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University anti-Zionist twinning with Palestine

Last week, at a relatively well-attended meeting, my branch Executive seconded a motion to support a twinning with a Palestinian university, building on existing Student Union work. A few of us decided to propose an additional note about “the increase in antisemitic atmosphere on British campuses associated with Israel’s conflicts”. We are all broadly supportive of the twinning but conscious that in our institution it has been a vehicle for intensifying calls for the ostracisation and dissolution of Israel. Our intervention was fairly puny and didn’t say what needed to be said about this twinning - in retrospect since it was almost certain to fall we should have made more amendments.

Finkelstein talks: The misuse of anti-Semitism and abuse of history - Mon 23 Feb

21-02-2009 12:40 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

Please note that professor finkelstein will be speaking at two different venues on the same day.

Norman Finkelstein explores the corruption and bias of scholarship surrounding the Palestine-Israel conflict. The talk will examine the growing tendency of pro-Israel commentators to use spurious charges of anti-Semitism to deflect and discredit legitimate criticism of Israel.

STUDENTS REJOICE AS PRINCIPAL MEETS OCCUPIERS

Update from St Andrews Occupation

The London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism

This is the declaration which emerged from the The London Conference on Combatting Antisemitism.

Lampedusa burns

20-02-2009 14:43 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | World

Detention centre's central building destroyed by fire during riots. The police prevents the immigrants from leaving the burning centre. Many suffer from smoke inhalation. 60 migrants may be injuried.

Camden Oh! Bar closed following "homophobic Saturday's" and drugs found.

Camden's Oh! Bar was closed follwowing complaints made by people including those from the gay community. Gay men and women [black and white] were offended by the reggae night which wouuld regularly play songs such as Batty Rider and Boom Bye Bye. The Camden Gazette and the police [via Gazette] have siad that the venue also closed becuase of drugs and violence.

Direct Action Germany: 2nd-12th Feb

18-02-2009 23:09 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

02/02/09: Upperclass car from O.Rohr (housekeeper of L14 and R94) torched
02/02/09: Armament company attacked with stones and color
09/02/09: Van torched
09/02/09: Stones and bottle against luxurious condo-project
12/02/09: Neonazi shop attacked

Why Judges should NEVER be allowed control of the Bill of Rights

18-02-2009 10:50 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Draft Notice of Constitutional Matter: Why Judges should NEVER be allowed control of the Bill of Rights
You will note an International Criminal Court no. OTP-CR-415_09
The court documents are itemised so are easy to read, and self-explanatory

Dresden, Germany: 15 000 counter-protest against 6 000 nazis

15-02-2009 11:21 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

various initiatives and groups called to counter-protest against 6000 nazis from all over europe who met in Dresden this saturday to "remember and honour the victims of the bombing of Dresden in WWII."
All in all 15 000 people protested against the nazis. Thousands of police enabled the nazis`march through the city.

Dresden: No place for lying about history!

14-02-2009 18:00 | Anti-racism | History | World

In Dresden, Germany, some 4,000 anti-fascists demonstrated today against an annual march of 6,500 neo-Nazis, the biggest procession of its kind Europe-wide.

Brighton Family to be Deported to Algeria - press release

12-02-2009 13:33 | Anti-racism | Migration | South Coast | World

Brighton Voices in Exile Press Release
12th February 2009 - For Immediate Release

For more details call Brighton Voices In Exile on 01273 328598/07825536489 or email

bvie@hotmail.co.uk

Photos of the family and interviews are available on request

Israeli University Welcomes 'War Crimes' Colonel

The Israeli government has moved quickly to quash protests over the appointment of the army's senior adviser on international law to a teaching post at Tel Aviv University. Col Pnina Sharvit-Baruch is thought to have provided legal cover for war crimes during the recent Gaza offensive.

Hamas and the Israeli Politik

10-02-2009 13:38 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

Until 2006, the Israeli-Palestinian political landscape was dominated almost exclusively by three major players: the Labor and Likud parties in Israel, and the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) largest faction, Fatah. That year brought a dramatic change, however, with the success of Israel’s newly formed Kadima party in the elections for the 17th Knesset and of Hamas in the Palestinian legislative elections.

