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What Jim Carrey Probably Doesn’t Know

Posted on: May 10, 2006

Jim Carrey, who is currently visiting Israel, along with Ewan McGregor, Will Smith, and Sharon Stone, recent vistors, probably doesn’t know:

At the Shifa Hospital in Gaza, dozens of kidney patients have seen their dialysis sessions cut because of dwindling supplies because of the cutbacks in funding, and five patients have already died, doctors and nurses say.

Mousa Salim Mousa al-Sawarka, while he was grazing his camels in the al-Khousa area to the north of Beit Lahia…was killed instantly by shrapnel to the head.

That was Saturday, May 6 while this morning:

Hassan Hussein Khader al-Shaf’ei, 55, was killed by … Continue reading


Updated on January 24, 2009
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Activists Aim to Kick Apartheid Out of Football

Posted on: April 30, 2006

Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, April 22nd, 2006

Palestine activists have launched a move to get Apartheid Israel suspended from the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) in protest against the ongoing subjugation of the Palestinian people and as part of the wider global call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Occupation.

FIFA is the sport’s governing body worldwide and numerous letters in support of the action have been sent to its President, Sepp Blatter. An online petition has already gathered more than 4,000 signatures.

The campaigners point out the consequences the Occupation and Apartheid has on … Continue reading


Updated on January 24, 2009
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Ha’aretz: “Sweden boycotts air force drills due to Israel’s participation”

Posted on: April 27, 2006
Ha’aretz: “Sweden boycotts air force drills due to Israel’s participation”

By Ha’aretz Service

Sweden called off its participation in international air force exercises to take place in Italy next month because of the involvement of the Israel Air Forces in the drills.

Sweden was supposed to send nine aircraft to Italy for Volcanex 2006.

“Israel is not currently acting in the name of peace, and therefore, it should not take part in the demonstration,” senior officials in Stockholm said.

A Swedish Foreign Ministry official said, “The point of the operation is to prepare for international cooperation in preserving world peace. The participation of the Israeli air force changes the … Continue reading


Updated on April 27, 2006
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Sir Gerald Kaufman MP: Israel “would be a rogue government” if Refuses to Prosecute Killer Soldiers

Posted on: April 13, 2006

We Cannot Allow These Murders to Go Unpunished

We can demand these homicidal Israeli soldiers be prosecuted for war crimes

by Sir Gerald Kaufman MP

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0412-26.htm

In a marvellous book of essays, “The Slopes of Lebanon,” the great Israeli novelist Amos Oz advanced an audacious thesis. He contended that the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis in the Holocaust – they included many members of my own family – must not be used as justification for the oppression of the Palestinians by the Israelis.

Recent Israeli governments, led first by Ariel Sharon and now by Ehud Olmert, have launched a new twist on … Continue reading


Updated on April 13, 2006
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British Politician Calls for Sanctions Against Israel

Posted on: April 12, 2006

Sir Gerald Kaufman, a leading British Member of Parliment has called for sanctions against Israel, and accused elements in the IDF as being ‘out of control.’ He was speaking on the influential BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ program.

Kaufman has made similar charges before, and has been labelled ‘a self-hating Jew’ by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. None the less, the inevitable backlash is bound to occur, so please write or e-mail your support to:

The Today Program:

today@bbc.co.uk

You can contact Sir Gerald Kauffman at the House of Commons, Westminster.

Here is an extract from an article in the Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/12/nisr12.xmlh

Economic sanctions against … Continue reading


Updated on January 24, 2009
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MP’s call for sanctions against Israel over shootings

Posted on: April 11, 2006

From The Telegraph

Economic sanctions against Israel should be considered if the country refuses to put its soldiers before the courts in the UK over the death of two British peace activists, an MP has said.

Sir Gerald Kaufman, Labour MP for Manchester Gorton, claimed there was an element in the Israeli military which was “out of control”.

He was speaking about the deaths of Tom Hurndall, 22, and James Miller, 34, who were both shot in the Gaza Strip in 2003.

Yesterday an inquest jury returned a verdict that Mr Hurndall had been “intentionally killed” by a soldier and last week an … Continue reading


Updated on April 11, 2006
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South African Unions Rally for Palestine

Posted on: March 18, 2006

Printed in Morning Star Monday, March 13

by Richard Bagley

Top South African Trade Unionist Willy Madisha issued a white-hot condemnation of Israel’s apartheid policies at a London conference on Saturday.

Addressing the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s trade union conference at TUC Congress House, the COSATU president declared that South Africa’s apartheid policies had been ‘a Sunday picnic’ compared to the state of Israel’s brutal treatment of Palestinians.

‘Apartheid was characterised by killings, hangings, disappearances, arrests, exile, confiscations, inferior education, rapes and the creation of bantusans.

‘All this was a Sunday picnic compared to what is happening to the Palestinians. I say with confidence that … Continue reading


Updated on March 18, 2006
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Let The Global Boycott of Israel Begin

Posted on: January 15, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

With the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan hights, in its 39th year, the continuing construction of the Apartheid Wall and Israel refusing any accountability for its crimes against the Palestinian people, it falls on the global community to pressure the State of Israel to comply with International law.

Lend your support for the county of Sor-Trondelag’s Boycott Israel motion, and read the following oped by Norman Finkelstein, which appears on his website and in the January 14 issue of the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, “Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified.”

Dear friends

The Norwegian … Continue reading


Updated on January 15, 2006
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Threat to divest is Church tool in Israeli fight

Posted on: August 11, 2005

by Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times
August 6th, 2005
www.catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=454

The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. announced Friday that it would press four American corporations to stop providing military equipment and technology to Israel for use in the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and that if the companies did not comply, the church would take a vote to divest its stock in them.

The companies – Caterpillar, Motorola, ITT Industries and United Technologies – were selected from a list of several dozen possibilities by a church investment committee that met Friday in Seattle. The Presbyterians accused these companies of selling helicopters, cellphones, night vision equipment … Continue reading


Updated on January 13, 2009
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