Politics

NOVANEWS By Gilad Atzmon Gilad Atzmon considers German poet Günter Grass’s courageous stance on Israel, which he has criticized in a poem for undermining an already fragile world peace, and views the ridiculous response of Israel’s embassy and its stooges in Germany. There is outrage in Germany. Nobel laureate Günter Grass has once again told the truth about Israel being the greatest threat to world peace. Günter Grass, Germany’s most famous living author and the 1999 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, sparked outrage in Germany on 4 April with the publication of a poem, entitled “What must be said,” in which he sharply criticizes Israel’s offensive approach towards Iran. Once again, it is the artist rather than the politician who is telling the truth as it is. Once again, it ...

Aloha, Given that my wife and children are Semitic, it is seems the critical thinking abilities of the above thought police is a bit stunted to say the least. So let me help you out a bit by providing the actual meaning of the word Semitic; Semitic |səˈmitik| adjective 1 relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family. 2 of or relating to the peoples who speak these languages, esp. Hebrew and Arabic. Your lack of linguistic knowledge or more likely participation in the abuse of language with regard to this word is not surprising, especially as it becomes more obvious that the so-called ‘Palestinian Solidarity’ movement is rife wi...

NOVANEWS   Last week, whilst speaking at Middlesex University, Ken O’Keefe launched into what we feel was an undeniably anti-semitic rant. Unfortunately, Middlesex University Free Palestine Society have as yet failed to come out and condemn his remarks, forcing us to publicly condemn O’Keefe’s comments. Many people, including us, admired Ken O’Keefe’s anti-war, anti-imperialist stance on the war and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and his bravery in the face of Israel’s murderous attack on the Mavi Marmara aid ship to Gaza. However, none of this can excuse the unacceptable nature of his comments last week. On his recent tour of UK universities, Professor As’ad Abu Khalil (aka the Angry Arab) rightly asserted that “the cause of Palestine is too important, and too precious, t...

NOVANEWS http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/books/adrienne-rich-feminist-poet-and-author-dies-at-82.html?_r=1 Adrienne Rich, who died last Tuesday, was also active on the Israel/Palestine front. Here is a short piece where she explains her support for academic and cultural boycott of Israel: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2009/rich080209.html Why Support the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel? by Adrienne Rich February 3, 2009 Dear All, Last week, with initial hesitation but finally strong conviction, I endorsed the Call for a U.S. Cultural and Academic Boycott of Israel.   I'd like to offer my reasons to friends, family and comrades.  I have tried in fullest conscience to think this through. My hesitation: I profoundly believe in the visible/invisible ...

NOVANEWS Miscellaneous Notice the completely different attitudes and comments between the two threads below. On the left are pictures of a Palestinian baby and child shot to death by Israeli soldiers. On the right is a thread in relation to Jewish children shot to death by a Muslim man in France recently. We see the outright condemnation of the cold blooded murders of the Jewish children, as every human with a heart would condemn but then we move over to the thread with the pictures of the dead Palestinian child and baby and we see a deafening silence from the three stooges, Marina Chapman [Freyja], Julie Coleman [~Valkyrie~], Allan Ellison [My iCrusade is a Retarded Screwball] and their lap dog, Judith Dianne Billman Grech [Yehudit SaysMo Isacoward]. A voice of reason and balance shi...

NOVANEWS by John Anngeister   The Syrian people of Maaloula tell the story of anti-Assad outsiders who tried to enlist the townspeople as agitators against the President and his government.  Both Muslim and Christian citizens rejected their invitation. Correspondent Maria Finoshina gives a video report from the town , alleged to be the only place in the world where an entire community still speaks Aramaic as a living language (most scholars believe a form of Aramaic was the native tongue of Jesus of Nazareth). Interviewed in the clip is Mother Pelagia Sayaf, Christian nun and schoolteacher at the town’s Monastery of St. Thekla: “There were people who came here, they wanted to push us against the government, the President, the army… these people are receiving money and listening t...