Category: In the Media
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Europe stalls on closer Israel links in Gaza protest
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 today in protest at the Israeli onslaught in Gaza. Senior officials and diplomats in Brussels…
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‘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 military operation in Gaza was launched, due to various boycotts against Israeli produce. Farmers say…
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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 Jew” and “a Jew intent on destroying Israel.” Shapiro, a human rights activist, is one…
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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 army was given the green light in firing at ambulances because they allegedly carried terrorists,…
