Category: In the Media

  • Amnesty International Calls For Human Rights Monitors in Palestine

    by Amnesty International, December 10th Open Letter from Amnesty International’s Secretary General to European Union leaders on human rights crisis in Israel and the Occupied Territories Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan today called on European Union Heads of State and Government to urgently address the downward spiral of human rights abuses in Israel and…

  • Haaretz: “Elbow to Elbow, like Cattle”

    by Gideon Levy, December 10th Laila El-Haddad spent the last three weeks in a dismal apartment she was forced to rent in El Arish, Egypt, together with her son Yusuf, who is two years and nine months old. Every few days the two tried to travel to the Rafah border crossing, about 50 kilometers away,…

  • Black Agenda Report: The Niggerization of Palestine

    By Jonathan Scott | Black Agenda Report The situation of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has become so bad that even the pro-Israeli New York Times is reporting on some of the more revolting developments. For instance, on October 11 the Times ran an article titled “Israel Bars New Palestinian Students From Its…

  • WAC: “Beit Hanoun’s wounded at Ichilov Hospital”

    by Nir Nader, Workers Advice Centre Imad Abu Amara leads me through the corridors of the Ted Arison Tower of Ichilov Hospital, to the wounded victims of the massacre at Beit Hanoun. Imad, 50, is not among Beit Hanoun’s wounded. He is from Rafah, and already very familiar with hospital admissions. For 16 years he…

  • The Guardian: “There has to be equality”

    by Ismail Patel, December 5th The Arab-Israeli conflict is unlike any other regional conflict. As the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, put it: “No other conflict carries such a powerful symbolic and emotional charge among people far removed from the battlefield.” Not surprisingly, this has had its impact on multicultural Britain, with different communities aligning…