World Anti-racism Newswire Archive

Osama Bin Laden has offered a truce to Europe! The potential end of all conflict! The potential end of war and death and destruction!

Last Update: 14/04/2004 20:50

12 protesters hurt during protest against West Bank fence

By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and AP

In what may be a repeat of last week's mutilations of four dead U.S. mercenaries, foreign media is reporting that some Iraqis have taken to beating the unidentified corpses of the nine dead men in today's resistance attack on a U.S. convoy.

Recently - March 23-April 2nd - I travelled to Haiti with the first major post-coup delegation, with the Quixote Centre of Washington, D.C. Below are some of my sentiments drawing from the recent experience.

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
Sun April 4, 2004


1/ 100 hours of Curfew declared in Nablus_report
2/ Arrested for demonstrating nonviolently, by flo

The Massacre of four American Mercenaries this past week in Fallujah is an unfortunate consequence of 400 years of ethnic cleansing that is such a part of the American psyche.
How can we hope to transcend our own brutality if the language we use defines our enemies as sub-humans, or paints our often psychotic and homicidal past as a glorious Biblical epic?

1) Land Day in Beitunia_Perla and Gabriel
2) Land Day in Beit Duqqu_Neal
3) Football tournament in Budrus against the Apartheid Wall_Perla

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
March 27, 2004

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED BY ISRAELI SOLDIERS
Military jeep blocks ambulance

1/The Palestine Children's Welfare Fund Project
2/Demonstration At the Wall
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there will never be a safer israel than a freer palestine

"The bloodshed will not end unless we refuse." Arik Diamant, Director

Israel is the biggest UK market in the Middle East and Israeli customers are supporting thousands of jobs in the UK. We have to maintain this by buying Israeli products too.

A campaigning couple have won their battle to have several complaints of anti-Israel bias upheld by the BBC – the first such successful complaint in more than a year.

In the March 10 Bill Handel show on KFI AM 640, a pretend "Muslim" allegedly reading from the new Iraqi constitution refers to "hairy Iraqi women," "lovely Japanese schoolgirls," the "infidel custom of bathing on a regular basis," and "civil unions" between Iraqis and "loving camels and goats."

In an unprecedented move, the organisers of France’s largest
documentary film festival, Le Festival du Cinיma du Rיel (4 to 14
March 2004), held annually at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, have
cancelled one of the screenings of the film Route 181 –
Fragments of a Journey to Palestine-Israel, which is co-directed
by the Palestinian Michel Khleifi and the Israeli Eyal Sivan.

How interesting that terminology changes (vis a vis "terrorists," rather than "militants,") when the victims of a terrorist atrocity are neither Americans nor Jews

StoptheWall.org in a Week
from the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign

This is an admission of failure. The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the occupation in the Gaza Strip. When something is written about the sea being closed off to Palestinians in the north and south of the Strip, the response will be "they are terrorists." If something is written about neighborhoods in the western part of the Khan Yunis refugee camp and how the buildings are all full of bullet holes from heavy machine guns and cannon shells, the response will be "the Palestinians started it." Tell the story of how 15-year-old Yusuf Bashir's family home in Dir al-Balah has been turned into an army fortress, and in Israel they'll say, "there is no choice, the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom must be protected, like Kfar Dekalim, Atzmona and Morag."

McDonald's Corporation today confirmed that it has a policy banning its employees from speaking Arabic in its restaurants in Israel, despite the fact that Palestinian citizens of Israel form 20% of its workforce, and Arabic is one of the two official languages of Israel. The Corporation denied, however, that Abeer Zinaty, a former "Excellent Worker 2003 -- McDonald's Israel," was fired because she spoke Arabic on the job.

BBC reported as it seems - not complete about this case. Foreign media reported more.
Therefore, 2 Questions about BBC-information.