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New Definition of Antisemitism Distinguishes it from Anti-Zionism

Leading Jewish scholars say BDS, one-state solution are not antisemitic by Arno Rosenfeld Boycotting Israel and calling for an end to its Jewish majority is not inherently antisemitic, according to a new definition of antisemitism released Thursday by a group of more than 200 scholars of Jewish studies. The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism represents the latest salvo in the debate over how to define anti-Jewish bigotry and is the most permissive of the mainstream definitions when it comes to attacks on Israel. Alon Confino, a Jewish studies [...]

By |2021-04-08T16:16:51-05:00April 8th, 2021|Israel and Palestine, Justice/Injustice, Movements, News, Obituary, Palestine, Palestinian|0 Comments
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The Envoy on Antisemitism, the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism, the ADL and Me

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA Rumor has it that Joe Biden is considering naming Abe Foxman, former head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), as his new Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, a position within the State Department that falls under the Under-Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights. This focused my attention both on the purpose of the office, which is related to US foreign policy, explaining why it’s an “envoy” (someone being sent elsewhere) and also on the ongoing controversy over the IHRA [...]

By |2021-03-01T03:17:29-05:00March 1st, 2021|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Commentary, Free Speech, Historical, Independent Media, Internet, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace and War|0 Comments
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Lebanon and Syria: The Manufacture of Dissent

Lebanon and Syria: The Manufacture of Dissent By Rania Khalek httpss://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/11/us-parties-lebanon-protests-pushing-country-war-roadblocks/#more-17767 The US is desperate to ride the revolutionary wave in Lebanon, hoping it can fracture a governing coalition that includes Hezbollah, a top target of the Trump administration and its friends from Tel Aviv to Riyadh. To this end, political figures Washington has cultivated and parties the US backs have penetrated the protest movement that has swept the country and are now on the frontlines of blockades obstructing roads around the country. In the first part [...]

By |2019-12-30T22:40:21-05:00December 30th, 2019|Activism, Commentary, Independent Journalism, Israel and Palestine, Movements, Palestinian, Politics, Protests and Rallies|0 Comments
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Israel May Face First Arab to Lead Parliamentary Opposition

Israel May Face First Arab to Lead Parliamentary Opposition Joint List chair, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), was interviewed by Israel’s Reshet Bet (Network B) radio in August, to discuss possible outcomes of the September 17 general elections. Odeh told his audience that if Benny Gantz's Blue & White Party forms a unity government with Netanyahu's Likud, Odeh, leading a projected bloc of 11 to 13 seats in the Knesset, will emerge as the first Arab head of the Knesset opposition parties. “Gantz is neither politically or intellectually [...]

By |2019-10-02T05:30:24-05:00October 2nd, 2019|Elections, Indigenous Nations, Israel and Palestine, Movements, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace and War, Politics, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Free Speech Threatened, B-D-S Proponents Attacked

Meet the Texas Speech Pathologist Who Lost School Job for Refusing to Sign Pro-Israel, Anti-BDS Oath httpss://www.democracynow. org/2018/12/18/meet_the_texas_speech_pathologist_who   Well, for more, we are turning to Omar Barghouti. He was scheduled to join us here in our Democracy Now! studio in New York today, but instead he’s joining us from Ramallah in the West Bank. Omar Barghouti is the author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Omar, welcome to Democracy Now! Can you describe what happened when you got to the airport in Tel Aviv on Wednesday? OMAR BARGHOUTI: Sure. [...]

By |2019-05-03T03:16:13-05:00May 3rd, 2019|Activism, Amy Goodman, Anti-Racism/Racism, Economy, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Media, Israel and Palestine, Jeffrey Hirsch, Justice/Injustice, Movements, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils|0 Comments
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Welcome to the New Algerian Revolution

Welcome to the New Algerian Revolution: an Interview with Hamza Hamouchene by Omar Hassan - April 29, 2019 httpss://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/29/welcome-to-the-new-algerian-revolution-an-interview-with-hamza-hamouchene/ In 2011, a wave of revolutionary struggle swept the Middle East and North Africa, often bringing down dictatorships that had governed for decades. Millions protested on the streets, occupied public spaces and demanded “bread, freedom and social justice”. Having broken through the fear produced by years of repression, the Arab Spring became an inspiration for activists across the world. Predictably, the existing elites – the military, big business [...]

