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Stealing Gaza by Brian Eno

Best known as an innovative musician and for his production work on seven albums for U2, Brian Eno also has a strong history has a human rights activitst.   Here he succinctly summarises the real situation in Israel/Palestine. It’s a … Continue reading

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Boycott Israel! by Professor Neve Gordon

Reprinted below is the article by Israeli professor, Neve Gordon, published in the LA Times on August 20, in which he expresses support for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. The article caused enormous furor – some calling for Gordon to be expelled from … Continue reading

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Sixty years after Deir Yassin by Ronnie Kasrils

  The 12 March cartoon by South African cartoonist Zapiro that was later attacked by David Saks of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and which sparked debate in the country. As a 10-year-old growing up in Johannesburg, I … Continue reading

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Why Zionism is wrong! by John Rose

here is a presumption in the West that Zionism is a noble cause, somehow related to restoring to the Jewish people what was taken from them during the holocaust. Sociologist John Rose does a great job in dispelling the myths … Continue reading

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The Vanunu Lie

Morde Vanunu – the man who blew the whistle on Israel’s secret nuclear arsenal – faces another six months in prison for the crime of talking to the press!What did he say that so upset the authorities? Did he protest … Continue reading

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Blaming the Victim by Randa Abdel-Fattah

What follows is a transcript of a speech given by Randa Abdel-Fattah at Parliament House in Sydney, on the occassion of the 40th Anniversary of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. It is reprinted with the author’s permission. For forty years … Continue reading

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Vanunu Convicted Again; Decries Israeli Apartheid by Mark Glenn

It has been three years since Mordecai Vanunu was released from prison after serving 18 years for blowing the whistle on Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Now he may be heading back to jail for violating a military court order forbidding … Continue reading

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The Power of Evil by Professor William A Cook

Nothing so graphically illustrates the dilemma facing the United States and the United Nations as the catastrophic collapse of negotiations that failed in Italy when America found itself standing alone before the entire world, nakedly defending the defiant state of … Continue reading

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What is the state of the Nobel Peace Prize? by Gideon Spiro

Translated by Mark Marshall from the Hebrew original. Note that in Hebrew, the title is a play on words: “how is the peace of the Nobel Peace Prize? “ The Nobel Prize for Peace is the most problematic of all … Continue reading

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