World Palestine Newswire Archive

Week 10 2011 Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for March 5th to 11th 2011.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday March 10, 2011.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednsday March 9, 2011

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday March 7, 2011

The owner of Arianne's Tea Room beams at me as she pours the best red wine I have ever tasted. I ask her how long she has been running her Tea Room. She answers that it had been a seven year old dream which came true two years ago. She adds that her Team room is a labour of love and creation.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 14 through 4th March 2011

Demonstrate Friday 4th March
Brighton, Old Steine, 5pm

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday March 3, 2011

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday March 2, 2011

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, February 28 2011

On October 2, 2009, the UN Human Rights Council was widely expected to pass a resolution supporting the Goldstone Report, the UN’s probe of war crimes committed during Israel’s war in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. The Council instead agreed to delay a vote on the report until March 2010, following major reservations expressed by the Palestinian Authority, the United States and Israel. A UNHRC endorsement of the report would have brought Israeli officials one step closer to prosecution before a war crimes tribunal, an event many Palestinians were anxious to see.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzzLxyfeyVA&feature=player_embedded

The Israeli military establishment is once again on the offensive, but instead of high-tech weaponry and missiles, it is using computer screens, keyboards and rapid wireless connections to fight what Israeli military representatives are dubbing a "new media war."

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, February 24 2011.

Wording of leaflet handed to Ian McEwan in Jersalem:

Ian McEwan: Don't just criticise the Occupation

Ian McEwan did not need to receive the Jerusalem Prize in order to come to Israel/Palestine and express his views. Distinguished scholars, such as Judith Butler and Naomi Klein have visited Sheikh Jarah and other parts of Israel's backyard, without legitimizing those responsible for the crimes of apartheid and occupation committed there. By accepting the Jerusalem Prize, McEwan has allowed the perpetrators of these crimes, such as Nir Barkat, to exploit the occasion, and disseminate the blatant lie "we promote tolerance here in Jerusalem, an open city". When families in east Jerusalem are expelled from their homes to make way for Kahanist settlers, and when 9 year old children in Silwan are abducted from their beds by the Israeli police in the middle of the night, this city is neither tolerant nor open. Furthermore, McEwan's compliments to Israeli "democracy" are vacuous in view of these facts. McEwan has assisted the Israeli establishment in conveying a false message of "business as usual". He should return the prize, and atone for shaking the hands of apartheid and occupation.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, February 22 2011.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, February 21 2011.

A campaign was started in late 2009 by members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Richmond upon Thames, London, to have Veolia excluded from all contracts with Richmond Council when they came up for renewal.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often described as unique and
exceptional with little resemblance to other historical or ongoing
colonial conflicts. Yet, for Zionism, like other settler colonial
projects such as the British colonization of Ireland or European
settlement of North America, South Africa or Australia, the imperative
is to control the land and its resources -- and to displace the
original inhabitants.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, February 17 2011

Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish will becat the South Bank Centre in London on Tuesday 22 February 2011.