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After banned by Israel, Chomsky to give Bir Zeit lecture by video from Amman
Chomsky spoke yesterday to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, whom he was supposed to meet in Ramallah. Fayyad's office released a statement saying the two men "discussed the political situation and developments in Palestine." Fayyad said he "strongly condemns the decision of the occupation forces to prevent Chomsky from entering Palestinian land."...
18 May 2010 / Read More
After denied entry to West Bank, Chomsky likens Israel to ‘Stalinist regime’
Amira Hass: Chomsky told Haaretz that he supports a two-state solution, but not the solution proposed by Jerusalem, "pieces of land that will be called a state." He said that Israel's behavior today reminds him of that of South Africa in the 1960s, when it realized that it was already considered a pariah, but thought that it would resolve the problem with better public relations....
17 May 2010 / Read More
Chomsky Al-Jazeera video interview:
“We were denied entry”
Noam Chomsky... has been barred from entering the West Bank... across the Allenby Bridge from Jordan on Sunday. The linguistics professor, who frequently speaks out against Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territories, had been scheduled to give a lecture at Birzeit University in the West Bank. (Video interview with Noam Chomsky)...
16 May 2010 / Read More
Israeli Students: IDC head called B’Tselem a ‘fifth column’
The president of the Interdisciplinary Center, Uriel Reichman, described the human rights watchdog B'Tselem as a "fifth column" and said that inviting its representatives to speak at the college was "disgraceful," students who spoke to the president told Haaretz. Reichman denies ever making the statements....
16 May 2010 / Read More
Ameer Makhoul’s Political Detention Extended
On the 12th of May 2010, an Israeli Magistrates Court extended the political detentions of Palestinian civil society activists Dr. Omar Said and Ameer Makhoul by 4 and 5 days, respectively. The extensions were issued in closed door hearings in which Said and Makhoul were not permitted to meet their legal representatives. (Video)...
14 May 2010 / Read More
Attorney seeks to bar Goldstone from US
A well-known American Jewish attorney who worked to deport former Nazis from the US is urging American officials to bar former judge Richard Goldstone from entering the country over his rulings during South Africa’s apartheid regime.
IOA Editor: Revenge... He was allowed to attend his grandson's Bar-Mitzva, but we'll block his entry to the US....
14 May 2010 / Read More
New weapons experimented in Gaza: population risks genetic mutations
Toxic and carcinogenic metals, able to produce genetic mutations, have been found in the tissues of people wounded in Gaza during Israeli military operations of 2006 and 2009. The research has been carried out on wounds provoked by weapons that did not leave fragments in the bodies of the victims, a peculiarity that was pointed out repeatedly by doctors in Gaza. This shows that experimental weapons, whose effects are still to be assessed, were used....
13 May 2010 / Read More
Court: Israeli Arabs arrested over alleged spying to remain jailed
The Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court on Wednesday ruled that two Israeli Arab men arrested last week over allegations of spying and ties to Hezbollah will remain jailed until early next week... and ruled that Makhoul will not be able to see a lawyer until next Friday at the earliest. Dozens of activists gathered earlier Wednesday outside the Petah Tikva court to protest the arrest of the two Israeli Arabs over allegations of spying and ties to Hezbollah....
12 May 2010 / Read More
Shin Bet recruiters enticing Palestinian medical students with Jerusalem entry permits
The Shin Bet security service is trying to recruit Palestinian medical students as a condition for granting them entry permits to Jerusalem, according to two medical students at Al-Quds University pursuing internships in Palestinian university hospitals in the city....
12 May 2010 / Read More
Video: Ameer Makhoul, Omar Said -Israel lifts gag order on new arrests
In the past two weeks the Israeli internal intelligence agency, the Shabak / Shin Bet, arrested two prominent Israeli activists in the middle of the night. The men are well known leaders of Palestinian organizations inside Israel... arrested under secret evidence and a gag order was issued to the Israeli press regarding their arrests....
1 May 2010 / Read More
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After banned by Israel, Chomsky to give Bir Zeit lecture by video from Amman
Chomsky spoke yesterday to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, whom he was supposed to meet in Ramallah. Fayyad's office released a statement saying the two men "discussed the political situation and developments in Palestine." Fayyad said he "strongly condemns the decision of the occupation forces to prevent Chomsky from entering Palestinian land."...
18 May 2010 / Read More
After denied entry to West Bank, Chomsky likens Israel to ‘Stalinist regime’
Amira Hass: Chomsky told Haaretz that he supports a two-state solution, but not the solution proposed by Jerusalem, "pieces of land that will be called a state." He said that Israel's behavior today reminds him of that of South Africa in the 1960s, when it realized that it was already considered a pariah, but thought that it would resolve the problem with better public relations....