Full Disclosure or Damage Control

Last week a High Court ruling confirmed Binyam Mohamed was tortured whilst in the custody of the US in the full knowledge and cooperation of the Blair government. Mohamed has claimed that he was beaten, scalded and subjected to sleep deprivation, starvation and other forms of extreme mental and physical torture. Furthermore, British authorities were aware of the extent of the torture that Mohammed was subjected to making them complicit in his unlawful detention and abuse.

Towards a typology of discrimination?

08-02-2009 14:26 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

When we talk about discrimination, we tend to blend in racism, heightism, sexism, ageism, ableism, lookism and as many other ‘isms’ as one can think of. These terms describe how people differentiate unfavourably between a self-defined “normal” and a self-defined “abnormal”. Reading over a blog I’d never seen before, I was moved to ask, are all these forms of discrimination the same or are they different? What features do they share in common?

Racism in Italy. The hunt has begun (from El Pais)

08-02-2009 10:21 | Anti-racism | World

Increased incidents of racism and xenophobia, some of them characterized by unprecedented violence

Conference to Organize Community Survival Programs in Africa and U.S.

07-02-2009 20:28 | Anti-racism | Health | Social Struggles | World

All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project Conference Calls for Engineers, Scientists and Healthcare Workers to Build Community Survival Programs in Africa and U.S. - February 21-22, 2009

Obama v. Cognitive Bias

06-02-2009 12:11 | Anti-racism | Education | Social Struggles | World

A study was recently published "showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama’s nomination all but disappeared when the exam was administered after his acceptance speech and again after the presidential election." Earlier researchers had "assembled university students with identical SAT scores and administered tests to them, discovering that blacks performed significantly poorer when asked at the start to fill out a form identifying themselves by race. The researchers attributed those results to anxiety that caused them to tighten up during exams in which they risked confirming a racial stereotype."

The Imperial Obama is Frustrated on Zimbabwe

05-02-2009 23:44 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

In the face of African Union support for the new arrangement in Zimbabwe, the Obama administration has very reluctantly retreated from its hyper-aggressive posture. President Obama will soon begin to justify U.S. military intervention on broad "humanitarian" grounds - a cynical game of words to mask the same crimes as George Bush's so-called "democratic" interventions.

If the Pope Changes His Mind…

Does that mean he's imperfect? Or that God is imperfect? We've all probably addressed the issue of whether an omnipotent being can change its mind about something, but let's get down to Earth for a moment and address the issue of whether Catholics or anyone should give any respect or deference to a religious idol in the flesh who claims to be the spokesperson for God, but who, from generation to generation, and even within the same tenure, changes his mind on issues due to political and public pressure. In other words, the Pope is and should be treated only as the equivalent of a Prime Minister of a tiny little, but very influential, country tucked away in Rome. So, why do people give him so much credit where it's clearly not due?

World Anti-racism Newswire Archive

University anti-Zionist twinning with Palestine

Finkelstein talks: The misuse of anti-Semitism and abuse of history - Mon 23 Feb

STUDENTS REJOICE AS PRINCIPAL MEETS OCCUPIERS

The London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism

Lampedusa burns

Camden Oh! Bar closed following "homophobic Saturday's" and drugs found.

Direct Action Germany: 2nd-12th Feb

Why Judges should NEVER be allowed control of the Bill of Rights

Dresden, Germany: 15 000 counter-protest against 6 000 nazis

Dresden: No place for lying about history!

Brighton Family to be Deported to Algeria - press release

Israeli University Welcomes 'War Crimes' Colonel

Hamas and the Israeli Politik

Full Disclosure or Damage Control

Towards a typology of discrimination?

Racism in Italy. The hunt has begun (from El Pais)

Conference to Organize Community Survival Programs in Africa and U.S.

Obama v. Cognitive Bias

The Imperial Obama is Frustrated on Zimbabwe

If the Pope Changes His Mind…

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