• The Guardian: Israel’s celebration remains a Palestinian catastrophe

    By Ahmad Samih Khalidi Published in The Guardian on the 12th May 2008. To view original article click here As Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of its establishment, an inescapable counter-reality lingers over the occasion that is inextricably twinned with it. It is the nakba or catastrophe, the 60th anniversary of the destruction of Arab Palestine in 1948. Despite a public discourse that often claimed the opposite, the Zionist movement set out to build a Jewish…

  • 9 activists injured as Israeli army attacks demonstration in Shufa, Tulkarem

    On Saturday 10th May, approximately 200 Israeli, Palestinian and international activists converged on the village of Shufa, seven kilometres south-east of Tulkarem in the north-west of the West Bank, to remove the Israeli-imposed roadblocks that deny the residents of the village freedom of movement. Organised by the municipality of Shufa, Combatants for Peace, Tulkarem Centre for Social Services, the ISM and Anarchists Against the Wall, the demonstration was part of the Nakba commemorations that are taking…

  • The Independent: The loathsome smearing of Israel’s critics

    By Johann Hari To view original article, published in The Independent on the 8th May 2008, click here In the US and Britain, there is a campaign to smear anybody who tries to describe the plight of the Palestinian people. It is an attempt to intimidate and silence – and to a large degree, it works. There is nobody these self-appointed spokesmen for Israel will not attack as anti-Jewish: liberal Jews, rabbis, even Holocaust survivors. My…

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