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NOVANEWS Hoffman Lied When Claiming He was a Victim of anti-Semitism BBC Upholds Complaint about SOAS Meeting Jonathan Hoffman Lied When Claiming 'Anti-Semitic' Abuse Anti-semitism is a terrible thing. Nothing can more trivialise it than accusing people who are not anti-semitic of being anti-Semites. Nothing can weaken our defences against anti-semitism and any other form of racism than making false and bogus allegations of ‘anti-semitism.’ It is the ‘boy cried wolf’ syndrome. If you cry ‘anti-semitism’ for long enough when it doesn’t exist then when it does exist don’t be surprised if people turn the other way. At a meeting called by Bricup on December 4th to support the Boycott of Israel one of the 2 speakers, Bongani Masuku, was disgracefully attacked as an anti-Semite. In fact he is ...

NOVANEWS Utopia as Alibi: Said, Barenboim and the Divan Orchestra by Raymond Deane As a classical musician involved in pro-Palestinian activism, I frequently encounter the assumption that I am an unconditional admirer of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO). My reservations on this score tend to produce shocked disapproval: How could I not enthuse about such an idealistic project, particularly since it was co-founded by the late Edward Said, a figure for whom I have frequently expressed respect and admiration? In truth, I have always been a little wary of Said’s veneration for the eighteenth/nineteenth century canon of European classical music. I look in vain in his writings on the subject [1] for a historical and political contextualisation of music comparable of that to which he so pe...

NOVANEWS Many Christians are now told that Christians must support the Zionist state of 'Israel' and even support Zionist power in America because “God has a covenant with the Jews.” In fact, this goes against the fundamental teachings of the New Testament! In the first place, the Covenant talked about in the Old Testament was always “Conditional.” That is, God said that he would honor it to the 1000th generation, BUT, that they did not keep the commandments of God, or rejected him, that God would requite them and “destroy” them. The traditional and correct Christian view is that by hating and rejecting Jesus, they have rejected God and broke the Covenant. The New Testament says that very clearly! The New Testament gives us the very words of God himself in the clearest of language. Not ac...

NOVANEWS By Lawrence Swaim, InFocusNews Columnist – March 2010 http://www.infocusnews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44292&Itemid=1366 Last January 14, 2009, Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist, shared some deep thoughts on the ongoing slaughter in Gaza. Israel’s defense forces were “inflicting heavy pain on the Gaza population,” Friedman acknowledged, but it was all for a good cause: “If it was out to educate Hamas,” he wrote, “Israel may have achieved its aim.” What Friedman was describing, of course, was terrorism—the use of deadly force against civilians to achieve a political goal. But since this was state terrorism by the government of Israel, somehow it was all supposed to be acceptable.  Friedman doesn’t dwell much on the 1, 400 Palestinians who...

NOVANEWS http://www.eappi.org/en/news/eappi-news/se/article/4834/settlers-attack-eas-with.html  [the website has pictures that do not appear here. Dorothy] The settlers, all young men, started abusing the women verbally before attacking with stones and bottles (Picture: EAPPI). Hardline Israeli settler youths assaulted three female Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAs) in Jerusalem on Monday, hurling rocks and bottles in an unprovoked attack. An EA in her sixties was bruised on the arm when one of the young men threw a fist-sized rock at her. The group of around eight young men approached the women,  shouting obscenities and making rude gestures before attacking. The EAs filmed the incident and it can be viewed on Youtube here. The women had been visiting a Palestinian family in the occupied East ...

NOVANEWS Dear All, Hardline Zio=Nazi settler youths assaulted three female Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAs) in Jerusalem on Monday, hurling rocks and bottles in an unprovoked attack.  Yesterday's information (published via Facebook) was slightly faulty, so hopefully these links will put the record straight: A video of the incident can be seen at http://www.bit.ly/9Unl0A  For a full report on the attack see http://www.bit.ly/aeerwn [copied below] Please feel free to forward or publish this information. EAPPI Communications Officer Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (www.eappi.org) Sign up to EAPPI tweets at www.twitter.com/eappi and join our Facebook group at http://tinyurl.com/ykhyqed

NOVANEWS Jerusalem Quartet – Lowdown on West- East Divan Orchestra The Debate Continues Throughout this affair of the Boycott of the Jerusalem Quartet, there has been one consistent argument on behalf of the Jerusalem Quartet. Two of their members play in Daniel Barenbom’s WEDO, which was co-founded by Edward Said.Now I disagree on principle with these type of organisations. They are the gloss on Apartheid and in fact similar organisations did exist in South Africa. They are based on an acceptance of the status quo. That is their starting point. The existing laws and regulations, the ongoing evictions of Arabs in Jerusalem are taken for granted. WEDO and such organisations are ‘non-political’ which means it challenges nothing.Instead they take as their starting point the idea that the ...

NOVANEWS "Today, in New York City, the US is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial.

NOVANEWS National Minimum Wage demonstration in Egypt.

NOVANEWS "In an effort to improve real-time intelligence gathering capabilities, the Zionist has decided to establish a crash course in Arabic for infantry soldiers so they can glean useful information from detainees during combat."