Hamas called off a 16-month-old truce with Israel June 9 after attacks by Israeli forces in Gaza killed 10 Palestinians, including three children playing on a beach. “The Israeli massacres represent a direct opening battle,” Hamas said in a statement…. Read moreHamas ends truce following Gaza raids, demands Egyptian intervention
More uneasy deja vu from Lebanon. The sons of the Syria-backed President Emile Lahoud and the bitterly anti-Syria Druze leader Walid Jumblatt get into a shoot-out in Beirut—just as their fathers opposed each other in the civil war. From Lebanon’s… Read moreDeja vu in Lebanon: Lahoud-Jumblatt shoot-out
Received by email: The Congress of South African Trade Unions issues statement supporting CUPE resolution The President, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, June 6, 2006 Brother Sid Ryan, On behalf over 1,2 million South African workers organized under… Read moreSouth African Unions support Israel boycott
From the JTA, May 20: Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC A congresswoman says AIPAC is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) said the supporter of the American… Read moreCongresswoman boycotts AIPAC
Israel is continuing “targetted assassinations” in supposedly unoccupied Gaza. But internecine Palestinian violence, alas, now seems equally efficient in killing off the Palestinian leadership. An Israeli missile strike on a car in Gaza City May 20 killed a top Islamic… Read morePalestine headed for civil war?
Ten Palestinians have been shot and killed in the last two years while protesting Israel’s separation wall non-violently. Hundreds of protestors have been injured, including internationals and Israelis. From the ISM media office, May 14: Non-Violent Demonstration Against the Wall… Read moreIsraeli army attacks protest, girls’ school
From Ha’aretz, May 11: Fear and loathing in Petah Tikva / Neo-Nazi gangs assaulting ultra-Orthodox Jews A week after the desecration of the Great Synagogue in Petah Tikva, nothing remains of the horror the worshipers encountered there last Thursday when… Read moreIsraeli neo-Nazis attack Jews
According to this decision, if he married her now and she was under 25, an Israeli parliamentarian’s wife wouldn’t be allowed to live with him in Israel. From Ha’aretz, May 14: MK Barakeh: High Court ruling supplies an ‘alibi for… Read moreIsraeli court upholds apartheid
The two were shot with rubber bullets at close range in the head. From the International Solidarity Movement: [photos at the link] May 12, Bi’lin, occupied West Bank “I saw blood gushing out of his head, and helped bandage it…. Read moreIsraeli troops shoot two foreigners
From the American Library Association, May 5: Brandeis Students Protest Removal of Palestinian Art Some 100 people, many of them students at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, marched May 4 to protest the removal a week earlier of “Voices from… Read moreBrandeis students protest removal of Palestinian art
An exhibition of artwork at Brandeis University featuring 17 paintings by Palestinian youths from the al-Rowwad cultural center at the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, was removed by the university last week, after several… Read moreCensorship at Brandeis
It seems Mehlman and the AJC have not heard the message from more moderate elements of the Israel lobby, or from right-wing pollster Frank Luntz. The following May 3 AP article ran in the
