Politics

NOVANEWS ADALAH PRESS RELEASE 7 November 2010   Petition to Israeli Supreme Court: the Knesset’s Revocation of MK Haneen Zoabi’s Parliamentary Privileges is Illegal and must be Cancelled (Haifa, Israel) Today, 7 November 2010, Member of Knesset (MK) Haneen Zoabi (National Democratic Assembly-Balad), Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Israel against the Knesset’s decision to revoke her parliamentary privileges for her participation in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in May 2010. Representing the petitioners, Adalah General Director Attorney Hassan Jabareen argued that the Knesset exceeded its power and acted against the Law of Immunity of MKs, which prohibits the Knesset from harming the rights of MKs for their politi...

NOVANEWS     modernityblog | 29/11/2010 Tags: anti-Jewish racism, antisemitism, BNVCA, France, Naked Antisemitism, Paris | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4XPG-2vJ From the EJP:   "PARIS (EJP-AFP)---The Paris City Hall has mobilized its employees to remove wall posters making publicity for an book denouncing the "Jewish mafia”. The move followed a complaint by the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA), a body monitoring anti-Semitic incidents in France. According to BNVCA president Samy Ghozlan, these posters are regularly placed on wall of Paris and its suburbs since November 12.   They represent three men standing upright with the mention "The Jewish mafia, the great international predators” and feature a new book by extreme-ri...

NOVANEWS November 22, 2010 by Michael Leon  – The appeasement of a militaristic country veering into fascism makes matters much worse -   By Phyllis Bennis The breathless will-they-won’t-they coverage wasn’t quite as extreme this time, but there’s still been way more attention paid to the latest U.S. “settlement freeze” offer to Netanyahu than it deserves. What’s supposed to be the main point of it all – new negotiations leading to something remotely resembling a just, lasting and comprehensive peace – is simply not on the agenda of either Israel or the U.S. The actual bribe – oh, sorry, I meant to say “incentives” – being offered to Israel this time around isn’t insignificant, of course. Among other things it will massively escalate the offensive capacity and reach of Israel’s air forc...

NOVANEWS November 21, 2010 by Gordon Duff AIPAC IN BURKAS?   FROM MENTSCH TO SCHMUCK, THE ROAD TO GOY-DOM By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor What if efforts to stem Antisemitism actually were the primary cause of Antisemitism, a “self fulfilling prophesy” as it were?  Or, worse yet, what if selling the idea of threat, the same way the Bush administration sold the war on terror to bankrupt the United States and gut its democratic freedoms, was used by self aggrandizing manipulators to exploit and terrorize Jews in America, Canada, AnZac, Western Europe and Israel for the same reasons?  These are the concepts we are going to be discussing.  With childish and even violent rhetoric abounding, idiotic statements continually flowing from the mouths of those who know better, a return t...

NOVANEWS UK Commander Challenges Goldstone Report GENEVA, October 16, 2009 -- Today's emergency UN Human Rights Council debate on the Goldstone Report predictably saw a line-up of the world's worst abusers condemn democratic Israel for human rights violations. In a heated lynch mob atmosphere, Kuwait slammed Israel for “intentional killing, intentional destruction of civilian objects, intentional scorched-earth policy,” saying Israel “embodied the Agatha Christie novel, 'Escaped with Murder'.” Pakistan said the “horrors of Israeli occupation continue to haunt the international community’s conscience.” The Arab League said, “We must condemn Israel and force Israel to accept international legitimacy." Ahmadinejad’s Iran said “the atrocities committed against Palestinians during the aggressio...

NOVANEWS 27 July 2010 03:32    Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC) This week the Knesset began its summer recess, and its members earned their holiday: in the last days of the previous session, they worked overtime to present various proposals, the common denominator of which was to save the state from its enemies at home.   We will note just a few of them: proposed legislation to render the Islamic Movement illegal; to hold a referendum should the government agree to a peace deal that included retreat from East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights; to condition citizenship on loyalty to the state as a Jewish state; to criminalise citizens who support sanctions and/or a boycott of Israel, including a boycott of settlement products. To all of these and others, we m...

NOVANEWS November 5, 2010 by Debbie Menon By Aditi Bhaduri  — Palestine Monitor “We want social justice for all”   Illustration: Ben Heine   Mustafa Barghouti, MD: He is articulate, courteous, handsome and suave. A medical doctor by profession he is also a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and was candidate for the Presidency of Palestinian Authority in 2005. Fifty-six-year-old Mustafa Barghouti wears many hats, but what he most represents is the hope of an emerging third power for his Palestinian people fed-up of the Fatah-Hamas binary.   In Delhi recently to attend a conference on a Just Peace for Palestine, he modestly downplays the significance of his party — the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), of which he is currently the Chairman.   Barghouti founded the party a...

NOVANEWSW Michael Warschawski (Mikado) Speaks about Zionism 08 October 2010 Tania Kepler for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) Part 2 of a 4 part talk with Michael Warschawski on Zionism. Michel "Mikado" Warschawski is an Israeli anti-Zionist activist. He led the Marxist Revolutionary Communist League (also known as Matzpen) until its demise in the 1990s, and founded the Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli grassroots organization in 1984. He currently resides in Jerusalem.  For articles from Mikado visit his blog at alternativenews.org.   See the first part of this series here

NOVANEWS 26 October 2010 The Jewish National Fund is a prime example of how Apartheid in Israel operates. Unlike South Africa there are no ‘Jews only’ signs. Apartheid in Israel works differently. Towns like Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee are Jewish only and Arabs are physically prevented from entering (unless it’s for work) but there are no signs saying this. It is therefore surprising that of all the Israeli organisations with which to lend their name to, British Prime Ministers beginning with war criminal Tony Blair, duffer Brown and now Eton’s very own David Cameron are ‘patron’s of the JNF and Israeli Apartheid. That is why, originating in the Boycott Israel Network, a letter with 50 signatories was drawn up urging Ed Miliband, brother of torture supporter David, not to become a patron...

Israel’s Self-Destruction November 14, 2010 (more…)