UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive
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.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.Palestine Today 072908
29-07-2008 14:31
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!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.Palestine Today 072808
28-07-2008 14:34
Jews For Justice
28-07-2008 09:11
A leading Jewish Human rights organisation speaks out.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/
Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel?
26-07-2008 21:06
The Origin of the Palestine-Israel ConflictPublished 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
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?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.
Palestine Today 072408
24-07-2008 14:20
Palestine Today 072308
23-07-2008 14:30
BNP's Second Licence Application Rejected!
23-07-2008 12:53
This years event a watered down affair if ever there was one...Please help Phiona and Bradley
21-07-2008 23:38
Fascist Luke Smith Swings Next To Balti King
21-07-2008 15:00
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 Former Burnley BNP councillor Luke Smith found dead
21-07-2008 13:51
Inquest on Friday - verdict likely to be suicideBNP Sent Packing.
19-07-2008 22:06
