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NOVANEWS  Alan Hart’s Speech on September 11, to aconference in Freiburg, Germany, “Palestine, Israel and Germany – the Boundaries of Open Discussion” By Alan Hart “Defenders of Israel right or wrong assert that Judaism and Zionism are one and the same; sometimes explicitly, sometimes by insinuation and smear, they label criticism of Israel’s human rights abuse as anti-Semitism.” The full title of my address was: The mainstream media’s complicity in Zionism’s suppression of the truth of history. I describe the conflict in and over Palestine that became the Zionist – not Jewish! – state of Israel as thecancer at the heart of international affairs; and I believe that without a cure this cancer will consume us all. I also believe that almost nothing is more important than crossing and actua...

NOVANEWS  “The Fool and the Clown play the part of ‘scapegoats’ in the ritual sacrifice of humans.” (Frazer, The Golden Bough, London, 1911/12) by William A. Cook Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Congresswoman There are those who serve; it’s their duty, their lot in life, to be the water bearer, existing on the fringe of all orders and systems, an attendant lord, subservient, to be of use, meticulous, ultimately, the Fool. Adorned in multiple colors reflecting the incoherent influences to which she is subject, bearing aloft a stick from which dangles a bag containing her only means of influence, money, at her heal, a white lynx bites at her left calf, her unconscious self, signifying all that remains of her lucidity, all that remains of her remorse. Thus the Fool becomes the symbol of the irr...

NOVANEWS Tony Greenstein in three easy steps A while ago there was some brouhaha on the ENGAGE site, caused by the rash (we think) decision of the team to provide space for Tony Greenstein's rebuttal of an excellent article by David Hirsh. David wrote about the pitiful attempt of TG and his few remaining friends to exonerate themselves of antisemitism accusations, leveled at the rabidly anti-Israeli Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). The decision was a rash one, in our opinion, because, first of all, TG is not able to discuss anything at the level required for a dispute with David Hirsh. Being an indoctrinated old style communist, he tends to see the world in black and white, and his analytical ability is hardly above that of a dedicated Soviet party member (or a medium sized cucumber...

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From: Tony Greenstein 27th July 20:05 To: Gaby Weber Dear Dr Weber, It would seem that we have touched a raw nerve. I know nothing of Moamen Khatib. I have no desire to destroy any conference, least of all that on Palestine. However I also do not wish the Palestine solidarity and anti-Zionist movements to be sullied by someone who is an out and out anti-Semite and now a holocaust denier. Atzmon's primary contribution to the cause is to attack, not Zionists but Jewish anti-Zionists who he defines, by virtue of being Jewish, as Zionists. I think you are very aware of what I am talking about. If not then my Guide to Atzmon will help your understanding, important with someone who is a Doctor. My past has nothing to do with any of this but all previous, minor convictions, a quarter of a century...

On 27 Jul 2011, at 19:23, Dr. Gabi Weber wrote: Dear Mr. Greenstein my name is Dr. Gabi Weber. I am the head of Cafe Palestine Freiburg and the main organizer of Freiburg Conference on September 11th. Today I found out that the dirty war you are fighting in vain against Gilad Atzmon for years now, is spilling over to Germany. One day after the conference was announced, your bad games started again. You try to bother my speakers and you even do not hesitate to spread your lies to our young Palestinian musician, Moamen Khatib. Probably you didn´t realise that you didn´t only send the text adressed to Moamen but also the correspondence you had concerning Moamen being "young and gullible". It is really disgusting! I know that it is not the first time that you try to jeopardize an event with Gi...

NOVANEWS For 10 years, we've lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question GETTY IMAGES Smoke spews from a tower of the World Trade Center By their books, ye shall know them. I'm talking about the volumes, the libraries – nay, the very halls of literature – which the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001 have spawned. Many are spavined with pseudo-patriotism and self-regard, others rotten with the hopeless mythology of CIA/Mossad culprits, a few (from the Muslim world, alas) even referring to the killers as "boys", almost all avoiding the one thing which any cop looks for after a street crime: the motive. Why so, I ask myself, after 10 years of war, hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths, lies and hypocrisy and betrayal and sadistic torture by the...

NOVANEWS From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Published by Trine Day Stan and Hannah Cooper are friends of mine from college days. Both are Jewish, but they have diametrically opposed views about Israel, and their differences have become so bitter that they've decided to divorce. As the three of us talked about this, it became clear that their dispute is a microcosm of the conflict that is tearing the Jewish community apart and also destroying lives in an increasingly large part of the world. William: Your differences must have become quite serious if you've decided to end your marriage after all these years. Stan: Well, these are very serious issues. If you take the Holocaust seriously, you have to support Israel. And Hannah doesn't. If she has her...

NOVANEWS Is there anything to say about Yossi Gurvitz’s temper tantrum other than to note the simple, irreducible, and brazen dishonesty of it? Gurvitz claims that the “international left” hasn’t “supported” the J14 protests. Save for later the question of “support,” as though the protesters are like little lapdogs waiting for their meat-treat from the international left. Actually most neither read nor speak English and have their energies directed where it matters most: within their society, in their own language. But take “support” to mean “see potential for change.” Let’s take some anti-Zionist leftists: Gabriel Ash? Yup.Tony Greenstein? Yup. Socialist Worker? Yup. MRZine/ZMag/Truthout? Yup – they’re the ones who published my article (something of which the +972 collective is aware)....