Category: In the Media
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Amnesty International: “Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip are war crimes”
Amnesty International, 30th June: “Deliberate attacks by Israeli forces against civilian property and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip violate international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes, Amnesty International said this weekend. “’Israel must now take urgent measures to remedy the long-term damage it has caused and immediately restore the supply — at its own cost…
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Ynet: “Toronto church to boycott Israeli goods”
Toronto Star reports United Church of Canada’s Toronto branch to unveil boycott of Israeli products, companies doing business with its military to end what it calls ‘illegal occupation of Palestinian lands’; plan calls on Ottawa to require that products originating in the occupied territories be labeled differently from those coming from the rest of Israel.…
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British Filmmaker’s Death in Gaza Continues to Resound
By Sarah Lyall Published in the New York Times LONDON, June 23 — Three years ago, in an incident that resonates now with the recent killing of seven members of a Palestinian family on a Gaza beach, a documentary filmmaker was shot to death in Gaza. Then as now, the victims’ families blamed the Israeli…
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LA Times: “Questions Arise Over Case Against Islamic Charity”
By Greg Krikorian, LA Times Staff Writer, June 18, 2006 DALLAS — The Justice Department’s criminal case against officials of the largest U.S.-based Islamic charity relies more heavily than previously known on Israeli intelligence, court records show. President Bush ordered the charity shut down in December 2001, declaring from the Rose Garden that the Holy…
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Counterpunch: “For Arabs Only – Israeli Law and Order”
By JONATHAN COOK Imagine the following scenario. A Palestinian gunman boards a bus inside Israel and rides it to the city of Netanya. Close to the end of the line, he walks over to the driver, levels his automatic rifle against the man’s head and pumps him with bullets. He turns and empties the rest…