Israeli Mother Addresses European Parliament

Israeli Mother Addresses European Parliament

Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit’s speech made on International Women’s Day in Strasbourg: “Thank you for inviting me to this today....

Forty Years of Heartbreak

Let the People of Diego Garcia Return to their Homeland Over a weekend of memorials, I was remembering a friend who died of a broken heart. Her death certificate may not say so, but she did. Aurélie Lisette Talate died last year at 70 of what members of her community...
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

Book Review: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire – Deepa Kumar Reviewed by: Iqbal Jassat After testifying in court during the bail hearing in what has come to be known as South Africa’s first murder resulting from Islamophobic violence, a number of...

South African airport security??

(source: MNet-CarteBlanche) On Sunday, 30 August 2009, Carte Blanche exposed how the Israeli airlines El Al, was profiling and detaining innocent people. This is the text of that episode:This man is part of an undercover experiment on his way to meet a friend at the...

Fatahs schizophrenia

By Khaled Amayreh(source: Palestine Information Centre)Political schizophrenia has always been one of Fatah’s dominant characters. It continues to shape the overall Fatah discourse. When addressing Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, Fatah indulges in all sorts of...

Will Isarael fall in five years?

  A CIA study casts doubt over the survival of Israel beyond the next two decades. By Jeff Gates(source: Palestine Chronicle)’The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a few salient facts concerning Begin and his party; and of...