04 April 2012
It did not take George Galloway winning in Bradford West to highlight the fact that politics in the UK is hugely unpredictable at the moment. Dislike of the coalition Government does not automatically translate into support for the opposition party. Those like George Galloway who are willing to take risks and campaign consistently on a [...]
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02 April 2012
Who are the Palestinians? In this compelling book of interviews, Arthur Neslen reaches beyond journalistic clichés to let a wide variety of Palestinians answer the question for themselves. Beginning in the present with Bisan and Abud, two traumatized children from Jenin’s refugee camp, the book’s narrative arcs backwards through the generations to come full circle [...]
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30 March 2012
The European Commission has published a list of 82 EU-funded projects in Palestine that have been destroyed as a result of Israeli action since 2001. Stefan Fule, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, says that the total cost of damage inflicted by Israeli armed forces on development projects amounted to €49.14 million. The estimated [...]
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23 March 2012
My Lords, before I speak about recent developments in Palestine, I want to put on record two personal statements. The first is that I am not anti-Semitic but I am anti-injustice, and the treatment of the Palestinians over the last six decades, by Israel and the international community, has been a gross injustice which has [...]
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15 March 2012
To Liberal Democrat MEPs 15 March 2012 By email Dear Member of the European Parliament, EU Israel Association Agreement: the proposed ACAA agreement with Israel As you know, a possible agreement between Israel and the EU on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) regarding pharmaceuticals will shortly be coming before the European Parliament. [...]
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15 March 2012
Martin Horwood’s careful picking over of what Jenny Tonge actually said is worthy of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: he has quoted her wrongly, but what of that? The Inquisitors have decided that her language at Middlesex University was offensive and inflammatory. Offensive? Of the 549 emails Jenny has so far received [...]
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05 March 2012
I must be allowed to correct the allegation made about me by Andy McSmith (“0ops, the Baroness did it again“, 29 February). When I was asked 18 months ago by the Jewish Chronicle to comment on YouTube postings that the IDF were stealing body parts from victims of the earthquake in Haiti, I congratulated the [...]
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27 February 2012
LDFP will be holding a fringe event at the Newcastle Lib Dem Conference on Saturday 10th March. Title: Is There a Future for the Arabs in Israel? Details: A close look at Israel’s treatment of its Arab minority. Speakers: UPDATED (05/03/2012): Chair: Simon Hughes MP for Southwark and Bermondsey & Deputy Leader of the Liberal [...]
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21 February 2012
Even as I write this, the bulldozers have been busy throughout that one indivisible country known by the bifurcated term Israel/Palestine. Palestinian homes, community centres, livestock pens and other “structures” (as the Israel authorities dispassionately call them) have been demolished in the Old City, Silwan and various parts of “Area C” in the West Bank, [...]
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21 February 2012
Why Israel’s rattling sabers: Yousef Munayyer explains how Netanyahu is hedging his bets in the 2012 election Available at http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/2012296186462790.html Washington, DC – If Iran strikes Israel with a nuclear weapon, every member of my family living throughout Israel and Palestine could be killed or injured and my place of birth and ancestral homeland would likely be [...]
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