guardian.co.uk - 1/11/2009
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It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa. In July 2005 a huge coalition of Palestinian groups laid out plans to do just that. They called ...
online.wsj.com - 1/10/2009
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online.wsj.com —
GEORGE E. BISHARAT Israel's current assault on the
Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. Rather, it...
involves serious violations of international law, including war crimes. Senior Israeli political and military leaders may bear personal ...
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George E. Bisharat: Israel Is Committing War Crimes
thejewishweek.com - 1/8/2009
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thejewishweek.com —
Mirror Lake INN Fresh Rift Emerges Over War
Response by James D. Besser Washington Correspondent Beneath the...
surge of Jewish unity, as a broad spectrum of pro-Israel groups back Israel s Gaza military surge, are differences over tactics, growing ...
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Fresh Rift Emerges Over War Response
jstreet.org - 1/5/2009
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jstreet.org —
J Street reiterates its call for strong and
immediate American diplomatic leadership to bring an end to...
the violence through an immediate ceasefire. J Street unequivocally condemns Hamas’ indiscriminate firing of rockets into Israel and its use of ...
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... South African politician, said the architecture of segregation he saw in the West Bank and Gaza was ‘infinitely worse than apartheid’. That was in 2007, before Israel began its full-scale war against the open-air prison that is Gaza. Why single out Israel when the US, Britain and other western countries do the same things in Iraq and Afghanistan? Boycott is not a dogma; it is a tactic. The reason the strategy should be tried is practical: in a country so small and trade-dependent, it could actually work .” *“Only Israel attracts an intellectually respectable movement querying ...
The Oldest Hatred Continues Apace
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Present GA-4 Johnson, Henry [D]
Present MI-13 Kilpatrick, Carolyn [D]
Present CA-9 Lee, Barbara [D]
Present MN-4 McCollum, Betty [D]
Present WA-7 McDermott, James [D]
Present CA-7 Miller, George [D]
Present VA-8 Moran, James [D]
Present MA-1 Olver, John [D]
Present NJ-10 Payne, Donald [D]
Present CA-47 Sanchez, Loretta [D]
Present CA-13 Stark, Fortney [D]
Present CA-33 Watson, Diane [D]
Present CA-6 Woolsey, Lynn [D]
The Guardian advocates a boycott of Israel in an oped:
Every day that ...
Will Jews start to flee England?
Israel Matzav —
... in that period we'd expect about a dozen," their press officer explained to me, but what a staggering and unacceptable base rate. The average number of antisemitic attacks in a civilised western country should be zero. There has been a sea change in Europe and it's terrifying. Francesca is certainly right about England. Three of the top five most viewed articles on al-Guardian's web site currently deal with Israel. They are Why Israel's war is driven by fear at number 2, Naomi Klein (self hating Jew?): Enough. It's time for a boycott of Israel at number 3 and ...
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