Barcelona March 1-3 2010, Russell Tribunal on Palestine finds EU states guilty of breaches of international and internal EU law
You may be interested to hear that the first Russell Tribunal on Palestine held 3 days of hearings in Barcelona March 1-3 this year. The Tribunal derives from the UK philosopher Bertrand Russell, who with Jean Paul Sartre and other luminaries set up the first Tribunal, a most influential affair- on the Vietnam war in 1965. ...
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7.00 p.m. with Ahmed Tibi, Member of Knesset, Israel
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7.00 p.m.
Bruno Kreisky Forum for Internationalen Dialogue | Armbrustergasse 15 | 1190 Vienna
AHMED TIBI
Member of Knesset, Israel
Moderator: Thomas Seifert (Die Presse)
Dr. Ahmad Tibi was born in Taybe, an Arab city in the Triagle - Israel in 1958. He studied medicine at the Hebrew University ...
The “Nakba law” passed in a first reading last Tuesday . The law forbids mourning the Nakba on Israel's Idependence Day. Breaking the law will result in high fines and withdrawal of gevernmental financing from municipal authorities.
The “Nakba law” passed in a first reading last Tuesday . The law forbids mourning the Nakba on Israel's Idependence Day. Breaking the law will result in high fines and withdrawal of gevernmental financing from ...
by Rory McCarthy Evictions and planning decisions on the ground are jeopardising prospects for a two-state Middle East peace deal
from: http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=63995&s2=09
March 8, 2010
In the brochure handed out by the mayor's office in Jerusalem last week, there were pretty sketches illustrating a development that would turn a poor, crowded area into a park, with streams, restaurants and hotels. It talked of ...
by Pam Rasmussen, t r u t h o u t, March 8, 2010
from: http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=63996&s2=09
When I wrote last, I was still in Cairo, beginning to lose hope. However, shortly after, a friend at the UN Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) was miraculously able to get me into Gaza through Israel's Erez Crossing. In a shockingly quick two days, I was in! Among my first activities was this protest....
The Israelis call ...
Growing Israeli trend towards anti-democratic legislation, PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 474, March 12, 2010
Leaders of the Arab minority in Israel warned this week that they were facing an unprecedented campaign of persecution designed to stop their political activities. The campaign is backed by the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
The warning came after Said Nafaa, a Druze member of the Israeli parliament, ...