15 March 2013
Dear Members, No shortage of questions on Israel/Palestine at FCO question time last Tuesday: reported on Martin Linton’s excellent Palestine Briefing: http://martinlinton.org Does the Foreign Secretary really believe that Obama is still interested in ‘making a difference’? ‘’There is a clear need for the United States to lead an effort to revive the peace [...]
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15 March 2013
Oh, and the settlements are in very, very good hands. One of Israel’s leading sociologists, the late Baruch Kimmerling, is responsible for coining the term “Ahusalim (אחוס”לים),” to describe those who ruled Israel for decades. It is an acronym in Hebrew for “Ashkenazi, secular, old guard, socialists, and nationalists.” ASOSNs, for us English speakers. [...]
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13 March 2013
Baroness Jenny Tonge and the Arab Organisation for Human Rights UK, invite you to a public meeting, at the House of Lords. Palestinian MP’s from Jerusalem are suffering at the hands of the Israeli authorities. Politicians are harassed, arrested, beaten, illegally detained. The men in this report either remain in detention or have been [...]
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12 March 2013
Let’s face it: Israel has a racism problem When an Arab attacks a Jew, he’s a terrorist, he’s been taught to hate. When a Jew attacks an Arab, he’s just a loner, an oddball, a bad egg. But we’ve seen so many bad eggs at this point that something here has begun to stink. [...]
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24 February 2013
Facilitate Global: 10th April 2013 Evening Dinner Keynote speakers: Professor Ilan Pappe and Miko Peled Personal Journeys: the global impact of Israel?s dissenting voices Facilitate Global is proud to announce that we will be hosting two prominent Israeli speakers who have challenged Israel?s narrative, militarised society and racist policies from within, consistently inspiring ever more [...]
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21 February 2013
Dear Members, http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/102445/lib-dems-could-remove-whip-jews-mp-david-ward So David Ward, the Lib Dem MP who speaks out against human rights violations in Palestine, still has questions to answer for using language in his blog which Nick Clegg has described as ‘‘insensitive, intemperate, provocative and offensive.” But not everyone seems to agree. Ward has received over five thousand letters and [...]
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15 February 2013
Dear Members, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201213/ldhansrd/text/130207-0002.htm#13020761000843 The above debate in the House of Lords, re the role of civil society in promoting peace between Israel and Palestine, features the startling pronouncement by Baroness Deech, that ‘UNRWA ……… undermines the chances of Arab-Israeli peace and holds Palestinians back from rebuilding their lives.’ The Baroness believes it ‘should limit its [...]
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08 February 2013
Baroness Jenny Tonge, was one of four speakers at the Oxford Union on 31 January, who opposed the motion: “This house believes that Israel is a force for good in the Middle East” Those speaking for the motion included Richard Perle and Lord David Trimble, while Peter Tatchell and Ghada Karmi were among the opposition. [...]
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08 February 2013
The Israeli national water company Mekorot undermines Palestinians’ access to water, according to a new report commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council. The report finds that deep water drillings by Mekorot and the Israeli agri-industrial firm Mehadrin in the occupied Jordan Valley have caused the drying up of Palestinian wells and springs. About [...]
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08 February 2013
The ANC declared it was ‘unapologetic in its view that the Palestinians are the victims and the oppressed in the conflict with Israel.’ Johannesburg – The ruling African National Congress voted at its annual conference Thursday night to support the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The ANC declared it was “unapologetic [...]
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