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8Aug

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COALITION OF RESISTANCE ANTI CUTS CAMPAIGN

NOVANEWS 8 August, 2010 Please forward as widely as possible. New Coalition Of Resistance Anti Cuts Campaign Deluged With Supporters A temporary website thrown up hours before the initiative went live received almost 20,000 hits in the first three days alone with thousands of people emailing to sign the initial statement and to offer support. A total of 1,330 people have already expressed support for the statement on Facebook. The anti-cuts and privatisation campaign has been totally overwhelmed by people wanting to sign up, with seasoned campaigners involved in high profile national campaigns describing the level of interest as “unprecedented”. Benn, a veteran Labour party member and former cabinet member, has been joined in endorsing the statement by Caroline Lucas, the Green party’s on...

7Aug

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7Aug

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INTERVIEW WITH HANEEN ZOABI

NOVANEWS 06 July 2010 Dr. Hanan Chehata Hanan Chehata: Tell me a little about your political career; when did it begin and why the Balad Party? Haneen Zoubi: I graduated in philosophy and media studies and have been interested in politics since I was very young. Gender issues were the first to draw my attention. I became a member of the Balad Party in 1997, one year after it was formally established. Balad was my first choice; it is, in my view, the only party to promote and address questions of equality and identity within the abnormal context of citizenship in Israel. Our party takes the issue of citizenship very seriously. We challenge and reject the existing notions of Zionist citizenship while promoting an alternative vision of democratic citizenship instead of ideological citizen...

7Aug

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HANEEN ZOABI FACE MOST NAZI HOSTILE

NOVANEWS Arab Parties Face Most Hostile Knesset in History February 25th, 2009 'Haneen Zoubi has made history.' (Panet) By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth When Israel's 18th parliament opened today, there was only one Arab woman among its intake of legislators. Haneen Zoubi has made history: although she is not the first Arab woman to enter the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, she is the first to be elected for an Arab party. Sitting in her home in Nazareth, the effective capital of Israel’s 1.2 million Palestinian citizens, she is dismissive of her predecessors, two women elected on behalf of Zionist parties. “They were worse than decorations,” she said. “Decorations don’t do any harm, but these women damaged our society. They were no role models at all.” [More:] Ms Zoubi, 39, a representativ...

6Aug

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HANEEN ZOABI: ZIO=NAZI PHYSCICALLY ATTACKED HER

NOVANEWS Palestinian members of Knesset speak in House of Commons about Israel's lack of democracy Palestinian members of Knesset speak in House of Commons about Israel's lack of democracy Three Palestinian members of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) addressed more than 300 people in the House of Commons on 28 July, in what Betty Hunter, General Secretary of PSC, described as ‘a landmark meeting'. ‘Palestinian citizens of Israel, here, speaking to us in Parliament, to tell us there is no democracy inside Israel is a very important political event for us,' she said. ‘It's a new step in our campaign of telling the world of what the reality of Israeli occupation and oppression is.' There are 1.25m Palestinians living within Israel - about 20% of the Israeli population. They are the Palestini...

4Aug

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BOYCOTT FROM WITHIN

NOVANEWS “If I needed something to confirm I am going in the right direction…” an interview with Yonatan Shapira By Jesse Bacon I inteviewed about Yonatan Shapira of Boycott from Within and Combatants for Peace after he was called in for an interrogation by the Israeli Security Services. Part 1: Yonatan talks about his activism with the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, and how the Gaza War changed his mind. Part 2: Backlash against Israelis and the interview by Israeli security services, and people who have been treated even worse. “I would have been still there.” Part 3, why he takes the interrogation as a sign he is doing something right, and why he’s not overly worried about infiltration. Part 4: How Yonatan has altered his behavior since being under surveillance. Conclu...

3Aug

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STAND UP FOR RELIGOUS FREEDOM

NOVANEWS Dear Friend, I'm appalled by opposition to plans by American Muslims to build a community center in lower Manhattan modeled after Jewish Community Centers (JCC's) and Y's all over the country. [1][2]  Tapping into fear, prejudice, and partisanship, opponents of the project are trampling core values on which our country was founded and on which I was raised. On what possible basis do Muslim Americans have less of a right than Americans of another background to develop this communal center?  The rhetoric being tossed around is not only offensive and wrong, it's a propaganda gift to Islamic extremists globally who hope to whip up anger over the treatment of Muslims and threaten both Israel and the United States with violence.   On Tuesday morning, the New York City Landmarks Preserv...

3Aug

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PRESS TV UNDER ATTACK

NOVANEWS Gilad Atzmon: Press TV Under Attack August 3, 2010 Britain Cannot Handle the Truth To tell the truth about Israeli barbarism is a breach of impartiality. The Guardian and the Jewish Chronicle reported today that, Ofcom, the UK broadcasting standards body, has ruled that Iranian-backed Press TV’s coverage of the Gaza flotilla incident breached guidelines on impartiality. You ask yourself why? Their coverage of the Flotilla wasn’t pro-Israeli enough. The regulator said the station had not shown due impartiality during a broadcast on June 5th which dealt exclusively with the events surrounding the interception by Israeli commandos of the pro-Palestinian convoy off the coast of Gaza. The Jewish Chronicle reports that During an episode of a current affairs show Remembering Palestin...

2Aug

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HANEEN ZOABI: APARTHEID & DISCRIMINATION CAN BE DEFEATED

From: haneenoffice@gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------- I apologize for the late response. I would like to THANK YOU for your supporting letter, I was delighted to receive it not only for it supports me emotionally, but also, and maybe mainly, because of its political say and support in these hard days. Revoking my parliamentarian privileges is only another act in a series of actions taking by the Israeli government in order to change the rules of the game, and to induce: “who ever don’t support Zionism is not legitimate”. All of this added to the de-legitimization of the Palestinian minority in Israel in general, since 2000. The incitement against me is part of a systematic and programmed witch-hunt of the Palestinian leaders in Israel. Very rapidly and in a dan...

24Jul

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U.S.A: ZIO=NAZI LOBBY DIRTY TRICKS

NOVANEWS The Israel Lobbies and Breitbartism: Dirty Tricks, Taboos and the threat to American Democracy July 23, 2010 by Michael Leon CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman Smeared by Israeli Lobby - If Israel told the truth, the whole cabinet would run screaming into the Mediterranean - By Juan Cole at Informed Comment Phil Weiss notes that another of the Dirty Tricks divisions of the Israel lobbies in the U.S., CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), has denounced CNN´s Ben Wedeman for retweeting a post of mine on Turkey-Israel relations. By the way, I am particularly proud of that posting, which examines the political economy of “re-Ottomanization” and Turkey´s emergence as a significant and independent player in the Middle East in the past...