A visitor from Abahlali, the Durban shack-dwellers’ movement,, witnesses a house demolition in Palestine, and makes connections with what oppresion means, from Palestine to South Africa and on….
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There is no intrinsic connection between Jews and the occupywallstreet movement But the large Jewish presence sparked Occupy Yom Kippur, drawing 1000 in which atonement for failing to act on the occupation of Palestine played a large part.. 2 pieces on this, and Ezra Klein/David Graeber and Naomi Klein on the character and aims of this protest From being an idealistic admirer of Israel, Rae Ablieh, a Code Pink activist, visited the land she loved after Operation Cast Lead. Shock at the destruction she saw set her on a new path – disrupting Netanyahu in his visit to Congress , trying to break the siege of Gaza bearing witness. This is her synagogue address at a Rosh Hashanah service At a conference in Tehran, Hamas leaders restate their view that Palestinian statehood can only follow Palestinian liberation, 1. Showing great consistency over the years, Khalid Mishaal, in a long interview in Palestine Studies in 2008, describes his tutelage in radical politics and Islam and his beliefs now. His views on violence were not mentioned To the surprise of many, Monday’s news carried pictures of the occupation of Wall Street, with some banners calling for an end to military aid to Israel and deploring the oppression of Gazans. Blogger Max Ajl reports from the scene, and below, an interview with him . 3rd, a report links J14 with occupy wall street (http://occupywallst.org) Last week we posted a Washington Post opinion piece by Robert Bernstein attacking the UN and Human Rights groups for their attitude to Israel and Palestine, and a rejoinder by the Economist: http://jfjfp.com/?p=25704. Here Mouin Rabbani of Jadaliyya adds his voice to the outrage. Wikipedia’s entry on Palestine Media Watch is at the bottom On 30 August 24 professional musicians, several of them Jewish, published a letter calling on the BBC to cancel the Proms concert to be given by the Israeli Philharmonic (item 3). The four signatories in the LPO have been suspended for a year (news report, item 4) on the grounds politics and music don’t mix. !. Two Guardian music writers (1 and 2) point out the absurdity of this view In this week of 9/11 commemorations, Antony Lerman looks at the conflation of Islamic terrorism, muslims, multi-culturalism, left-wing critiques of Israel (and its US backers)under the name ‘the new anti-semitism’ while actual, traditional anti-semitism is being white-washed from the Right’s public face A month before Tony Judt’s death last year, Merav Michaeli interviewed the British Jewish historian about Israel (he tried living there but found it parochial, self-obsessed and always using violence as a first resort). His thoughts, centring on Jews and on the actions of states, are pessimistic, angry, invigorating A quiet court case reveals FBI wiretaps in the Israeli embassy – as Israel ranks just below China and Russia in its US spying operations, as NY Times reports, 1. Richard Silverstein of Tikun Olam was a bit player in the drama and his blogs on the US/Israel espionage world are 2nd and 3rd in this posting. There are six articles in this post: 1) Larry Derfner’s account of his sacking by Jerusalem Post; 2) the apology he wrote for his post on Palestinian terrorism, 3) Mondoweiss’s republication of that post; 4) a defence of Derfner by Dimi Reider in +972 mag; 5) an attack on Derfner’s argument but defence of his right to post it, by Barry Rubin; 6) an attack on Derfner and his leftist supporters (obscene, abomination, satanic, new shoah) by Donald Douglas, American Power blog |
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