Politics

  NOVANEWS   Dear, More than 1,000 groups are competing for grants from the Pepsi Refresh project. The top two will split a $500,000 prize.Yes, we're only three spots away from winning $250,000! We have 15 days left to get there. Can you help us reach our goal? Sign up to be one of our daily voters!We're part of a "Progressive Slate" of like-minded groups competing in a community contest called "Pepsi Refresh Everything." If we get the most votes, we could win a $250,000 grant to launch a public education campaign about the new health care law.To win, we need to get the most online votes throughout the month of September. We're asking TrueMajority members like you to sign up to be a daily voter with the Progressive Slate. It's fun, simple and it could  help us raise $250,00...

NOVANEWS Gonna Have To Face It, You’re Addicted To Zionism crescentandcross | September 18, 2010 Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2dGk-uM  

NOVANEWS New Israel Fund issues the guidelines: grantees must support Jewish self-determination By Jesse Baco  We reported on Richard Silverstein’s initial fears of New Israel Fund’s new guidelines, that they would bar funding to those who opposed Israel as a Jewish state. Then it looked like compromise language was in the works. Finally, the guidelines are out, and they call instead for grantees to support Jewish self-determination within the state of Israel. The JTA reports, Groups that work to “deny the right of the Jewish people to sovereign self-determination within Israel” will not be eligible for New Israel Fund moneys. In new guidelines issued to JTA on Thursday, the progressive pro-Israel olutfit, which has come under fire for funding groups that are sharply critical of Israel ...

NOVANEWS 09/19/2010 Closed for atonement, but check out these recent highlights Closed for atonement, but check out these recent highlights Sep 18, 2010 Adam Horowitz There won't be much posting around here for the next day or so, but I thought this would be a good chance to highlight some of the great material we've had on the site lately. First and foremost, Phil has been making his way through Jordan and Israel/Palestine. He'll still be there for a few more days, but catch up on what he's been up to. We've also had two small milestones for the site lately - we just wrapped up Rachel Marcuse's seven part Birthright (and post-Birthright) travelogue, and we just began Udi Aloni's exciting Brooklyn-Jenin project. Please be sure to check both of them out.  Other than that, some other re...

NOVANEWS September 17, 2010 by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat   The Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the so called Kingdom of Judea. By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat A Palestinian and an Israeli arguing over the disputed land. Speaking at a cabinet meeting held in Tel Hai last february, Israeli PM Netanyahu said “Our existence depends not only on the IDF or our economic resilience – it is anchored in our store of knowledge and the national sentiment that we will bestow upon the coming generations, in our ability to justify our connection to the land.” Netanyahu was so eloquent in his statement and he managed to touch upon the problematic status quo of the state of Israel when he mentioned Israel’s ability to justify its connectio...

NOVANEWS BGU reprimands two more students over protests Harsh and disproportionate penalty would bar students from political activism, says one student. By Or Kashti A disciplinary tribunal reprimanded two Ben-Gurion University students on Wednesday for taking part in a protest over May's raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla and said it would suspend them if they repeated their actions. Rivka Carmi, president of Ben-Gurion University. Photo by: Alberto Denkberg One of the students, Ran Tzoref, said the "harsh and disproportional penalty would bar students from political activism." This week, the Be'er Sheva-based institution began taking disciplinary action against students involved in campus protests in violation of university regulations. On Tuesday, it brought a student who wa...

NOVANEWS In This Issue... Israel at Abdallah Abu Rahma’s trial: .22 bullets are ok for crowd control More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Israel at Abdallah Abu Rahma’s trial: .22 bullets are ok for crowd control  From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee. September 16th, 2010.  Military Prosecution Demands More Than Two Years Imprisonment for Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah Military prosecutor said harsh sentence should serve as a deterrent to other protesters. Despite military orders to the contrary, army officer said 0.22″ caliber bullets are considered crowd control measures. Abdallah Abu Rhamah at court yesterday. Picture credit: Oren Ziv/Active Stills* The sentencing phase in the trial of Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the coordinator of the ...

NOVANEWS Video—As Israel Slides Into Fascism, Modern-Day Fascists Swear Loyalty Ala NAZIism September 17, 2010 by Michael Leon - Swearing a loyalty oath to Israel as an ethnic state is gaining legitimacy; a video produced by the authors shows the willingness of Israeli residents to swear allegiance to an oath based upon language used in the NAZI Wehrmacht - By Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana in AlterNet: … Our oath was deliberately crafted with the most provocative language possible, based almost word-for-word on the Führereid, or the oath that Wehrmacht soldiers had to swear to Adolph Hitler from 1934 to 1945. The Wehrmacht oath read as follows: I swear by God this holy oath, that I want to offer unconditional obedience to the Fuhrer of the German Empire and people, Adolf Hitler, the ...

NOVANEWS who will condemn Israel?   No one. Technorati Tags: B'Tselem, blaming the victims, Israel, Palestine, West Bank, Zionism Related posts: On the Hamas killings: condemn or don’t condemn? So I lied. Cross-posted from Mon­doweiss. I appre­ci­ated David Samel’s... free the prisoners! let Gazan students go to the peace conference Attention converges on Gaza during flash-points: massacres, incur­sions, flotillas, convoys.... Israel Lobby? Try again Bradley Brooks writes in the AP, “Last year [Brazilian Arch­bishop... shalom Israel we’re gonna put something much nicer there when it’s all over Israel’s lead­er­ship is astound­ingly stupid. Marinated in racism, the leaders... The Banality of Anti-Israel Lobby Doctrine This is a guest post from David Green. My own...   Relat...

NOVANEWS some new writing, and reminder on talk You can check out my piece on the developmental and ecological problems associated with dams at Truthout, and my expanded review of Yitzhak Laor's The Myths of Liberal Zionism at Jacobin Magazine. And if you're in New York or the Greater Metropolitan Area, you can come to my post-Yom Kippur talk on Gaza at the Church of Gethsemane, at 1012 Eighth Ave between 9th and 10th streets, at 5 PM this Sunday. It's a fundraiser for Brooklyn for Peace. Technorati Tags: advertisements for myself, Brooklyn for Peace, dams, ecology, Gaza, Jacobin Magazine, Max Ajl, Truthout, Yitzhak Laor, Zionism Related posts: come hear me speak in Brooklyn on Sep 19 Sunday evening, September 19, 2010 5 p.m. Brooklyn For Peace presents:... some new writing Some stuff t...