European commission moves to upgrade political and trade links with Israel on hold, diplomats say Ian Traynor | The Guardian European plans to turn Israel into a “privileged” partner enjoying special political, diplomatic and trade links were frozen by Brussels ...
Read More »‘Israeli produce boycotted’
Yair Hason | Ynet Farmers claim UK, Jordan boycotting Israeli fruit: Fruit growers disappointed by canceled orders from abroad, leaving produce to rot in warehouses Fruit growers in Israel have reported delays and reductions in orders from abroad since the ...
Read More »Progressive: Critic of Israel Threatened Before Talk in NY
Matthew Rothschild | The Progressive Adam Shapiro has enemies. Especially in the Jewish Defense Organization, the militant Zionist group that broke with the Jewish Defense League back in the 1980s. The group’s website calls Shapiro a “maggot” and a “self-hating ...
Read More »Vittorio Arrigoni: In Gaza Hippocrates is dead
Published by Il Manifesto, 10th January 2009. Translated from Italian by Daniela Filippin In Gaza, a firing squad put Hippocrates up against a wall, aimed and fired. The absurd declarations of an Israeli secret services’ spokesman, according to which the ...
Read More »ei: Too much to mourn in Gaza
By Eva Bartlett – ISM activist in Gaza To view original article, published by Electronic Intifada on the 8th January 2009, click here After finishing a shift with the Palestine Red Crescent Society yesterday morning, we went to the United ...
Read More »CNN: In Gaza, living with anger and fear
By Ashley Fantz | CNN (CNN) “Listen, listen to this!” shouts Fida Qishta as the crackling of rockets is heard over her phone receiver. “It’s difficult for anybody to imagine that in a second, maybe when I am talking to ...
Read More »ei: “They know no limits now”
By Eva Bartlett To view original article, published by Electronic Intifada on the 4th January 2009, click here In the haze of dust and smoke from the latest F-16 strike, a family self-evacuates. The dispatcher at the Jabaliya Palestine Red ...
Read More »The Guardian: Do Israeli pilots feel happy killing innocent women and children?
By Fida Qishta – ISM co-ordinator in the Gaza Strip To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 3rd January 2009, click here A Palestinian in Gaza chronicles life under Israeli bombardment Saturday 27 December I go to ...
Read More »The Guardian: Land, sea, sky – all will kill you
By Karma Nabulsi To view original article, published in The Guardian on the 3rd January, click here Mohammed is burying his family. So is Jamal. Haider doesn’t feel safe in his flat so is sheltering in his car. In a ...
Read More »BBC: Palestinians ‘fear worse to come’
To view original article, published by the BBC on the 2nd January, click here A British volunteer in the Gaza Strip has said civilians there believe there is worse to come after seven days of bombardment by Israeli forces. Jenny ...
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