Campaigns

NOVANEWS UN REPORT: Israel flotilla raid ‘broke law’ September 23, 2010 by Debbie Menon How could it be otherwise?  Piracy is still an offence as is pre-meditated murder, both of which were committed in this instance. What is disgraceful is that such a horrific international crime has been turned into yet another fiasco when swift and decisive action should have been taken from the very beginning – a naval escort provided for the flotilla to complete its journey to Gaza, and the killers responsible arrested under international warrants and brought to trial outside of Israel.  That is all. I don’t know why we have to go through this after every atrocity carried out by this vile entity.  The very idea of there being justification for this massacre is disgusting,  Even setting up tribunal...

NOVANEWSFor the Call in PDF,see: In PDF.Eight years into the construction of the Apartheid Wall, over 60% has already been built to ghettoize communities, threatening over 260,000 people with displacement and stealing land and water resources. The international community continues to ignore the 2004 decision of the International Court of Justice, which calls for the Wall to be dismantled and for the international community to fulfil its legal obligations: to enforce Israeli compliance with international humanitarian law and not to aid and abet the construction and maintenance of the Wall. The Stop the Wall Campaign calls on you to: Raise awareness and mobilize in the streets, communities and institutions in your country about the Wall, the single largest monument of Israeli aparthei...

NOVANEWS  Vieux Marché aux Grains 21 / 1000 Bruxelles / Belgium Tel : ++32.2.502.55.50 / Fax : ++32.2.502.46.26 / hello@paxchristi.net / www.paxchristi.net On the situation in Jerusalem Written statement submitted by Pax Christi International Human Rights Council Fifteenth Session 13 September – 1 October 2010 Agenda item 7 Pax Christi, the International Catholic peace movement with more than 100 member organisations active worldwide, urges the Human Rights Council’s attention for the numerous and disastrous violations of human rights in Jerusalem. Recently, political tension in the city has increased. Under increased international pressure on Israel to halt its policies to change the permanent status of the city and that violate international law, Israel has reacted in defiance and recent...

NOVANEWS September 22, 2010 by Michael Leon   From the VA: Mass marketing fraud includes any plan, program, promotion, or campaign that is conducted through solicitation by telephone, mail, the Internet, or other means (e.g., mass meetings) to induce multiple persons to (1) purchase goods or services; (2) participate in a contest, sweepstakes, or lottery; (3) invest for financial profit; or (4) otherwise pay advance fees or “taxes” for services that are promised but not delivered. As the name implies, International Mass Marketing Fraud is a crime that uses distance and location as its primary means of success, making it more difficult for law enforcement to track and prosecute the perpetrators. In part, this is due to jurisdictional authority of law enforcement agencies throughout the wo...

NOVANEWS September 22, 2010 It may sound unlikely, but we’re in ‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan Street in Sheikh Jarrah and, together with Salah and other Palestinian friends from the neighborhood, we’re building a sukkah. The Sukkot holiday, my favorite, starts tonight. Religious Jews build little booths covered with palm fronds and eat and sleep in them for seven nights, a memory of the forty years of wandering in the desert and a reminder of the precariousness of all that exists, all that we value and love. You’re supposed to be able to see the stars through the fronds that provide a make-shift roof; honored guests, beginning with the Patriarchs and ending on day seven with King David, are invited to visit each day. But why build one in Sheikh Jarrah, in the street where the al-Ghazi and al-Kurd hou...

NOVANEWS In This Issue... Salem Music Center: 3-Year Plan More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Salem Music Center: 3-Year Plan   The Salem Music Center is a venture developing gradually thanks to the ongoing cooperation between its local Palestinian initiators, from the village of Salem near Nablus, the Israeli volunteers of the Villages Group, and donors from Israel and abroad (especially from Australia and the U.S). The first stage of this project, based on a proposal submitted last year, started on March 2010. The center’s founding team includes the project initiator Mr. Jubier Ihstayya (who serves also as a music teacher), the music instructor and teacher Mr. Amid Jamus and the project coordinator Mr. Fadi Ishtayya. The first class of 15...

NOVANEWS Via the long-quiet Gabriel Ash from Jews Sans Frontières: On 29th October, representatives of CAPJPO Europalestine, a French BDS group, are to appear in a French court in Paris, to answer charges that publishing the above video of a BDS action that took place in July 2009 at a Carrefour supermarket in Avry, constituted an "offense of incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a group of people on account of their belonging to the Israeli nation." The plaintiff, the "National Bureau of vigilance against antisemitism (because, naturally, according to antisemites and fake "vigilantes against antisemitism" alike, to speak against Israel is to attack Jews for being Jewish), is looking for opportunities to promote repression of Palestine solidarity activism, and the Frenc...

NOVANEWS Here are some Youtube and other links for your amusement/interest! I've searched for these to use for an unconventional singing job application, hence why I've listed them! I could send you the Ahava one another time. If you go to http://www.myspace.com/deborahnaomifink  you will hear an excerpt from the World Premiere of the cantata for Rachel Corrie which I organised and sang in. To hear the CNN report of the alternative carols, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1VT4jqnHsw&NR=1 To watch me disrupt the Salute to Israel Parade with my singing, wearing a Mad Mel wig, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OknjF8YQwh0 For an action in Leytonstone Tescos, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCoFEvuJL0&feature=related  Naomi features a lot in this. At the end, a securi...

NOVANEWS September 19, 2010 France's "justice" persecutes BDS   On 29th October, representatives of CAPJPO Europpalestine, a French BDS group, are to appear in a French court in Paris, to answer charges that publishing the above video of a BDS action that took place in July 2009 at a Carrefour supermarket in Avry, constituted an "offense of incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a group of people on account of their belonging to the Israeli nation." The plaintiff, the "National Bureau of vigilance against antisemitism (because, naturally, according to antisemites and fake "vigilantes against antisemitism" alike, to speak against Israel is to attack Jews for being Jewish), is looking for opportunities to promote repression of Palestine solidarity activism, and the French ...

NOVANEWS 19 September, 2010   The two items below are both about civil disobedience, courage, and the battle against propaganda.  The difference is that in the US one stands a chance of convincing the judges of the truth.  In Israel things don’t work that way.  First of all, any mention of the term ‘security’ immediately brings the courts to side with the perpetrators (i.e. colonists, military personnel, police).  Secondly, even without mentioning ‘security’ the Israeli Jewish expansionists stand a better chance of winning a case than do those defending justice and Palestinians. The first item was forwarded to me by a dear friend, a Priest now in New York lecturing at Fordham University, but who spends ½ the year in Palestine, DJMoore, SJ.  The second was forwarded by Ran Greenstein.  I re...