One Democratic Secular State for all its citizens in Israel and Palestine
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- J14: Reasons to be Cheerful
- If US Party says: “one law for all people”
- Now Join Up the Struggles
- Last year, this year: 4. J14’s Palestinian contingent
- Last year, this year: 3. “A discourse of Life”
- Last year, this year: 2. We’ve come a long way but it’s still the same road
- Last year, this year: 1. Now Join Up the Struggles
- J14 challenges Zionism with Manifesto for a New Israel
- Israel knocked by its nearest allies
- Why the law against Apartheid is clearer and more relevant than Occupation Law
- Freedom rides: a new front for civil rights
- Did UN bid finish off the Peace Process?
- Hilltop marches threaten ethnic cleansing
- Urgent call from “Stop the Wall”
- PA ditches “1967 borders” to win UN vote
- After the UN, “Equality Struggle Ahead”
- We will be a Jewish-Arab People!
- Israel’s Protests: Part 2, the Fringe
- Israel’s protests Part 1, a tragic wasted chance
- Has Israel Crashed Its Bullshit Barrier?
- Never Again for Anyone
- Israel’s Tent Protests
- Why Israel cannot be The Jewish State
- London One State group
- Why Boycott Culture?
- What to do AFTER September
- Poor little Israel, now they’re coming in the window
- 300 Israel academics in civil disobedience call
- EU move threat to Palestine historic rights
- Paris Peace Conference v. UN Vote
- One-Staters and BNC support UN recognition campaign
- One Democracy One Year On
- Young Mizrahi Israelis welcome Arab Spring
- Just what is keeping the Peace Process alive?
- The Pink Slip: Notice to Quit
- Egypt’s gifts to Palestine
- Egypt: In Other Words
- Egypt 1: Week 3 – The Workers
- Egypt 2: The Muslim Brotherhood
- Egypt 3: the world turned upside down
- Egypt: the heroes of Tahrir Square
- The Palestine Papers
- EU Consuls say: boycott Israel in E.Jerusalem
- Tunisia: start of a better future
- End the exile and you end the conflict
- Defend Tutu from these vindictive Zionists
- Closing in on Israel but reviving the Undead
- Richard Falk in London
- KPFT Radio and the Jewish Question
- Another feeble argument against One State…
- Christmas Trees banned at Nazareth
- Two-State Process still Undead
- 2011: a game-changing year
- Voting for a New Jerusalem
- Fayyad plans economy of dependence for his state
- BBC: ’skinhead racists not a problem’
- Hamas makes a move
- Ben Gurion’s fascist descendants
- One Democratic State Conference
- Washington’s gifts to Netanyahu
- Open Letter to Mahmoud Abbas
- Horsetrading at the Talks
- Using the UN and International Law
- Rebuilding the Palestinian leadership
- US students stand up to Zionist ADL
- Israel’s Apartheid: vague insult or legal fact?
- Defining colonialism in support of BDS
- Budrus in Jerusalem
- The Settlement Freeze
- Stop the Carve-up of Palestine!
- Right wingers break the One State taboo
- More negotiations
- Helen Thomas’s “gaffe”
- False questions and unasked questions
- Great BDS pledge, shame about the fudge
- Breaking out of the Two State impasse
- Front Lines in the Two State War Process
- PA Treachery over Flotilla probe
- One State debated in Ha’aretz
- BDS: the dangers of fudge
- How far can it go?
- A Righteous Jew
- At The Seaside
- No Taxation Without Representation
- Little shifts, bigger shifts
- Gaza’s offshore gas fields
- Ramallah street posters
- Truth, lies and regime change
- The Football, South Africa and Israel
- Gas theft in Gaza waters
- Coming with two states – the West Bank Blockade
Archives
J14: Reasons to be Cheerful
Since posting, the Manifesto and the sign-up form for it with around 500 names, has been removed from the J14 main site. It is still being promoted by its originators (who are part of the Social Justice movement but not central organisers) at many of the movement’s events, and can be viewed on youtube. Read more…
If US Party says: “one law for all people”
What are we to make of it?
