“You are,” he said, “like a prison doctor treating a victim of torture, making the prisoner healthy to be interrogated and tortured again.”

In New York City, a group of demonstrators blocked traffic by laying down in the streets outside Israel’s Mission to the United Nations on Tuesday. Twenty-six people were arrested after refusing police orders to disperse. The action was organized by the author and scholar Norman Finkelstein.

Born in Germany three years before the Nazis came to power in 1933, Siegman’s family eventually moved to the United States. His father was a leader of the European Zionist movement that pushed for the creation of a Jewish state

(1. August 2014) Es wirkt wie grausamer Hohn, daß Wilhelm II., dem selbst die radikalsten Gegner der Monarchie bezeugen, daß er ehrlich den Frieden der Völker so sehr gewollt hat, daß ihm von anderer alldeutscher patriotischer Seite der Vorwurf der Zaghaftigkeit – um es gering auszudrücken – nicht erspart worden ist, im sechsundzwanzigsten Jahr seiner Regierung das deutsche Volk zu den Waffen rufen muß, zu den Waffen in einem Kriege, der, keine Spitzfindigkeit der Welt kann es wegdisputieren, ein reiner Verteidigungskrieg ist, denn es gibt keinen Staat in Europa, dessen Friedensliebe so echt und so bewahrt ist wie des Deutschen Reiches.

Over the last day or so there have been more and more signs that Israel’s image is tanking due its latest massacres in Gaza.

Bernie, I have had a strong connection with Vermont since my college crowd founded a hippy farm in Vermont. They are still there, pillars of their communities now, some grandparents, and all of them supporters of yours. I will be talking to them about how you have compromised every principle that you say guides you, how you failed to reject the disgusting AIPAC and its resolution calling this Israeli barbarism “self-defense.”

Call if cognitive dissonance – using Jewish suffering as a rallying call while Jews causing suffering to others in the name of that suffering is too confusing for most folks. Say the Holocaust and people think Gaza. It isn’t a comparison. It’s a deep revulsion to violence in the name of innocents suffering.

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The four Democrats were Keith Ellison (MN-05), Zoe Lofgren (CA-19), Jim Moran (VA-08, and Beto O‘Rourke (TX-16).

The four Republicans are Justin Amash (MI-03), Walter Jones (NC-03), Tom Massie (KY-04), and Mark Sanford (SC-01).“

Celebrated film-maker claims many BBC staff embarrassed by their employer‘s pro-Israeli bias

Students on both sides of the issue said that UT students should be proactively educating themselves on the conflict.

The Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance is trying to act responsibly in the face of threats; the complicated social fabric of Jerusalem will not be torn apart by brotherly hatred.

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(21. Februar 2013) Via the mass media and public pronouncements Zionist politicians and the state incite Israeli hatred against the Haredim: A study in 2006 claimed that over a third of Israeli Jews identified the Haredim as the most unpopular group in Israel .

The Haredim, on the other hand, have reason to fear and loath the secular militarist Zionist state and politicians: They claim that after World War II in the Zionist-controlled relocation camps for refugee Jewish children in Teheran, the Jewish Agency imposed Zionist ideology and militarist anti-religious policies in order to cut Haredim children off from their spiritual roots. According to one Haredim report many religious Jewish youth from Poland , mostly survivors of the Holocaust and Soviet Russia, were subjected to “unimaginable mental and physical cruelty with one goal in mind: (the) obliteration of Judaism”.

(13.09.2004) Zehntausende Israelis haben am Sonntagabend in West-Jerusalem gegen die Regierungspläne zum Abzug aus einigen ihrer Siedlungen in den besetzten Palästinensergebieten demonstriert. Repräsentanten der rechten Bewegung riefen die israelischen Soldaten dazu auf, Befehle zur Evakuierung von Siedlungen zu verweigern und kündigten bewaffnete Gegenwehr an. Eine Drohung, die in Israel angesichts einiger extrem-radikaler Siedlergruppen niemand auf die leichte Schulter nimmt. Bereits auf der sonntäglichen Kabinettssitzung wandte sich Ministerpräsident Ariel Scharon gegen die „Hetzkampagne, mit ihren absichtlichen Aufrufen zum Bürgerkrieg“.

