May 18, 2009

New York Activists to Singer Leonard Cohen: "Don't Play Apartheid; Don’t Play Israel!"

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Adalah-NY : The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East New York Activists to Singer Leonard Cohen: "Don't Play Apartheid; Don’t P...

Benny Morris in disgrace again

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Monthly Review has a good review of Benny Morris's latest offering. The reviewer, Ran Greenstein, tears Morris's One State, Two S...
May 17, 2009

Firefighting Israel's ethnic cleansing

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Here's the Morning Star on the UK's main firefighters' union supporting BDS: AS the Fire Brigades Union conference ended on Fri...

WTF is Palestine?

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W is a for "where". Many thanks to Joe90 for drawing Just Peace UK's attention to this post on Lenin's Tomb : Oh, I just ...

Lieberman: don't worry, Miliband's a liar

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Here's a bit of a BDS update for you. According to the Jewish Chronicle , high-ups from Tescos are going to meet with activists from th...
May 16, 2009

The real John Strawson?

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I had to put a question mark there because I'm not sure what the real John Strawson amounts to. It seems like only yesterday but was ac...
May 15, 2009

Lieberman commemorates Nakba Day

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One of the more overt racists in the Israeli government commemorated the Nakba by proposing that any Palestinians commemorating it should go...

State of Israel funding for the Edinburgh Film Festival 2009

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Here's an action alert from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign : DEAR SUPPORTER OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS The Edinburgh Internationa...

Demonstration for Palestine Saturday 16th May 2009

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That's tomorrow if you're reading this today which is 15th May 2009. Here's the notice of the demo on the Stop the War website ...
May 14, 2009

Remembering Gaza

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From youtube
May 12, 2009

Rugby: up or under in Palestine?

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Someone at Bir Zeit University just sent me this clip of a rugby match in Taybeh village in the West Bank. Look at the pitch. Such facilit...

Howard Jacobson "on" zionism

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I wouldn't have noticed this ludicrous piece by Howard Jacobson in Saturday's Independent but for the criticisms it attracted in yes...
May 11, 2009

Seven Jewish children and possibly some Jewish grown-ups too

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Oh my goodness, antisemitism is coming to the Hackney Empire in a big way. Not only are they showing 7 Jewish children: a play for Gaza, bu...
May 10, 2009

Look familiar?

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Well, does it look familiar? I don't mean does this depiction of Gaza remind anyone of the nazis rounding up Jews in Warsaw. Far be it...
May 09, 2009

PEN mightier than the Foreign Office?

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Apparently not but we don't know which Foreign Office. See this just in from Michael Rosen : On May 22 I was due to do a reading for P....

JC poll on AZ and AS

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There's a ludicrous poll on the home page of the Jewish Chronicle website . Here's the question: Are the anti-Zionists really antis...
May 08, 2009

They shoot children, don't they?

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Just in from Just Peace . According to Monthly Review there has been a fly poster campaign in and around University College Berkeley camp...

Now Congress goes to the circus

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Ok, it's a different circus but it's for the same "cause": Check out the way the senators try Hebrew greetings and slogans...

Benedict goes to the circus

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The Pope is going to visit the Yad Vashem, kindly known as Israel's holocaust museum but otherwise known as the holocaust circus. Here...
May 06, 2009

Defend Ezra Nawi!

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Nawi is an Arab-Jewish gay Ta'ayush activist threatened with jail for peacefully obstructing the criminal demolition of a Palestinian ...