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- It’s about 1948, not 1967
- After Israel’s elections, reasons to cheer
- One State issues of race, rights and democracy that led to Israel’s shock elections
- Twenty Good Reasons to Press for Statehood
- Has Gaza beaten Goliath?
- The Courage of Gaza
- URGENT CALL FROM GAZA CIVIL SOCIETY: ACT NOW!
- Tel Aviv demo: “Free all Pollitical Prisoners”
- “Acts of oppression are not about finding the boys”
- Israel pleads Guilty at UN
- Israel on the rampage, Gaza under threat, over missing boys
- Will President Rivlin become Israel’s FW De Klerk?
- Critical weeks ahead for Bedouin land resistance: support their Avaaz petition
- El Arakib goes to the High Court
- Now they are evicting the dead at Al Arakib
- Thousands return to village destroyed in Nakba
- After Kerry: What happens next?
- We are not ready to surrender
- Newsletter 8 uploaded
- Israel’s Bedouin evictions law to re-launch, as hundreds more homes bulldozed
- Worshipping the Golden Calf: how Israel destroys Judaism
- Palestine Freedom Song
- What’s so bad about calling Israel the “Jewish state”?
- Bibi’s double bluff on Settlers
- As Israel and the US squabble and talks grind to a halt, PLO can come out fighting for its people
- New in Newsletter and Documents
- Prawer passes to rightist mob
- Prawer Did Not Pass
- Prawer Crackdown lights up Israel’s home front
- Israel’s conditions of existence: time for review?
- Two States or One? It’s the defining question
- Freedom and Democracy in One Country
- Oslo Accords after 20 Years
- Egypt: neither Sisi nor Morsi but Social Justice
- Organising against Negev Ethnic Cleansing
- Peace Talk 1: EU adopts sanctions – wrong time to retreat
- Peace Talks 2: Shaking Hands amid Ethnic Cleansing
- Palestinians launch One State movement
- A historic choice for Mustafa Barghouti
- Into the Mainstream
- How Israel’s status quo will self-destruct
- Bibi’s legal team annexes West Bank
- A Charter for Palestine
- Civil Rights demands or liberation programme?
- If US Party says: “one law for all people”
- Now Join Up the Struggles
- Last year, this year: 4. J14’s Palestinian contingent
- Last year, this year: 2. We’ve come a long way but it’s still the same road
- Last year, this year: 1. Now Join Up the Struggles
- J14 challenges Zionism with Manifesto for a New Israel
- Israel knocked by its nearest allies
- Why the law against Apartheid is clearer and more relevant than Occupation Law
- Freedom rides: a new front for civil rights
- Did UN bid finish off the Peace Process?
- Hilltop marches threaten ethnic cleansing
- Urgent call from “Stop the Wall”
- PA ditches “1967 borders” to win UN vote
- After the UN, “Equality Struggle Ahead”
- We will be a Jewish-Arab People!
- Israel’s Protests: Part 2, the Fringe
- Israel’s protests Part 1, a tragic wasted chance
- Has Israel Crashed Its Bullshit Barrier?
- Never Again for Anyone
- Israel’s Tent Protests
- Why Israel cannot be The Jewish State
- London One State group
- Why Boycott Culture?
- What to do AFTER September
- Poor little Israel, now they’re coming in the window
- 300 Israel academics in civil disobedience call
- EU move threat to Palestine historic rights
- Paris Peace Conference v. UN Vote
- One-Staters and BNC support UN recognition campaign
- One Democracy One Year On
- Young Mizrahi Israelis welcome Arab Spring
- Just what is keeping the Peace Process alive?
- The Pink Slip: Notice to Quit
- Egypt’s gifts to Palestine
- Egypt: In Other Words
- Egypt 1: Week 3 – The Workers
- Egypt 2: The Muslim Brotherhood
- Egypt 3: the world turned upside down
- Egypt: the heroes of Tahrir Square
- The Palestine Papers
- EU Consuls say: boycott Israel in E.Jerusalem
- Tunisia: start of a better future
- End the exile and you end the conflict
- Defend Tutu from these vindictive Zionists
- Closing in on Israel but reviving the Undead
- Richard Falk in London
- KPFT Radio and the Jewish Question
- Another feeble argument against One State…
- Christmas Trees banned at Nazareth
- Two-State Process still Undead
- 2011: a game-changing year
- Voting for a New Jerusalem
- Fayyad plans economy of dependence for his state
- BBC: ’skinhead racists not a problem’
- Hamas makes a move
- Ben Gurion’s fascist descendants
- One Democratic State Conference
- Washington’s gifts to Netanyahu
- Open Letter to Mahmoud Abbas
- Horsetrading at the Talks
- Using the UN and International Law
- Rebuilding the Palestinian leadership
- US students stand up to Zionist ADL
- Israel’s Apartheid: vague insult or legal fact?
