Article updated 4th March: More letters published on 3rd March, see below!
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This has been a successful event for Leeds PSC, raising Ł671 (profit) with more to collect. We had a packed house, full of audiences from across Leeds, many of whom were influential figures. We have fulfilled the purpose of the event, that is to have a relaxed evening of entertainment and to raise some money for a school in Palestine and also to fund Leeds PSC campaigns.
We had guest local bands and performers including: Bayou Gumbo, Head for Heights, Karl Dallas, Reel High and The Hydropaths. Below are some photos and videos of the event. Light snacks, soft drinks, mulled wine and mulled cider were provided. Read the rest of this entry »
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MEM. New evidences shows that the Israeli occupational forces continue to carry out incursions, raids and the abduction of Palestinians on a daily basis in most parts of the West Bank. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, there are, on average, almost three incursions every day. Read the rest of this entry »
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MEM. A new report claims that in February alone the Israeli government approved the building of 1,149 settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, for which companies are now bidding. The report, issued by the International Affairs Department at the Palestinian Liberation Organization, also revealed that in the same month Israel armed forces killed 3 and detained 612 Palestinians. Read the rest of this entry »
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MEM. Israeli armed forces stormed into Al Aqsa Mosque the third holiest site in the Muslim world last Friday, having first locked the compound gates with chains. A number of worshippers were corralled in the Noble Sanctuary’s courtyards and inside the Marwan prayer area. Clashes between the occupation forces and worshippers took place across Al-Aqsa compound and in the markets of the Old City of Jerusalem. Read the rest of this entry »
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MEM. EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton has said she plans to visit Gaza on her Middle East trip next week, putting Israeli authorities in an awkward position.
“I have asked to go to Gaza, we’ll see what happens,” she told press at an informal EU ministers’ meeting in Cordoba, Spain, over the weekend, according to Reuters. “We are providing a huge amount of aid into Gaza and I’m very interested to make sure that we are seeing the benefits of that aid going in.” Read the rest of this entry »
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MEM. Andrew Roberts is a historian of note, but his robust defence of the state of Israel in the Financial Times (Israel is no more rogue than America, 3 March) is missing in both objectivity and accuracy. Indeed, if the title of his article is anything to go by, then he has missed the point altogether. If two rogues stand together, that doesn’t make one any less culpable than the other per se. Nor does it mean that innocence and justification for wrongdoing can be presumed. Read the rest of this entry »
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MEM. Gordon Brown’s proposals to change the law in Britain to make it harder for private citizens to apply for arrest warrants against suspected war criminals has been condemned by the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). If the British Prime Minister’s changes are pushed through, local magistrates will lose the power to issue such warrants. Read the rest of this entry »
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JC. The Prime Minister Gordon Brown will honour the heroes of the Holocaust who came from Britain.
Gordon Brown will commemorate more than 20 British heroes of the Holocaust with a new award at a ceremony in Downing Street tomorrow. The Prime Minister will hold a reception honouring those that risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust. Read the rest of this entry »
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Haaretz. Israel will unveil this week plans to produce nuclear-generated electricity, officials said on Monday, a move that could draw fresh international attention towards its assumed atomic arsenal.
Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau will tell an energy conference in Paris on Tuesday that Israel is officially looking into the possibility of building a nuclear power plant, his ministry said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »
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Haaretz. The United States officially announced on Monday that Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to indirect peace negotiations brokered by its special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell. Mitchell, who is visiting the region along with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, said in a statement that he was “pleased” the two sides had accepted the proposal that will see him shuttle between Israel and the Palestinian territories over the next several weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
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Haaretz. Israel’s relationships with multilateral institutions seem to be rather bipolar. The current and recent Israeli governments have made sizeable efforts to gain membership to the exclusive economic club of the OECD, all while rejecting the legitimacy of the Human Rights Council, and other leading UN agencies in New York with respect to Israel and the Middle East crisis. How can we explain that and how long can this love-hate relationship last? Read the rest of this entry »
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Haaretz. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will arrive in Israel on Monday afternoon, to deliver a message to the Israeli public about U.S.-Israel relations, the Iranian nuclear program and the Middle East peace process.
The vice president’s visit comes a day after the PLO’s executive committee approved a proposal allowing the Palestinian president to begin indirect negotiations with Israel through U.S. mediation, effectively ending a 14-month breakdown in communications between the two sides. Read the rest of this entry »
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Al Jazeera. The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has endorsed US-mediated talks with Israel, after George Mitchell, the US envoy, met the Israeli prime minister to discuss getting those indirect negotiations started.
The PLO Executive Committee, giving President Mahmoud Abbas the go-ahead to end a 15-month hiatus in talks, said they must focus on security and borders of the state Palestinians want to set up in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Read the rest of this entry »
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Guardian. Approval to build 112 new flats in Beitar Illit comes despite Israeli government’s partial curbs on settlement construction.
The Israeli defence ministry today authorised further construction in a Jewish settlement on the occupied West Bank. The decision came prior to the arrival in Israel of the US vice-president, Joe Biden, who is expected to announce a new round of indirect peace talks. Read the rest of this entry »
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BBC. Israel has authorised the building of 112 new apartments in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
This comes as US Vice-President Joe Biden flies to the region, becoming the highest ranking US official to visit since Barack Obama took office.
On Sunday, Palestinian Authority leaders in the West Bank agreed to indirect talks with Israel. Read the rest of this entry »
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BBC. The Lemba people of Zimbabwe and South Africa may look like their compatriots, but they follow a very different set of customs and traditions.
They do not eat pork, they practise male circumcision, they ritually slaughter their animals, some of their men wear skull caps and they put the Star of David on their gravestones. Read the rest of this entry »
Briefing for lobbying candidates 2010 General Election
Sign the pledge for peace and justice
As my parliamentary candidate in the general election, I am writing to ask your views on an issue very important to me. I want my MP to pledge their support for peace and justice for Palestinians.
Will you:
- 1. Call on Israel to end its violations of international law, including ending its illegal occupation.
- 2. Oppose any attacks on universal jurisdiction and support bringing Israeli war criminals to justice
- 3. Work to end the siege on Gaza
- 4. Call on the government to ban the import of settlement goods
- 5. Call on the government to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement
- 6. Call for an end to the arms trade with Israel
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Despite the intense pressure by the Israeli government, the government has ruled out any change in law on universal jurisdiction before the general election. This reflects the massive pressure put on the government by those supporting justice and human rights, including many MPs who have been increasingly vocal in their opposition to any attack on universal jurisdiction that will restrict the power of courts here to issue arrest warrants for those suspected of war crimes. So far, 128 MPs have signed Jeremy Corbyn’s Early Day Motion Read the rest of this entry »
MPACUK. Many of the main (Zionist owned) newspapers treated the cold blooded murder of a Muslim Palestinian in Dubai as some sort of super cool spy story. Killing Muslims made you into a James-Bond-type figure to Britain’s Muslim-hating Islamophobic newspapers, not a terrorist. Murder was cool as long as the victim was a Muslim. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hareetz. The Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee on Sunday approved a proposal allowing the Palestinian president to begin indirect negotiations with Israel through U.S. mediation, effectively ending a 14-month breakdown in communications between the two sides. 
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Hareetz. Why am I protesting the $1,000-a-plate Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) dinner honoring Chief of the IDF Staff Gabi Ashkenazi at the Waldorf on March 9?
Like many American Jews, I grew up hearing that the IDF was the most moral army in the world. An honest look at the historical and current evidence, however – most recently documented in the report of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Israeli Invasion of Gaza (the Goldstone Report)- reveals a very different reality. Read the rest of this entry »
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