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JfJfP Sponsors OneWorld Freedom For Palestine Song
June 4th, 2011
Supported by: War on Want, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, A Just Peace for Palestine, Friends of Al Aqsa, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions UK, Stop the War Coalition, Trust Greenbelt and the A.M.Qattan Foundation. Proceeds go to UK charity War on Want to support projects in Palestine.
Israel’s treatment of immigrant children reveals contempt for law
June 4th, 2011
The lives of immigrants and their Israeli-born chiodren are increasingly hemmed in, or out, by administrative actions and a new Knesset law
Music speaks truth to power: get this song into charts
June 4th, 2011
One World has released Freedom for Palestine in response to the suffering witnessed in the West Bank. JfJfP backs it, and ColdPlay has endorsed it so joining the movers and shakers denounced by Glenn Beck, http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/
How a flawed bureaucratic document has been transformed into a sacred text
June 2nd, 2011
The row about academic antisemiitism has lost touch with reality, argues Antony Lerman, who provides some actual historical background, to complement the other two postings on this page
Israeli Jews join ‘daily intifada’ in Jerusalem
June 2nd, 2011
Palestinian activists in Jerusalem invite Jews to join their struggle. This is a transcript of a video made by The Real News of those involved, which can be viewed at http://therealnews. com/t2/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=31&Itemi d=74&jumival= 6842
Any critic of six-year-old definition of antisemitism attacked as antisemitic
June 2nd, 2011
Richard Kuper takes us through the EUMC document- see post on this page -and its history to explain why academics have rejected its definition of anti-semitism as the only one.
IDF trains to combat ‘new player’ – mass protests
June 1st, 2011
IDF chief warns "In fighting groups operating out of urban areas, we shall be forced to exercise a lot of force, even if it will see the other side paying a painful price."
Academics vote to reject EUMC’s working definition of anti-semitism
June 1st, 2011
On May 30, the Universities and Colleges Union voted not to accept the 'working definition' of anti-semitism drawn up by the European Monitoring Centre for Racism and Xenophobia, now commuted into the FRA - European Fundamental Rights Agency. The 'working definition' is at the bottom of this post
Mutual aid between Israeli state and Ofer family under spotlight
June 1st, 2011
A storm is growing about the shipping company Ofer Brothers, and associated family businesses, and mutual assistance between them and the Israeli defence and secret service establishments. A report from Haaretz is followed by a comment from Ali Abunimah
Founder of Linux cancels Israel trip in order to speak to Palestinians
May 31st, 2011
Richard Stallman, a creator of free software system Linux, chooses to speak to Palestinians (who invited him) and forego a speaking tour in Israel
Home at last – all waiting get through small gap in wide gate to Gaza
May 30th, 2011
Ramzy Baroud, editor of PalestineChronicle.com, is one of those allowed to cross into his Gaza home under the new Egyptian rule
Forget the land, think portable citizen rights in Israel/Palestine
May 30th, 2011
A "parallel states" solution has been developed by a team of Israeli, Palestinian and international scholars, policymakers and protagonists in the conflict. It is built upon a new understanding of sovereignty based on the relation between the state and the individual citizen not territory
Hopes of Palestinian unity falter over splits and conditions
May 30th, 2011
Obama's speech underscored 'that self-government under Israel’s brutal occupation and blackmail is an illusion and it might be better to dissolve the Palestinian Authority that sustains this illusion' writes Ali Abunimah
Israeli land agency bulldozes Bedouin village in Negev again and again
May 30th, 2011
Bedouin villagers have documented claims to land in the Negev - which the Israel Land Administration wants for a forest and so repeatedly destroys their village. Amnesty International is running a campaign to help the Bedouin which JfJfP fully supports. Go to Amnesty's web-page to find out how you can add your support
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