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Watch the video on Israeli racism The New York Times didn't want you to see Regular readers of The Electronic Intifada are familiar with the shocking and escalating racism in Israel against people from countries in Africa. Our extensive coverage of the incitement and attacks on Africans, thanks in large part to the work of David Sheen, demonstrates that this phenomenon is not marginal, but is incited by Israel’s top political leadership. When Israeli government ministers incite angry mobs, calling Africans “cancer,” they are simply expressing another face of the racism that Palestinians have always experienced. Solicited, then rejected by The New York Times Yet rarely does this knowledge make it into mainstream media.

Palestine poster project Liberation Graphics began actively collecting Palestinian posters in 1974 and now houses what many experts believe to be the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Palestinian-published and Palestinian solidarity poster art. In 1999 Liberation Graphics was awarded an Arts Grant from the Ruth Mott Fund, of Flint, Michigan, to establish the Palestine Poster Project. The core objectives of the Palestine Poster Project are to: Conserve and document the poster art legacy of the Palestinian people; expand the collection via grants, gifts and access; mobilize this unique cultural patrimony in the United States as a resource for promoting broad-based community involvement in the search for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. The posters exhibited here are but a small sampling from the LG collection, which numbers in the thousands, and includes Palestinian poster art from hundreds of agencies and scores of countries, including Israel.

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Huck and Jim vs. Herzl and Morris: Mark Twain on Zionism and the first aliyah Mark Twain’s visitors pass to Palestine issued by the Ottomans in 1867. (Photo by Shapell Manuscript Foundation via Haaretz) Anyone reading Joan Peters’s From Time Immemorial or its fetid progeny, Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel, will find Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad invoked as evidence for the claim that there weren’t many or any Palestinians in Palestine. Dershowitz comments, “Other travelers recorded similar accounts of Palestine prior to the arrival of the Jews of the First Aliyah, who began the process of revitalizing the land and increasing its population by creating jobs and an infrastructure” (p. 24). This is a classic settler colonial argument for land theft.

AUB Jafet Library - Political Posters Arabic Detailed version Poster Collection Political posters collected between the 1960s and the 1980s (Ps:1960-1980s/1 to 364) These posters were collected from their original sources or from the American University of Beirut campus where they were posted. The Middle East Media Research Institute Contact/Request A Clip Feb. 3, 2015 the MEMRI Daily Brief (MDB) Tehran Friday Sermon: Ayatollah Jannati Congratulates Muslims on the Death of Saudi ...+ Tehran Friday Sermon: Ayatollah Jannati Congratulates Muslims on the Death of Saudi King Abdullah- Thousands of Gaza Youth Train at Hamas Military Wing Camp+ Thousands of Gaza Youth Train at Hamas Military Wing Camp- The Rise of The Secular Camp In Tunisia The Rise of The Secular Camp In Tunisia On December 31, 2014, Beji Caid Essebsi, aka BCE, was sworn in as Tunisia's president, after winning 55.68% of the vote to interim president Moncef Marzouki's 44.32%.[1] Essebsi, leader of the progressive and secular party Nidaa Tounes ("Call for Tunisia"), was directly elected by a plurality system and, in accordance with the Consitution, will serve a five-year term. Nidaa Tounes, formed in...

Black on Palestine Given the primacy of civil rights in the Palestinian and Israeli conflict, the racism directed towards Palestinians and other communities of color in the Middle East, the growth of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, and the mounting relevance of an Apartheid analogy to Israeli policies, voices of African Heritage communities are increasingly important to strengthen and support struggles for justice in the Middle East. This program is built upon existing efforts within African Heritage communities and will strengthen work focusing on civil rights in Israel, justice in Palestine, and the growth of boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns nationally. Little can do more to amplify such voices than an on-the-ground experience which allows participants the chance to develop strong and lasting relationships with Palestinian and Israeli activists. Goals of the African Heritage Delegations include: Full article here:

Cary Nelson, the AAUP, and the privilege of bestowing academic freedom One of the most prominent US voices against the academic boycott of Israel is Cary Nelson, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2006 to 2012, Nelson served as the president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the leading organization championing academic freedom and shared governance in US postsecondary schools. In the name of academic freedom, the AAUP has spoken out against pro-Israel attempts at campus censorship, as in the high-profile cases of Norman Finkelstein, Joseph Massad, Nadia Abu El-Haj, and last year’s BDS talk at Brooklyn College. At the same time, the AAUP has taken a position against all academic boycotts, also citing academic freedom.

Jews Without Israel In shul this morning, the second day of Rosh Hashanah, the rabbi spoke at length about the State of Israel. This is more surprising than you might think. I’ve been going to this shul since I moved to Brooklyn in 1999, and if memory serves, it’s only been in the last two or three years that the rabbi has devoted at least one of her High Holy Days talks to Israel. Throughout the aughts, Israel didn’t come up much in shul.