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NOVANEWS Yet another counter-productive and utterly clueless Western government program in the post 9/11 world: A key government policy on countering extremism in Britain has “stigmatised and alienated” Muslims and undermined community relations, a Commons report says today. Many Muslims told the cross-party committee of MPs that they believed the purpose of the Prevent programme was to “spy” on Asian communities, and that the Government was using funding to engineer a moderate form of acceptable Islam. The Communities and Local Government Committee said ministers should investigate claims the strategy had been hijacked by police and MI5 to gather intelligence on alleged radicals. Committee chairman Phyllis Starkey said: “Many witnesses believe Prevent has been used to ’spy’ on Muslim comm...

NOVANEWS Perhaps, step by step, Western nations are realising Israel illegally uses their weapons against civilians: A group of British lawmakers are expected to call Tuesday for the reevaluation of arms deals with Israel after a recently published report claimed that British weapons were “almost certainly” used in Operation Cast Lead in December 2008, The Guardian reported. “It is regrettable that arms exports to Israel were almost certainly used in Operation Cast Lead,” the U.K. daily The Guardian quoted the Commons committee on strategic export controls report. “This is in direct contravention to the U.K. government’s policy that U.K. arms exports to Israel should not be used in the occupied territories,” the report said.

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NOVANEWS Jewish “leader” asks Australia to ignore Israeli crimes So this is how the Zionist establishment wants to be known: defending extra-judicial murder. Well done, lads, you make us fellow Jews proud: The nation’s peak Jewish organisation has warned it would be an “extreme” reaction for the government to expel an Israeli diplomat as retaliation for the fake passport scandal. In its first public comments since Britain last week expelled an Israeli diplomat, raising pressure on Australia to follow suit, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry has called on the Rudd government to take a different path. ECAJ president Robert Goot told The Australian: “I think it would be an extreme reaction or possibly an overreaction (to expel an Israeli diplomat). The Jewish community would hope the A...

NOANEWS How’s life on the planet of Israeli hasbara By:Thomas Friedman? Thomas Friedman lives on a different planet, that of Israeli hasbara. In an Op-Ed piece today for the New York Times about Israeli-American relations and different perceptions on the “peace process,” Friedman repeats standard Israeli talking points. Let’s take a look. Friedman writes: The collapse of the Oslo peace process, combined with the unilateral Israeli pullouts from Lebanon and Gaza — which were followed not by peace but by rocket attacks by Hezbollah and Hamas on Israel — decimated Israel’s peace camp and the political parties aligned with it. At the same time, Israel’s erecting of a wall around the West Bank to prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from entering Israel (there have been no successful attacks sin...

NOVANEWS As Jews around the world lock up their leavened bread and Jews in the Israeli army lock down the West Bank, I take far too long to pack a small bag for my annual trip to Cleveland to celebrate Passover. Come Tuesday night I’ll be surrounded by dozens of people who share my blood and my heritage, people I’ve been waiting all year to see. But instead of packing to the memory of their voices rising above the our seder table in "Oyf’n Pripetshok," a family favorite from the "old country" of Bialystok, the deadened refrain that repeats in my head chants "Next year in Jerusalem." In the wake of Israel’s recent announcement of further settlement expansions in East Jerusalem, ever-increasing violence against Palestinians, and the still-echoing war cries of Netanyahu and so many others at ...

NOVANEWS We went to an amazing demonstration on the 23rd, in Beit Hanoun, east of the Erez checkpoint. Hundreds upon hundreds of Palestinians, organized mostly by Local Initiative—farmers, shebab, women, scores of unfurled Palestinian flags. The organizer warned us that the IDF had several tanks and jeeps near to where we’d be marching, and that they might try to abduct Palestinians. Or us. He warned us that under no circumstances could internationals be abducted. We conferred with one another and decided that if we saw Saber for example, being abducted, we would grab him. Vittorio suggested that we’d be supping in an Israeli prison that evening. There was a loudspeaker mounted on a truck, as there always is. There was also, trailing behind us, an ambulance. In the vanguard was a motorcycl...

NOVANEWS Yes, There is Apartheid in Israel By SHULAMIT ALONI Jewish self-righteousness is taken for granted among ourselves to such an extent that we fail to see what's right in front of our eyes. It's simply inconceivable that the ultimate victims, the Jews, can carry out evil deeds. Nevertheless, the state of Israel practises its own, quite violent, form of Apartheid with the native Palestinian population. The US Jewish Establishment's onslaught on former President Jimmy Carter is based on him daring to tell the truth which is known to all: through its army, the government of Israel practises a brutal form of Apartheid in the territory it occupies. Its army has turned every Palestinian village and town into a fenced-in, or blocked-in, detention camp. All this is done in order to keep an ...

NOVANEWS Protecting Israel’s Lawlessness with Spying and Smear Campaign By Naomi Klein - A while ago, the Reut Institute, arguably Israel's most influential think tank, published a very controversial report about "hubs of delegitimization." It attempted to equate tactics of non-violent resistance—like the growing movement to use Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to force Israel to comply with international law—with a military campaign to destroy the state of Israel. Most worrying, the report explicitly urged Israeli intelligence agencies like Mossad to take unspecified action against peace activists using entirely legal methods: "Neither changing policy nor improving public relations will suffice...Faced with a potentially existential threat, Israel must treat it as such by focusing...

NOVANEWS Zionist Think Tank Says Global Anti-Occupation Movement Is The Problem; Sabotage Is The Cure The Reut Report identifies the Bay Area as one of the international "hubs of delegitimization" of IsraelReut Institute, a leading Israeli national security and socioeconomic policy think tank, has released its preliminary report on “The Delegitimization Challenge: Creating a Political Firewall” In an extraordinary exercise in doublethink, Reut scratches its head over Israel’s declining diplomatic status in the aftermath of its assault on Gaza and the Goldstone Report, and concludes that, yet again, it is the victim. The culprits here are twofold: The Resistance Network – which operates on the basis of Islamist ideology and includes Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas; and the Delegitimization N...