//Stephen Lendman
OPINION
Disturbing signs are ominous. On November 8, Israel demolished and ransacked a Negev Bedouin Arab mosque in Rahat, removing it for Jewish development. Professor Yousef Salamah called it "a criminal act," done on the pretext that it was unlicensed. "These a...
Israeli Banks Profiteering from Occupation
Israeli settlement near Hebron. Photo: Hilde Stephansen / Ciranda Wall Street does it. Other Western banks do it. They all exploit markets, often ripping off customers illegally. Why not Israeli banks also in their own back yard, easily in expanding settl...
Israel’s New Loyalty Oath
Since inception, Israel's democracy was illusory, but of late it's further eroded. The Cabinet's October 10 adopted Law of Citizenship amendment requires all non-Jews wanting it to pledge loyalty to "the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state," i...
El ‘Global BDS’ Contra Israel Está Funcionando
Traducido por Carolina Ramirez 7 de September, 2010 En Julio del 2005, una coalición de 171 organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil Palestina creó el movimiento ‘Global BDS’ para el “Boicot, Des-inversión y Sanciones contra Israel hasta que ésta cu...
Global BDS Against Israel Is Working
07 September, 2010 In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the Global BDS movement for "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Ri...
Occupied Palestine: Good News And Bad
On June 22, the International Middle East Media Center reported that the UN Human Rights Council (that established the Goldstone Commission) approved "forming an international committee to probe the deadly Israeli" Flotilla attack, massacring and injuring ...
Education In Occupied Palestine
A 2007 UNESCO/Save the Children UK report titled, "Fragmented foundations: education and chronic crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory" addressed issues "in emergency and reconstruction situations, as well as in chronic conflict." It explained that ...
Competing Ideologies: Davos v. Belem
Founded in 1971, the Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) meets annually in Davos, Switzerland to bring together top business and political leaders as well as mostly neoliberal minded intellectuals, economists, journalists, and others. WEF calls itself...