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Twenty years after Berlin, Palestinians crack Israel’s wall

‘Marking the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinians tore down a section of Israel’s wall in the West Bank village of Ni’lin on Friday. During a weekly protest against the barrier, which cuts through the Ramallah-area village’s ...

From JAMIESW, The Heathlander,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Norman Finkelstein

Noam Chomsky: Afghanistan invasion was ‘one of the most immoral acts in modern history’

Chomsky stressed that public pressure in the West can make a positive difference for people suffering from the aggression of Western governments. “There is a lot of comparison between opposition to the Iraq war with opposition to the Vietnam war, but ...

From JAMIESW, The Heathlander,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Noam Chomsky,  George W. Bush

Defending Israel: shit just got impossible

So far this term the Cambridge Union debates have seen a bust-up between Edwina Currie and, well, everyone in the room and Michael Savage being disinvited after the “the socialist Brown regime” threatened to exile Julien Domercq to Glasgow. Against ...

From JAMIESW, The Heathlander,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jeremy Corbyn,  Hamas,  Edwina Currie,  Michael Savage,  Norman Finkelstein

The ‘Spirit of the IDF’

‘The Israel Defense Forces should adopt a “Code of Ethics for the War on Terror,” because its existing ethical code is insufficient, according to Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, the head of Military Intelligence… In 2003, Yadlin and [Prof. Asa] Kasha published ...

From JAMIESW, The Heathlander,  30 Sep 2009

Docs to watch

‘A dissenting voice is a peculiar thing. For those with a stake in a political status quo, the more contentious the issue, the more the dissident must be silenced. How this is done depends on how confidently the political class controls the state.The ...

From JAMIESW, The Heathlander,  25 Sep 2009

Goldstone’s report on the Gaza massacre

Reading through the Goldstone report [.pdf], one theme becomes immediately apparent: the deliberateness of the destruction in Gaza. The authors keep returning to this point throughout the text, in a direct rebuke to those liberal apologists for Israel ...

From JAMIESW, The Heathlander,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Hamas,  United Nations,  Hezbollah,  Barack Obama

A culture of fear

‘Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of ...

From JAMIESW, The Heathlander,  16 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Charles Taylor,  Hilaire Belloc,  Edmund Burke

Fighting the fash

One of the favourite chants of the day was reportedly: “We are black, white, Asian and we’re Jew / And they’re many, many more of us than you.” “This was a great day for anti-fascists. We brought more protesters to Codnor this year than the numbers the ...

From JAMIESW, The Heathlander,  16 Aug 2009

Silencing civil society

“You take the kid, you blindfold him, you handcuff him, he’s really shaking… Sometimes you cuff his legs too. Sometimes it cuts off the circulation. “He doesn’t understand a word of what’s going on around him. He doesn’t know what you’re going to do ...

From JAMIESW, The Heathlander,  9 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Hamas

Gaza Freedom March

- Rough details of the march: - Prior to Sunday, December 27, people make their own way to Cairo - Sunday, December 27 Orientation meeting in Cairo at 7pm - Monday, December 28, Leave Cairo for Al-Arish at 9am; overnight in Al-Arish - Tuesday, Dec 29, ...

From JAMIESW, The Heathlander,  9 Aug 2009

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