Racism

Anti-semitism is a horrible thing. That’s exactly why, in the interest of a scholarly defense of the truth, we cannot allow ourselves to throw that accusation around too liberally.

This story happened more than 70 or 80 years ago, in the Galilee Heights, during the British occupation “Mandate” to Palestine, a long time before we had the “honor” to host our “cousins’ the jews. There, in one of the Galilee villages, there was a Palestinian peasant who had a stubborn donkey. Both, the peasant [...]

Transcript of Turkish Prime Minister Erodgen’s famous ‘one minute’ speech at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland

There is really nothing more to say. What else could be added… ?? This is simply reality… It has happened, and can happen anytime in the Occupied West Bank – or (no more these days, though…) at Erez Checkpoint to Gaza.
But I think that nowadays private cars wouldn’t even get THAT close to the [...]

Last May, a professor of mine told me about an upcoming project, a book on refugees in Cairo. I was an undergraduate student and May is the worst month of the year for me. I didn’t ask a lot of information about the book, my mind was bogged down with deadlines, endless papers and [...]

In this digest: Pictures from Palestine before the British occupation of 1917, declaration by prominent artists and others including Dany Glover, Naomi Klein, and Jane Fonda on Apartheid Israel (can add your name), Yakov Rabin’s article on why Zionism is anti-Semitic, good news on spread of boycott campaign and on legal action to force EU [...]

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The following article was brought to my attention recently, about the brutal killing of a man on the promenade of a Tel Aviv beach.
Haaretz
August 17, 2009
“Our father was a man of peace,” says daughter of Tel Aviv murder victim.
Hundreds of people accompanied Leonard Karp, who was brutally beaten to death on the promenade of a [...]

The Zionist “law” !!!
On the crucial importance of getting facts right – some interesting quotes
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“Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offense [crime, holocaust, ethnic cleasing] and has turned a [...]

I was invited to be a panelist for The Geneva Summit for Human Rights, and was specifically interested in hearing the outstanding stories from Burma, Rwanda, Iran, Cuba, Darfur amongst others. I still consider it to be a great opportunity that I made it here as a speaker at in this Summit, whose intentions have [...]