“The year 2009 was the quietest for Israelis from the security point of view and the most violent for the Palestinians from the point of view of attacks by settlers in the West Bank.” Just as he was saying this – as an example of one of the absurdities that characterize the politic[...]
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March 2nd, 2010 - 8:05 pm § in Bookmarks
39 army raids, 28 arrests: Just another day in the West Bank – Haaretz – Israel News
February 22nd, 2010 - 9:46 pm § in Bookmarks
ei: Jerusalem families come out against museum built on ancestors’ graves
The lawyers for the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance merely smiled, without replying. via ei: Jerusalem families come out against museum built on ancestors’ graves. [...]
February 22nd, 2010 - 6:09 pm § in Bookmarks
ei: Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births
The 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, created in the wake of the Nazi holocaust, defines genocide to include measures “intended to prevent births within” a specific “national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” via ei: Harvard Fell[...]
February 22nd, 2010 - 1:29 pm § in Bookmarks
Jonathan Cook: Israel’s new ‘attack on freedom of speech’ | Israeli Occupation Archive
According to the legislation, human-rights groups will have to satisfy a long list of new conditions. They include: registering as political bodies; submitting ID numbers and addresses for all activists; providing detailed accounts of all donations from overseas and the purposes to which they will b[...]
February 22nd, 2010 - 11:49 am § in Bookmarks
Haaretz: A duty to protest | Israeli Occupation Archive
The protests in Bil’in are legitimate. They must be allowed. Protesters must be permitted unobstructed access to the site, and so should security forces, as long as they act with restraint. Shooting at demonstrators – as has happened in Bil’in all too often – is an act perpetrated by only th[...]
February 18th, 2010 - 2:15 pm § in Bookmarks
ei: “At least there’s food in prison!”
Between 15 and 20 settlers accompanied by more soldiers arrived. Mona’s husband tried to convince the soldiers to make the settlers leave the village. “We’ll go back into our houses if they leave,” he said. But then the settlers started throwing stones at a group of Palestini[...]
February 18th, 2010 - 12:56 pm § in Bookmarks
ei: Israel’s new strategy: “sabotage” and “attack” the global justice movement
What ties together all these strategies is that they are aimed at frustrating, delaying and distracting attention from the fundamental issue: that Israel — despite its claims to be a liberal and democratic state — is an ultranationalist ethnocracy that relies on the violent suppression o[...]
February 18th, 2010 - 12:48 am § in Bookmarks
Free Speech and Funding in Israel | The American Prospect
Speaking with me by phone, Shoval explained what he regards as the connections: “What we see as 16 separate groups are really the different hands of the same body, which instigates and directs them … to incite against IDF soldiers and Israel.” The various “hands” of the NIF[...]
February 17th, 2010 - 1:58 am § in Bookmarks
Jonathan Cook: Jaffa struggles to be left in peace | Israeli Occupation Archive
Yehuda Zefet, the judge, accused the residents of “bad faith” in arguing for equality when they wanted the interests of the local Arab community to take precedence over the interests of Jews.Mr Siksik said the judge had failed to take into account the historical injustice perpetrated on Ajami’[...]
February 13th, 2010 - 12:30 pm § in Bookmarks
Think tank: Israel faces global delegitimization campaign | Israeli Occupation Archive
This is scary. The “delegitimizers”? The “delegitimizers” cooperate with organizations engaging in legitimate criticism of Israel’s policy in the territories such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, blurring the line between legitimate censure and delegitimization. They also promote[...]