17 May 2010 / Read More
Chomsky Al-Jazeera video interview:
“We were denied entry”
Noam Chomsky... has been barred from entering the West Bank... across the Allenby Bridge from Jordan on Sunday. The linguistics professor, who frequently speaks out against Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territories, had been scheduled to give a lecture at Birzeit University in the West Bank. (Video interview with Noam Chomsky)...
16 May 2010 / Read More
Israeli Students: IDC head called B’Tselem a ‘fifth column’
The president of the Interdisciplinary Center, Uriel Reichman, described the human rights watchdog B'Tselem as a "fifth column" and said that inviting its representatives to speak at the college was "disgraceful," students who spoke to the president told Haaretz. Reichman denies ever making the statements....
16 May 2010 / Read More
Ameer Makhoul’s Political Detention Extended
On the 12th of May 2010, an Israeli Magistrates Court extended the political detentions of Palestinian civil society activists Dr. Omar Said and Ameer Makhoul by 4 and 5 days, respectively. The extensions were issued in closed door hearings in which Said and Makhoul were not permitted to meet their legal representatives. (Video)...
14 May 2010 / Read More
Attorney seeks to bar Goldstone from US
A well-known American Jewish attorney who worked to deport former Nazis from the US is urging American officials to bar former judge Richard Goldstone from entering the country over his rulings during South Africa’s apartheid regime.
IOA Editor: Revenge... He was allowed to attend his grandson's Bar-Mitzva, but we'll block his entry to the US....
14 May 2010 / Read More
New weapons experimented in Gaza: population risks genetic mutations
Toxic and carcinogenic metals, able to produce genetic mutations, have been found in the tissues of people wounded in Gaza during Israeli military operations of 2006 and 2009. The research has been carried out on wounds provoked by weapons that did not leave fragments in the bodies of the victims, a peculiarity that was pointed out repeatedly by doctors in Gaza. This shows that experimental weapons, whose effects are still to be assessed, were used....
13 May 2010 / Read More
Court: Israeli Arabs arrested over alleged spying to remain jailed
The Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court on Wednesday ruled that two Israeli Arab men arrested last week over allegations of spying and ties to Hezbollah will remain jailed until early next week... and ruled that Makhoul will not be able to see a lawyer until next Friday at the earliest. Dozens of activists gathered earlier Wednesday outside the Petah Tikva court to protest the arrest of the two Israeli Arabs over allegations of spying and ties to Hezbollah....
12 May 2010 / Read More
Shin Bet recruiters enticing Palestinian medical students with Jerusalem entry permits
The Shin Bet security service is trying to recruit Palestinian medical students as a condition for granting them entry permits to Jerusalem, according to two medical students at Al-Quds University pursuing internships in Palestinian university hospitals in the city....
12 May 2010 / Read More
Video: Ameer Makhoul, Omar Said -Israel lifts gag order on new arrests
In the past two weeks the Israeli internal intelligence agency, the Shabak / Shin Bet, arrested two prominent Israeli activists in the middle of the night. The men are well known leaders of Palestinian organizations inside Israel... arrested under secret evidence and a gag order was issued to the Israeli press regarding their arrests....
1 May 2010 / Read More
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Ameer Makhoul’s Gag Order
The original Hebrew version of the gag order issued by the Israeli court in the matter of the arrest and investigation of Ameer Makhoul, and an English translation....
11 May 2010 / Read More
Ameer Makhoul’s Gag Order
The original Hebrew version of the gag order issued by the Israeli court in the matter of the arrest and investigation of Ameer Makhoul, and an English translation....
11 May 2010 / Read More
Dershowitz: Jews initiate legal terror against Israel
Dershowitz accused anarchist Jewish linguist Noam Chomsky of creating a hostile atmosphere among many groups in the United States and in its academic campuses. They are creating a narrative which always presents Israel as a Nazi occupier, he said, while shutting their eyes to facts contradicting those same claims, like the ties between Jerusalem's Grand Mufti Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during World War II.
IOA Editor: At no time did Noam Chomsky refer to Israel as a "Nazi occupier." As the record amply shows, "Israeli occupier" is sufficiently cruel. Linking the Jerusalem Mufti to Hitler does not logically contradict any characterization of the Israeli occupation. On the Mufti-Hitler issue, see Gilbert Achcar: Israel’s Propaganda War – Blame the Grand Mufti.
Dershowitz' desperately warped arguments are interesting: "legal terror," for example. As a prominent lawyer, one would expect him to appreciate that "terrorism" is generally understood to mean "violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal... and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians)" (Wikipedia). This definition is sufficiently broad to cover both the bombing of Gaza residential neighborhoods and the blowing up of Tel Aviv buses. On the other hand, legal challenges, unpleasant as they might be to the receiving party, are designed to be countered and resolved, in a civilized manner, in a court of law - something which an army of Israeli lawyers, and international supporters like Dershowitz, are working hard to block.
