Palestine & Lebanon
The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology is a
corporation that does military research for the Israeli government. They design
drones that kill Palestinian children and design tractors that bulldoze
Palestinian families....
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President Barack Obama’s four-day visit to Israel, the first since his
first election in 2008, began March 20. Worldwide media attention was focused
on what the powerful U.S. leader would tell its client regime and settler
state. Overall, reports indicated worse news for the beleaguered Palestinian
people and for sovereign Syria....
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Nearly two years after the New York City Lesbian Gay
Bi Trans Community Center first barred the groups Siegebusters and Queers
Against Israeli Apartheid from meeting there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and queer community erupted in outrage in mid-February, when the
Center again denied a space request from QAIA, as it had continually done for
the last two years....
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Within days of the start of Israel’s latest aerial offensive on the
imprisoned people of the Gaza Strip, solidarity protests with the Palestinian
people were held in over 300 cities worldwide. Demonstrations have continued
since the Nov. 21 cease-fire agreement....
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A cease-fire agreement went into effect in battle-scarred Gaza on Nov. 21.
After a week of heavy bombing raids and missile attacks by the Israeli armed
forces that killed more than 160 Palestinians and wounded over 1,000, mainly
civilians, Israel and the elected Hamas government of Gaza agreed to end
hostilities. The government of Egypt, with the participation of U.S. Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton, brokered the agreement....
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The Russell Tribunal is an International People’s
Tribunal organized to bring to light Israel’s recognized violations of
international law and to advocate for an end to the Israeli occupation of
Palestine and Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights....
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Nov. 19 — Israel has launched another brutal military attack on the
Palestinian people living in Gaza, a small, densely populated strip of land
that houses 1.7 million people. Once again, Israel has the complete backing of
the U.S. government, which for decades has bankrolled the Zionist settler state
and its military, enabling their many assaults on the Arab and Muslim peoples
of the oil-rich region....
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Israel continues to attack Gaza, killing innocent people and
destroying infrastructure!...
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Nine years after the crushing to death of Rachel Aliene Corrie by an Israeli
bulldozer, a judge in Haifa has absolved the state of Israel of any
responsibility, either for her death or for failing to hold a full and credible
investigation....
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Carlos Montes goes on trial Tuesday, May 15, to 22, 2012 because District Attorney Steve Cooley is moving forward with the FBI-initiated political prosecution against this long time Chicano leader and anti-war, labor, and immigrant rights activist. Along with the FBI, District Attorney Steve Cooley is attempting to imprison Carlos Montes on charges stemming from 42 years ago....
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The International Action Center urges you to take immediate action on the appeal below in solidarity with 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike in the prisons of the U.S.-backed Israeli apartheid regime....
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On that day we will say that we are all Mumia, we are all immigrants, we are all prisoners, we are all Bradley Manning, we are all poor, we are all Palestinian, we are all Troy Davis, we are all political prisoners, we are all occupiers!!! ...
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Update: On Feb. 21 the Guardian (Britain) reported that
Adnan had agreed to end his hunger strike in exchange for his release from
detention on April 17....
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Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike for 63 days – one day for each
year of the occupation of Palestine; one day, one year, of steadfastness,
resilience, resistance, and dignity in the face of occupation and oppression.
His courage and commitment must inspire us all to act to amplify his message,
support his action, demand his freedom – and the freedom of
Palestine....
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strong>The struggle for Syria isn't just about Syria--it's the
struggle for a free, democratic Middle East versus one that lives under the
yoke of American and Israeli hegemony....
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U.S. imperialism is once again maneuvering to counter growing world support for the Palestinian struggle. Its primary motive is to protect the interests of U.S. capital in the Middle East, which center around, but are not restricted to, exploitation of the fabulous oil wealth in the area....
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Palestinians everywhere are mobilizing to remind the world of their right to self-determination. In New York we are marching to the UN because the world’s attention is focused on the vote on Palestine scheduled to take place there....
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Over the last few years, as the movement for boycott, divestment and
sanctions of Israel (BDS) has gathered steam in the U.S. and throughout the
world, the apartheid state of Israel has turned to various tactics in an
attempt to counter the growing solidarity with the Palestinian people. One such
strategy is to portray Israel as the only place in the Middle East that is
friendly to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people....
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This new book provides the bankground and analysis key to
understanding today’s fast-breaking Middle East
events....
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President Barack Obama delivered a foreign policy address related to
developments in the Middle East on May 19. The speech — which avoided
addressing the uprisings throughout North Africa, the Palestinian question and
the U.S./NATO war against Libya — created even more hostility toward his
administration domestically and internationally....
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Thousands of Palestinian refugees from Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and
Gaza surged across fenced off borders and into Israel on May 15, asserting
their right to return home. The unarmed protesters were fired upon by Israeli
soldiers, killing 16 and wounding hundreds....
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Playwright Tony Kushner has done some good work. His most famous plays, the
“Angels in America” cycle, were some of the first mainstream dramas
to draw attention to how the AIDS crisis was devastating the gay community in
this country. His musical “Caroline, or Change,” which I saw in
2004 during its all-too-brief Broadway run, is an honest, tough-minded yet
tender treatment of race, racism, and Black-Jewish relations in the 1960s
South....
