Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Weekly Update 04-02-2010

URGENT: Protest against Daniel Ayalon in London
MONDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 10.30 am, outside the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Temple Place, WC2 (opposite Temple tube)
Daniel Ayalon, the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, is coming to Britain. Yisrael Beitenu, a far-right party, is well-known for its racist policies, including its proposals to jail Palestinians [...]

Gaza Freedom Long March

The law is clear. The conscience of humankind is shocked. Yet, the siege of Gaza continues. The people of Gaza have exhorted the international community to move beyond words of condemnation. It is time for us to take action!
The Long March toward Freedom
To mark the anniversary of Israel’s bloody 22-day assault on Gaza the International [...]

PA police step up persecution of Islamic Liberation Party activists

From Khalid Amayreh in al-Khalil
American-backed Palestinian Authority security forces are stepping up repressive tactics against Hizbultahrir (Islamic Liberation Party) activists throughout the Israeli-occupied West Bank .
Earlier this week, PA security personnel surrounded the home of Maher al Jabari, spokesman of the party in downtown Hebron, demanding that he turns himself in.
Al-Jabari refused, telling the commander [...]

Budging to public pressure, PA cancels beauty-queen contest

From Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
Fearing a backlash from the largely conservative Palestinian public, the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Sunday decided to cancel a beauty-queen pageant that was slated to take place in Ramallah next week.
The pro-Fatah Maan news agency quoted the Governor of Ramallah as saying that he decided to “freeze and postpone [...]

Global economic order needs ‘radical change’

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left. AFP photo

The global economic order needs “radical change,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday, calling for Islamic principles to replace capitalist values.
“The present economic crisis is due to the capitalist system. The world needs radical change,” Ahmadinejad told a one-day economic summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, [...]

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Palestinian journalists scoff at “farcical election”

By Khalid Amayreh
Independent and professional journalists throughout Occupied Palestine are scoffing  at the “journalists’ union elections” which took place on Saturday, 6 February, under the aegis of the Fatah organization, describing the event as [...]

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The slippery slope

By Mazin Qumsiyeh Ph.d
As the descent into the slippery slope of racism continues unabated in this
land of apartheid, the angle and degree of the slide seem to surprise many.
The Israeli parliament (Knesset) has a “Constitution, Law and Justice
Committee” terms that only sound similar to what exists in a Western
democracy.  But the “Jewish state” is “special” [...]

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Did Hamas carry out a coup in Gaza in 2007?

By Khalid Amayreh
Ellen Rosser, Professor of English and a veteran peace activist, maintained an office in downtown Gaza from September 2006 to June 2007. During that period she was an eyewitness to the events which eventually culminated in the violent clashes between Fatah and Hamas in the summer of 2007, ending with Hamas routing Fatah’s [...]

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The Kidnapping of Haiti

By John Pilger
January 27, 2010 “Information Clearing House” — The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to “secure” roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis in [...]

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