November 30, 2005

Judaising the Negev

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Here's Donald McIntyre in the Independent: The 3,000 or so residents of Bir al Mshash are distinctly unmoved by the prospect of Israeli...

Arab MKs less equal than others

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Here's an article in Ha'aretz from a couple of days ago demonstrating that the presence of Arab members in the Israeli parliament (...
November 29, 2005

Hilary and the littler town of Bethlehem

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Just Peace is a quirky list. It tolerates zionism and anti-semitism and bans people for swearing. Even Engage's Linda Grant has been p...

Back! says Forward

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The one time Bundist , now fairly zionist Jewish newspaper Forward has an article by Martin van Creveld not simply arguing for, but arguing...
November 28, 2005

The cycle of non-violence

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The DVD for the Cycle of Peace , a bike ride from Europe to Jerusalem, has been available since 1/10/2004 but it is now to receive a public...

BBC's balancing act

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Here's a letter to the Guardian denouncing the disciplining of Barbara Plett by the BBC. The decision to maintain the disciplinary proce...
November 27, 2005

See more of Lenin on Hitchens

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My mate Lenin (he of the Tomb ) has just had a withering denunciation of the late Christopher Hitchens published in the Monthly Review . He...

Kadima?

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I just nicked this post to the Just Peace list . Interesting that Sharon's new party Kadima means "forward" in Hebrew. In Arab...
November 24, 2005

Al-Jazeera: don't bomb us blog

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Thanks to Mohamed for pointing me in the direction of the Don't bomb us blog, run by al-Jazeera staffers. Al Jazeera staff have organi...

Plan to bomb al-Jazeera officially denied

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So Bush really was going to bomb al-Jazeera . A comment below said how al-Jazeera had reported the bomb plan in quite neutral terms. I th...
November 23, 2005

Bush planned to bomb al-Jazeera

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According to the Guardian , George Bush planned to bomb the offices of al-Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. The issue is shrouded in mystery now beca...
November 22, 2005

Beyond Chutzpah in bullet points

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Matthew Abraham has very helpfully reduce Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah to bullet points here : these elements in the Holocaust ...
November 21, 2005

Ariel Sharon in the middle of the road

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Ariel Sharon is quitting the Likud party to found new "centrist" party. According to Ha'aretz : Likud officials said the new...
November 20, 2005

Rare fair comment on the boycott "debate"

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Here's a report in the Education Guardian on the boycott debate in Birmingham between David Hirsh and Ilan Pappe. I'm guessing it...

Ann Clwyd making it up?

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Lenin's Tomb has a good post on Ann Clwyd's propensity for making it up as she goes along on the occupation of Iraq. Examples are ...

Rabbi rebukes religious right

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I think that's called alliteration . According to Yahoo news , Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the liberal Union for Reform Judaism, wh...
November 19, 2005

David Aaronovitch, neither zionist nor Islamophobe?

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Last week in the Jewish Chronicle (subscription only), David Aaronovitch denied being either a zionist or an Islamophobe. Amazing huh? H...
November 17, 2005

It's Wednesday, there must be an anti-semitism inquiry

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There have been loads of reports on anti-semitism in the last few years. This is how the Guardian reports this latest inquiry in the UK p...

Guardian retracts lies about Chomsky

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The Guardian has withdrawn an almost complete pack of lies it ran about an interview with Noam Chomsky. I'm not Chomsky's biggest f...
November 16, 2005

Ilan Pappe in London

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Meeting tonight at University of London (ULU) PSC and BRICUP Palestine Israel; Peace or Apartheid? Wednesday 16 November 2005, 5:30pm Room ...