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Thousands of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank cheered the news
that the occupied Palestinian territories had taken a major step toward
reconciliation. On April 27 the movements of Hamas and Fatah announced an
agreement to unite. In a move that seems to have stunned the Western
imperialist diplomatic world, the two groups agreed to create an interim unity
government and hold elections within a year....
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Israel has been rewarded by the U.S. imperialist government for its latest
assault on the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza, which began on April 7
at the same time as the federal budget showdown in Washington....
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Thousands of people from virtually all sectors of U.S. workers, the oppressed and youths gathered in Union Square in New York City April 9 and marched, shouted and drummed their anti-war slogans for two miles to Foley Square in downtown Manhattan. As this largest anti-war march in New York in years stretched for 20 blocks down Broadway, it passed by thousands of New Yorkers busy shopping, who smiled, cheered and waved at what can only be described as the new face of a vibrant movement to confront the war-makers....
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he major national Antiwar Rallies in NYC
at Union Square, on Saturday, April 9 and in San Francisco on Sunday, April 10
are just 2 weeks away. Momentum is building based on the urgency of
responding to the new attacks in Libya, no end to the U.S. wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, more attacks and threats to Gaza, ugly attacks on
Muslims, new attacks on unions and collective bargaining and a new rounds of
cutbacks of every possible social program, particularly hitting the Black and
immigrant communities and the unemployed....
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The revolutionary upheaval in Egypt has brought millions of workers, youth
and professionals into the streets to demand the removal of the U.S.-backed
regime of Hosni Mubarak. The potential looms for a total collapse of
Washington’s foreign policy in the region....
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The steadfast determination that we saw in Gaza reinforces the importance of the major national antiwar coalition that is taking shape for April 9, organized by the United National Antiwar Committee - UNAC.
What makes the April 9th bi-coastal rallies, in New York City and San Francisco truly historic is this coalitions very strong solidarity with the Palestinian people as well as the strong opposition to racism and the wave of anti-Islamic hysteria that has been sweeping the country. The International Action Center has made these issues a cornerstone of our work for many years.
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The steadfast determination that we saw in Gaza reinforces the importance of the major national antiwar coalition that is taking shape for April 9, organized by the United National Antiwar Committee - UNAC.
What makes the April 9th bi-coastal rallies, in New York City and San Francisco truly historic is this coalitions very strong solidarity with the Palestinian people as well as the strong opposition to racism and the wave of anti-Islamic hysteria that has been sweeping the country. The International Action Center has made these issues a cornerstone of our work for many years.
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Hear: Ramsey Clark and Sara Flounders, just returned from Gaza on: Gaza in 2011 – what is needed from the Solidarity Movement?...
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The movement in solidarity with the people of Gaza has grown rapidly since the Dec. 27, 2008, bombing and invasion of Gaza that killed 1,450 Palestinians, almost all civilians. The ongoing Israeli blockade of the 1.5 million people living in the small territory and the continued Israeli threats have accelerated this movement’s growth. Behind this development is not only the exposure of the crimes of the Israeli occupation regime, but also the courage of Palestinians both in Gaza and the West Back who keep on struggling against all odds....
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International human rights activist Ramsey Clark led a delegation that,
after a day-long struggle for admission, crossed into Gaza on Jan. 4 to show
solidarity with the blockaded population of the strip. Two years ago the
Israeli military invaded and bombed Gaza two years ago, killing 1,450
Palestinians, almost all civilians, including many children. Among those with
Clark is Co-director of the International Action Center Sara Flounders. Both
are veteran solidarity activists with the struggle of Palestinians for
self-determination and the right to live in peace and freedom in every part of
Palestine.....
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THEY are the government, corporate, and financial powers that
wage war, ravage the environment and the economy and trample on our democratic
rights and liberties....
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The message was as grim and clear as a KKK cross burning. “Mosques, we
burn,” said a warning scribbled at the door of the smoke-smudged mosque
of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem in Palestine’s West Bank....
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Furcan Dogan Furcan Dogan. I’m going to say Furcan Dogan so often that it
will seem as “American” as Tom Smith or Bill Jones. Furcan Dogan
was an American, a young American of only 19 years when on May 31st a hail of
Israeli bullets ended his life on the Gaza aid ship, Mavi Marmarar. Furcan was
filming the Israeli assault when an IDF commando fired his first shot
pointblank hitting Furcan squarely in the chest. Four more shots were fired
into Furcan leaving him dead and unrecognizable....
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Israel and its apologists bristle when Israel is called an apartheid state.
Most loudly shouting, “Israeli apartheid,” however, are those who
know the best — the workers of South Africa, who suffered the most under
South African apartheid. South African trade unions have denounced the siege of
Gaza and the apartheid wall on the West Bank, and have urged forward the
boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS)....
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The heroes and heroines of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, so brutally attacked
by Israeli commandos on May 31, have transformed the struggle to break the
siege of Gaza and raised it to a higher level. They are the new Freedom
Riders....
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A group of politicians and Zionist organizations are trying to ban speakers to a major NYC meeting scheduled for this Thursday, June 17, 7 pm at House of the Lord Church, 415 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn and speaking tour by a Turkish Member of Parliament, a U.S. filmmaker and other survivors of the horrific Israeli attack on the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara....
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Talks from the IAC meeting after the attack on the Mavi Marmara in
international waters by Israel....
