Category: In the Media

  • 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…

  • Vittorio Arrigoni: In Gaza Hippocrates is dead

    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,…

  • 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 Nations-administered al-Fakhoura school in Jabaliya, which was bombed by Israeli forces, killing at least 40…