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NOVANEWS "In Britain on Tuesday, a host of lawmakers used harsh language to excoriate Zionist on the floor of Parliament, calling for the expulsion of the Zionist ambassador, urging criminal prosecution of those involved in the Dubai operation and going so far as to say that Zionist was becoming a “rogue state.”" www.nytimes.com

NOVANEWS "A recent Jerusalem Magistrate's Court verdict indicates that settlers may fire in the air to repel unarmed Palestinians, a ruling that a Palestinian rights advocate called a dangerous precedent." See: www.haaretz.com

NOVANEWS "The Zio-Nazi Police released a 13-year-old girl from the southern West Bank city of Hebron after detaining her for five hours and after she was forced to sign a pledge “not to harm the security of the State of Israel”." See: www.imemc.org

NOVANEWS "For to recognize Zionist state of 'Israel' as a Jewish state would be not only to renounce (which no leader and indeed no individual Palestinian has the authority to do) the right of return of those Palestinians ethnically cleansed from their homes during the creation of the Zionist regime in 1948. It would also be to abandon to their fate the remaining million or so Palestinians (including their descendants) who survived the NAKBA and have been living as second class citizens of the Zionist state, and perhaps even to give Zionist license to expel them all and complete the "job" (as Benny Morris puts it) of 1948. Zionist regime today is no more Jewish than America is white or Christian. The big difference, though, is that, whereas America (for the most part) embraces its own mult...

NOVANEWS How ignorant are the researchers of the Home Office? How many time does one have to espouse atheist, anarchist, and secular principles before they realize that their categorization is screwed up? Or did they categorize the blogs on the basis of the names of the bloggers? I really suspect it was the latter. How else would you explain the addition of my blog to their list of "Islamic blog."

NOVANEWS "The Home Office's counter-terrorism communications unit has named its top 20 most influential "pro-Islamic" political bloggers...The top 20 list compiled as a "snapshot" in 2008 includes several based outside Britain but posting on UK politics in English. The top five sites listed are Ali Eteraz, Islam in Europe, the Angry Arab News Service,Indigo Jo Blogs/Blogistan and Daily Terror. Ali Eteraz is the author of Children of Dust – a memoir of Pakistan that was named on the New Statesman 2009 books of the year list – and has been a regular poster on Comment is Free.The list only covers blogs published in English. Some, such as Angry Arab, which publish news articles in full from various sources draw heavily on the New York Times, al-Akhbar and Ha'aretz." * www.alieteraz.com * www.i...

NOVANEWS I know I shouldn't call it Barenboim's orchestra but if someone told me about the West-East Divan Orchaestra I don't think I'd know what they were referring to. Anyway, there's been a little ding-dong between PACBI and Edward Said's widow over the former's condemnation of the Qatari government for hosting the orchestra in breach, PACBI says, of boycott guidelines. Here's PACBI's explanation of its position: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: Undermining Palestinian Civil Resistance and Violating Palestinian Cultural Boycott Guidelines Occupied Ramallah, 23 March 2010 -- A recent article criticizing PACBI's position on the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO) [1] is based on false premises, misunderstanding and/or misrepresentation of PACBI's boycott criteria, and a misconception of the ...

NOVANEWS ...Well he tried to at any rate. A friend of mine, David Cronin, who works as a journalist out in Brussels made a citizen's arrest of Tony Blair for war crimes yesterday. Maith an fear. Unfortunately the security guards at the EU parliament were less au fait with international law than David, and instead of bundling the war criminal away to a cell to answer for his crimes, bundled poor David away. There's an account of his attempt here , here and here. Also, a heads up, David has written a book which will be coming out soon. It's about EU links with Israel and promises to be very informative. Posted by David L @ www.jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com

NOVANEWS By: Michael Thurston Buzz Up! Print Story Britain said Tuesday it was kicking out an Israeli diplomat over the "intolerable" use of fake British passports in the killing of a Hamas chief, in a sharp escalation of tension over the murder of a Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel Enlarge photo Fact file on the murder of a Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said there were "compelling reasons" to suggest that Israel was behind the forgeries used by the team which killed Mahmud al-Mabhuh in Dubai in January. "I've asked that a member of the embassy of Israel be withdrawn from the UK as a result of this affair and this is taking place," he told lawmakers. "There are compelling reasons to believe that Israel was responsible for the misuse of the British pas...

NOVANEWS Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement has condemned the new Zionist plan to build 1,600 new Zionist homes in the illegaly occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds. The movement warned that the project seeks demographic changes in the occupied territories. “The scheme is yet another part of a Judaization campaign that targets the holy city of al-Quds and a provocation of Muslim feeling, “the Shia political party said in a statement released on Friday. Hezbollah also accused the U.S. of supporting Zionist regime expansionist policies on Palestinian lands. “The Zionist plan to construct hundreds of homes in al-Quds truly shows American cover to it.” Zionist's interior ministry on Tuesday said it had approved the construction of 1,600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in the mai...