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30 MAY 2011 The Universities College Union national conference voted today to‘sever all relations’ with Israel’s Apartheid ‘Union’ Histadrut, as well as boycotting Ariel College, the settler institute in the West Bank. Histadrut began its life in the 1920’s waging a campaign for Jewish Labour i.e. a Boycott of Arab Labur. For the first forty years of its life it refused to accept Arabs as members. When it did it corralled them into an Arab section – headed by a Jew! When Histadrut was Israel’s second biggest employer, up till the early 1990's, it deliberately didn’t invest in Arab villages or areas. This has consequences today given that Arabs are much more likely to be unemployed. Despite its formal commitment to equality it has never opposed sacking Arab workers to make way for Jew...

NOVANEWS   Palestine Solidarity Campaign Executive Ducks Challenge Over Histadrut ‘The Nazis boycotted Jewish shops and Histadrut boycotted Arab produce       Histadrut recognises the urgent need for the State of Israel to operate against the command and control structures of the organisational terror network belonging to Hamas… No democratic country in the world would allow its sovereignty to be violated and its citizens subjected to terror attacks on a daily basis…. Israel had no choice but to respond to the repeated attacks and aggression as an act of justifiable self-defense.’ Statement of 13.1.09.  Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Britain is the largest solidarity group over Palestine in Britain. Formed in 1982, just before Israel’s invasion...

Motherjones.com   On Wednesday, the Missouri House of Representatives held hearings on a proposed constitutional amendement to prohibit state courts from enforcing Sharia law. How did it go? Here’s Republican State Rep. Don Wells, who introduced the bill, via the Post-Dispatch: “This is to protect the people of America,” Wells said of his bill. He went on to compare Sharia law to a disease, like polio. Rep. Jason Kander, D-Kansas City, stopped him to confirm. “Sharia law is like polio?” Kander asked. “Absolutely, as far as I’m concerned in this country,” Wells responded. It’s actually not a terrible analogy, but I’d tweak it a little bit: Sharia is a lot like polio in that it posesabsolutely no threat to the United States. Fixed. To refresh your memory, when a similar...

NOVANEWS WEST MIDLANDS PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN VEOLIA NOT WELCOME IN BIRMINGHAM PICKET OUTSIDE BIRMINGHAM COUNCIL HOUSE AT 5.30p.m. MONDAY 21 MARCH ****************************** Public Meeting Israel, the “Peace Process” & the International Community’ Speakers Ali Abunimah & David Cronin Wed 23 March 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. ********************************** Ali Abunimah and David Cronin are major speakers on Palestine and the Middle East.  The 1 p.m. talk will be at Birmingham University.The 7 p.m. talk will be at Carr’s Lane Church Centre opposite Moor Street Station. Birmingham University (details on our website shortly). Public Meeting Solidarity with the Revolutions in the Arab World Tuesday 29 March 7.30 p.m. Birmingham Council House ********************...

NOVANEWS   Canada loves IsraHell the way only white settlers can love. The Harper administration, eager to secure for Canada a front row at the upcoming 'clash of civilizations', has made determined support for IsraHell the cornerstone of its international posture (not to mention lucrative trade in arms). In 2009, for example, Canada was the only country on the UN Human Rights Council who voted against condemning IsraHell's punitive expedition in Gaza. Repressive domestic measure are everywhere the inevitable companion of such a wretched foreign policy, and Canada didn't disappoint. George Galloway was banned from entering Canada because of his alleged "support for Hamas," among many other sins. KAIROS, a Canadian faith based Christian organization, was defunded by the Canadian go...

An Analysis By Lawrence Davidson Part I I live in a university town just west of the city of Philadelphia Pennsylvania (PA). Both the town and the university share the same name, hence West Chester University (WCU). WCU is a publicly owned institution and part of the PA System of Higher Education (PAASHE). In all, this system serves about120,000 students. Despite a heavy reliance on PASSHE to help educate the youth of PA and surrounding states, the entire system has recently come under mortal threat (as has all of public education of what ever level in the state). The threat comes from the PA government itself, which is now in the hands of Republican pseudo conservative extremists. On March 8th PA s recently elected governor Tom Corbett delivered hisbudget addressto a like-minded sta...

NOVANEWS   This March 30th, Palestinian Land Day Join Seeger, Waters, and thousands of others around the world in taking the next step in Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Are you ready to do the same? Anna Baltzer — End Israeli Occupation and Apartheid   Ten days ago, folk music legend Pete Seeger announced his supportfor the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement to compel Israel to comply with international law and human rights. (Click here to read more.) Less than a week later, Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters also joinedthe campaign, urging fellow artists to do the same and comply with the cultural boycott. He explained: “Where governments refuse to act, people must, with whatever peaceful means are at their disposal … For me it means declaring my intention ...

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NOVANEWS     Dear All, U.S. Representative Peter King (R-NY), who once said 85% of American Muslim community leaders are "an enemy living amongst us,” is set to hold hearings today to investigate "the extent of radicalization of American Muslims." The idea of hearings that single out one ethnic or religious group in the United States is profoundly offensive to me as a Jew, a Rabbi, an American, and a human being.   These hearings come on the heels of a string of shockingly racist attacks and campaigns against Muslims in the United States including: Villa Park Councilwoman Deborah Pauly in Orange County, who called a fundraiser for womens’ shelters sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America Relief USA(ICNA) “pure unadulterated evil” and said, “I know quite a few Marines w...

NOVANEWS     by M. Junaid Levesque-Alam, Remember the mad mullah who tried to build a terror mosque atop Ground Zero using the ashes of September 11th victims? Neither do I. But that campaign — the slandering of an imam sponsored by the State Department and the smearing of a proposed cultural center no closer to Ground Zero than pubs and porn shops — is worth recalling because America’s jihadists are at it again. First there is the spectacle of Congressmen Peter King, an IRA terrorist sympathizer who penned a novel in which he saves America from Muslim terrorist sympathizers. Since no one cared to read it, King is intent on realizing his fictional fantasy by presiding over a show trial held on the equally fictional pretext that “the Muslim community” poses “a real thr...