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Boycotts work an interview with omar barghouti

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"Boycotts work": An interview with Omar Barghouti
Ali Mustafa, The Electronic Intifada

Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher, commentator and human rights activist and a leader of the Palestinian campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions to force Israel to uphold international law and universal human rights. Barghouti discussed the growing worldwide campaign with The Electronic Intifada contributor Ali Mustafa.

Ali Mustafa: Why do you characterize Israel as an apartheid state and how is it similar or different than apartheid South Africa?

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Tutu calls for urgent solution to Isarael Palestine conflict

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Tutu calls for urgent solution to Israel-Palestine conflict
U.TV – Belfast, Northern Ireland
 
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Primate likens Occupied Territories to apartheid South Africa

The Israel-Palestine crisis is the most urgent problem for the world to solve, according to Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town who said last night that if it is remains unresolved, no other issues from the56to nuclear disarmament  will ever be resolved.

 

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New law racist and constitutes a thought crime

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“New law, Racist and constitutes a thought crime”

Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies
 
As the Israeli Knesset was debating the new law, which punishes any citizen who does not recognize Israel as a Jewish Democratic State, Arab member of Knesset Jamal Zahalka, described the law as racist and a thought crime.

Zahalka said that any person who demands democracy and equality would be punished and imprisoned, and that this means dozens of Jewish and Arabs university lecturers, intellectuals and politicians who propose a bi-national state or a state for all of its citizens would be punished and imprisoned.

 

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Colonizing culture

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Colonizing Culture
by Dahr Jamail

Transgress
The geo-strategic expansion of the American empire is an accepted fact of contemporary history. I have been writing in these columns about the impact of the US occupation on the people of Iraq in the wake of the “hard” colonization via F-16s, tanks, 2,000-pound bombs, white phosphorous and cluster bombs.

Here I offer a brief glimpse into the less obvious but far more insidious phenomenon of “soft” colonization. That scholars and political thinkers have talked at length of such processes only establishes the uncomfortable reality that history is bound to repeat itself in all its ugliness, unless the human civilization makes a concerted effort to eliminate the use of brute force from human affairs.

 

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