UK Indymedia - UK Palestine Newswire Archive

Nottingham Students Commemorate Gazan Dead

20-01-2009 20:17

On Thursday 15th January, in an event called by the Palestinian Society, Nottingham students created a memorial to all those who have lost their lives in Gaza.

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Demonstrators to name the dead in Gaza outside EDO/ITT factory

20-01-2009 18:45

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday the 21st, when we will be naming the dead in Gaza outside the factory which facilitated their murder.

EDO MBM/ITT Home Farm Road, Brighton
For directions, see

http://www.smashedo.org.uk/findthem.htm

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Lambeth Unison calls for Boycott of "Apartheid" Israel

20-01-2009 14:49

The Lambeth Branch of UNISON, the second largest trade union in the UK, has voted to condemn the recent slaughter of Palestinians and the ongoing occupation by Israel at a meeting of its Branch Committee this morning.

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While Israeli children return to school, kids in Gaza sift through rubble to find bodies of friends

20-01-2009 14:18

Israeli media reported Monday that Israeli children from the town of Sderot have returned to school and normalcy. Meanwhile, children in every part of the Gaza Strip are either bleeding in overcrowded hospitals or sifting through the rubble of what used to be their schools, mosques and homes.

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Gaza-Assemble@ BBC, March on Downing St!

20-01-2009 13:42

FOR GAZA END THE BLOCKADE:
STOP ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL:
FREE PALESTINE BRING THE WAR CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE
SATURDAY 24 JANUARY:

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Newcastle Gaza Demos

20-01-2009 13:08

Meetings and Demonstrations in response to Israel's Actions in Gaza

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Israeli / Palestininan death toll

20-01-2009 11:42

22 to 5000.

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Gaza Vigil, Newport

20-01-2009 10:20

around 30 people staged a vigil for Gaza at the Newport Cenotaph last night between 5-6pm

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Students are occupying Arts LR4, University of Birmingham - Solidarity with Gaza

20-01-2009 09:49

A group of students are occupying Arts LR4 in solidarity with Gaza and Palestinian students and are asking for people to join and support their occupation. There is more on their website:

http://birminghamoccupation.wordpress.com, including a full statement and demands!

This follows occupations by SOAS, LSE, and Essex in the past week.

Get down to Arts LR4 to express your support!

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PFLP: Our position on the "ceasefire," "calm" and the weapons of the resistance

20-01-2009 03:31

PFLP statement on the so-called ''ceasefire'', 18/01/09.

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Gaza ‘Birmingham Stop The Massacre’ Demo Sat Jan 17 2009

20-01-2009 03:10

Organizers of the Gaza ‘Birmingham Stop The Massacre’ Demo said more than 5,000 people attended the rally There was a short march from the rally point in Victoria Square down Colmore Row, around St Phillips Cathedral down Temple Street and back up New Street to the rally point again. Demonstrators waved banners demanding an end to the attacks on Gaza and chanted "Free! Free! Palestine".

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Stop the War.

20-01-2009 01:00

Cambridge came out onto the streets. It was a joy to behold.

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starbucks coffee shop windows - photos from shaftesbury ave London

20-01-2009 00:29

Photos of protest against the starbucks coffee chain last Saturday night on shaftesbury avenue in central London.

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Israel in Gaza: Beyond Disproportionate

20-01-2009 00:12

Marching amid the 50,000 protesters in London bearing witness against the Israeli offensive on Gaza, I spotted a hand-made placard inscribed with the words of the radical Brazilian educator Paolo Freire: “Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

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Why Israel won't survive

19-01-2009 23:49

The merciless Israeli bombardment of Gaza has stopped -- for now -- but the death toll keeps rising as more bodies are pulled from carpet- bombed neighborhoods.

What Israel perpetrated in Gaza, starting at 11:30am on 27 December 2008, will remain forever engraved in history and memory. Tel al-Hawa, Hayy al-Zeitoun, Khuzaa and other sites of Israeli massacres will join a long mournful list that includes Deir Yasin, Qibya, Kufr Qasim, Sabra and Shatila, Qana, and Jenin.

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Gaza: Demonstrate at the BBC in London!

19-01-2009 22:26

There is a third London Demonstration For Gaza on Saturday 24 January. There will be coaches from Nottingham.

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Israel's Next War: Today the Gaza Strip, Tomorrow Lebanon?

19-01-2009 22:11

The objective in Lebanon is "regime change" and to repress all forms of political opposition. But how to bring it about? The forecast of the 2009 general-elections in Lebanon does not look favourable for the March 14 Alliance. Without an internal political or armed option in Lebanon, which could result in the installation of a U.S.-sponsored "democracy," Washington and its indefictible Israeli ally have chosen the only avenue available: a military solution, another war on Lebanon.

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Shields Up! Pre-planned police disorder Sat 17th London Gaza demo

19-01-2009 21:45

A massive police operation encircled Trafalgar Square on Saturday as over 500 police officers tried to prevent a march to the Israeli Embassy, preferring to cause disruption to the West End by blocking roads.

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Norman Finkelstein's comparison of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to the behaviour Nazis

19-01-2009 21:20

The following images and text were posted on Professor Norman Finkelstein's web site -- however at the moment his ISP appears to have suspended his site. An interview with him published today contains his justification to publishing these images:

turkishny.com: On your Web site, there is an argument that the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors are doing to the Palestinians exactly what was done to them by the Nazis. Do you agree with that?

Norman Finkelstein: I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war. In the first week of the massacres, there were reports in the Israeli press that Israel did not want to put all its ground forces in Gaza because it was preparing attacks on Iran. Then there were reports it was planning attacks on Lebanon. It is a lunatic state.

turkishny.com: But do you agree with the characterization?

Norman Finkelstein: Look at the pictures and decide for yourself. I am not going to tell people what they should think about it. But what I say is they should look at the pictures and decide for themselves. (For the pictures go to:

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2510 )

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Protest at Arms to Israel from Staffordshire

19-01-2009 18:44

A protest was held today outside UAV Ltd. in Shenstone, Staffordshire to protest against the company's link with the repression and massacre in Gaza. 30 protesters from around the Midlands, including locals from Shenstone, gathered to draw attention to the fact that this company is owned by the Israeli defence contractor Elbit systems, and all the evidence points to them producing the engines for the drones which have been used to carry out surveillance and targeting for the IDF strike fighters.