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Dear Sir Palestine Solidarity Campaign 'PSC' must accept that a real SHOAH is taking place evry day in Palestine, where the Zionist regime blitzes the Palestinian with white Phosphorous. In preparation for their dirty political game Pro-Zionist mouthpiece Organization's disturbed by a UK-based pro-Palestinian web site named shoahph.com. The site is obviously dedicted to the Palestinian HOLOCAUST. Pro-Zionist evil's Organization's insists that SHOAH is anti-Simate site we all know this is just old Zionist propaganda. For Pro-Zionist PSC anti-Semitism was everyhere. Jews are currently hiding in theire houses for fear of being attacked by anti-Zionist websites. What PSC Zionist element did not understand's that their is growing numbers of people are recognising the deep racism within the Zion...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross   I wrote this on January 22, 2011. At first I wanted to keep this story between me and a few close friends, but in light of what has just recently happened at the Islamic Center of America, I feel that I have to share this story. This is no longer an issue on religion. This is outright discrimination and intolerance. If my story can inspire others, or at least affect someone on a personal level, then I’ve done all that I can do. A Social Experiment Yesterday, I went to the Islamic Center of America. I felt incredibly out of place, being a non-Muslim who wasn’t wearing a hijab, and I was very nervous when stepping into the office. Out of respect, I did the best I could to hide my hair by pulling up my coat’s hood. I went to the lady at the desk, gre...

NOVANEWS PUBLIC MEETING Saturday 2nd April 2pm Nuclear Free Middle East Palestine & Israel Ernest Rodker From the Mordechai Vanunu Campaign Friends of the Earth 54 Allison St, Digbeth Birmingham B5 5TH All Welcome Meeting organised by West Midlands CND 54 Allison Street, Birmingham B5 5TH. Tel. 0121 643 4617 Email: wmcndall@gn.apc.org West Midlands CND 54 Allison Street Birmingham B5 5TH Tel: 0121 643 4617

NOVANEWS modernityblog Tags: Anti-Muslim Bigots, Anti-Muslim Racism, Attack on Mosque, Gants Hill, Racial violence, Racism | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4XPG-336   From the English Defence League staging provocative events in northern cities, attacks on restaurants to scare stories in the media, the real consequence of anti-Muslim bigotry is violence against Muslims, and that should not be forgotten. This is just one reported incident, Waltham Forest Guardian reports: "RACIST abuse was shouted at worshippers at a busy mosque. Police were called to Eastern Avenue in Gants Hill after reports of a group of men causing damage to parked vehicles in the road. Six men were seen heading in the direction Redbridge roundabout towards Redbridge Is...

NOVANEWS   One of its authors, Steve Walt, reflects on a tumultuous period and his work’s undoubted influence. One of the great personal successes, in my view, has been the increasing number of Jews who recognise the devastating result of simply allowing the pro-settler, anti-Palestinian Zionists solely taking the floor. Judaism simply cannot be about backing never-ending colonisation of Arab land. Here’s Walt: When we wrote the book, we also hoped that our work would provoke some soul-searching among “pro-Israel” individuals and groups in the United States, and especially those found in the American Jewish community. Why? Because interest-group politics are central to American democracy, and the most obvious way to shift U.S. policy on this issue would be to a...

NOVANEWS Tania Kepler Alternative Information Center (AIC) Wikimania, the annual conference of the Wikimedia community, is set to be held in Haifa in August. Tell Wikimedia that its mission of cultivating collaboration and a shared culture cannot be furthered in a gathering held in an apartheid state that occupies and oppresses Palestinians! Wikimania, the annual international conference of the Wikimedia community, which include Wikipedia, is set to be held in Haifa, Israel from 4-7August 2011. Israel seems a strange choice for the annual conference, which promotes neutrality and subjectivity, collaboration, and a shared culture for participants of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and its sister projects. The country’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are certai...

NOVANEWS   David Hirsh This piece, by Matthew Kalman, is from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The international campaign for an academic boycott of Israel claimed its first success on Wednesday when the University of Johannesburg Senate voted to pull out of a two-year-old joint research project with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to battle algae that are infesting the South African city’s reservoir. The vote means that the University of Johannesburg is the first academic institution in the world to formally cut ties with an Israeli university as a result of pressure by supporters of the international boycott campaign. In a written statement, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel working group lauded the move, saying it set a “worldwide precedent.” The Senate vote ...

NOVANEWS To the Chair of Hall Green Constituency Committee As you are aware in the last Constituency Committee I raised an issue of potential unfair treatment of Muslim students in Joseph Chamberlain College.  I made the inquiry after being approached directly by a number of students who were concerned at the the way in which management was curbing and restricting the ability of Muslim students to express their faith and identity through holding events on campus. I am informed by this group of students , that the management of JCC uniquely amongst Birmingham colleges and universities has chosen to ban Islam Awareness Week, (or as better portrayed by JCC management “steps have been taken such that it is not allowed to take place”), and the reason given, as it has been related to me,  is th...

NOVANEWS Eric Lee Fifteen years after the historic Oslo accords, Israel finds itself isolated as never before in the international labour movement. The erosion of support for the Jewish state has not been affected in the slightest by Israeli concessions over the years. The withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, the closing of all Jewish settlements in Gaza and the withdrawal of troops, the acceptance of the right of Palestinians to their own state, the ongoing attempts to reach agreement with the PLO – none of these has slowed down the growing hostility toward Israel on the Left and in the trade unions.By the end of 2008, Israel had in its Kadima-Labour coalition the most dovish government it had ever known. First Ariel Sharon and later Ehud Olmert spoke in a way that was unheard of ex...