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NOVANEWS Jewish? Gay? Join us, white extremists say   By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor Saturday, 27 November 2010 MATTHEW LLOYD/GETTY IMAGES English Defence League supporters demonstrating in Bradford. A white extremist organisation is forging links with Jewish, Sikh and gay communities to fuel prejudice and fear and hatred of the Muslim community, it was claimed today.   The English Defence League (EDL), which was formed last year in protest at Islamic extremist activity, has also reached out across the Atlantic to build close ties with the American right-wing group, the Tea Party. Hundreds of EDL members are planning demonstrations in Nuneaton and Preston today to protest at the building of mosques and what they claim is the growing influence in the UK of Sharia law. But a new report, writ...

NOVANEWS I took off an hour or so from the Culture of Resistance Conference to go and join the picket at Ahava. After direct action this week by 2 activists, who chained themselves to a concrete block, once again getting arrested for aggravated trespass, the picket was a quiet affair. Arriving at about 12.45 I was surprised that the Zionists friends the EDL hadn’t turned up. They have a demonstration this week spreading their message of hate at Nuneaton, so they couldn’t afford to join their bigots in arms at Ahava to support Zionist theft in the West Bank. And even Jonathan Hoffman didn’t turn up till gone 1.00, leaving the hapless Martin Sugarman, one of those who heckled Holocaust survivor, Haja Meyer, at the Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration last year. Rumour has it that th...

NOVANEWS   Sorry to post two videos in two days. Promise to never do it again. This is quite good though.     This ugly defamation will not work. This ugly defamation is an insult to those who died in the Holocaust...And that it should be used in defense of an ugly apartheid regime is shameful.   This is what organized Jewry is reduced to--comparing a tactic that calls on the fulfillment of fundamental human rights to the crematoria, the gas chambers, pogroms, and Mengele. This is pathetic, and can only backfire. If this is the promise that organized Jewry holds out to young people, we're not only going to leave Zionism at the door. If communal binding can only be achieved by the willful construction of a victimization complex, the community won't be bound. No one wants their identities t...

NOVANEWS November 20, 2010    See also: Video: "No justice, no chickpeas!" activists tell Philadelphia shoppers Press release, Philly BDS, Nov. 1 The Philly BDS Coalition dances into action in a local grocery store chain to push them to deshelve Sabra and Tribe of Hummus; both brands support Israeli war crimes. This marks the launch of our campaign: www.phillybds.org Palestine Chronicle: My hummus tastes like apartheid, Nov. 4 Jewish Exponent: In West Philly, Hummus Stands In for a Sword, Nov. 11 World Jewish Congress: Israeli food giant removes support for IDF from English website, Nov. 18 Debbie Shlussel: DISGUSTING: Sabra Hummus, Elite Candy Cave to Israel Boycott Crowd, Nov. 18. From the article: It’s really sad. Strauss Group could have either ignored this Philadelphia Marxist...

NOVANEWS BDS, Settlements and Activism: News from the Other Front 03 October 2010   Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC) Michel Platini, we are with you!   The legendary football player Michel Platini, today President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), sharply criticized Israeli policy concerning Palestinian sports, and determined that it involves serious violations of the accepted rules of international sports associations.   He even added that cancellation of Israel's membership in UEFA would be considered. "We accepted them (the Israelis) in Europe and furnished them the conditions for membership and they must respect the letter of the laws and international regulations otherwise there is no justification for them to remain in Europe,"...

NOVANEWS Dear Friends, the letter below has not yet been published.  However, I have been assured that its author would appreciate having it distributed widely.  Please, therefore, forward also to your contacts. The author of the letter, Rifat Odeh Kassis, was active in composing the Kairos document from the Christian clergy in Palestine.  It, among other things expresses support for boycott.and divestment.  In this letter, Rifat Odeh Kassis responds to a letter by Rabbi Warren Goldstein, the chief Rabbi of South Africa, whose open letter to Archbishop Desmond Tutu was published on November 3, 2010 in the Jerusalem Post.   [Forwarded to me by Terry] “An Affront to Truth and Justice”: Occupation, Not Dissent A Response to Rabbi Warren Goldstein by Rifat Odeh Kassis November 2010 As a Palest...

NOVANEWS Report back from joint Lambeth and Wandsworth PSC and Lambeth Unison public meeting during BDS week - 9 November 2010 By Gurmeet Khurana, International Officer – Lambeth Unison Palestine Public meeting 9 November 2010 Photograph by Gurmeet Khurana Around 30 people attended this joint meeting organised by Lambeth and Wandsworth Palestine Solidarity Campaign (LWPCS) and Lambeth Unison during BDS week. The meeting was chaired by Jackie Lewis, chair of the LWPSC who opened the meeting by reading out the Sanctions against Israel from which the International BDS campaign originated. The statement can be read in full by visiting Palestinian Civil Society Call for Boycott, Divestment and www.palestinecampaign.org The first speaker was Bell Reberio-Addy who is on the National Union of Stud...

NOVANEWS 17 November 2010  Member of Zio=Nazi Knesset Avi Dichter, former Head of Zionist Gestapo 'Israeli General Security Services (GSS)', recently canceled a trip to Spain, due to fear he would be detained or arrested by Spanish authorities for his involvement in war crimes against Palestinians. Zio=Nazi Dichter was set to attend a “peace conference” ?? in Madrid at the end of October, organized by the Madrid Coalition, a collection of Israeli, Palestinian, and European civil society organizations working to support a multilateral resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict along the lines of the Arab Peace Initiative.   The Madrid Coalition confirmed that it invited Nazi Dichter. Leading members of the organization declined to respond to AIC questions, so it remains unclear why a suspecte...

NOVANEWS In front of the Tel Aviv opera building in Israel , supporters of the Palestinian civil society call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions protested the business-as-usual series of performances of Porgy and Bess, by the Capetown opera troupe. This despite South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu's request to observe the Palestinian call. Unlike the vast majority of countless protest actions and vigils, this one, set to tunes from Porgy and Bess, and danced, played, sung by the protest troupe, got extensive media coverage inside Israel (so far mostly in Hebrew). Watch the protest troupe's video on Youtube and see the English report from Ynet below. Rela Mazali -------------------------------------------------------------------- CLICK TO VIEW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wElyrFOnKPk ...

   NOVANEWS  Institutionalised Racism And UCU. modernityblog 15/11/2010 A recent letter of resignation (or 2) from the University and College Union highlights how the proposed boycott of Israelis has weakened the Trade Union movement in Britain. Despite numerous letters and resignations UCU still doesn't take seriously the question of its institutionalised racism, from Shalom Lappin's resignation and those that followed, on and on and on. As Shalom Lappin wrote: "In my view, matters have reached the point where the UCU is no longer an effective agent of industrial democracy or a credible representative of its members in the struggle for improved working conditions in the University sector. It has allowed itself to be infected by the raw prejudice of a small group of political e...