Monthly Archives: March 2013
US civil rights take a hit
Lawrence Davidson calls for vigilance in protecting civil rights in the USA, and argues that there are plenty of Americans who are ready to turn back the clock on civil rights. Read more [...]
Israel flag wavers to “re-educate” MP David Ward
Stuart Littlewood views reports that UK Liberal Democrats have appointed the pro-Israel lobby as “probation officers and educators” to judge if David Ward is “salvageable” and lay down precise language rules. Read more [...]
Israel-Palestine: the question Jews must answer
Alan Hart asks why most Jews fail to acknowledge the wrong done to the Palestinians and suggests a path to avert a final ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and revival of anti-Semitism. Read more [...]
Open letter to US Secretary of State Kerry
As US officials whinge about Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s equating of Zionism with fascism, Alan Hart challenges John Kerry to respond to holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer’s assertion that “Zionism is today’s Nazism”. Read more [...]
Is a third Palestinian uprising in sight?
Uri Avnery says if there is no end to the Israeli occupation in sight, the third Palestinian Intifada will break out one day, quite suddenly, when nobody has been talking about it”. Read more [...]
Palestine Spring in the making?
Jamal Kanj argues that the continuing hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners illegally detained by Israel, coupled with ongoing humiliation endured by Palestinians under occupation, could provide the trigger for a third Intifada. Read more [...]
Ethiopia: displacement, intimidation and abuse
Graham Peebles argues that foreign businesses, in collusion with the ruling regime in Ethiopia and under the indifferent watch of foreign aid donors, are raping the Ethiopian countryside and impoverishing rural people. Read more [...]
