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On Resistance: BDS and Israel’s Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews

6 years ago monty 0
February 12, 2018 On Resistance: BDS and Israel’s Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews by Stanley L  Cohen Photo by Kate Ausburn | CC BY 2.0 Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli hasbara (propaganda) and its reality Read More

South Africa Minister for Sport to Boycott Israeli Tennis

6 years ago monty 0
Dear BDS South Africa, SA Jews for a Free Palestine, PSA and NC4P, Dear fellow South Africans, Thank you for your letter and for the concerns that you have raised on behalf of the various organizations that you belong to. International solidarity and the boycott against Apartheid South Africa played a big role in our Read More

“Labour smears Israel’s critics as antisemites” – Moshe Machover’s testimony in defence of Tony Greenstein – Free Speech on Israel

6 years ago monty 0
Moshe sets out exactly what constitutes Zionism & explains why Zionism was opposed by the leadership of the Jewish organisations in Britain even before the Balfour Declaration & explains why we are all duty bound to oppose the Ethnic Cleansing & extreme racism of Zionist apartheid  Sun 21/01/2018 Labour smears Israel’s critics as anti-Semites Free Read More

150 years ago a small nation dared to proclaim itself a liberated people declaring that “We have suffered centuries of outrage, enforced poverty, and bitter misery. Our rights and liberties have been trampled on by an alien aristocracy, who treating us as foes, usurped our lands, and drew away from our unfortunate country all material riches.”

7 years ago faa 0
On 23 November 1867 in Salford Goal three of the leaders of the above 1867 bid for freedom known as The Manchester Martyrs were executed by “an alien aristocracy” that would bring the same oppression to the people of Palestine via the notorious Balfour Declaration almost exactly 50 years later.   The Fenians proclaimed a Read More

Defining Anti-Semitism Stephen Sedley

7 years ago faa 0
Shorn of philosophical and political refinements, anti-Semitism is hostility towards Jews as Jews. Where it manifests itself in discriminatory acts or inflammatory speech it is generally illegal, lying beyond the bounds of freedom of speech and of action.  By contrast, criticism (and equally defence) of Israel or of Zionism is not only generally lawful: it Read More

Zionism, anti-Semitism & Ken Livingstone

7 years ago faa 0
Liverpool Friends of Palestine Early in April Ken Livingstone was suspended for a further 12 months by the Labour Party National Compliance Committee. He was originally charged with anti-Semitism and ‘holocaust revision’, either of which would have been reason to expel him if true. Neither accusation would stand up in a court of law, so Read More

The Zionist Federation of Germany’s (ZVfD) Welcome for the Nuremburg Laws

7 years ago faa 0
The Article below was printed in German in the Zionist newspaper Juedische Rundschau, issue No. 75, on September 17, 1935, and its discovery by Tony Greenstein will prove that former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone is right. After years of struggle the new Laws passed by the Reichstag at the Party Congress of Freedom…establish absolutely clear Read More

United Nations; Economic & Social Commission for Western Asia

7 years ago faa 0
Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid: Palestine and the Israeli Occupation, Issue No. 1 E/ESCWA/ECRI/2017/1 Issued in: 2017 This report examines, based on key instruments of international law, whether Israel has established an apartheid regime that oppresses and dominates the Palestinian people as a whole. Having established that the crime of Read More