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Obama genuflects to AIPAC

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is "the most powerful and feared lobby in Washington." For years, it's "drawn on a well-organized, well-connected, highly visible, successful, and wealthy Jewish population," subverting potential opposition.

Obama's May 22 AIPAC speech affirmed rock solid support for a "strong and secure Israel," leaving Palestinians entirely out of his equation, despite paying disingenuous lip service to their interests.

An official AIPAC statement expressed gratitude for his assurance that Washington doesn't expect Israel to withdraw to June 1967 borders, besides explicitly calling Hamas a terrorist organization, ignoring its January 2006 electoral victory as Palestine's legitimate government.

Counter-demonstration against Zionists using memory of Holocaust to condemn Iran

On May 1st, Zionist groups held a vigil in front of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations in New York City to use the memory of the Holocaust to condemn Iran. Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews showed their opposition to this provocation by demonstrating on the opposite side of the avenue.

Ilan Pappé: The Nakba revisited: past, present and future course of the conflict

Ilan Pappé, reknowned Israeli historian and political activist addressed a meeting in the Sheffield University Students Union on 17th May 2011 titled "The Nakba revisited: past, present and future course of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict".

Israeli troops murder 9 protesters at Naqba border demonstrations

Today, within 2 weeks of the Gaza Flotilla massacre where 9 activists were murdered, Israeli troops have shot dead 9 protesters and wounded more than 100 across 3 different protests at the border.

Sheffield 63rd anniversay of the Nakba events

Sheffield PSC and Sheffield Students Palestine society | 13-05-2011 20:37 | Palestine | Sheffield | World

This Saturday, 14th May: 12 - 1.30 p.m. Commemmoration of Nakba Day. Outside Sheffield Town Hall. Please join us as we remember the victims of the 1948 Nakba and the victims of the ongoing Nakba for the last 63 years. Commemorations are being held all over the world - it has never been more important to remember the Nakba, in Israel today legislation has been passed that makes it illegal for people to organise events that use the word Nakba.

Brighton Jordan Valley Solidarity: At home in the Jordan Valley

The Brighton Jordan Valley Solidarity Group currently have people on the ground in the Jordan Valley. With recent increased settler and army repression it is our aim to keep people in the valley on a permanent basis throughout the year.

The following reports are from our volunteers on the ground. Please help us spread information. If you are on twitter you can get our updates by following @jvsolidarity or @brightonjvs

Israel investing $1.6 million in "new media warriors"

The Israeli military establishment is once again on the offensive, but instead of high-tech weaponry and missiles, it is using computer screens, keyboards and rapid wireless connections to fight what Israeli military representatives are dubbing a "new media war."

Now Then: George Monbiot Interview - Never one to shy away from a thorny issue

George Monbiot is an award-winning investigative journalist with a regular column in the Guardian, has published several books and a screenplay to boot. His writing spans topics such as the environment, political corruption, corporate misdeeds and the ideologies behind current economic thinking. Perhaps his most insightful work describes the complex webs connecting these concepts. A tireless campaigner, advocate for human rights and never one to shy away from a thorny issue or controversial argument, we were happy to catch up with him ahead of his upcoming debate tour.

'Less Lethal Weapons' mean more repression

Dissident Island interviews Corporate Watch on the subject of 'less lethal weapons'.

Barclays Shut All Day, After Lively Protest.

Protestors clashed with police and security guards during a picket of banks in Broadmead and Cabot Circus.

About 80 people, many wearing guy fawkes masks and others dressed as clowns, joined the rolling demonstration to highlight the banks’ involvement in the arms trade.

They gathered in Castle Park before marching down Union Street and into Broadmead, at first followed by two patrolling police officers.

Wikileaks Cables on Israel's Gaza Onslaught

CounterPunch has accessed Wikileaks’ file of cables on Israel’s Gaza assault

http://www.counterpunch.org/wikigazacables.html two years ago (Operation Cast Lead, December 27, 2008 through January 18, 2009). Though the cables often simply rehash Israeli press reporting, providing little new insight into Israel’s attack or the planning behind it, they show with pitiless clarity the U.S. government to be little more than a handmaiden and amanuensis of the Israeli military machine.

