GFCA 2013 Action plan: – Antisemitism in the Guise of Delegitimization and Anti-Zionism This week in Jerusalem, the Israeli foreign ministry hosted the fourth international conference of the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism. As I previously blogged, this is “a gathering that has served as an important focus for efforts to fight Palestine solidarity activism…more »
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New Israeli Plan Calls For More “intelligence” Gathering To Disrupt BDS Movement
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Google’s Two-State Solution
ACTION ITEM BELOW TO THANK LARRY PAGE FOR JUST ACT The Internet giant isn’t waiting for Palestinians and Israelis to settle their differences. On the first of the month, without firing off a press release, Google changed its home page in Gaza and the West Bank from “Google: Palestinian Territories” to “Google: Palestine.” It turns…more »
Posted in Actions Also tagged Free Speech, Google Palestine, Justice, Middle East, Palestine, Peter Scheer, Technology Leave a comment
Confronting The “Moral Bankruptcy” Of Iraq War’s Liberal Supporters
Prior to the start of the Iraq War on March 19, 2003, New York Times journalist Chris Hedges (right) occupied a lonely perch among major media journalists. He opposed the war. Today, Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winner and now a columnist for the website Truthdig, continues to write with the passion of a man set…more »
Posted in Media Also tagged Chris Hedges, Edward Said, Iraq War, James W. Wall, Middle East, Militarization, Militarized Capitalization, Occupation, Palestine, Violence, War Leave a comment
University Of California President Mark Yudof: Condemn UCSC Lecturer’s Hateful Attacks On Muslim/Arab Student Groups
Action Petitioning University of California President Mark Yudof End Hate Speech, Sign the petition by UCSC Committee for Justice in Palestine, Santa Cruz, California. Hate Speech A video has surfaced, showing UC Santa Cruz Hebrew lecturer Tammi Rossman Benjamin making extremely offensive comments about the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine groups…more »
Federal Fisheries Scientists Claim Censorship By Agency Manager
GRANTS PASS — Seven federal fisheries scientists filed a complaint Monday claiming their supervisor censored their research into the water needs of threatened Klamath Basin salmon because it was viewed by others as biased, violating an Obama administration policy prohibiting political manipulation of science by the federal government. The whistleblower protection organization Public Employees for…more »
Posted in Environment Also tagged bullying, Censorship, Coho Salmon, Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, NOAA, Scientific Integrity, The Associated Press Leave a comment
Solidarity Action Across The Globe: March For Gaza
MARCH FOR GAZA IN DC THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15 AT 6 PM FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE Israeli Occupation Forces have begun an airstrike, killing innocent people in Gaza and completely obliterating infrastructure. In response, rather than condemn the attacks, the United States is showing its support of the mass murder of Palestinians…more »
Posted in Actions Also tagged Gaza, Human Rights, IDF, Indigenous Peoples, International Law, Israel, Militarized Capitalization, Occupation, state sponsored terror, US-Israeli Occupation, War Leave a comment
Urgent Statements Of Support Needed For UC Irvine Student Government
Dear Fellow Human Beings, On Tuesday night, the student government of the University of California, Irvine passed historic legislation demanding divestment from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation and apartheid practices in Palestine. Those practices include the development and maintenance of Israeli settlements, checkpoints, home demolitions, and the apartheid wall (links to legislation and press…more »
Posted in Actions Also tagged Apartheid, BDS, Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing, Free Speech, Human Rights, Irvine 11, Militarized Capitalization, Occupation, Sociocide, U.S. Tax Dollars, UC Irvine, University of California Leave a comment
Historic UC Irvine Divestment Vote Deals Stinging Defeat To Zionist Bullying On Campus
Just over a year since an Orange County jury, in a politically-motivated prosecution, convicted the “Irvine 11” students for disrupting a lecture by Israeli Ambassdor Michael Oren, the Associated Students of UC Irvine voted unanimously tonight to call for divestment from companies that profit from Israeli occupation. The vote deals a major blow to intense…more »
Impressions Of Gaza
Samson Complex Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest…more »
Posted in Middle East Also tagged Gaza, Hamas, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Jewish Settlers, Militarized Capitalization, Noam Chomsky, Occupation, Operation Cast Lead, Palestine, Political Prisoners, President Obama, Racism, Raji Sourani, the vote, U.S. Tax Dollars, US Weapons, US-Israel Occupation Leave a comment
Nothing Is Normal About An Occupation, Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing…
Normalize This! Remi Kanazi is a Palestinian-American performance poet and human rights activist based in New York City. His work is launched from a platform of humanism not nationalism. According to Remi,”I’m not a nationalist, I’m not an ethnocentrist. This isn’t about me being a Palestinian or me being an Arab. It’s about a system…more »
