: "we are not secure while Israel, the one true democracy in the region, remains the victim of an unrelenting campaign of terror."
[Comment.] This is a democracy premised on a Jewish majority and Jewish privilege, which must not be threatened by the return of Palestinian refugees, or even by natural demographic trends that will inevitably produce a (voting) Israeli Arab majority population within decades, unless the situation is carefully engineered to sustain the...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 2:09pm PDT
Weekly Report On Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Territories
Last week was the bloodiest week in the last two months, as 24
Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 6 children, were killed and
dozens of other civilians were injured by Israeli troops.
The difference between the suicide bomber and soldier(s) killing
civilian population including children, is the IDF uniform and the US
tax dollar in foreign aid ....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 9:07am PDT