The Twinning Network Women’s Visit 2008
The visit has the following aims:
· To spread awareness of the human rights situation in Palestine - in other words to tell as many people as possible what is going on in Palestine, and specially to encourage people who are new to this issue to be active about it
· To bring women from twinning groups in Palestine to meet with their partners in the twinning groups in England so they can work with them to build and extend the Britain-Palestine twinning work in England and to discuss together next steps in their twinning links
· In particular to develop women's links between Britain and Palestine as part of wider twinning links
· To promote twinning/ friendship links between Britain and Palestine including encouraging the development of new twinning links
· And to help bring the twinning network work together.
Public meetings
We hope each public meeting will include
· a chance for a number of women to speak about their experiences, including telling about life under Israeli occupation and the human rights situation for Palestinians.
· a speaker to talk about the local twinning links and/ or a speaker from the Twinning Network to explain what twinning and friendship links can do.
Town twinning groups involved in the visit (at this point)
Exeter - Hebron (There is some information about Hebron Exeter Twinning Association on the website of www.exeterpsc.org.uk – but they will give you more information when you arrive)
Oxford-Ramallah
Camden – Abu Dis www.camdenabudis.net
Islington- Yibna
South East London – Beit Fourik
Haringey – Bethany
Watford - Salfeet
Walsall - Kobar
Tower Hamlets - Jenin
Luton - Battir
Birmingham Ramallah www.birminghamrallah.net
Nottingham - Jenin
Leeds - Hebron
Ormskirk – Al Walajah
Pendle – Beit Leed
Preston – Tulkarem (TBC)
www.twinningwithpalestine.net
(2) Student twinning groups involved in the visit (at this point)
· Oxford Students
· Staffordshire Uni Students
· LSE Students
· UCL Students
· Leeds Students
· Manchester Students
· SOAS Students
· www.actionpalestine.org
If you want to interview or invite the women to speak during their visit or if you would like to get involved with the twinning campaign please call
Haringey Justice for Palestinians
Seamus 07833 357526 or email
karlkahn@supanet.com
The visit has the following aims:
· To spread awareness of the human rights situation in Palestine - in other words to tell as many people as possible what is going on in Palestine, and specially to encourage people who are new to this issue to be active about it
· To bring women from twinning groups in Palestine to meet with their partners in the twinning groups in England so they can work with them to build and extend the Britain-Palestine twinning work in England and to discuss together next steps in their twinning links
· In particular to develop women's links between Britain and Palestine as part of wider twinning links
· To promote twinning/ friendship links between Britain and Palestine including encouraging the development of new twinning links
· And to help bring the twinning network work together.
Public meetings
We hope each public meeting will include
· a chance for a number of women to speak about their experiences, including telling about life under Israeli occupation and the human rights situation for Palestinians.
· a speaker to talk about the local twinning links and/ or a speaker from the Twinning Network to explain what twinning and friendship links can do.
Town twinning groups involved in the visit (at this point)
Exeter - Hebron (There is some information about Hebron Exeter Twinning Association on the website of www.exeterpsc.org.uk – but they will give you more information when you arrive)
Oxford-Ramallah
Camden – Abu Dis www.camdenabudis.net
Islington- Yibna
South East London – Beit Fourik
Haringey – Bethany
Watford - Salfeet
Walsall - Kobar
Tower Hamlets - Jenin
Luton - Battir
Birmingham Ramallah www.birminghamrallah.net
Nottingham - Jenin
Leeds - Hebron
Ormskirk – Al Walajah
Pendle – Beit Leed
Preston – Tulkarem (TBC)
www.twinningwithpalestine.net
(2) Student twinning groups involved in the visit (at this point)
· Oxford Students
· Staffordshire Uni Students
· LSE Students
· UCL Students
· Leeds Students
· Manchester Students
· SOAS Students
· www.actionpalestine.org
If you want to interview or invite the women to speak during their visit or if you would like to get involved with the twinning campaign please call
Haringey Justice for Palestinians
Seamus 07833 357526 or email
karlkahn@supanet.com
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20 parallels of Zionism with Nazism:
05.03.2008 22:39
2) both based on supposedly reuniting some religioethnic diaspora under one expansive state.
3) both attempting to revive some supposedly "glorious ancient kingdom" -- a "glorious ancient Teutonic kingdom" for the NAZIs; a "glorious ancient Judaic kingdom" for the Nationalist Zionists.
4) both established a state that was culturally, legally, economically and religiously based to exclusively benefit one ethnic/racial group.
5) both based on violent racist exclusion and a highly intricate complex of racial exclusion laws (like Israel's racial 'Nuremberg laws').
6) both based on creating a founding mythology -- like, for Zionist Jews, "a land without a people"
7) both invented their own race: Aryans, by the NAZIs; Jews, constructed as a unique/genetic race, by the Nationalist Zionists.
8) both based on eliminating some other unwanted and supposedly inferior races -- ethnic cleansing -- and, in the case of Zionism, removing those unwanted people who supposedly didn't exist.
9) both engaged in collective punishment and widespread torture (even inventing new sadistic torture methods),
10) both engaged in the mass imprisonment -- without trials -- of unwanted populations/races.
11) both enclosed unwanted races in walled-in ghettos and concentration camps -- only the Nationalist Zionists made the walls many times higher and the concentration camps many times larger (like Gaza, in effect the world's largest open-air prison/concentration camp).
12) both tried out new weapons on civilian populations (and Israel has engaged in the internationally illegal use of anti-personal weapons of mass destruction, like the widespread use of cluster bombs, on civilian populations).
13) both sought to erase existing countries -- like the Nazis wanting to wipe Poland off the map and parts of other countries; the Nationialist Zionists wanting to wipe Palestine off the map and parts of other countries.
14) both used pseudo-archeology to claim that it had exclusive right to the land.
15) the Nazis obsessed about "too many Jews" in Germany; Nationalist Zionists/Israel obsesses about "too many Palestinians" and the re-emergence of a Palestinian majority in historic Palestine (once an overhwhelmingly Arab land).
16) both were violently and militarily expansionist.
17) both engaged in blitzkrieg fighter aircraft and tank warfare against civilian populations and civilian targets.
18) Nationalist Zionist Israeli Jews even studied the original NAZI methods for urban warfare and clearing Palestinians out of their ghettos. Exclaimed one Israeli commander, "Let's be Judeo-Nazis!" (Reference: www.seruv.org.il -- the website for Israeli Refuniks in the "Occupied Territories"; see "Letter to American Jews"; "The Nazification of Israel" -- both online.)
19) both claimed to be based on "God's will".
20) and, finally (for Israel's 'final solution'), most recently (Feb 29, 2008), Israeli deputy defence minister threatens a "Holocaust" for the Palestinians.
20 parallels of Zionism with Nazism