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Be part of the international opposition to
the blockade of Gaza. Make your voice heard! The International Action Center
urges you to sign a petition demanding justice in the wake of Israel's
latest brutality -- the massacre of 9 or more unarmed activists by the Israeli
army in international waters north of Gaza. Your message will go to President
Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden,
Congressional leaders, U.N. Secretary General Ban, members of the U.N. Security
Council, U.N. member states, and the President, Prime Minister, and Cabinet of
Israel along with Major media representatives and the International Red
Cross....
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Israeli troops’ criminal actions aboard the Turkish Mavi Marmara,
killing at least nine of the anti-blockade activists and wounding dozens, in
turn released a storm of sympathy worldwide for those on the Freedom Flotilla
and for the Palestinians caught in Gaza behind the Israeli blockade....
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May 31 — A firestorm of condemnation and protest has followed
Israel’s latest brutality — the massacre of at least 9 unarmed
activists by the Israeli navy in international waters north of Gaza. The
activists were part of a 750-member delegation on a six-boat flotilla
attempting to bring humanitarian aid to the besieged people of Gaza.The Freedom Flotilla was the largest attempt to date in the growing movement
to break a three-year blockade of Gaza by Israel. Led by the Free Gaza Movement
and Insani Yardim Vakfi, a Turkish organization, the flotilla carried some
10,000 tons of humanitarian aid, including medical and construction supplies.
Representing 40 different countries, participants in the international
delegation included 85-year-old Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, and government
diplomats from various countries....
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The International Action Center joins with the Gaza Freedom March, Al Awda
Palestine Right to Return Coalition NY and a number of Palestine solidarity and
human rights activists and organizations in calling for Emergency protests on
Monday and Tuesday in response to the brutal Israeli attack on 600 unarmed
Palestine Solidarity activists participating in the Free Gaza Flotilla....
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Despite angry statements by U.S. officials and endless verbiage in the
establishment media about what it all means, this disagreement is about a
diplomatic embarrassment and is not substantial....
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A lot of noise is being made over what happened recently in Israel when U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden went there to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
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The Bail Out the People Movement, meeting in New York on Feb. 24, voted to endorse and help to mobilize for the March 20 National March on Washington. The demonstration, called by the Answer Coalition, raises the slogans: U.S. out of Afghanistan and Iraq, Free Palestine, Reparations for Haiti, and Money for Healthcare, Jobs and Education. The endorsement, proposed by the International Action Center, had unanimous support and was followed by a concrete discussion of outreach, transportation and material to take to Washington....
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Looking for terrorists? Get a mirror, Secretary of State Clinton....
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Demonstrators around the world marched in solidarity with the people of Gaza on the one-year anniversary of Israel’s massacre there and to demand an end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza....
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A Jan. 6 post on the Viva Palestina Web site reports, "One month, thousands of miles, ten countries, one ship and four flights later, Viva Palestina has begun to enter the besieged Gaza Strip."...
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Egyptian security police have launched a brutal, unprovoked assault on the
500-member third Viva Palestina humanitarian relief convoy to Gaza. Dozens of
convoy members have been injured and some are reported missing....
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Members of the Viva Palestina
international aid convoy to Gaza will begin a hunger strike at 11.25 am tomorrow
(27th) in protest at the Egyptian government's refusal to allow the convoy entry onto its soil....
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This is a report from New Jersey IAC activist Ralph Loeffler, who is with the Third Viva Palestina Lifeline to Gaza convoy, which is being blocked from entering Egypt at the Jordanian port of Aqaba....
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Last Dec. 27, the U.S.-funded Israel war machine unleashed a blizzard of U.S.-made weapons of mass destruction on the towns and refugee camps of Gaza, the most densely populated place on earth. 1,500 died, many of them women and children. Tens of thousands lost their arms, legs, eyes, were paralyzed, orphaned or made homeless....
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...the Open Letter supports the growing international campaign for Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, by calling on trade unionists in
the United States to Divest from State of Israel Bonds, support workers'
refusal to handle Israeli cargo, break ties with the racist Histadrut, and
oppose U.S. military and economic aid for Israel....
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The use of devices that carry and spread to unknown distances
high amounts of toxic metals poses the question of the present contamination in
the territory of the strip of Gaza. One report on the presence of metals in the
soil of Gaza, with samples in 170 locations, published in 2005, could be a
reference for comparison, if a more systematic collection of samples is
undertaken, as it should....
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A national tour organized to highlight the use of administrative detention, an inhumane punishment aimed at Palestinian political prisoners, visited a number of U.S. cities from Nov. 3 to Nov. 20. Administrative detention is a cruel form of arrest that offers the accused man, woman or even child no charges to dispute, no trial and no limit to their maximum sentence....
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On 4 November 2009, the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report) is scheduled to be tabled before the Plenary of the UN General Assembly in New York. Following the Report’s endorsement at the Human Rights Council on 21 October 2009, it now falls to the General Assembly to ensure that the Report is endorsed and its recommendations acted upon. ...
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Some 2,000 demonstrators from all over Lebanon gathered in downtown Beirut
Oct. 12 to demand that the Lebanese government rebuild the Nahr al-Bared
Palestinian refugee camp destroyed by the Lebanese Army in 2007. A master plan
for reconstruction was approved by the Lebanese government in 2008, but
reconstruction has been postponed repeatedly....
