Beirut protests Israel’s attack on Gaza aid convoy
Thousands take to streets of Beirut to protest Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla
Mohammad Othman
Last Tuesday a dear friend of mine was traveling back to his home in the occupied West Bank after a trip to Europe. He had been visiting Norway where he was meeting with senior officials in his capacity as an organizer with Stop the Wall, a Palestinian non-governmental organization that campaigns against Israel’s illegal wall [...]
Israeli army fires tear-gas at reporter live on air
This is from Al-Jazeera English. If you don’t get the channel at home, you can download a program called livestation (for mac or pc) and stream it over the web.
Article or assassination, which one needs to be condemned?
In the wake of Israel’s demand that Sweden go against its policy of freedom of speech and condemn Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom’s article accusing of Israel of organ theft, I think it’s important to go back in time and highlight an event in 1948 when Israeli militants assassinated Folke Bernadotte. Bernadotte, a Swede, was assigned [...]
Feedback to "baseless organ theft" article
I’ve been getting a lot of feedback from various folks in response to my recent article about a Swedish journalist’s baseless organ theft accusations. Most of it has been in good taste, but certainly not all. I’m happy to see that people are discussing it at least. One email that stuck out sent from a [...]
Israelis boycott!
Israelis have now called for a boycott of the giant furniture/home products retailer IKEA and car manufacturer Volvo. This should really put pressure on Sweden to abandon its policy of free speech and condemn the irresponsible organ theft article. Except someone might want to inform the boycott’s organizers that IKEA is actually registered in Holland [...]
Baseless organ theft accusations will not bring Israel to justice
Baseless organ theft accusations will not bring Israel to justice http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10730.shtml by Matthew Cassel On Friday I was invited to appear on Press TV (Iran’s international English-language satellite channel) alongside Donald Bostrom, a Swedish journalist who authored the recent article about the Israeli army stealing the organs of young Palestinian men it had killed in [...]
Boycott impact
I was asked by more than one person the other night at the University of Chicago about the impact of the boycott movement. One person in particular, who was very active in the movement against apartheid South Africa, was surprised to hear that there was an active movement now in place against Israel for its [...]
Israel moves "right"
Before yesterday Israeli society was already right-wing (in a world spectrum that since WWII supposedly is no longer cool with colonization) supporting settlements, checkpoints, walls aka apartheid, 90% also supported the recent attacks on Gaza that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians, including almost 450 defenseless children. However yesterday, Avigdor Lieberman, who was only years ago [...]