The BBC reports: Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a law banning Palestinians who marry Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship. The excuse used by the court? “Human rights do not prescribe national suicide,” Judge Asher Grunis wrote in the judgment. Now that is an amazing confession, isn’t it? What Judge Grunis is saying is the following: (excuse the large print, but this is worthy of being stressed as much as possible)
(thanks to J. for pointing this story out to me – The Saker) by Jonathan Cook for Global Research Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank. The Israelis say they have been inspired by the example of Ilana Hammerman, a writer who
Its amazing how hard Israel is trying to copy Apartheid South Africa. Now an Israeli court has basically enacted a Zionist version of what used to be known in Apartheid South Africa as “Petty Apartheid“. Check out this amazing article in The Guardian “Arab guilty of rape after consensual sex with Jew“: A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed
A lecture by Professor John J. Mearsheimer Contrary to the wishes of the Obama administration and most Americans – to include many American Jews – Israel is not going to allow the Palestinians to have a viable state of their own in Gaza and the West Bank. Regrettably, the two-state solution is now a fantasy.
By Jonathan Cook via Palestine Chronicle Below is the text of a talk delivered to the fifth Bilin international conference for Palestinian popular resistance, held in the West Bank village of Bilin on April 21. Israel’s apologists are very exercised about the idea that Israel has been singled out for special scrutiny and criticism. I wish to argue, however, that in most discussions of Israel it actually gets off extremely
