Monthly Archives: May 2014
Bethlehem University – symbol of steadfastness
Stuart Littlewood looks at how Palestine’s Bethlehem University – “a warmly-welcoming, vibrant melting pot of Christian and Muslim giving off endlessly good vibes” – has defied Israel’s criminal destruction. Read more [...]
EU says no more poultry and eggs from Jewish squatter colonies
The European Union has banned the Read more [...]
The role of the intellectual
Lawrence Davidson explains, with examples, “why the independent-minded, outspoken intellectuals demanding moral integrity and responsibility from those in power are so rare, be they Jewish or gentile”. Read more [...]
Israel – worse than apartheid
Gilad Atzmon writes:
The Israeli Read more [...]
Is Palestine “solidarity” going soft?
Stuart Littlewood wonders what might lie behind an apparent softening in the approaches of Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign – and even the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement – to the Israeli occupation. Read more [...]
UK Black Students Campaign votes to boycott Israel
There's been another setback for Read more [...]
Trafficking and torturing Eritrean refugees
Graham Peebles describes the reality of life in Eritrea - a population muffled and forced into labour, with many escaping only to face exploitation and persecution en route to their supposed refuge. Read more [...]
BBC News website editor strikes again for Israel
Nureddin Sabir calls on readers to ask the BBC to explain what it has done since it emerged that Middle East online editor Raffi Berg instructed staff to report favourably on Israel. Read more [...]
Israelis forced to confront a guilty secret
Jonathan Cook describes how a new generation of Palestinians is forcing Israeli Jews, through civil society action, to acknowledge the crimes of dispossession and ethnic cleansing on which Israel is founded. Read more [...]
Shimon Peres, Israel’s king of deception
Jamal Kanj looks at how systematic Israeli deception has paved the way for the phenomenal expansion of Jewish squatter colonies in occupied Palestinian territories while Israel simultaneously indulged in phony peace talks. Read more [...]