One Family in Gaza

An amazing and powerful short film by Jen Marlowe of donkeysaddle.org.
Click:

http://vimeo.com/18384109

Media Lens Alert: Tilting Towards Israel

Journalist Jonathan | 04-01-2011 17:06 | Palestine | Sheffield | World

Towards the end of last year, we sent out two media alerts - Put The Palestinians On A Diet and Too Toxic To Handle? - about the corporate media's failure to report the release of documents detailing Israel's deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza. "The idea", explained a senior Israeli official, "is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger." The human rights group Gisha published explicit Israeli formulas for the amount of food, animal feed and poultry to be allowed into Gaza, and the cold calculation of "breathing space": the number of days before these essential supplies would run out.

Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/wikileaks/article3969332.ece has summarized an Israeli military briefing by Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi of a US congressional delegation a little over a year ago and concludes that

"‘ The memo on the talks between Ashkenazi and [Congressman Ike] Skelton, as well as numerous other documents from the same period of time, to which Aftenposten has gained access, leave a clear message: The Israeli military is forging ahead at full speed with preparations for a new war in the Middle East."

Too Toxic to Handle? Follow-up Alert on Israel's Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza

On November 17, we sent out a media alert that highlighted the corporate media’s lack of interest in official documents revealing Israel’s deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza.

Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel's Deliberate Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza

Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”.

Musheir Al Farra speaks at the Sheffield Humanist Society Meeting

Wednesday 3rd November 2010
Conflict in the "Holy Land".
Musheir Al Fara, Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign

What is the reality of the situation in Israel/Palestine? How did the ongoing ‘troubles’ come about and to what extent is
religion responsible for the conflict affecting the "Holy Land"?

Criminalisation of Protest and Dissent in Britain

Criminalisation of protest and dissent is now a common feature of neo-liberal governance. Here is a chance for you to share your experiences and thereby contribute to a chapter on the situation in Britain for a book on criminalisation of dissent around the world.

President Ahmadinejad galvanizes Lebanon's Palestinians

Nearly a week now since Ahmadinejad’s departure, the 12 Palestinian camps and two ‘gatherings’, especially among the young people, are still abuzz with often excited discussions of his visit. What President Ahmadinejad brought to the under-30 generation in the Palestinian camps is more hope, energy, and self-confidence.

World Education Forum - Palestine - International Collaboration

Mayfirst | 21-10-2010 08:23 | Palestine | Sheffield | World

On October 31, at 10:00 am Eastern (4:00 pm in Jerusalem), activists from cities around the world will meet, on-line, with activists from several Palestinian cities and locations to develop a joint program of Educational Rights. The workshop is part of the World Education Forum being held in Palestine this year.

Sheffield Palestine Newswire Archive

Obama genuflects to AIPAC

Counter-demonstration against Zionists using memory of Holocaust to condemn Iran

Ilan Pappé: The Nakba revisited: past, present and future course of the conflict

Israeli troops murder 9 protesters at Naqba border demonstrations

Sheffield 63rd anniversay of the Nakba events

Brighton Jordan Valley Solidarity: At home in the Jordan Valley

Israel investing $1.6 million in "new media warriors"

Now Then: George Monbiot Interview - Never one to shy away from a thorny issue

'Less Lethal Weapons' mean more repression

Barclays Shut All Day, After Lively Protest.

Wikileaks Cables on Israel's Gaza Onslaught

One Family in Gaza

Media Lens Alert: Tilting Towards Israel

Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

Too Toxic to Handle? Follow-up Alert on Israel's Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza

Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel's Deliberate Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza

Musheir Al Farra speaks at the Sheffield Humanist Society Meeting

Criminalisation of Protest and Dissent in Britain

President Ahmadinejad galvanizes Lebanon's Palestinians

World Education Forum - Palestine - International Collaboration

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