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January 23, 2014

Sovereignty and independence within a framework of occupation

According to a report in the United Press International, Israel’s outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, stated that Israel should be willing to recognise Palestine if Palestinians are ready...

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January 23, 2014

Campaign to free Samer Issawi exposes international double standards on human rights

Samer Issawi’s hunger strike in protest against administrative detention has exposed the myth of human rights organisations and the limits of official concern from the international community. The pervading...

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January 23, 2014

Israel's dehumanisation of Palestinian children

Far from the targeting of Palestinian children being a fabrication designed to gain sympathy, this reality was publicly exposed by IDF soldier Mor Ostrovski, who uploaded a photo to...

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January 23, 2014

International 'concern' over resistance to administrative detention

Administrative detention and the postponement of court hearings seem to go hand in hand with Israeli courts’ fabrication of justice. Samer Al Issawi and Ayman Al Sharawna have been...

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January 23, 2014

America's Jewish population drift away from Israel

In an interview with the New Internationalist last year American scholar Norman Finkelstein pointed out recent, prominent defections from American support for Israel; New Yorker editor, David Remnick, previous...

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January 23, 2014

Israeli discourse about "new intifada" is detached from colonial history

Israel’s “concern” once again propels itself into news headlines as Tel Aviv warns that a “new intifada” could begin following the death of Ahmed Jaradat while being interrogated in...

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January 23, 2014

Learning Hebrew in Gaza reflects the political context

For the first time in twenty years, Hebrew is on the curriculum in Hamas-run schools in the Gaza Strip. Around 750 ninth-grade students are learning the language of Israel,...

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January 23, 2014

Remembering Rachel Corrie ten years on

On March 16, activists will be remembering the day when Israeli soldiers annihilated the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist Rachel Corrie’s life. Ten years ago, whilst striving to protect...

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January 23, 2014

In Jordan, young people are finding innovative ways to practice politics

In Jordan, the parliamentary elections in January were viewed as little more than an exercise in public relations. At least this is the sentiment among those who oppose the...

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January 23, 2014

In Palestine, Israeli Youth Law has its own meaning

Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem has revealed that this week Israeli soldiers arrested twenty-seven young Palestinians in route 160, Hebron, whilst they were on their way to school. At...

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