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(13. Juli) I have to say this clearly: it is not just these fascists, Eliassi and his people, or those carrying Liberman’s posters and the rest of the thugs. It comes from the top. It comes from a government which serially incites against Arabs and the Left. It comes from MK Yariv Levin sitting in the Channel 10 News studio, boldly lying about the Gaza siege policy, and refusing to allow Ran Cohen from Physicians for Human Rights to talk, calling him a liar, saying Channel 10 was derelict in its duty when it allows the government to be criticized on the air – criticism which was entirely hard, dry facts. It comes from policemen, who are quite adept at attacking Left-wing demonstrations, or ultra-Orthodox ones, and of course Arab ones – but somehow stand in silence in the face of fascists marching through the streets. And it comes from a prime minister who has been silent for weeks while masses flood the streets, attacking Arabs, swearing, humiliating, a whole population group feeling threatened and isolated, with nobody to turn to.

(20. Juli) The captain of a youth soccer team in Be‘er Sheva wrote on his facebook page Sunday „send left-wing voters to the gas chambers and clean this country of leftists,“ drawing outrage both over the use of Holocaust imagery and the violent nature of the statement, Israel‘s Channel 7 news reported.

In the center of Tel Aviv, hundreds of ant-war activists faced right-wing protesters, some affiliated with the radical, banned, Kach movement, who shouted at them „traitors“ and „go to Gaza.“

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Livni sagte mit Blick auf die Resolution des UN-Sicherheitsrates: „Wir entscheiden, wann der Krieg endet, nicht die Staatengemeinschaft.“ (…)

Steinmeier betonte zugleich: „Wir müssen geduldig an einem Waffenstillstand arbeiten.“

Die israelische Außenministerin Zipi Livni hat ihrem Kollegen Frank-Walter Steinmeier für die deutsche Hilfe bei der besseren Absicherung der Grenze zum Gazastreifen gedankt. (…)

Steinmeier sagte: „Wir müssen geduldig an einem Waffenstillstand arbeiten.“

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(12. Januar 2009) In einem Live-Interview auf “Press TV” berichtete der Sprecher des UNO-Palästinenserhilfswerks UNRWA Christopher Gunnes von der Situation in Gaza. Er sprach von einer “flip-flop”-Kriegspropaganda der israelischen Militärs, welche beständig Kriegsverbrechen begingen und diese anschliessend leugneten.

Die Reihenfolge, so der UNO-Sprecher, sei immer gleich. Zuerst folge z.B. der Beschuss von UNO-Fahrzeugen und Gebäuden der UNRWA in Gaza durch Israels Militär.
Wenn das bekannt werde, so Gunnes, leugneten die Israelis zunächst alles. Dann erfänden sie neue Lügen, wie z.B. den Beschuss der eigenen Streitkräfte aus den UNO-Gebäuden. Würden diese wiederlegt, erfänden sie einfach neue, usw.

Rob Wohl an Organizer with #IfNotNow led the vigil with an opening statement addressed to the community center.“We are here to call on the DC Jewish Community Center to join our call to stop the war on Gaza, lift the siege, and forge a path of freedom and dignity for the people of Palestine.”

(03. August) We vigorously condemn today’s Israeli strike and find it incomprehensible that such violence has happened again, only four days since we carried out dead and wounded civilians who had sought refuge in a UN installation. We again call on the Israeli authorities immediately to investigate this appalling incident in Rafah. We made two similar calls after the shelling incidents at our schools housing thousands of displaced people in Beit Hanoun and Jabalia, which caused multiple deaths and injuries. We fully expect the result of these three investigations to be transmitted to us.

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Israel hat erneut eine Schule der Vereinten Nationen im Gazastreifen bombardiert. Ban Ki Moon nennt das „Wahnsinn“. Das Verhältnis zwischen Israel und den UN droht noch schlechter zu werden.

Ashraf al-Qudra, the Gaza Health Ministry spokesman, said 30 people, mostly women and children, were wounded in the strike on Monday on a house in Shati refugee camp.

An Israeli military spokeswoman told news agency Reuters she was checking the report.

(28. Juli) “I saw a massacre,” says one survivor, “There were heads off bodies, shoulders half torn, hands gone, chests opened.”

Roger Waters, speaking on behalf of the Russell Tribunal, delivers a very nicely put speech in front of delegates on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This day also marks an important development in the Palestinians‘ bid to statehood as they are now recognized as a non-member observer state. Hopefully the world sees both sides of the story and that both conflicting parties go into negotiations towards a two-state peaceful solution and put an end this long and dragged out conflict. Enough is enough!

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