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    A Charter of Rights for Palestine

    Inalienable, unarguable, non-negotiable, universal — a powerful tool with many applications

    A new campaign launched last month has grouped together, into a Charter of Five Urgent Demands, most of the main day-to-day issues of the fight against Israel’s apartheid. The UN’s rapporteur on human rights in Palestine, Dr. Richard Falk says: “This is an excellent initiative as it calls attention to the spectrum of Israeli ongoing abuses toward the Palestinian people, several of which receive almost no media attention.” Read more…

    Posted April 9, 2012 at 1:26 pm

    Civil Rights demands vs. Liberation Programme? Or is it all the same thing?

    Some leading writers explore next steps on the road from the “Peace Process”

    The ending of negotiations for two separate states has not, as many hoped, cleared a path for the only just alternative: either for such an Read more…

    Posted February 29, 2012 at 12:03 am

    If US Party says: “one law for all people”

    What are we to make of it?

    A flurry of astonishment greeted the discovery that the US Republican Party’s National Committee (the RNC) had unanimously adopted a “One State” position. Read more…

    Posted January 23, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    Now Join Up the Struggles

    Every single event of the past year points to the moral bankruptcy of Israel’s rule, the urgency of ending an intolerable status quo, and the need for a new vision that will serve the needs of all the people and offer the hope of freedom and justice.

    This is, in general terms, the common thread that links the headline struggles and events of the past year: from Tunisia to Moscow, from New York to Tel Aviv, from Athens to Bahrain, from Cairo to Damascus, we’ve witnessed the mobilisation of millions of people who have had their fill of corruption, abuse of power, outrageous and violent injustice and constant assaults on their dignity and human rights. Read more…

    Posted January 20, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    Last year, this year:

    J14’s Palestinian contingent

    Dahlia Scheindlin took a very bleak view of the self-declared “Israel issues only” protest at its outset. Now, with her survey in +972 Magazine of  Israeli Arab participation, she presents a radically different view. Some extracts here:

    Bucking both initial suspicion from the protest leaders, and cynicism among the Arab press and leadership, many Arabs report participating, and many more are open to joining in the future. Read more…

    Posted January 8, 2012 at 6:11 pm

    Last year, this year:

    We’ve come a long way but it’s still the same road

    2011 saw many dramatic surprises: the Palestine Papers revelations; the Arab Spring mass movements for democracy, ending some hated regimes and leading to bloody struggles of others to hold onto power; the Palestinian UN statehood bid; the Occupy movements and Israel’s J14 eruption; the reconciliation manoeuvres between Hamas and Fateh under pressure from their own disenfranchised populations. Read more…

    Posted January 8, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    Last year, this year:

    Now Join Up the Struggles

    Every single event of the past year points to the moral bankruptcy of Israel’s rule, the urgency of ending an intolerable status quo, and the need for a new vision that will serve the needs of all the people and offer the hope of freedom and justice.

    This is, in general terms, the common thread that links the headline struggles and events of the past year: from Tunisia to Moscow, from New York to Tel Aviv, from Athens to Bahrain, from Cairo to Damascus, we’ve witnessed the Read more…

    Posted January 8, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    J14’s Manifesto for a New Israel: a dramatic new turn against apartheid

     Last summer’s tented protests in Israel, called (like another famous revolution) after the 14th July date on which they sprang into life, have grown up in just five months and have now thrown down a challenge to the basic credo of their country. Their statement does not just demand a state for all its inhabitants, it proclaims that they will create one. Read more…

    Posted December 23, 2011 at 11:22 am

    Israel knocked by its nearest allies

    * France stands up for Palestinians’ right to demonstrate and declares Bassem Tamimi “a human rights defender”.
    * Hillary Clinton is “worried” about women and democracy in Israel.
    * US arch-zionist Abe Foxman warns of “Israel’s judicial, press and speech freedoms” being undermined by its governing coalition.
    * Israel’s TV ads aimed at its expats in America pulled in panic.
    * US Ambassador to Belgium dares to say hatred of Israel is caused by its actions, not by anti-semitism;
    * Leading American Zionist Peter Beinart says that until there’s a separate Palestinian state, Palestinians Read more…

    Posted December 7, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    Why the law against Apartheid is stronger stuff than Occupation Law


    Six explorations
    around International
    Law, plus the
    gate-crashing of
    Birthright Israel’s
    Reunion party

     1. “A single integrated regime”

    “The Russell Tribunal on Palestine concludes that Israel’s rule over the Palestinian people, wherever they reside, collectively amounts to a Read more…

    Posted November 16, 2011 at 1:40 pm