Campaigns

NOVANEWS Don’t believe everything you read on Twitter 04 Sep 2010 What connects actor John Cusack, Twitter, Fox News and shameless propaganda? Obama sees massive successes in the Middle East 04 Sep 2010 No wonder US foreign policy is viewed with such contempt around the world. Iraq is in chaos and the Middle East remains unstable. But from the comfort of the White House: “From a political perspective, it’s been a good week for [Obama] — but more importantly, it’s been a very good week for America’s national security — and that’s how he measures it,” White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told POLITICO

NOVANEWS http://networkedblogs.com/7uSEn Jesse Bacon: Fighting Anti-Semitism with Islamophobia at Yale September 3, 2010   Audre Lorde used the metaphor of the masters tools not being able to dismantle the masters house to explain why racism could not be used to fight sexism. Unfortunately, no one told many of the scholars who attended the recent Yale conference Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity. In no case can one oppression effectively or ethically used to combat another, but particularly in the case of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, where one is threatening to take the place of the other. Yaman Salahi writes about the virulence of many of the speakers. First up Among the many anti-Arab and anti-Muslim speakers was Itamar Marcus, a member of the Israeli settler movement wh...

NOVANEWS The Politically incorrect necktie: on boycotts and secular coercion  31 Aug 2010  Republished with permission from karlremarks.blogspot. Click on the link for the original article. Karl Sharro A Lebanese friend recently revealed on a social networking website that he had bought a tie from Marks and Spencer. This otherwise insignificant revelation provoked a tirade of angry comments from Lebanese vigilantes that chided the irresponsible tie-wearer on his unpatriotic choice of neck wear. Even though I was aware of the M&S boycott policy as being one of the cornerstones of anti-Zionism among the Arab Diaspora, I was taken aback by the intensity of the reaction and people’s willingness to publicly chastise someone simply because of their fashion choices. This militant censori...

NOVANEWS Like a barking dog emboldened by the fact a metal fence protects him from a real fight with whomever or whatever is on the other side, Pastor Terry Jones of the infamous Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida has officially announced his membership in the Confraternity of Cowards by refusing an open, honest, civil debate on the religion of Islam with Dr. Hesham Tillawi, President of the Islamic Center located in Lafayette, Louisiana. After hearing the outrageous claims recently made publicly by Jones concerning the religion of Islam, what its adherents believe and the “threat” that Islam’s “Sharia Law” poses to Christian America, Tillawi issued the challenge to Jones that he put his money where his mouth is by debating the issue publicly in Jones’ hometown, any costs t...

NOVANEWS Major Israeli Theaters Embrace The Settlements (+BIG UPDATE)   Some cultural news from Israel: Several of Israel’s leading theater companies have agreed to perform in the new cultural center in the settlement of Ariel, due to open on November 8. The companies include the Habima National Theater, the Cameri Theater, the Be’er Sheva Theater and Jerusalem’s Khan Theater. Ariel lies 20km inside the West Bank, deeper than any other sizable settlement. The divided highway leading to it – the best road in the West Bank – is open to Israelis only, *and* lacks any signs naming the numerous Palestinian towns and villages flanking the road. According to Peace Now’s 2006 settlement land report, 35% of Ariel’s area was confiscated from private Palestinian owners by military fiat. The rest is ...

NOVANEWS 27 August 2010 21:22 Diakonia The French company Veolia, involved in building the tramway project in Jerusalem, published an advertisement on Monday (23 August) which included requirements that effectively exclude Palestinian job seekers. These include the completion of the Israeli military. In addition, the ad demands only the knowledge of Hebrew and English, although Arabic is also an official language of Israel. Veolia has previously received strong international criticism for its involvement in the tramway project in Jerusalem, which is partly situated on occupied land and links illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem with West Jerusalem.As a member of the UN Global Compact, Veolia has committed itself to respect international law and not to accept discrimination. The ...

NOVANEWS August 27, 2010  by Gordon Duff   FIGHTING THE REAL EVILDOERS IS THE SILENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES?  By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I am not against war.  I am a combat veteran.  I sit on my tail, watch TV, go to restaurants and have fond delusional memories about Vietnam.  In my bedroom closet, I have a trash bag.  It is never opened, it has been there for years.  It has, along with other “military mementos,”  a small green “government issued” address book.  Marines, long ago, scrawled their names in it.  Half of them never came back from Vietnam, never had children, grandchildren, got to finish college or even high school.  Many, maybe most,  had never had sex, owned a car  or traveled more than 50 miles from home.  Their lives were stolen,...

NOVANEWS Yediot reports on damage to settlement industry caused by targeted boycott Didi Remez | August 26, 2010  The Politics of economics: The boycott on Zionist is expanding Daniel Bettini, Navit Zumer and Ofer Petersburg, Yediot, August 25 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The decision made on Monday by the Norwegian oil fund to divest from Africa Israel and Danya Cebus on the grounds that they are involved in illegal construction in the territories, is only the latest in a long series of decisions by governmental and private companies in Europe to boycott Zio-Nazi's companies for political reasons. In most cases, the argument is that the products were manufactured over the Green Line, and are therefore in the “occupied territories.”  At times, this refer...

NOVANEWS The BDS Movement: Now with Plasma TV’s. More Recent Articles Search MuzzleWatch The BDS Movement: Now with Plasma V’s. Sue Fisckoff writes in the JTA about the off season preparations of Team Israel, aka Hillel, the Jewish student organization. The article highlights the very real panic the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement has caused and its automatic equation with anti-Semitism in the minds of some. Amanda Boris is nervous about what she’ll face when classes resume at the University of Wisconsin later this month. “There’s an uncomfortable amount of anti-Semitism on my campus,” said the incoming senior. We begin with some descriptions of actual anti-Semitism, namely an ad denying the Holocaust and anonymous internet posts, which sound bad if not exactly a groundsw...

NOVANEWS In This Issue... Hudson’s co-founder, the Israeli academic purge and the subversion of US Middle East policy More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Hudson’s co-founder, the Israeli academic purge and the subversion of US Middle East policy Reposted from Didi Remez’s Coteret blog. Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) — an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed “left-wing” — is a creature of  The Hudson Institute, a major Washington based neoconservative think-tank, which played an active role in shaping the Bush administration’s Middle East policies. Hudson is the primary financial backer of the IZS, providing at least half of the or...