Got this response from the BBC to my complaint: Thank you for your e-mail. We note your disappointment at our decision not to broadcast an appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee to raise funds for Gaza. We decided not to broadcast the DEC’s public appeal because we wished to avoid any risk of compromising public [...]
It easy to see from the prolific efforts of the hasbara battalions that the latest Israeli murder spree in Gaza, the prelude to God knows what fresh horrors are soon to be visited upon its wretched inhabitants, fits neatly into the program of a more general self-justifying Imperialist mythos. It is not enough that as [...]
“Understand We ‘re fighting a war we can’t win/ They hate us-we hate them We can’t win-no” Black Flag, Police Story Professor Norman Finkelstein is something of a contemporary cause celebre, serving as a touchstone for attitudes on various contentious issues centering on the Israel/Palestine conflict, Zionism and modern Jewish identity, issues which also raise [...]
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Great news, it looks like Snoop isnt playing Israel as he had been mooted to do. More on the cultural boycott here. Hat tip: the ever brilliant Jews Sans Frontieres.
I usually have enough self-restraint not to laugh out loud at something I’m reading if I’m outside walking on the street. But this quote from a New Statesman review of a new and highly *controversial* book by professors Mearsheimer & Walt about the utterly inordinate influence of the Israel lobby on US politics just so perfectly sums things up re: the [...]
According to Haaretz the gig wasn’t set in ‘stone’ in the first place. Why any band with any sense of decency would contemplate playing in Israel I cannot fathom. I’ve read quite a few articles in the past few days arguing that divestment and boycotts are actually an important part of aiding in non-violent Palestinian [...]
Everyone should read this.
I found this article written by Jennifer Loewenstein on Counterpunch yesterday. I think it gets right to the heart of the events that have occurred in Gaza in the past few weeks. Hamas will never be allowed to remain in power in Gaza so we must fear for the future of that tiny, desperately overcrowded strip [...]