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It concluded that there is evidence of serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed by Israel during the Gaza conflict and that Israel committed actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly crimes against
humanity....
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When cameras are running, Washington officials sometimes express
“concern” for the plight of the Palestinian people. But even this
phony caring doesn’t extend to the 4.5 million Palestinians who for 61
years have remained stateless, without official nationality, stranded in Arab
countries....
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It has been 27 years since the massacre of at least 2,000 unarmed
Palestinians and poor Lebanese in the Sabra and Shatila refugees camps here in
Beirut....
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A vast reconstruction effort, spearheaded by Hezbollah, the Lebanese
resistance movement, is rebuilding some 300 villages and towns in Lebanon
devastated by the Israeli bombing of 2006. Yet these mountainous regions have
not yet restored much of the small family farming plots so crucial to the
economy....
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Dahia was the area hardest hit by Israel in 2006. It suffered 934 bombing
raids, according to the Lebanese army. Much of the neighborhood was reduced to
rubble....
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In the 2006 war, in retaliation for its failed invasion, Israel bombed
virtually every one of Lebanon’s southern villages and towns. Roads and
bridges were destroyed, with mosques and churches smashed and Red Cross
ambulances, schools, government emergency centers, factories, power and water
networks blown apart. And then, in the last days of the war, after getting a
rush weapons’ delivery from the Pentagon, Israel dropped 1.2 million
cluster bombs on the South....
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The pride was palpable and the emotion stirring. It was the pride of a
people who have twice freed their land from U.S.-backed Israeli forces....
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The Gaza Strip, populated by 1.5 million Palestinians, is virtually an open-air prison—a place of punishment and exile for Palestinians. No one can officially get in or out of Gaza unless given permission at border checkpoints that are opened at the whim of Israel and Egypt. If your name is not on a pre-existing list, you can’t get into Gaza or leave it....
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Unlike the Pentagon, when Hezbollah gets money for reconstruction, it uses it
for reconstruction....
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Imprisoned Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa'adat, the General
Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was transferred
on August 11, 2009 to Ramon prison in the Naqab desert from Asqelan prison,
where he had been held for a number of months. He remains in isolation; prior
to his transfer from Asqelan, he had been held since August 1 in a tiny
isolation cell of 140 cm x 240 cm after being penalized for communicating with
another prisoner in the isolation unit....
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On July 29 the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn hosted a
standing-room-only report-back meeting led by several participants of the Viva
Palestina historic U.S. convoy who returned July 17 and 18 from Gaza City in
Palestine. The audience was majority Black....
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We got in. We were in one of the last buses to arrive at the Gaza border in
Rafah toward night in mid-July when Palestinian students greeted us and rode
with us to Gaza City....
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We have just learned that Israeli security forces have refused entry to
three U.S. activists attempting to visit the Palestinian Territories. One of
them, Karen Sullivan, is being sent home on a flight tonight, and two others,
Sarah Martin and Katrina Plotz have refused to leave, and are being taken into
custody. They are being treated as criminals, while their only goal was to
learn about the reality of life for the Palestinian people. All three should be
allowed to enter the country, as millions of tourists do every year....
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If the U.S. government was interested in supporting democracy or in building
respect for the will of the people in a democratic election, it should have
started by respecting the outcome of the 2006 Palestinian election. The
Palestinian people voted in large numbers, electing Hamas candidates to
parliament with large enough votes to form the Palestinian government. In Gaza,
Hamas had a total sweep....
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Organizers of the largest U.S. humanitarian aid convoy to
Palestine in history spoke today by telephone from Cairo to 50 people
protesting outside the Egyptian United Nations Mission in New York. ...
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he largest humanitarian aid convoy in history to travel from
the U.S. to Palestine succeeded in crossing the Rafah border into Gaza late
today....
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For the better part of the last 75 years, revolutionary
peoples’ artist Irving Fierstein used his immense talent to depict the
many struggles of working and oppressed people for social and economic justice
and against imperialism. In the early 1980s Fierstein created a unique genre of
art—striking full-color revolutionary banners thoughtfully composed and
painstakingly painted by hand....
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July 14—Organizers of the largest U.S. humanitarian aid convoy to
Palestine in history spoke today by telephone from Cairo to 50 people
protesting outside the Egyptian United Nations Mission in New York. They
updated supporters on the progress of the Viva Palestina effort. The news was
that the Egyptian government had agreed to allow more than $1 million in
medical aid into Gaza, and that the convoy was expected to reach the border
with Gaza on July 15....
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As we write, the Viva Palestina Convoy is being denied passage into Gaza by the Egyptian Government....
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As we write, the Viva Palestina Convoy is being denied passage into Gaza by the
Egyptian Government....
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The largest ever US humanitarian aid convoy is now gathering in
Egypt to head across the border into Gaza on Monday, July 13....
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The thousands of Palestinian prisoners are facing an
ongoing campaign in denial of their rights - from denial of family visits, to
the imposition of solitary confinement and isolation. Every day, they stand on
the front lines, confronting the injustice and repression of the occupation, as
prisoners for the freedom of Palestinian land and the Palestinian people....
