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January 30, 2014

Gaza's own ark will export Palestinian goods

In 2007, Israel strengthened its occupation of Palestine by placing the Gaza Strip under a siege, restricting the movement of people and goods in and out of the enclave....

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January 30, 2014

By attacking Syria, Obama is making a political point, not a moral one

Like many US presidents passed, President Obama is determined to violently attack others in the name of morality and the common good. He and other American exceptionalists tell us...

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January 30, 2014

AIPAC lobbyists press Congress for war on Syria

While France and Russia are busy engaging in last minute diplomacy to prevent a US strike against Syria, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is deploying hundreds of...

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January 30, 2014

Growing support for liberation theology against injustice and apartheid in Palestine

Many Western activists are sceptical of the role of religion in Palestine solidarity. Beyond the problem of Islamophobia, which is sadly manifest across the political spectrum, activist views of...

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January 30, 2014

Foreign aid to Palestine exists only to support the "peace process" industry

Earlier this month, Oxfam published 20 facts about Oslo that painfully illustrate why the “peace talks” between Israel and Palestine have abysmally failed. In the past ten years alone,...

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January 30, 2014

"Disappearing Palestine" poster campaign takes Vancouver by storm

In North America, the mainstream media is not exactly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. This presents a huge obstacle for solidarity activists who want to change the hegemonic discourse...

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January 30, 2014

Egypt and revolution

Last weekend McClatchy newspapers published an article under the headline “Egypt’s ‘revolution’ is over as people accept imposition of military rule”. In the article journalist Nancy A. Youssef remarks...

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January 30, 2014

Solidarity activists turn to social media to raise awareness of hunger strikers

“After I stop eating, how many days does it take before the hunger pains go away? How long will I continue to suffer from thirst? And how many days...

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January 30, 2014

On the twisted logic that portrays the occupied as hateful and the occupier as peaceful

The New York Times recently published an editorial by Yuval Steinitz, an Israeli politician and Knesset member for the Likud party, under the headline “How Palestinian hate prevents peace”....

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January 30, 2014

US politicians continue to cosy up to the Israel Lobby

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and to celebrate the organisation has been holding a series of high profile events across...

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