A flurry of astonishment greeted the discovery that the US Republican Party’s National Committee (the RNC) had unanimously adopted a “One State” position. Read more…
Now Join Up the Struggles
Every single event of the past year points to the moral bankruptcy of Israel’s rule, the urgency of ending an intolerable status quo, and the need for a new vision that will serve the needs of all the people and offer the hope of freedom and justice.
This is, in general terms, the common thread that links the headline struggles and events of the past year: from Tunisia to Moscow, from New York to Tel Aviv, from Athens to Bahrain, from Cairo to Damascus, we’ve witnessed the mobilisation of millions of people who have had their fill of corruption, abuse of power, outrageous and violent injustice and constant assaults on their dignity and human rights. Read more…
Last year, this year:
J14’s Palestinian contingent
Dahlia Scheindlin took a very bleak view of the self-declared “Israel issues only” protest at its outset. Now, with her survey in +972 Magazine of Israeli Arab participation, she presents a radically different view. Some extracts here:
Bucking both initial suspicion from the protest leaders, and cynicism among the Arab press and leadership, many Arabs report participating, and many more are open to joining in the future. Read more…
Last year, this year:
“A discourse of Life”
Writing in Tikkun, Avner Inbar quotes Daphni Leef, who sparked off Israel’s J14 Social Justice movement, about the fundamentals that have underpinned it for her:
Leef, he writes, “understood that the tent-cities and mass-rallies were about much more than the quality of life, that they were, in fact, about the meaning of life … the painfully concrete question of why are we here in Israel. Read more…
Last year, this year:
We’ve come a long way but it’s still the same road
2011 saw many dramatic surprises: the Palestine Papers revelations; the Arab Spring mass movements for democracy, ending some hated regimes and leading to bloody struggles of others to hold onto power; the Palestinian UN statehood bid; the Occupy movements and Israel’s J14 eruption; the reconciliation manoeuvres between Hamas and Fateh under pressure from their own disenfranchised populations. Read more…
Last year, this year:
Now Join Up the Struggles
Every single event of the past year points to the moral bankruptcy of Israel’s rule, the urgency of ending an intolerable status quo, and the need for a new vision that will serve the needs of all the people and offer the hope of freedom and justice.
This is, in general terms, the common thread that links the headline struggles and events of the past year: from Tunisia to Moscow, from New York to Tel Aviv, from Athens to Bahrain, from Cairo to Damascus, we’ve witnessed the Read more…
J14’s Manifesto for a New Israel: a dramatic new turn against apartheid
Last summer’s tented protests in Israel, called (like another famous revolution) after the 14th July date on which they sprang into life, have grown up in just five months and have now thrown down a challenge to the basic credo of their country. Their statement does not just demand a state for all its inhabitants, it proclaims that they will create one. Read more…
Israel knocked by its nearest allies
* France stands up for Palestinians’ right to demonstrate and declares Bassem Tamimi “a human rights defender”.
* Hillary Clinton is “worried” about women and democracy in Israel.
* US arch-zionist Abe Foxman warns of “Israel’s judicial, press and speech freedoms” being undermined by its governing coalition.
* Israel’s TV ads aimed at its expats in America pulled in panic.
* US Ambassador to Belgium dares to say hatred of Israel is caused by its actions, not by anti-semitism;
* Leading American Zionist Peter Beinart says that until there’s a separate Palestinian state, Palestinians Read more…
Why the law against Apartheid is stronger stuff than Occupation Law
Six explorations
around International
Law, plus the
gate-crashing of
Birthright Israel’s
Reunion party
1. “A single integrated regime”
“The Russell Tribunal on Palestine concludes that Israel’s rule over the Palestinian people, wherever they reside, collectively amounts to a Read more…