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Gaza students call on Tiesto to cancel Israel concert

The following letter to Tiesto — a Dutch musician scheduled to perform in Eilat, Israel next month — was issued on 18 June by the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI): Dear Tiesto, Nietzsche once said that life without music would be a mistake. The greater mistake against humanity would be [...]

19 June 2010 at 10:24 - Comments

Western leaders are too cowardly to help save lives

by Robert Fisk It is a fact that it is ordinary people, activists, call them what you will, who now take decisions to change events. Has Israel lost it? Can the Gaza War of 2008-09 (1,300 dead) and the Lebanon War of 2006 (1,006 dead) and all the other wars and now yesterday’s killings mean [...]

1 June 2010 at 09:25 - Comments

“It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”

Even though this week only small sections of the British press picked up on the story of Israel’s attempts to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa’s apartheid regime back in the 70′s, there seems to be momentum building towards another attack on Lebanon. Also, Israel who has never declared their nuclear weapons, nor is it [...]

25 May 2010 at 12:00 - Comments

George Galloway interviews Ilan Pappe

13 May 2010 at 10:45 - Comments

The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners

by Professor John J. Mearsheimer My topic is the future of Palestine, and by that I mean the future of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, or what was long ago called Mandatory Palestine.  As you all know, that land is now broken into two parts: Israel proper or what is [...]

6 May 2010 at 11:20 - Comments