On "Delegitimization:" Conveniently, Israel’s ‘supporters’ equate criticism of Israeli actions — mostly, directly connected to the Occupation, and the Occupation itself — with denial of its right to exist. This is an old Hasbara trick: You criticize us, you’re really saying Israel has no right to exist. Left out of the discussion is "The right to exist as what?" As an occupying state? An Apartheid state? The term "delegitimization" is actually turned on its head: It is the Israelis who are attempting to delegitimize their critics by calling them "delegitimizers," trying to blur the distinctions between "delegitimizers" and anti-Semites, consistent with old Israeli propaganda practices: If you criticize us, you’re either an anti-Semite -- and Dershowitz' reference to Nazism is designed to do just that -- or you’re a sick, “self-hating" Jew. Chomsky, Finkelstein, and this writer, born to Jewish mothers, must be the latter.
For more on the important question of legitimacy of the state, and how it applies to Israel and other nation-states, see Noam Chomsky, Gilbert Achcar: On the Legitimacy of the State. More on "Delegitimization"...
11 May 2010 / Read More
Two Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion of spying, contact with Hezbollah
The military censor on Monday lifted a gag order on news that two Israeli Arab political activists were arrested last week on charges of spying and contact with a foreign agent from Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Omar Sayid, a member of the Balad movement, and Amir Makhoul, director general of the charity Ittijah (Union of Arab Community-Based Associations) were detained by the Shin Bet security service and police anti-terror squads.
IOA Editor: "The Only Democracy in the Middle East" has a convenient way of dealing with non-violent opposition: Putting it away....
10 May 2010 / Read More
Peace Now: Construction for largest East Jerusalem settlement has begun
[W]ork has recently begun for the construction of 14 housing units in an old Israel Police station in East Jerusalem, where plans are in the works for the largest Jewish neighborhood in that part of the city... When the two neighborhoods are completed and linked, a Jewish settlement of more than 1,000 people will be situated in the heart of Ras al-Amud, a neighborhood comprising 14,000 Palestinians....
10 May 2010 / Read More
Ittijah General Director Ameer Makhoul Arrested by Israeli Authorities
This morning at 3:10 a.m. [6 May 2010], Israeli Security Agency (ISA) agents accompanied by Israeli police raided Ameer Makhoul’s family home in Haifa and arrested him. Mr. Makhoul is a human rights defender and serves as the general director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations and as the Chairman of the Public Committee for the Defense of Political Freedom in the framework of the High Follow-up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel.
IOA Editor: See also Ameer Makhoul: Israel’s repression of its Palestinian citizens unites us in struggle
UPDATE: Welcome, again, to the many new readers from “The Only Democracy in the Middle East” who cannot read this story in local media due to Israeli censorship -- yet another Shin-Bet-initiated, court-approved gag order. Please come back to read more about the Occupation and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and all matters the Israeli government tries to prevent you from knowing. (9 May 2010)...
6 May 2010 / Read More
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Mustafa Barghouthi and Noam Chomsky Deliver Condemnation of ’Facist’ Israeli Policies
Noam Chomsky: "The first point was that they don't like my opinions about Israeli policies, which is true of every other country but has never stopped me coming and giving lectures before. The second, most crucial point was that they didn't like the fact that I was visiting the West Bank but then not going on to speak in Israel. The issue was going to Birzeit, just as I would any other university, without specific Israeli approval. I would say that is very unusual, perhaps unique, outside totalitarian states."...
17 May 2010 / Read More
Carlo Strenger: Israel is encouraging academic boycott by denying entry to Chomsky
I have never heard of a democratic state denying entry to thinkers... who neither call for violence or break local or international law. So what on earth is happening to Israel? ... If anything, barring Chomsky gives ammunition to those who say that Israel is infringing on academic freedom in the Palestinian Authority, and that a boycott
Mustafa Barghouthi and Noam Chomsky Deliver Condemnation of ’Facist’ Israeli Policies
Noam Chomsky: "The first point was that they don't like my opinions about Israeli policies, which is true of every other country but has never stopped me coming and giving lectures before. The second, most crucial point was that they didn't like the fact that I was visiting the West Bank but then not going on to speak in Israel. The issue was going to Birzeit, just as I would any other university, without specific Israeli approval. I would say that is very unusual, perhaps unique, outside totalitarian states."...
17 May 2010 / Read More
Carlo Strenger: Israel is encouraging academic boycott by denying entry to Chomsky
I have never heard of a democratic state denying entry to thinkers... who neither call for violence or break local or international law. So what on earth is happening to Israel? ... If anything, barring Chomsky gives ammunition to those who say that Israel is infringing on academic freedom in the Palestinian Authority, and that a boycott
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