World Anti-racism Newswire Archive

One of the hallmarks of totalitarian ideologues is the use of the big lie: a virulent attack on a defenseless group and then a categorical denial turning victims into executioners and executioners into victims.

As Zionism feels its support and influence fading, its supporters are growing increasingly desperate and violent.

Since the IDF is an inherently racist organization, enforcing a brutal policy of Apartheid and annexation, the 'unworthy conduct' appears to have been getting caught on camera.

The way most people glance at the newspaper, this headline is designed to give the opposite impression. No doubt there are many people out there today who think the Palestinians attacked these officials.

Thanks again, Beeb!

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday August 6th, 2008.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday August 5th, 2008.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday August 4th, 2008.

Uhuru Movement challenges Obama at town hall meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida (US) on unwillingness to speak to African community interests.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday July 28th, 2008.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday July 29th, 2008.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday July 28th, 2008.

The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East

As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are irrational "terrorists" who have no point of view worth listening to. Our position, however, is that the Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes—on both sides—inevitably follow from this original injustice.

This paper outlines the history of Palestine to show how this process occurred and what a moral solution to the region's problems should consist of. If you care about the people of the Middle East, Jewish and Arab, you owe it to yourself to read this account of the other side of the historical record.

Introduction
The standard Zionist position is that they showed up in Palestine in the late 19th century to reclaim their ancestral homeland. Jews bought land and started building up the Jewish community there. They were met with increasingly violent opposition from the Palestinian Arabs, presumably stemming from the Arabs' inherent anti-Semitism. The Zionists were then forced to defend themselves and, in one form or another, this same situation continues up to today.

The problem with this explanation is that it is simply not true, as the documentary evidence in this booklet will show. What really happened was that the Zionist movement, from the beginning, looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the indigenous Arab population so that Israel could be a wholly Jewish state, or as much as was possible. Land bought by the Jewish National Fund was held in the name of the Jewish people and could never be sold or even leased back to Arabs (a situation which continues to the present).

The Arab community, as it became increasingly aware of the Zionists' intentions, strenuously opposed further Jewish immigration and land buying because it posed a real and imminent danger to the very existence of Arab society in Palestine. Because of this opposition, the entire Zionist project never could have been realized without the military backing of the British. The vast majority of the population of Palestine, by the way, had been Arabic since the seventh century A.D. (Over 1200 years)

In short, Zionism was based on a faulty, colonialist world view that the rights of the indigenous inhabitants didn't matter. The Arabs' opposition to Zionism wasn't based on anti-Semitism but rather on a totally reasonable fear of the dispossession of their people.

One further point: being Jewish ourselves, the position we present here is critical of Zionism but is in no way anti-Semitic. We do not believe that the Jews acted worse than any other group might have acted in their situation. The Zionists (who were a distinct minority of the Jewish people until after WWII) had an understandable desire to establish a place where Jews could be masters of their own fate, given the bleak history of Jewish oppression. Especially as the danger to European Jewry crystalized in the late 1930's and after, the actions of the Zionists were propelled by real desperation.

But so were the actions of the Arabs. The mythic "land without people for a people without land" was already home to 700,000 Palestinians in 1919. This is the root of the problem, as we shall see.

 http://www.wrmea.com/jews_for_justice/index.html

NO BORDER PATRAS 08 -GREECE

‘There comes a time when silence is betrayal’ (Martin Luther King) - Is it racist and/or Islamophobic to continue to subscribe to the official story of 9/11? Should we not denounce it as a racist rumour?

And regarding the source's Bias:

How to become an Israeli Journalist
 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n05/mend01_.html

You can see they've followed the guide to the letter.

A definite pattern of increasing attacks by illegal settlers is emerging.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday July 24th, 2008.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday July 23rd, 2008

Two children of the Roma ethnic group drown in Naples. Next to their lifeless bodies people continue to sunbathe, have fun and swim in the sea.
Pictures on:  http://www.everyonegroup.com/EveryOne/MainPage/Entries/2008/7/20_Two_children_of_the_Roma_ethnic_group_drown_in_Naples.html

War on Crime/Drugs = wealth for Wall Street, genocide for African people

Former Wall Street investment banker discusses relationship between illegal drug economy, prisons and corporate profits.

French undocumented immigrants, workers but isolated, begun the occupation of the Center of the Unions in Paris two months ago !