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Today units of the Israeli navy blockading Gaza attacked and
boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the Spirit of Humanity, abducting 21 human
rights workers from 11 countries. The passengers and crew, including Noble
laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, are being
forcibly dragged toward Israel. The boat is carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza
with an international delegation that set sail from Lanarca, Cyprus....
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The next day, July 4th,
hundreds of people from across the United States will depart New York to
Egypt, where they will load trucks with millions of dollars worth of medical
supplies and drive it to the besieged people of Gaza. Weapons made in USA have
brought death and destruction to the people of Palestine. We will be coming to
Gaza with medical aid that saves lives instead....
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Last night, Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the
Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights
workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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Last night, Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the
Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights
workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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[23 miles off the coast of Gaza, 15:30pm] - Today Israeli Occupation Forces
attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY,
abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate
Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a
complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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Councilmember Barron Calls on President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton to Call off Israeli Warships which are threatening the life of Fmr Rep Cynthia McKinney and those aboard the Spirit of Humanity...
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Supporters of the beleaguered Palestinian people plan to leave from New York
City on July 4 with medical supplies they will deliver to hospitals in
Gaza....
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Join dozens of organizations, academics and activists to
endorse this letter to Ban Ki-Moon, including the National Lawyers Guild, the
Palestinian Youth Network, UK MP George Galloway and many more! See full list of
initial endorsers below......
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There have been two "walkouts" from the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Geneva. It is instructive to observe which countries walked out....
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On International Women's Day this year, we express our solidarity with
our heroic sisters in Gaza who have endured the horrific U.S.-backed Israeli
siege and who are standing up with courage and resilience....
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Protesters from the Gaza Committee in Dearborn, Mich., picketed Starbucks on
March 7 over its connections to Israel. ...
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A divestment teach-in at Temple University on March 5 put technology to use
for Palestine as students here spoke directly with students from the Hampshire
College divestment movement in Massachusetts through the power of Skype, an
Internet telephone program....
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he Palestinian Unified Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
against Israel is taking hold and growing in unions, universities and among
political forces on many continents....
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A Lebanese ship carrying 60 tons of humanitarian aid for the besieged people
of Gaza was aggressively intercepted and seized on Feb. 5 by the Israeli navy....
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As of this letter's date, the Israeli military has brutally killed over 784 (and rising) people in Gaza, including countless children and women....
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Eighteen months ago, outraged when the Palestinians voted for the militant leadership of Hamas in democratic elections, Israel imposed a total lockdown on the entire population of Gaza. But the entire people were determined to continue to resist. They found a way to circumvent total starvation....
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They demanded that President-elect Barack Obama and Black
elected officials in Congress meet their historical obligations of fighting
injustice by ending their silent complicity and work towards ending all aid to
Israel....
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Since the invasion of Gaza began on Dec. 27, the idea of divestment and boycott against Israel has spread to college campuses all over the country. A group called Students for Justice in Palestine based at Hampshire College, a small liberal arts school in western Massachusetts, has been advocating for divestment at its school for the last two years....
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Israel's savage assault on the civilian population of Gaza has aroused the greatest worldwide outrage ever against the U.S.-backed settler state. Perhaps nothing symbolized this more than the report of veteran anti-apartheid fighter Dennis Brutus leading a protest in Durban, South Africa, against
Israeli Ambassador Dov Segev-Steinberg. Brutus was instrumental in the cultural
boycott campaign against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s....
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Washington and Tel Aviv want to destroy any organization that fights for Palestinian self-determination. And
the European Union wants this too. Why? Because the Palestinian struggle and
especially Gaza for 60 years has been the shining example of resistance to
occupation, an example of national liberation for all the world. And the
imperialists hope that by smashing the civilian population they can defeat this struggle and demoralize millions....
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This forum coincided with the terrorist and criminal attack launched by “Israel” against the Palestinians in Gaza, at a time when the whole world is facing financial, economic and political crises resulting mainly from the policies of war and hegemony. The forum aimed at reinforcing the possibility of building an alternative world based on the principles of respecting humanity as a whole and defending the vulnerable and oppressed in the world....
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The best protection against another Lebanon, Iraq, and Gaza is to make sure that the United States enacts better policy by electing better policy-makers. The financial crisis inside the U.S. also means that the traditional engines of empire have run out of gas. Gaza also shows us that the mighty don't always win....
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The following is from a talk by Sara Flounders, co-director of the
International Action Center, at the Palestine Plenary Session of the Jan. 16-18
Beirut International Forum for Resistance, Anti-Imperialism, Peoples'
Solidarity and Alternatives....
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As the people of Gaza staved off yet another attempt by the U.S.-armed and
-funded Israeli military to eradicate the cause of Palestine by murdering its
people, delegates from around the world gathered in Beirut to build solidarity
and practical support for their cause among secular leftist and Islamic
anti-imperialist forces....
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From five prisons scattered throughout the bowels of the United States, we condemn this
crime with all our strength; we demand that the barbarity stop now and we send all of our love and support from the deepest part of our souls to the beloved Palestinian people. We will be with you today and always. If there is one thing that profoundly hurts us about our imprisonment it is that we cannot do much more for you, for your cause, for our peoples, but we trust that soon we will be able to accompany you physically....
