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NOVANEWS By: Tony Greenstein Below is an update including action calls, interviews by several languages, and more videos of civil resistance actions being persecuted by occupation authorities. Many people have been injured and killed in the past few weeks as both the local population and the occupation authorities realize we are in the birth pangs of a new uprising against the occupation focused on civil resistance in villages and towns impacted by the colonization policies. A 14-year-old Ehab Afdal Barghouthi was critically injured after Israeli occupation soldiers shot him in the head earlier this week during one of these demonstrations. The concern that hundreds of you showed to my situation with a potential arrest upon return home moved me. Of course, I am more protected and privileged...

NOVANEWS This is worth a read: There was, of course, no way for me to contemplate South African apartheid without contemplating its relevance for understanding the situation in Israel–Palestine today. For anyone who has been to Palestine, the grass-grown wasteland of Fietas looks familiar for good reason: it has its counterpart in every grass-covered ruin of every one of the hundreds of towns and villages in Palestine whose people were driven from their homes in 1948 because a racial logic dictated that they should not live in a space supposedly decreed (by God and the United Nations) to another people; in every wind-swept wasteland of Gaza where many of those same refugees’ homes were once again bulldozed by the Israeli army to clear lines of sight and make room for free-fire zones; and i...

NOVANEWS The Jerusalem Post has an article highlighting the anti-BDS document featured in my previous post here. Here's a chunk of the article: the fight against BDS should be a relatively easy one. According to the paper’s authors, it is not necessary – and may be impossible – to “win” a debate over Israeli settlements or Palestinian independence. But these are not the issues at the heart of the BDS movement, the paper asserts. “BDS shifts the terrain, making the battle one over Israel’s right to exist, over the legitimacy of Zionism, over the anti-Semitic tropes shaping the anti-Israel movement, and the rank anti-Semitism behind the disproportionate, obsessive focus on Israel. It is also a battle about freedom of speech and of open discourses, given the BDS attempt to shut down normal fl...

NOVANEWS The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement is turning up the heat on Swedish clothing store H&M. A new H&M store opened in Tel Aviv March 11 to hundreds of Israeli shoppers, Haaretz reported. H&M plans to open seven stores in total in Israel, with the next store opening on March 16 in Jerusalem. Protests in Sweden, Denmark, and England occurred on March 11. Dozens of BDS and Palestine solidarity groups from countries around the world have endorsed the call to boycott H&M. The “management of H&M was deeply disturbed” by the boycott activities, according to a Facebook message to supporters written by Johanna Wallin, a Palestine solidarity activist. “Among others, the former CEO and current Chairman of the H&M Board of Directors, Mr. Stefan Persson...

NOVANEW Something more positive for a change!  Pictures and a bit of info about march in NY against the meeting at the Waldorff of Friends of the IOF, including Zionist's Chief of Staff, Nazi Gabi Ashkenazi.  True, it will take more than this to change US policy towards Israel.  But if it helps make Americans aware of how much of their tax dollars go to the Zio-Nazi regime of 'Israel'. For pictures of the protest:    http://adalahny.org/index.php/photo-galleries/356-foidf-2010    

NOVANEWS To speak as a Jew in support of the Palestinian struggle is to exercise a privilege, a privilege that is the product of a racist discourse. It is a rather unique situation if you think about it: when in the face of a mountain of evidence about the absolutely horrible oppression of Palestinians by a [...] You may view the latest post at http://www.maxajl.com/?p=3282 See: www.jewbonics.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "The Israeli Lobby...in Lebanon" Posted by As'ad

NOVANEWS "Marzel, a well-known stalwart among Zionist's ultra-nationalists, appealed to Refaeli on behalf of an organization named "Lehava." In Hebrew, this means "flame:; it is also the Hebrew acronym for "Preventing Assimilation in the Holy Land." The organization, according to its Facebook page (in Hebrew) provides assistance to Jewish girls in relationships with non-Jews, especially Arabs. There are other organizations that specialize in extricating Jewish women from marriages and other relationships with Arabs."

NOVANEWS Haaretz    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155813.html By Haaretz Service  Tags: ISM, Rachel Corrie   The State Prosecutor's Office appealed Thursday to the Haifa District Court to dismiss outright the civil suit filed by U.S. activist Rachel Corrie's family against the Defense Ministry for unspecified compensation for their daughter's death. Corrie was 24 when she was struck and killed in 2003 by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer as she and other activists tried to stop Israel razing homes in Rafah by using their bodies as human shields. The driver said he did not see her, and the Israel Defense Forces has ruled her death an accident - a version her parents reject. "The driver of the bulldozer and his commander had a very limited field of vision, such that they had no possi...

NOVANEWS I missed some tricks in my previous two posts. First I posted a document that has been in the public domain on the Global Forum for Combatting Antisemitism for over a month now as a "leaked" document, then I posted about an article in the Jerusalem Post alluding to the document with a quote from the article leading on the line, "the fight against BDS should be a relatively easy one." They claim to believe that the argument around boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning the State of Israel is easy because they claim they can conflate anti-zionism or arguments around Israel's "right" to exist with antisemitism. Ok, no one on any side of any debate over the rights and wrongs of the State of Israel doubts the Israel advocates' propensity and prowess for sheer dishonesty but a trick...