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Bill Maher’s recent rant against the BDS movement exposed his ignorance of Palestinian history and legal rights to end the USA sustained military occupation of their homeland; and inspired this revisit of apartheid Israeli style By Eileen Fleming During last Friday’s REAL TIME with Bill Maher the comic opined that the international movement to Boycott, Divest,…
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On Friday October 16, an international BDS wave of action kicks off against Israel’s decades of occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid policies under the banner #SolidarityWaveBDS By Eileen Fleming BDS is a strategy that allows people of conscience to play an effective role in the Palestinian struggle for justice. On Wednesday the Palestinian BDS National…
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Block the Boat Versus Israeli Zim Shipping Company By Eileen Fleming Block the Boat actions against Israel-based Zim Integrated Shipping Services, began in Oakland, California and quickly spread to Tacoma, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Tampa. Last month in Oakland, four days of demonstrations by Block the Boat activists stopped the Zim Piraeus from fully unloading…
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Israel’s Security, Palestine’s Liberation and All that Jazz By Eileen Fleming Israels security, Palestine’s Liberation: Monday at midnight in Cairo the current cease-fire talks are due to end. On Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would only accept a proposal for a long-term cease-fire if Israel’s security needs were met. A senior Israeli official said….
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Contrast between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activism By Ray Hanania It is amazing to watch the activists on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clearly, the pro-Israel activists have their act together while the pro-Palestinian groups martyr themselves as an excuse for failure. During the past few months, pro-Israel lobbyists and PACs, including the villainous AIPAC,…
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