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It's good that Jewish people of conscience are disassociating themselves from the Gaza aggression. But it's not enough. This atrocity is only the latest, and it's no aberration. It reflects the program of the Israeli settler state—which is based on the theft of Palestine, the ouster and suppression of the Palestinian people, and the racist ideology of Zionism—and of its primary sponsor, the Pentagon and U.S. business establishment....
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The United Nations just stands by, the European Union is in
full support of the Zionist state and the whole war is paid and equipped by U.S. imperialism. From Saudi Arabia to Egypt to India, nations who were once considered friends
of Palestine stand by and watch Gaza BURN -- Day after Day, after Day!! ...We must sustain an ongoing movement to BOYCOTT, DIVEST and to
impose SANCTIONS on the Israeli state and WAR CRIMES CHARGES on its leaders. We
must demand an accounting from our own governments. ...
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It's not enough to oppose the bombing. It's not enough to demand an end to the 41-year occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. We stand in complete and unconditional support for the self-determination of the Palestinian people. This includes the right to return to Palestine, from the river to the sea, and the right to democratically determine the form and the future of the Palestinian state.
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International Action Center co-director Sara Flounders, on route to the Beirut Forum (Jan. 16-19), spoke at the important Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin Jan. 10 (sponsored by the daily newspaper, Junge Welt). The conference became a de-facto tribunal condemning Israel, along with its backers in the U.S. and the European Union, for war crimes in Gaza. Before 1,000 people, Flounders argued forcefully for the Palestinian right to resist siege and occupation and the need for progressives in the imperialist countries to act in solidarity with this resistance in Palestine as well as in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan....
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While the president of the UN General Assembly has condemned Israel's killings of Palestinians as "genocide," so too have Black activists and religious leaders who will be holding a press conference Thursday at the Downtown Federal Building to denounce the U.S. government for funding and supplying with arms Israel's latest war in Gaza, which has killed nearly 1,000 Palestinians with well over 4,000 injured....
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Today, more than 15,000 people rallied in Times Square to protest Israel's ongoing assault against the people of Palestine . The demonstration stretched from 42nd Street south to 38 Street, along 7th Ave , and was followed by a spirited march past the New York Times building to the Time Warner building on 58th Street where CNN's New York office is located. Eyewitnesses reported that the police used pepper spray in an unprovoked assault on the protesters including teenagers and children as young as ten years old. Others were pushed and struck by police....
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For 18 months my people in Gaza have been under siege, incarcerated inside the world's biggest prison, sealed off from land, air and sea, caged and starved, denied even medication for our sick. After the slow death policy came the bombardment. In this most densely populated of places, nothing has been spared Israel's warplanes, from government buildings to homes, mosques, hospitals, schools and markets. More than 540 have been killed and thousands permanently maimed. A third are women and children. Whole families have been massacred, some while they slept....
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We are writing with an urgent request for your help to build an ongoing massive
outpouring of support and solidarity to stand with Gaza....
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The International Action Center condemns the criminal
U.S.-backed Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza, and the massacre of now
nearly 600 and serious wounding of thousands of Palestinians. We call upon the
progressive, anti-war and workers' movement in the United States to join the
angry, growing worldwide protests of these latest Israeli war crimes with U.S.
complicity and stop the genocide. We refuse impunity to the Israeli state and
its backers....
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La Federación Democrática Internacional de Mujeres - FDIM, expresa su condena al ataque militar asesino, perpetrado por el Estado sionista de Israel con apoyo y respaldo de la Administración Bush , en la Franja de Gaza, en la Palestina. Después de más de diez días de bombardeos aéreos y ahora también por tierra, ese crimen de guerra sin precedente, deja centenares de muertos y miles de heridos, de entre ellos las mujeres, los niños y los anciões, en medio de una destrucción volumosa, dejando el pueblo palestino sin electricidad, en la oscuridad total, sin comida, sin agua y sin remedios en los hospitales que viven un verdadero colapso. ...
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The following is a
summary of actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza,
concentrating on those that took place between Jan. 1 and Jan. 4, 2009. By Jan.
4 this included some emergency protests of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza
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"Denunciamos que con el visto bueno de la Casa Blanca y bajo la complicidad del
sistema de Naciones Unidas, se permite al gobierno sionista de Israel convertir
a Gaza en un inmenso campo de concentración, convertir a Palestina en la mayor prisión a cielo abierto conocida en el mundo y tolerada por muchos de los
supuestos países defensores de los Derechos Humanos", declar acció Carolus Wimmer, Vicepresidente del Parlatino Grupo Venezolano, ante los recientes ataques de
Israel contra el pueblo palestino en la Franja de Gaza...."
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Since December 27, 2008, the US-supported Zionist Israel has carried
out a war of aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza. It has
launched air strikes by F-16 jet fighter planes and Apache helicopters
and artillery shelling by naval vessels in order to massacre hundreds
and injure thousands of Palestinians and destroy their homes, mosques,
schools, public buildings, oil depots, power plants, water facilities
and other infrastructure.
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Saturday saw sizable protests throughout the world against the bombing and invasion of Gaza. -- As the Israeli military began a massive ground invasion of Gaza, including infantry, tanks, and
artillery, hundreds of thousands of people were in the streets around the world
chanting "Free, Free Palestine!"...The International Action Center is mobilizing for demonstrations across the
U.S. to stop the attack on Gaza, and we are networking with activists across
the globe who are taking to the streets against U.S./Israeli war crimes....