- Defining colonialism in support of BDS
- Budrus in Jerusalem
- The Settlement Freeze
- Stop the Carve-up of Palestine!
- Right wingers break the One State taboo
- More negotiations
- Helen Thomas’s “gaffe”
- False questions and unasked questions
- Great BDS pledge, shame about the fudge
- Breaking out of the Two State impasse
- Front Lines in the Two State War Process
- PA Treachery over Flotilla probe
- One State debated in Ha’aretz
- BDS: the dangers of fudge
- How far can it go?
- A Righteous Jew
- At The Seaside
- No Taxation Without Representation
- Little shifts, bigger shifts
- Gaza’s offshore gas fields
- Ramallah street posters
- Truth, lies and regime change
- The Football, South Africa and Israel
- Gas theft in Gaza waters
- Coming with two states – the West Bank Blockade
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With Two State strategy in tatters, we look at the turn to Civil Rights
It’s about 1948, not 1967
1. The settlers have taken power in Israel and they have single-mindedly claimed the portfolios that most advance their programme:
* Head of Civil Administration of the West Bank, to consolidate and expand their grip;
* Ministry of Justice, to remove or weaken judicial brakes on ethnic cleansing throughout historic Palestine, to give judicial protection to their militias and mobs, to repress Israel’s left wing dissidents and to bring Israel closer to being a police state; Read more…
After Israel’s elections, reasons to cheer
The return to power of the same regime with a stronger mandate should have set the status quo in stone. Instead, the election has created important shifts in the status quo. One of these shifts is, indeed, Barack Obama’s statement that “we can’t just in perpetuity maintain the status quo”. So what’s new? Read more…
One State issues of race, rights and democracy that led to Israel’s shock elections
“This bill is legal preparation for the right wing’s one-state solution, the annexation of the territories and the establishment of the Jewish apartheid state. The bill is the constitutional foundation, and its acceptance is the laying of the cornerstone of the bi-national segregation state that the right wing is setting up quietly and methodically, unseen and unhindered” — Gideon Levy
Israel’s PM Bibi Netanyahu has broken up his ruling coalition after just two years, and forced a new election. The exciting news is that it might backfire and see his defeat. But what led up to this? Read more…
Twenty Good Reasons to Press for Statehood
“We should recognise the Palestinian state as a reality. We would not be granting it anything; we would simply be recognising a fact.” Peter Lilley (Thatcher-era government Minister, speaking in the UK House of Commons debate 13 October)
A small earthquake in the political balance of forces occurred last week when the UK parliament voted almost unanimously to urge its government to recognise Palestine as a state. Read more…
Has Gaza beaten Goliath?
Israel entered the war on Gaza aiming to destroy Hamas politically and militarily. Instead, on the latest leak from the ceasefire talks, Hamas has won a substantial easing of the siege, with an airport and seaport on a possible longer-term agenda, and has gained greatly in prestige within the Palestinian liberation movement. Israel has lost an equal amount of prestige and support from the international community, expanded the Palestine solidarity movement, and faces a massive acceleration of the BDS campaign and indictments for war crimes. The balance of forces has shifted, and this might even deter them from doing it again. How did this come about? Read more…
The Courage of Gaza
While the violence, brutality and casualties in Gaza, and the genocidal sentiments in Israel, could match or even exceed the 2008-09 Cast Lead levels, there is a big difference in the political balance of forces.
Israel’s project is, once again, to get Read more…
Urgent Call from Gaza Civil Society Organisations: ACT NOW!
13.7.2014
Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine–We Palestinians trapped inside the bloodied and besieged Gaza Strip call on conscientious people all over the world, to act, protest, and intensify the boycotts, divestments and sanctions against Israel until it ends this murderous attack on our people and is held to account. Read more…
Tel Aviv demo against crackdown says “Acts of oppression are not about finding the boys. Free all political prisoners!”
“The army, under government instructions, is embarking on hundreds of arrests and detentions, nightly raids on homes, closure of entire regions, arrests of journalists Read more…
Tel Aviv demo against crackdown says “Acts of oppression are not about finding the boys. Free all political prisoners!”
“The army, under government instructions, is embarking on hundreds of arrests and detentions, nightly raids on homes, closure of entire regions, arrests of journalists Read more…
Israel pleads Guilty at UN
We have all encountered Israel’s petulant cry “why are we being singled out, others are just as bad”: this use of finger-pointing is most used in infant-school playgrounds, where small children will respond to accusations of wrong-doing by claiming that other kids are doing just the same. This tactic often works a treat when the accused is the favoured child of the head teacher.
Double standards do, of course, play havoc with standards. But they don’t make the accused any less Read more…