The Australian government, Israel and its collaborator, the Palestinian Authority (PA) scored a victory over the Palestinian Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Movement on November 29, 2014.
This was the shameful day that the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) , at its AGM, voted for No.1 from the following options,
Ross’s accusation reminds me of the The Israel Project’s training manual designed to help the worldwide Zionist movement win the propaganda war. It teaches how to justify the endless occupation, the slaughter, the ethnic cleansing, the land-grabbing, the cruelty and the blatant disregard for international law and UN resolutions
Image: PA President Mahmoud Abbas signs international agreements in Ramallah, December 31, 2014. Photo by Reuters (Courtesy Haaretz.com)
For years, the Palestinian president Abbas has deluded himself that the United States would act to end the Israeli occupation during his lifetime. On Wednesday, he was forced to abandon his illusions.
But if the Americans are genuinely interested in a moderate coalition, then they should not reward the current right-wing government by blocking the UN vote to end the Israeli occupation. If not, the PA should stop dilly-dallying and sidestep the US’ throttled UN Security Council by signing the Rome Statute to become a fully-fledged ICC member. Otherwise by its inaction, the Palestinian leadership risks history’s final verdict of being an accessory for surrendering all of Palestine.
Image: Israeli forces have murdered a senior Palestinian official during a protest rally near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
‘This is an occupying terrorising army… we came here to plant trees. We are peaceful. No one was violent, yet we were attacked brutally by this terrorist army.’
Image: Winter has arrived in Gaza
This growth of the BDS movement is starting to turn the tide against Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, even among decision makers. Israel may soon be facing its South Africa moment.
The international surge in condemnation of Israel’s treatment of Palestine, and Gaza in particular, underlines the growing impact of BDS
Tense situation: An Israeli soldier watches as protesters avoid a tear gas fired by the Israeli army during a protest over tension in Jerusalem, near the West Bank village of Hizma, south-east of Ramallah, last week (Image credit DailyMail -Reuters)
Image: Construction workers work at the site of a new housing unit in the Settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev. Israeli municipal authorities have issued building permits for 558 Jewish settler apartments in war-won east Jerusalem.(Image Credit: http://www.demotix.com)
Just days after American, Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli leaders met in Jordan to reduce current tension in Jerusalem, Israel issued new permits to build more Jewish-only homes and Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli foreign minister declared
