Israeli Occupation

 
Prof. Alan Dershowitz
 
By Franklin Lamb
Damascus:
 

 
by Ali Abunimah               Electronic Intifada
 
It’s hard for me to believe that it was in 2002 that Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj, the legendary Palestinian mental health pioneer, visited Chicago and spoke at the International House.

URGENT APPEAL: Ref: UA 22 / 13.
http://www.palestinematters.com/Appeal-to-Pope-Francis-to-help-Gaza_Appeal_1117.aspx
Gazan families are suffering. Israel and Egypt have cut off fuel supplies so that Gazans have had no electricity and vital services  for 2 months. Families, in  freezing temperatures  have no light, no heat and hospitals are overflowing while sewerage is flooding the streets and people have to be ferried  by boats and canoes.

 
 Open Christmas letter to Pope Francis on Gaza
 
by Vacy Vlazna
 
 
 
Your Holiness
 
In desperation, in December a campaign was launched appealing to you to help release the suffering people of Gaza from the genocidal strangulation of the Israeli seven year blockade.

 
By Paul Balles
 
In August 2004 Richard Hugus, critic of progressive injustice, wrote an article called “Lies of the Israeli peace movement”.
Richard Hugus
What Hugus wrote almost 10 years ago has as much forgotten or neglected relevance today.

 
Graphic: Coalition For a Free Palestine (South Africa)
 
 
 
John Chuckman
 
 The press has echoed for days with admiration for Nelson Mandela and his genuinely heroic fight against the apartheid government of South Africa. There have been many recollections of the brutal quality of that government, all perhaps carrying an unstated sense of how could people live that way?

 
 
The American Studies Association leadership has endorsed a boycott of Israeli universities over what it describes as the Israeli regime’s violation of international law and ethical codes.
The decision posted Wednesday follows a contentious debate at the group’s annual meeting last month and 10 days of deliberations that were supposed to last a morning. The boycott resolution was approved unanimously by the 20-member national council.

 

 
After the humiliation of the last papal visit.  Will the Pope insist on seeing Gaza this time? Or should he, too, boycott Israel until Jerusalem and the Christian and Muslim communities are freed from occupation?
 
 by Stuart Littlewood           Intifada Palestine

 

By Dr. Elias Akleh

The Lobby vs. Obama
 
by MJ Rosenberg
It’s been clear to me for about ten years that the primary problem the United States faces in crafting Middle East policy is not so much the Arabs or the Israelis. It is the pro-Israel lobby led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or AIPAC but consisting also of all the major Jewish organizations that include Israel in their portfolio.