Politics

NOVANEWS The role of Christian fundamentalism against homosexuality is pathological. In Uganda, clergymen are whipping up anti-gay fervour and many American supporters seem more than happy to back the trend. When one man in the US writes a book called “The Pink Swastika” – claiming that the Third Reich was led by mainly gay people – alarm bells should be ringing: ShareThis “Israel is not Tehran”

NOVANEWS ""People are laughing at you," Gabay, 48, fumed as he was looking at some articles in British newspapers making fun of Masbirim. "Who is advising you on your brand? This is not good, this is pretty bad."" See: www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS Israeli Military Raids Home of Palestinian Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh in Early Hours of Morning ‘The Only Democracy in the Middle East’ Attacks Another Human Rights Activist Despite its pretended opposition to terrorism (apart from its own of course), what Israel most fears is a mass non-violent peaceful protest by Palestinians. Palestinian ‘terrorism’ is easy to deal with since Israel is far more powerful than its adversaries and terrorism has always been the last resort of the weak. What it finds more difficult to deal with are those who don’t use violence. Hence why Israel has followed a concerted strategy of trying to conflate peaceful protest with ‘terrorism’. The International Solidarity Movement, which takes as an article of faith, the need for all protest to be non-violent...

NOVANEWS "The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of a ceremony to honor the woman who led a 1978 hijacking of a civilian bus in Israel that left 35 people dead." Posted by As'ad at 8:11 AM See: www.angryarab.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS Only in Switzerland could such an idea be put to the vote (and I like that representative democracy actually means something in certain Western nations): Voters in Switzerland have rejected a proposal to introduce a nationwide system of state-funded lawyers to represent animals in court. Animal rights groups had proposed the move, saying that without lawyers to argue the animals’ case, many instances of cruelty were going unpunished. But the measure was rejected by around 70% of voters in a referendum. Opponents had argued that Switzerland did not need more legislation. The government had opposed the idea. Voters were almost certainly swayed by worries about how much such a system might cost taxpayers, and by objections from Switzerland’s farmers already struggling with reduced su...

NOVANEWS The Zionist left wing "peace camp" never existed, so says now Gideon Levy: Above all, however, the problem was rooted in the left's impossible adherence to Zionism in its historical sense. In precisely the way there cannot be a democratic and Jewish state in one breath, one has to first define what comes before what - there cannot be a left wing committed to the old-fashioned Zionism that built the state but has run its course. This illusory left wing never managed to ultimately understand the Palestinian problem - which was created in 1948, not 1967 - never understanding that it can't be solved while ignoring the injustice caused from the beginning. A left wing unwilling to dare to deal with 1948 is not a genuine left wing. (Ha'aretz)   A good place to start. But Levy, who li...

Families Battle for Assets in Court   By JONATHAN COOK     Nazaret  Israel’s second largest bank will be forced to defend itself in court in the coming weeks over claims it is withholding tens of millions of dollars in “lost” accounts belonging to Jews who died in the Nazi death camps. Bank Leumi has denied it holds any such funds despite a parliamentary committee revealing in 2004 that the bank owes at least $75 million to the families of several thousand Holocaust victims. Analysts said the bank’s role is only the tip of an iceberg in which Israeli companies and state bodies could be found to have withheld billions of dollars invested by Holocaust victims in the country -- dwarfing the high-profile reparations payouts from such European countries as Switzerland. “All I want is justic...

NOVANEWS ZIONIST BANKERS ON WALL STREET in league with Zionist operating within high levels of both the Greek government and the EU are using Greece as a “test case” in order to seize the sovereignty of EU members’ fiscal infrastructure — and replace it with a centralized monetary center in Brussels. Alternative News Using the manipulative tool of “Finance Capital” to exploit the troubled budgetary policies of Greece, recent news has revealed that the New York Zionist Investment firm, Goldman Sachs, engaged in a controversial “currency swap” with the Greek government in 2002 during Greek Prime Minister Constantine Simitis’ term as head of state. Simitis, whose real name is Aaron Avouris, a Zionist, was the key player along with Lucas Papademos, who was Governor of the Bank of Greece at the...

by Philip Weiss on March 5, 2010 · You may recall that Martin Kramer’s grotesque recommendation to limit Palestinian births arose from a theory that all the "superfluous sons" generated by a "youth bulge" in a population just create problems. Well Sean Lee has pointed out that the "youth bulge" is just as pronounced among the ultra-Orthodox in Israel, with their relentless propagation: the group with the lowest median age in Jerusalem is not Arab or Muslim, but rather ultra-Orthodox Jews, at 18, compared to 17.2 in Gaza. They also have an average fertility rate of 7.7 children per family (down from 8.9), compared to the Gazan fertility rate of 5.03.  I wonder, then, do [Gunnar] Heinsohn and Kramer see this as a problem? Would they qualify the young Hasedim as “superfluous sons,” or is t...

NOVANEWS “As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Zionist, it is going to be either non-Jewish or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, it will be an apartheid state.” Those are the words of Zionist Ehud Barak, defense minister and former prime minister, at last month’s Herzliya Conference, the country’s highest-profile gathering of VIPs. Barak’s statement begs the question: Seeing that Palestinians in the West Bank haven’t been able to vote in Zionist elections since the occupation started in 1967, isn’t he saying Zionist has been an apartheid state since then? So, putting Barak’s statement in the context of this week’s news, should people really be so outraged that a few dozen colleges overseas are st...