Interview with Dalia Sarig, Jewish Palestine solidarity activist I am particularly intrigued by your family history, especially the escape fromNazi Vienna and the subsequent rebuilding of your life in Palestine. Could youtell me more about these experiences and how they shaped your identity? tell me more about these experiences and how they shaped your identity? Remarkably still alive today, my grandmother was born in Vienna in 1929, the eldestof four siblings in a Jewish family. In 1938, my great-grandfather was arrested for thesole crime of being Jewish and subjected to ...

[Igor Böhm via 9lab.org—DE] Mr. Daniel Green published an article in Die Presse about “the “Gaza List” […], its extremist narratives, and the wider societal implications of unchecked hate,” mirroring standard orthodoxy present in the Austrian political spectrum, welcoming “thoughts and feedback” on the business and employment-focused social media platform LinkedIn. One essential talent, Mr. Green exhibits in that article, is an exceptional tolerance for contradiction whilst equating the movement’s struggle for peace, ...

Igor Böhm There are many reasons why people take part in calls for peace. Some are here in support of the Palestinian struggle for liberation; some are here because they cannot remain apathetic in light of Israel’s mass murder campaign against women, children, and men exacted on Gaza with the complicity of our government; some are here because they believe in the fundamental moral principle that violence is wrong and aggression against violence is wrong, yet others join because they are increasingly worried by the Austrian government’s crackdown on free speech and freedom of ...

Israel is intensifying its crackdown on Palestinian Civil Society. As a result, Addameer (the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association) has submitted an urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders on behalf of Ameer Makhoul. Mr. Makhoul is a Palestinian citizen of Israel. He was arrested at his home in Haifa on May 6th and detained by Israel since then at an interrogation centre.   The appeal seeks immediate intervention by the UN body and argues that Mr Makhoul’s arrest and detention and a recent order banning him ...