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Why is UAF splitting the anti-fascists? For a united anti-BNP demo on 16/08/08

30-07-2008 11:22

Unite Against Fascism are refusing to support the locally-organised trade union demonstration against the BNP's Red, White and Blue "festival" on 16 August and, in an act of unbelievable sectarianism, have called their own.

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Coaches to anti-BNP protest from Notts, Derby, Leicester, Chesterfield, Coventry

29-07-2008 17:14

Coaches from the above areas are now organised to get to the protest to stop the BNP's 'festival' on August 16th.

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29-07-2008 14:31

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

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BPP meeting a shambles!

29-07-2008 10:26

The freaks of the nazi-rump British People's Party held a shambolic meeting in London last weekend, with a bit of police attention proper upsetting their delicate constitutions!

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Sign Petition for Faraj Hassan

28-07-2008 14:38

Faraj Hassan is currently being subjected to Financial Sanctions ostensibly by the United Nations, but in reality this has been applied by both the Italian and British Governments who are aware that this sanction should never have been applied yet continue to mentally torture this young man of 28.

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28-07-2008 14:34

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

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Jews For Justice

28-07-2008 09:11

A leading Jewish Human rights organisation speaks out.

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Protest against BNP 'Festival' in Derbyshire 16th August 08

27-07-2008 11:24

Coaches will be going from Nottingham on Saturday 16th August to protest to stop the BNP 'festival'. Coaches leave at 9am outside the Salutation Inn, Maid Marion Way. Tickets cost £5/3. For more information phone Richard on 07940952825 or visit  http://www.uaf.org.uk/

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Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel?

26-07-2008 21:06

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

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No Border Patras 08 -Greece

25-07-2008 19:17

NO BORDER PATRAS 08 -GREECE

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Hijacker Legend is RACIST but how to lay down this gauntlet?

25-07-2008 18:14

‘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?

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Settler-Extremists Attack W. Bank Town

25-07-2008 02:29

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.

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24-07-2008 14:20

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

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23-07-2008 14:30

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

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BNP's Second Licence Application Rejected!

23-07-2008 12:53

This years event a watered down affair if ever there was one...

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Please help Phiona and Bradley

21-07-2008 23:38

About twenty people had a noisy and spirited demonstration outside of the Home Office reporting centre in Glasgow in support of a young Ugandan women and her son detained on Friday. Phiona and Bradley face a removal attempt tonight (Tuesday) evening. At one point the demonstrators moved forward to the Home Office entrance loudly chanting, singing and banging against the Home Office fence much to the consternation of the Group4Securicor guards only a few feet away. More info about Phiona's case below

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Fascist Luke Smith Swings Next To Balti King

21-07-2008 15:00

Luke Smith - An unpleasant little thug
Former BNP councillor Luke Smith is dead.

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Naples. On the sand, two starfish...

21-07-2008 14:54

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

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Former Burnley BNP councillor Luke Smith found dead

21-07-2008 13:51

Inquest on Friday - verdict likely to be suicide

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BNP Sent Packing.

19-07-2008 22:06

Fashwatch V Red Watch
The fascist BNP were sent packing from Lancaster town centre after they set up a stall. A spontaneous demonstration surrounded the BNP fascists and prevented them from handing out leaflets. They were shouted down and jeered and a passer by emptied two cans of fizzy pop on their stall. Unable to operate they packed up and left town completely demoralised.