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The genocidal U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has had at least one unintended consequence. It has mobilized the anti-imperialist movement and other anti-war forces around the world. The Washington-Tel-Aviv axis might not yet see this as an obstacle to their war crimes. But it is a work in progress, coming as the workers' movements are beginning to get in motion to fight the repercussions of the capitalist economic collapse. Now they are fighting to prevent the massacre associated with what appears to be a planned ground assault into Gaza.
In 2006, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon had other unintended consequences....
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The genocidal U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip has had at least one unintended consequence. It has mobilized the anti-imperialist movement and other anti-war forces around the world. The Washington-Tel Aviv axis might not yet see this as an
obstacle to their war crimes. But it is a work in progress, coming as the
workers' movements are beginning to get in motion to fight the
consequences of the capitalist economic collapse. Even in vast parts of the
world where the winter holidays often drain the strength of a social movement,
people reacted quickly, angrily and in some places massively to oppose the new
Israeli assault....
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More than 5,000 delegates filled the hall to overflowing at the Arab International Congress for the Right of Return, held in Damascus, Syria, on Nov. 23 and 24. Delegates came from 54 countries....
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The International Anti-imperialist and people's Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC) strongly condemns the horrendous aerial attack by Israel on Gaza killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinian people and demands that Israeli aggression against Palestine must immediately cease. In a most brazen manner the Israeli Government has bragged more severe attacks might follow....
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The youth organization FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together) sent out the following statement on the Israeli assault on Gaza: The massacre of at least 225 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by the Zionist military, using U.S.-supplied F-16s and Apache attack helicopters, is the
latest in a long line of crimes against humanity committed by Israel....
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Unable to break the spirit of the Palestinians after 18 months of putting Gaza under siege, the Israeli terror machine, using U.S.-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and “Apache” helicopters, dropped more than 100 tons of bombs on Palestinians in Gaza on Dec. 27. The unprecedented onslaught on a civilian population killed at least 229 people and wounded at least 700 more. (Reuters, Dec. 28)...
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The International Action Center condemns the criminal
U.S.-backed Israeli bombing massacre on Gaza, and the mass murder of 200 and serious wounding of another 300 Palestinians. We call upon the progressive, anti-war and workers' movement in the United States to join the angry, growing worldwide protests of these latest Israeli war crimes with U.S.
complicity. We refuse impunity to the Israeli state and its backers....
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e must act now, before the massacres continue! Over 200 people were killed in Gaza on Saturday, December 27 in a series of Israeli attacks -
with US-made and paid for weaponry - upon the Palestinian people. These
cold-blooded killings come on top of a siege on Gaza that has killed hundreds by depriving them of medical care, deprived Gazans of electricity, power and
fuel and attempted to strangle the life of the Palestinian people in Gaza....
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Today, November 23rd, I was slated to give remarks in Damascus,
Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, sadly, the 60th year that the
Palestinian people have been denied their Right of Return enshrined in that
Universal Declaration. But a funny thing happened to me while at the Atlanta airport on my way to the Conference: I was not allowed to exit the country....
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The right of the Palestinian
refugees to return to their homes and lands from which they were expelled with
compensation for the losses that they have incurred lies at the centre and
heart of the Palestinian issue. It is a deeply-rooted and inalienable right
that cannot be compromised, bargained or diminished....
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This First Arab International Congregation is taking place at a time when defense and support of the heroic Palestinian Resistance is sorely needed. We are confident that its decisions and the Damascus Declaration for the Right of Return will resonate throughout Palestine, the Middle East and all over the world, including Washington D.C.
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The Israeli Army invaded the Gaza Strip on Nov. 4 with tanks, helicopters and jet aircraft. The attack was an explicit violation of a five-month Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and the Palestinian resistance groupings in Gaza. The elected Hamas government there had agreed to the cease-fire....
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Help us pressure the Egyptian Government to Open the Rafah Crossing so that Palestinians may access basic supplies to survive....
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Mr. Marsalis, perhaps by now you've seen or heard about the open letter to you from the British Committee for Universities of Palestine
regarding your quartet's concert date in Tel Aviv on July 17.
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May 7, 2008 - Oppose Zionist
celebration of 60 years of Nakba 2. May 16, 2008 - Major Rally at the UN to
commemorate 60 years of Nakba...
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In 1948 villages and towns in Palestine were destroyed by the Israeli military and its Zionist gangs. Hundreds of Palestinian women, men and children were killed. New towns -- exclusively for Israelis -- were built atop the ruins. Seven hundred fifty thousand Palestinians fled to neighboring Arab countries living their lives in refugee camps. They continue to live in forced
exile (shatat) all over the world and as internally displaced in refugee camps
in Palestine. In the three generations of raising their children, their numbers
have grown to millions, and the their struggle to return home has never faltered....
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A national press conference to demand the immediate release of Dr. Sami Al-Arian was held at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center in Harlem on April 15. Al-Arian was in the 44th day of a hunger strike to demand that the government abide by the terms of his release. He has been imprisoned for more than five years....Al-Arian, a tenured professor at the University of South Florida, was
arrested in 2003. Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft trumpeted it as the
"arrest of the most dangerous financier of Islamic Jihad in the Western
world." This case of a Palestinian who raised funds for orphans and charities back home is viewed as one of the most extreme examples of racist and anti-Muslim persecution....
