On the 35th anniversary of the murder of four non-violent protestors at Kent State, comes this press release from the International Solidarity Movement: School Children Murdered by Israeli Military at Anti-Wall Protest Beit Liqya, Ramallah, West Bank Two cousins, 14… Read moreIDF kills 2 teens at protest
Larry Franklin, the Pentagon analyst suspected of passing classified information to American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) bigs, has been arrested by the FBI. Franklin, who recently went back to work at the Pentagon, turned down goverment offers to cooperate…. Read morePentagon analyst arrested in AIPAC spy scandal
That was the headline on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency website on May 3. The article continues: Shimon Peres sided with religious activists in opposing a gay parade planned for Jerusalem. Israel’s vice premier said in a statement Tuesday that Jerusalem… Read morePeres comes out against parade
From the New York Times, April 30 (condensed): At Least 18 Arrests Made in Tense Night of a Monthly Cycling Protest Under tense circumstances, the monthly Critical Mass bicycle ride set out last night from multiple locations in Manhattan, in… Read moreNYC Critical Mass crackdown escalates
As we here at WW4 REPORT know, Israel is a client state of the American empire. In the following article in the well-known anti-Semitic conspirazoid publication The Forward, Ori Nir claims that the recent sacking of two AIPAC officials resulting… Read moreAnti-Semitic conspiracy theory in The Forward!!
The following release from Gush Shalom describes how Israeli forces attacked a joint Palestinian-Israeli non-violent demonstration against the separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bi’lin. The demonstration is notable for its size, and the fact that Palestinian Israeli… Read moreBi’lin demo savagely attacked by Israeli forces
Jeffrey Blankfort, relentless critic of the Israel lobby and what he sees as the failure of the left to properly engage the question, has written a long-awaited critique of Noam Chomsky’s views. Blankfort writes: The 2005 edition of Left Curve… Read moreBlankfort takes on Chomsky
This year’s North American winner of the Goldman Prize, awarded annually to the most courageous environmental activists on five contients, is Isidro Baldenegro of Chihuahua, Mexico, a Tarahumara Indian who has long defended the forests of the Sierra Tarahumara against… Read moreTarahumara forest-defender wins Goldman award
A group of prominent businessmen in Turkey have issued a call for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movies to be banned from Turkish TV after the California governor endorsed a call by Armenian-Americans (a sizeable constituency in his state) for April 24 to… Read moreTurks protest Schwarzenegger for bad reason
The recent moves towards peace between India and Pakistan, symbolized by the historic establishment of bus service across the line of control in divided Kashmir, are a welcome development. But the April 6 arson attack on a Srinagar compound where… Read moreKashmir water war
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man to be charged with a crime related to 9-11 in the U.S., was finally allowed to enter a plea in federal court April 22, and, in his inimitably garbled fashion, pleaded guilty to all six… Read moreMoussaoui pleads guilty (sort of)
The New York Times is seemingly allergic to the word “occupation” when it comes to describing the Israel-Palestine conflict. It rarely mentions that all Israeli settlements, including those in East Jerusalem, violate international law. Daniel Okrent, the Times’ public editor,… Read moreNYT defends lack of “occupation”
