• 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 of the co-founders of the International Solidarity Movement, a group that practices nonviolent civil disobedience against Israeli actions in Gaza and…

  • Israeli snipers using new ammunition in Ni’lin

    On Friday the 9th of January at 11.30am the weekly prayer demonstration was carried out in Ni’lin. Approximately 100 citizens of Ni’lin together with international and Israeli human right activists took part in the demonstration. During the demonstration the Israeli army used snipers to shoot the new ‘0.22’ caliber bullet, injuring two people. The army was already present at three different spots close to the clinic long before the prayer had started. After the prayer the…

  • FGM: Spirit of Humanity resumes humanitarian mission

    For Immediate Release Larnaca, Cyprus – The Free Gaza Movement vessel, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, will resume its emergency mission to the besieged Gaza Strip at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. The ship will carry desperately needed doctors, journalists, human rights workers, and members of parliaments as well as medical supplies donated by the people of Greece and the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza. After departure on January 12 at 3 pm…

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