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Palestine
Hawking and the Growing Israel Boycott Movement
BDS activists in Gaza (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) consider renowned physicist Stephen Hawking's decision to cancel his participation in an upcoming conference in Israel as part of an academic …
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Empty Stomachs From Guantanamo to Palestine
Empty stomachs continue to deliver a number of stultifying blows to the institutions of injustice.
Palestinians in Hebron: “To Be Here Is a Form of Resistance“
In Hebron almost 20 years after Baruch Goldstein's massacre of Palestinians, Israeli settlers enjoy impunity and army protection; Palestinians resist dispossession, persecution and apartheid.
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Obama in the Holy Land
In a speech to young Israelis, US president reveals the Israel seldom seen on Fox News.
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At World Social Forum: Unity and Dissent Within Global Movements
At the World Social Forum last week in Tunisia, capitalism, imperialism, neoliberal economics and shock doctrine policies were the main targets.
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In Palestine, Dignity and Violence
Those who endure violence in Gaza retain a defiant and profound grasp on their humanity.
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Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama’s Palestine Speech with Gaza’s Ark
While President Obama's Jerusalem speech left many things to be desired, groups like Gaza's Ark are coming out of the woodwork to lead the initiative for justice that Obama …
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From Torah to Tikkun: Rabbi Michael Lerner’s Recipe for Peace in the Middle East
Reviewer finds author's prescriptions for peace in the Middle East inadequate in ‘Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East.’
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Rosa Parks Syndrome in Palestine
Liberals who generally support Israel, have seized on bus segregation because it packages occupation in digestible terms.
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Israel: Where Soccer Fans Boo Their Own Players When They Score
What does it say that sixty-six years later, Israeli fans of the soccer club Beitar Jerusalem have not evolved to postwar-Brooklyn standards of human decency?