Facts and Information
The Time for Worldwide Boycott is Now
Omar Barghouti, The Electronic Intifada, 2 March 2008On Friday, 29 February 2008, Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in Gaza with a "holocaust", telling Israeli Army Radio: "The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, [the Palestinians] will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves.
This date will go down in history as the beginning of a new phase in the colonial conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, whereby a senior Israeli leader, a "leftist" for that matter, has publicly revealed the genocidal plans Israel is considering to implement against Palestinians under its military occupation, if they do not cease to resist its dictates. It will also mark the first time since World War II that any state has relentlessly -- and on live TV -- terrorized a civilian population with acts of slow, or low-intensity, genocide, with one of its senior government officials overtly inciting to a full-blown "holocaust" while the world stood by, watching in utter apathy, or in glee, as in the case of leading western leaders.
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Published Articles
From Sam BahourDear Friends,
The US Magazine Vanity Fair just pre-released online an earth-shattering investigative report on the USA's role in Gaza which brought Hamas to power. It was released the same day Sec. Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel/Palestine, surely embarrassing her, along with other US officials on the ground here and in DC.
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Ongoing Peaceful Campaigns
Right to Education Campaign
Wave of arrests at Birzeit UniversityRight to Education, R2E, 3 March 2008
http://right2edu.birzeit.edu/news/article512
Since January 2008, eight Birzeit University students and one employee have been arrested by the Israeli army. None of whom have been charged. This comes amongst a wave of arrests all over the West Bank under the pretext of the person belonging to a political party.
Three of the eight arrests are held under administrative detention - a system of incarceration without trial based on 'secret' evidence – meaning there was no evidence to suggest they violated any Israeli laws at the time of the arrest. Administrative Detention is detention authorized by administrative order rather than by judicial decree under the pretext that there is not yet sufficient evidence to merit a case but that the person should be incarcerated until enough evidence is found. Prisoners can spend many years in prison waiting for a charge to be brought against them. Birzeit University currently has a student who has been under administrative detention for 2.5 years.
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Interviews
Interview with Ilan Pappe
YNET interview with Ilan Pappe, author of "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" and supporter of academic boycott of Israelhttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3516193,00.html
03.15.08
Controversial historian Ilan Pappe left Israel last year after his endorsement of an academic boycott of Israel exposed him and his family to death threats. Now a professor in England, Pappe maintains that a cultural boycott on his homeland is the only way to end the occupation. Last summer, the Pappe family packed its belongings, rented out its spacious house in Israel and moved to Britain. Ever since his support of an academic boycott on Israel's universities became public, historian Ilan Pappe, 54, has felt like public enemy number one. Pappe says he had received death threats by phone almost on a daily basis.
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Books Films and Online Videos
From Sam BahourDear all,
I just would like to draw your attention that Al-Haq’s documentary, In the Spider’s Web, is available online on YouTube with English and French subtitles.
In the Spider's Web is a total of 47-minute long documentary produced in 2004 by Al-Haq and directed by Hannah Musleh. The film is part of Al-Haq's campaign to stop collective punishment practiced by Israeli occupying forces against Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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