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NOVANEWS How the Shabak Use the Children of Palestine Ed. Note:  The following is a report from Bi’lin resident Yasser Awad Yasin on his  interrogation by Israeli security forces. My name is Yasser Awad Yasin.  I am 27 years old and I’m from the village of Bil’in. I’m married and I have two sons and one daughter. The Shabak (Israeli security ) had called me on the phone and told me to go to their office.  I didn’t go, so the army raided my house.  I was sleeping with my wife and children when they woke us all up.  I asked them what they were doing because I hadn’t done anything. They asked me for my ID and they told me to go to the Shabak offices the next day. I asked them why they didn’t arrest me now and then the soldiers gave me papers ordering me to go for questioning.  When I we...

 NOVANEWS Noble wars of liberation cost a fortune Visiting Sri Lanka as a war crimes investigator not tourist We’re Jewish and we would like to ban this How to fight the occupation with a few good men and women Sri Lanka kills and tortures journalists Remind us why America can solve the Middle East crisis, again? The striking beauty of Nepal Muslims allowed to throw shoes in protest (and Jews want to throw something, too) Any chance of Kissinger not being invited to Christmas this year? Noble wars of liberation cost a fortune How many in the US know this? If you’re an average American taxpayer, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have, since 2001, cost you personally $7,334, according to the “cost of war” counter created by the National Priorities Project (NPP).  They have cos...

NOVANEWS   Maariv: Jerusalem municipality moving forward on construction in Gilo Didi Remez | April 14, 2010 at 10:40 | Tags: Nir Barkat | Categories: Diplomacy, Jerusalem | URL: http://wp.me/pHlQV-tA This report follows the news Tuesday (April 13 2010) that Mayor Nir Barkat was attempting to renew house demolitions in East Jerusalem. Note also the repetitive framing of the story as an act of defiance of the US administration (three out of five paragraphs.) Construction in Jerusalem: Business as usual Roni Malul, Maariv, April 14 2010 [page 14] Barkat Despite the cresis with the United States about constructing in the Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, it appears that the municipality is supporting continued construction in the Gilo neighborhood, which was annexed to Israel i...

NOVANEWS Mark Onion - BNP council candidate in Thurrock Mark Onion is the BNP candidate fighting the Orsett Ward in Thurrock's council elections on May 6th. This picture is taken from his Facebook page and features the candidate seeming to offer a Nazi style salute. On his hand he appears to wear a Help for Heroes wristband. On his Facebook page Onion has said that he finds films about the Holocaust and Slave Trade "amusing and funny". He lists "Mein Kampf" and the "Final Solution" as his favourite books. He publicly jokes about violence and rape against women on his Facebook wall. Nick Griffin MEP has protested time and again that BNP supporters are unfairly labelled as bigots. He says the BNP is no longer racist. He says he doesn't support misogynistic sentiments. He claims the BNP ...

NOVANEWS The Truth about the Fatal Plane Crash in Smolensk by James Buchanan Information is still coming in about the crash of the Polish Tu-154 at Smolensk with President Kaczynski and a good part of the Polish government on board. There seems to be an organized effort to blame the pilot for the crash claiming that President Kaczynski pressured him to land under impossible conditions. The first strange piece of information that has come out was that the airport at Smolensk reportedly does not have an Instrument Landing System (ILS). Considering how horrendous the weather can be in Russia during winter and spring and fall, it’s stunning to hear that a significant European city of 330,000 people does not have an airport with an ILS. One excuse is that the airport was an ex-military airbas...

NOVANEWS  How to Market Gaza as an Israeli success story: The complete guide Didi Remez | April 14, 2010 at 10:10 | Categories: Diplomacy, Gaza, Hasbara | URL: http://wp.me/pHlQV-tx Cross-posted from Gaza Gateway, an analytical blog recently launched by the Israeli human rights group Gisha -- The legal Center for Freedom of Movement. Gaza Gateway provides up to date data and analysis on access to the Gaza Strip and is an essential tool for for fact-checking and contextualizing information provided by other sources. How to Market Gaza as an Israeli success story: The complete guide The following guide was inspired by a report by the Government of Israel, summarizing Israel's humanitarian activities for the Gaza Strip in 2009 and at the start of 2010, which was submitted yesterday to the Ad ...

NOVANEWS Dear, Join JVP, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, and Bibi Netanyahu's sister-in-law, Ofra Ben Artzi, as well as Israeli peace groups like the Shministim, Gush Shalom, and the Coalition of Women for Peace and help make history at the University of California at Berkeley by sending a letter of support for divestment now. On March 18, UC Berkeley's student senate voted 16 to 4 to divest from General Electric and United Technologies because of their role in harming civilians as part of Israel's illegal occupation and the attack on Gaza. A week later, the Senate president vetoed the bill despite a massive outpouring of support for divestment. But the final decision will be made tomorrow, Wednesday April 14 at 7pm PST, when the veto can be overturned ...

NOVANEWS Reflections on the value of respect Israeli activists to J Street: ’stop trying to gain political capital at the expense of dedicated peace activists’ Suddenly in vogue, book banning spreads to Canada Cohen on Poland Neocons need not apply Kafka’s Apartheid Your chance to see and hear Eyad al-Sarraj ‘This is a racist state in which savages do what they want’ 91 Democratic congresspeople need a little space on the special relationship Weighing Obama, ‘FP’ allows the Israel lobby to put its thumb on the scale Reflections on the value of respect Four years ago, Rory Stewart wrote: A great many of the failures in Afghanistan and Iraq arise from a single problem: the American-led coalitions’ lack of trust in local politicians. Repeatedly the Western powers, irritated b...

NOVANEWS Propagandistic anti-Semitism report raises The Linkage Issue ‘The Nakba was our doing’ Polish-Russian experience shows how hard it is to accept an empowered other Never ceases to fascinate me Where is the full-page letter in the NYT signed by prominent Jews supporting Obama re settlements? Kam affair reflects Israel’s post-Goldstone ‘crisis of legitimacy’ This sounds racist to me, does it to you? Guess who’s coming to (Shabbat) dinner? Sea change: ‘Huffpo’ bannered Palestinian flag Loewenstein Gaza doc is on Australian national radio Propagandistic anti-Semitism report raises The Linkage Issue The Tel Aviv University/Stephen Roth Institute's newly released study on anti-Semitism in 2009 is getting loads of media attention. Among the many outlets that have reported i...

NOVANEWS  by Niall Bradley  If it has been difficult for American leaders to influence the country’s foreign policy since the military-industrial complex wrested control from the state office after the Second World War, it has proven impossible to do so since the US sealed its Faustian bargain with Israel on 9/11. The US Empire is damned if it does cut the flow of money and arms to Israel and damned if it doesn’t. The truth about 9/11 is going to emerge one way or another. How the momentum is managed will determine who is left without a chair when the music finally grinds to halt. While it’s broadly in both the US and Israeli governments interests to keep a lid on the truth by distracting the US population any which way it can, there appears to be a game of hide and seek taking place thro...