By |2019-05-03T03:02:56-05:00May 3rd, 2019|Activism, Africa, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Events, Historical, Human Rights, Palestinian, Peace and War|0 Comments
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Don Bustany

Don Bustany passed away early one morning in late April, peacefully, at his assisted-living home in Santa Barbara, after a long illness. Having lived a full life, he lost his wife Judy some years ago, as well as his life-long friend and radio partner Casey Kasem. He had decided to refuse further treatment. He is survived by a stepdaughter, Kristen.  R.I.P. Don was born in Detroit to Lebanese-American parents. He and radio host & voice actor Casey Kasem were childhood friends and later co-creators of the syndicated [...]

By |2018-04-24T22:12:13-05:00April 24th, 2018|In Memoriam, Los Angeles, Obituary, Pacifica/KPFK, Palestinian, Public Radio|0 Comments
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Zionism, Arab Reaction and US Imperialism on the Attack

Israel Committing Itself to Apartheid in New 'Basic Law' by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action L.A. httpss://ara-la.tumblr.com/post/172315363940/growing-desperation-of-us-imperialism-zionism Israel's ruling parties, backed by Trump's decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem as soon as this May, is committing the state irrevocably to apartheid by drafting a new 'basic law,' the equivalent of a constitution, defining Israel as the "nation-state of the Jewish people," replacing an earlier law which defines it as a Jewish and democratic state. The law also eliminates the status of Arabic as an official language, [...]

By |2018-04-01T12:33:30-05:00March 28th, 2018|Africa, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Donald Trump, Free Speech, Israel and Palestine, Justice/Injustice, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Veterans, War|0 Comments
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Sunshine in Palestine

SUNSHINE IN PALESTINE [col. writ. 6/1/17] ©2017 by Mumia Abu-Jamal On Saturday past, hundreds of Palestinian political prisoners announced a stunning victory against the repressive conditions in Israeli prisons. After Israeli prison officials granted some concessions, a majority of Palestinian prisoners who had engaged in a huge hunger strike, called off the 40-day action. According to these officials, some 1,578 prisoners joined the strike, and 834 ended it on Saturday, the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. Eighteen others were hospitalized. The hunger strike was led [...]

By |2017-07-01T23:02:25-05:00July 1st, 2017|Anti-Racism/Racism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Independent Journalism, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Palestinian|0 Comments
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How Most of the US Left Failed Syria

How Most of the US Left Failed Syria Interview of Rania Khalek by Joe Emersberger [excerpts] https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/How-Most-of-the-U.S.-Left-Failed-Syria-20170110-0029.html (C-L note: Rania Khalek spoke in L.A. last month at the Peace Center under the auspices of Arab-Americans for Syria, in the wake of Trump's missile attack on a Syrian air base. She discussed the links between Saudi-financed Wahhabists on the one hand, and Zionists on the other, both backed by US imperialism, in fomenting an armed revolt in Syria, used as a pretext for direct US military attacks. This [...]

By |2017-05-02T21:10:21-05:00May 2nd, 2017|Israel and Palestine, Movements, Palestinian, Peace, Protests and Rallies, Saudi Arabia, Women|0 Comments
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Freedom for Ashraf Fayadh & Stop the Execution

As part of the International Call to Action by the World Poetry Movement, and the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, the poets of Los Angeles stand in solidarity to protest the death sentence placed upon Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, by Saudi Arabia and call upon the Saudi government for his immediate release.      Fayadh is sentenced to death after being jailed for more than 22 months in Abha without clear legal charges beyond insulting the Godly self and having ideas that do not suit Saudi society. These charges are [...]

By |2016-01-01T15:32:20-05:00January 1st, 2016|Free Speech, Palestinian, Saudi Arabia|0 Comments
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