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Eyewitness Gaza report back in house of commons

 (source: Palestine Return Centre)

UK members of the parliamentary delegation to Gaza , organised by the European Campaign and the Palestinian Return Centre presented ‘Eyewitness Gaza’ in Westminster on Monday evening.

 In a packed Select Committee Room, British Parliamentarians, including Sir Gerald Kaufman, Bob Marshall Andrews, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Lord Nazir Ahmed, Martin Linton, Jeremy Corbyn, and Richard Howitt MEP spoke about what they had seen when they broke the siege on Gaza in January.

Joining the esteemed panellists were Lord Steel, who is going to Gaza this week, Majed Al Zeer Director of the Palestinian Return Centre and Arafat Shoukri, chair of the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza .

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Connecting the zionist dots

By Gilad Atzmon

(source: www.gilad.co.uk/writings)

A few  weeks ago the Jewish Chronicle published a list of Jewish MPs in the UK parliament. It named 24 in total, encompassing 12 Conservatives, 10 Labour, and two Liberal Democrats. Author and peace activist  Stuart Littlewood elaborated on these figures and presented the following analysis:

"The Jewish population in the UK is 280,000 or 0.46 per cent. There are 650 seats in the House of Commons so, as a proportion, Jewish entitlement is only three seats. The conclusion is pretty obvious. With 24 seats, Jews are eight times over-represented. Which means, of course, that other groups must be under-represented, including Muslims.If Muslims, for instance,  were over-represented to the same extent as the Jews (i.e. eight times) they’d have 200 seats. All hell would break loose."

A question must be raised here. Why are Jews overwhelmingly over-represented in the British parliament, in British and American political pressure groups, in political fundraising and in the media?

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Why Isarael only is tired hypocritical

By Professor Farid Essack

(source: Mail & Guardian / City Press – Friday, 15-10-2010)

Robert Fine’s piece “Blame Game won’t lead us to peace” (October 8), commenting on the rather tepid University of Jo’burg senate resolution to the call by (now more than 270) South African academics, including the vice-chancellors of three South African universities to end its apartheid-era relationship with Ben Gurion University, raises some interesting points.

Desmond Tutu is indirectly, but not so subtly, accused of anti-Semitism because he warns that those who support the severance of ties may lose research funding and, at the same time, urges Jews not to forget their own past as victims of discrimination.

Tutu does not say who might withdraw research funding, so he is not trotting out some canard about “Jewish money power”.

He is making the (clearly accurate) statement that opposition to Israeli policies is not popular among those who dole out research money (mostly in Europe and the United States) and that people critical of Israel can be, and often are, penalised. Those who do the penalising are not necessarily Jewish — most are probably not. And to ask Jews to remember their past is hardly anti-Semitic. Jewish activists do this all the time.

During apartheid, it was common for liberal Jews to say that their fellow Jews should empathise with the oppressed because Jews had the same experience: no one except the right-wing fringe accused them of being anti-Semitic or “self-hating”.
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Press release congratulations university of johannesburg

In what is the first of its kind in our country, the University of Johannesburg (UJ), has taken a historical and momentous step, in its decision to support the call for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.

In a ground breaking pronouncement, the UJ will be severing all relations, established under the apartheid regime, with the Ben – Gurion University (BGU) in Israel.

The Zionist entity of Israel is no stranger to boycotts. It has imposed cultural, academic, economic and political boycotts on the occupied territories. The boycott of Gaza must be the most brutal and naked siege on a group of human beings in the history of humankind.

BGU represents and embodies a country that lives and thrives on murder, theft and mendacity. It is sufficiently obvious that it cannot be an honest and a trusted partner in any relationship.

The Media Review Network (MRN) congratulates and supports this move by the UJ. The MRN also calls on all NGO’s and civil society structures in South Africa and our Government to identify with the position taken by UJ and to support the call for the BDS movement against Apartheid Israel.

Ibrahim Vawda

Senior Researcher,

Media Review Network

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