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September 15, 2009
by Hugh Lanning
At this year’s TUC conference, delegates will have an opportunity to regain the leading role that trade unions played in confronting apartheid South Africa by adopting practical solidarity with Palestinians.
In the wake of Israel’s war on Gaza, unions passed a wave of motions calling for solidarity action.
The Fire Brigades Union, which is moving the motion at Congress, voted to support and promote throughout the trade union and labour movement a campaign to boycott Israeli goods, disinvest from Israeli institutions and impose sanctions against Israel.
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Tags:Fire Brigades Union, Hugh Lanning, illegal Israeli settlements, Israel, Israel's occupation, solidarity with Palestinians, TUC conference, United Kingdom
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September 12, 2009
by Joe Stork, published in Al-Sijjil, September 2009
Over the past few months, international and local human rights groups have documented numerous serious violations of the laws of war, some of them amounting to war crimes, before, during, and since Israel’s military offensive in Gaza last December and January. My own organization, Human Rights Watch, strongly criticized Israel for the shooting deaths of Palestinian civilians carrying white flags and the illegal use of white phosphorus munitions, and Hamas for firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas of Israel.
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Tags:attack on Gaza, Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Hamas, Human Rights Watch, Iraq, Israel, Joe Stork, Justice Richard Goldstone, Palestinian civilians, violations of laws of war, war crimes, white phosphorus munitions
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September 11, 2009
NEW YORK – September 10 – Egyptian authorities should bring an immediate end to the unlawful killings of migrants and asylum seekers near Egypt’s Sinai border with Israel, Human Rights Watch said today. According to news reports, Egyptian border guards shot and killed four migrants on September 9, 2009, bringing to at least 12 the number killed since May as they tried to cross into Israel.General Muhammad Shousha, the governor of North Sinai, was quoted after the recent killings justifying the policy of shooting at the migrants as “necessary.” The latest killings come just days before President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel are scheduled to hold high-level talks in Cairo on September 13.
“Egypt has every right to manage its borders, but using routine lethal force against unarmed migrants – and potential asylum seekers – would be a serious violation of the right to life,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “These individuals appeared to post no threat to the lives of the border guards or anyone else. Attempted border crossings are not a capital offense.”
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Tags:Egypt, Human Rights Watch, injuries and deaths, Israel, Ketziot prison, migrants and asylum seekers, Sinai border, UNHCR
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September 10, 2009
By Ilan Pappe, ZNet, Sept 9, 2009
Source: The Electronic Intifada
Ilan Pappe’s ZSpace Page
(Sept 3) — Today was a unique day in the history of media coverage and discussion in Israel. All the electronic agencies, radio and television alike, discussed the occupation and the oppression of the Palestinians and more importantly, the possible price tag attached to it. It lasted only for 12 hours and tomorrow the obedient Israeli media will return to parrot the governmental new message to the masses that the “conflict” has ended and is about to be solved. On the one hand, you already have happy-go-lucky Palestinians in the West Bank (see the latest reports by Thomas Friedman in The New York Times and Ari Shavit in Haaretz). And on the other, alas, those who opted out from the blissful new reality: the oppressed Palestinians who still live under Hamas’ dictatorship in the Gaza Strip.
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Tags:apartheid wall, Ari Shavit, children killed, Ilan Pappe, Israel, Israeli hi-tech company Elbit, Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian government, oppression of Palestinians, Thomas Friedman
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September 9, 2009
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent, and AP Haaretz/Israel, Sep 9, 2009
The vast majority of the Palestinians killed in Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip last winter were innocent civilians rather than combatants, according to a new report to be published by the B’Tselem organization Wednesday morning. This is the opposite of what the Israel Defense Forces has said.
According to B’Tselem, 1,387 Palestinians were killed during the three weeks of Operation Cast Lead, of whom 773 were noncombatants and only 330 were combatants.
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Tags:B'Tselem report, casualties, civilians killed, Hamas, Israeli invasion, Palestinians, Sarit Michaeli
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September 8, 2009
Anat Matar, Haaretz/Israel, Sept 9, 2009
Several days ago Dr. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev published an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. In that article he explained why, after years of activity in the peace camp here, he has decided to pin his hopes on applying external pressure on Israel – including sanctions, divestment and an economic, cultural and academic boycott.
He believes, and so do I, that only when the Israeli society’s well-heeled strata pay a real price for the continuous occupation will they finally take genuine steps to put an end to it.
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Tags:academic freedom, Anat Matar, boycott, Dr. Neve Gordon's article, Gaza scools in ruins, Israel, occupation, Palestinians, students in Israeli jails
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September 7, 2009
Yahoo! News, Sep 6. 2009
AFP/File – Former US president Jimmy Carter stands in front of the controversial Israeli separation barrier during …
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former US president Jimmy Carter said Sunday Palestinian leaders were “seriously considering” a one-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following a visit to the Middle East.
“A majority of the Palestinian leaders with whom we met are seriously considering acceptance of one state, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea,” Carter wrote in an op-ed piece in The Washington Post.
“By renouncing the dream of an independent Palestine, they would become fellow citizens with their Jewish neighbors and then demand equal rights within a democracy,” he explained. “In this non-violent civil rights struggle, their examples would be Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.”
Carter noted that in doing so, Palestinian leaders were taking into consideration current demographic trends.
He said non-Jews were already a slight majority of total citizens in this area, “and within a few years Arabs will constitute a clear majority.”
Carter added that a two-state solution for the conflict was “clearly preferable” and had been embraced at the grass root level but that a one-state solution was “a more likely alternative to the present debacle.”
Tags:Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jimmy Carter, one-state solution, Palestinians
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September 4, 2009
Haaretz/Israel, Sep 4, 2009
By Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon approve the construction of hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before he declares a moratorium on building in those locales, according to a senior government source.
The source from the prime minister’s bureau said last night that Netanyahu informed U.S. officials of his decision to authorize the construction a few weeks ago.
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Tags:Israel, PM Benjamin Netanyahu, settlements, West Bank
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September 3, 2009
By Sydney L evy, Mail & Guardian Online, Sep 3, 2009
Israeli academic and activist Neve Gordon’s recent Los Angeles Times article, in which he explained why he supports Palestinian calls for a boycott of his own country, has drawn furious fire against him from within Israel, apparently endangering his job. Here is a call from the Jewish Voice for Peace, to support his right to express his views.
Following the publication of Neve Gordon’s article, there has been a vehement and aggressive attack against him in Israel that calls into serious question Israel’s commitment to academic freedom and the democratic right to free speech.
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Tags:Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Neve Gordon, right to free speech
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Any chance for justice for victims of the Gaza war?
September 12, 2009by Joe Stork, published in Al-Sijjil, September 2009
Over the past few months, international and local human rights groups have documented numerous serious violations of the laws of war, some of them amounting to war crimes, before, during, and since Israel’s military offensive in Gaza last December and January. My own organization, Human Rights Watch, strongly criticized Israel for the shooting deaths of Palestinian civilians carrying white flags and the illegal use of white phosphorus munitions, and Hamas for firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas of Israel.
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