My Mentor, who shall be known as “Promeneur” until he authorizes otherwise, has sent a correction to a description I wrote about Rosa Luxemburg, in my post on Donor Opium [a film critical of Palestinian dependence on donor aid, which was sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation]. He wrote [from London, via email]: “Starved to [...]
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Eleven judges of the Israeli Supreme Court decided in a narrowly split vote [6 in favor, 5 against] this week [on 11 January] to continue a ban that has been in effect since 2003, during the height of the Second Palestinian Intifada, on allowing Palestinian spouses to reside legally with their Israeli husbands or wives [...]
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About ten days ago, Sari Bashi [Executive Director of the Israeli human rights organization GISHA, which was founded to advocate for Palestinian freedom of movement. wrote [in Hebrew] about one application of the Israeli military’s use of secret evidence against Palestinian detainees. Bashi wrote that: “In the six years in which Gisha has been providing [...]
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Here is an interesting film critical of the role that donor funding has played in making and keeping Palestinians aid-dependent in the occupied West Bank, Donor Opium: It was produced by Palestinians in the West Bank with funding from the German Rosa Luxemburg Foundation [named after a committed 19th Marxist who starved CORR: see above,
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The Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din has just filed a petition with Israel’s Supreme Court [High Court of Justice] asking for a further hearing in the case of Israeli-owned stone quarries operating in the West Bank. Yesh Din first challenged the legality of Israeli quarrying activities in the occupied West Bank in a petition [...]
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Part of the reform that some Palestinians have demanded, since being galvanized by Egyptian protests in Tahrir Square a year ago [January 25], has been their call for universal elections among all Palestinians wherever they are, on the basis of one person, one vote, for a new Palestine National Council [PNC], the PLO’s [Palestine Liberation [...]
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Today’s recommended reading is Amira Hass’ article in Haaretz, In West Bank, buying land isn’t always what it seems, with details about forged signatures on faked land sales of Palestinian lands that became Israeli settlements in the West Bank here. In this report, Amira Hass writes: “This has been the settlements’ method ever since they [...]
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Russian-born Anastasia Michaeli, a member of the Israeli Knesset elected on the Yisrael Beitenu party list headed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, previously distinguished herself by throwning herself physically at, at attempting to assault, Nazareth-born Knesset member Haneen Zoabi during a hearing on Zoabi’s role on the Mavi Marmara, headed to Gaza as part of [...]
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The Guardian’s Science correspondent Alok Jha has written a piece on the occasion of the 70th birthday celebration of scientist Stephen Hawking reporting: “The world’s most famous living scientists turns 70 today. Professor Stephen Hawking has defied medical expectations, since being diagnosed with a form of motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and [...]
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In an otherwise uninteresting commentary published as an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Dennis Ross, adviser to several American presidents on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, suggested that … as Israel’s Supreme Court has just recommended that there should be “no additional quarries” in the West Bank that are Israeli-owned, there is now some sort of [...]
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