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Yesterday, on the morning of April 15th, Dr. Al-Arian was removed from the abusive prison of Howard County Detention Center in Maryland. Although immigration officials promised to prevent any further abuse, he was simply thrown from the pot into the frying pan....
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Friday, April 11, is the scheduled release date of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian professor on a hunger strike, who has been imprisoned for more than five years. But the Department of Justice, through its continuous abuse of the grand jury system, is threatening to keep him imprisoned for many years....
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Unable to defeat the Palestinian people's determination to assert
their rights and sovereignty after 60 years of the most brutal occupation and
expropriation of land, the entire U.S.-Israeli strategy for years has been based on exacerbating every division, every difference in the Palestinian struggle....
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Suppose a group of KKKers and other white supremacists had their own "church" that was really a center for justifying and organizing murderous attacks on African Americans. Suppose an African-American person, tired of lynchings, tortures, beatings and humiliation of his people, came into this church with guns blazing....
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Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by
the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on
March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and dehydration....
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A four-member jury of distinguished legal officials, after hearing and
considering two days of intense, moving and precise testimony at the
International Associations Center in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 24 found the Israeli state guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in its 2006 war on Lebanon....
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The International Citizens' Tribunal on Lebanon, according to conventional and usual international law, and according to the imperative standards contained in the 1948 and 1949 Geneva Conventions and Protocol A (1977) and in the Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998; acknowledging the enormous crimes committed by Israel in the 2006 war (indiscriminate bombardments and destruction, murder of more than one thousand and one hundred persons, among them children, women and elderly persons, enormous damage to social and economic life, use of forbidden arms, etc.) declares the Israeli authorities responsible for the 2006 war against Lebanon and guilty of the following international crimes: War Crimes, Crimes against humanity, Genocide...
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By tearing down the wall between Gaza and Egypt, the Palestinian people and their organizations gave an impulse to the anti-imperialist movement all over the Middle East and throughout the world. Demonstrations set for Jan. 25-26,which were first called as a plea to stop Israel’s criminal siege of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, turned into militant displays of solidarity with a people in struggle....
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The whole world watched in wonder on Jan. 23 when the blockaded Palestinian people of Gaza blew up the walls imprisoning them and walked en masse into Egypt....
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More than 800,000 Palestinians have been living in darkness since Israel forcibly closed the border and blocked fuel shipments into Gaza on Jan. 18, forcing Gaza's only electrical plant to shut down. The general director
of Gaza's single electricity plant, Derar Abu Sissi, explained that "the catastrophe will affect hospitals, clinics, water wells, houses, factories, all aspects of life."...
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The U.S. backed Israeli blockade of Gaza must end!
Internationally coordinated demonstrations will be happening on Friday and
Saturday. International Action Center urges everyone to attend the demonstration nearest you, and to forward this call from Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) to as many people and as many lists as you can!...
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The Israeli state, with the complete backing of the imperialists of the U.S.
and the European Union, as well as their clients among the corrupt feudal monarchs in the region, has deprived the entire Palestinian population in Gaza of electricity, sanitation, potable water, heat, cooking gas, medicines and adequate food. And it is winter in Palestine. Nothing has been done to end this
crime against humanity, this collective punishment of the Palestinian people, despite many appeals to international agencies and organizations....
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The crimes committed by the Israeli army in Lebanon during
the summer 2006 are a violent affront to the universal human conscience. These are criminal acts, as many people feel instinctively. They are different from
the acts that take place in all armed conflict committed by the aggressor as well as by the aggressed. But feeling is not enough. The facts must be
established. They must then be assessed in light of existing international law. This should be done with the detachment and rigor of a process that excludes any a priori conclusions, the results of which will convince all people of good will....
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The deeds committed by the Israeli army and secret services in Lebanon, as in the occupied Palestinian territories, is a violent affront to the universal human conscience. These are criminal acts, as many people feel instinctively.They are different from the acts that take place in all armed conflict committed by the aggressor as well as by the
aggressed.But feeling is not enough.The facts must be
established....
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The International Jury of Conscience for Lebanon” is a project which intends to develop the struggle against
impunity regarding the crimes committed, which intends to promote international
law and in particular human rights and which places the respect of fundamental
human rights above any other consideration. The discussion will proceed in greatest serenity and the publicity that arises from it will reside exclusively within the framework of human rights. It will question only the facts that occurred during the conflict of July-August 2006 in connection with the respect
of these rights. This project does not include a political debate on the question of the relationship between Israel and its neighbors, nor about the Palestinian question....
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The Israeli siege of Gaza is an international crime of collective punishment on an entire population. It is a crime carried out with the full support and authorization of Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had rejected overtures by Hamas, the militant Islamic group that is the elected government in Gaza, for discussions about
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On
Aug. 28, 2007, New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. attacked British unions
for supporting a boycott of Israel. The Chief, an influential weekly newspaper
that covers civil service unions and is widely read by New York City civil service
union members and New York City politicians, published an article in the Sept.
7th edition about Comptroller Thompson’s action. The article included a
statement of praise for Thompson’s action that was issued by Jewish Labor
Committee (JLC) President Stuart Appelbaum....
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