"Zionism is the international political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine."
"Zionism is a political movement that includes many shades of opinion.
Different factions of the Zionist movement and different commentators have offered different definitions of Zionism that suit their purposes and outlook.
Not all of them are historically or ideologically accurate as generalizations."
"Since its inception, Zionism has been a secular vehicle to achieve a religious goal. It is nonsensical for any discussion to render a nationalist ideology synonymous with a religion."
Palestine Solidarity Committee of South Africa
"The right of return and reparations for 4,5 million Palestinian refugees."
Congressman Keith Ellison on Horrific Events in Gaza
Note and warning: This video includes footage of the deceased.
Open Letter Condemning Zionist Attacks at UC Berkeley
"These students hung two Palestinian flags off the balcony of a nearby building to protest the message of the event.
According to testimony, three members of ZFA approached the dissenting students, physically assaulting them and invoking ethnic slurs.
When the campus police arrived, they failed to charge all of the attacking students (only one was issued a citation), and subjected the victims of the attack to humiliation and harrassment."
Ithaca College Professor Takes Tenure Battle Public
"She has also caused controversy at Ithaca College by actively criticizing Zionism in the Israel-Palestine conflict and making allegations of racism and sexism within her department.
She believes her outspokenness made her the victim of an academic sabotage that destroyed her career at Ithaca College."
"You can ridicule, but you can't address the facts."
The Obama Plan: A Neo-Colonial Palestine
"The only Palestinian legitimacy that matters now is the legitimacy of resistance.
This is the definition of our national unity - confronting the occupier and its crimes against our people and upholding and defending our people and our rights."
Israeli Forces Kill 'Popular' Anti-Wall Protester, June 8
"He was shot 13 times with rubber bullets and once with a tear gas canister, he was also arrested by the Israelis twice for taking part in the Friday demonstrations".
(Please note: this link includes a photo of a Yousef Srour on a stretcher with his shirt bloodied).
"Falk, who is Jewish, has condemned the collective punishment of the Palestinians in Gaza as "a flagrant and massive violation of international humanitarian law as laid down in Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention."
"Falk, while condemning the rocket attacks by the militant group Hamas, which he points out are also criminal violations of international law, goes on to say that "such Palestinian behavior does not legalize Israel's imposition of a collective punishment of a life- and health-threatening character on the people of Gaza, and should not distract the U.N. or international society from discharging their fundamental moral and legal duty to render protection to the Palestinian people."
Stop the Criminal and Immoral Massacre of Palestinians
"Our history and recent experiences remind us of how white supremacist and imperialist regimes respond to misery and suffering.
The legacy of slavery and Jim Crow segregation should be a constant reminder to us. Katrina, our most recent experience with inhumane policies and treatment should move us to determined and immediate support for Palestinians.
"We, the signatories of this appeal, ask that Black America again take a leading role in this effort as well as the broader work to bring attention to this 40 year travesty of justice."
"They drop bombs on innocents, and noone stops them."
Einstein Revealed as an Opponent of the Jewish State
"In a letter written in the same year, Einstein compared the Zionists' project with that of the Pilgrims, noting, "how tyrannical, intolerant and aggressive [they] became after a short while."
And in Einstein's last media interview, which ran in the New York Post a month before his death, he stated 'We had great hopes for Israel at first.'
We thought it might be better than other nations, but it is no better."
"In 1942, a number of dissident Reform rabbis founded the American Council for Judaism, the first and only Jewish organization created to fight against Zionism and the establishment of a Jewish state."
"For Palestine, specifically, it advocated establishment of a democratic state wherein all citizens, regardless of their religion, would enjoy equal political rights."
"However, WP also has a significant, incidental, incendiary effect that can severely burn people and set structures, fields, and other civilian objects in the vicinity on fire."
"What Palestine needs are true, profound, uncompromised and inclusive-thinking ethnic-transcending leaders and intellectuals who can devise an international political strategy, supported by untainted community resources."
Huey Newton: "He believed that everyday Palestinian people were in the forefront of liberating the Middle East, and that he was in solidarity as well with the few Israelis who were working to see that the Zionist government of Israel is transformed into a secular people's state instead of one which privileged those of a certain religion."
"Black power thought does not just focus on Black people, and provides a position clearly on the side of the Palestinian people, writes Kehinde Andrews."
"As a little reminder, the notion of collective punishment, that is, taking steps against an entire people due to the actions of some, is illegal according to international law.
Consider, for instance, if the USA decided to blockade and bomb Sicily due to the activities of the Sicilian Mafia (which has been responsible for the deaths of thousands through the drug trade as well as other illegal activity)."
Palestinian nonviolent resistance targeted by Israeli administration, remains undeterred
"The arrests came as part of the Israeli campaign to shut down the Palestinian nonviolent resistance whose members are invoking the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice against the Wall."
Reports Say Obama Will Call for "Demilitarized" Palestine
"Palestinians would also be required to give up any claim to a right of return, and western states would give some measure of compensation to the massive numbers of Palestinian refugees living overseas."
"The demand that Palestine have no active military while living next to a heavily armed nation with which it is on traditionally bad terms is likely to be difficult issue to reconcile."
(This is a terribly light assessment. To ask the Palestine people to live next to a bunch of killers with no protection is absurd).
"Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah expressed outrage and shock on Sunday over Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's call for the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state and his demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state."
Malnutrition widespread amongst Palestinian children
"It had a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.
It found that 45.5 percent of Palestinian children aged 6 months to 5 years are suffering from chronic malnutrition (a four-fold increase since September 2000), their growth having been stunted as a result of poor diet.
Another 32.5 percent have acute malnutrition, where they were found to weigh less than they should for their age or height group."
"The ethics of Palestinian resistance to the Zionist colonization of Palestine and the dispossession of the Palestinian people is a subject for another article.
The issue at hand is one of collective punishment. Regardless of the actions of certain factions in Gaza, the fact remains that Israel (with the approval of the U.S.and the world community) is depriving an entire civilian population of food, medicine and clean drinking water in response to the violent actions of a few among that population."
Human Rights Watch to Israel: Stop demolishing Palestinian homes
"It's astonishing to see Israel evict Palestinians from their villages in the West Bank, yet again violating the rights of the occupied population, while allowing a settlement which by law should never have been built in the first place, to remain."
"For example, they claim that the war waged on the civilian infrastructure of the Gaza Strip was taken in furtherance of Israel's 'right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter.'
In reality, however, while Article 51 does allow countries the right to resist an armed attack, it doesn't grant any nation the right to engage in such a disproportionate response."
"Israeli military failed to meet its obligation under international humanitarian law to care for and evacuate the wounded," citing instances in which Israeli forces prevented Red Cross or other medics safe access to assist seriously wounded civilians.
The Israeli chapter of Physicians for Human Rights reported with "certainty" that Israel violated international humanitarian law by attacking medics, damaging medical buildings, engaging in indiscriminate attacks on civilians, and delaying medical treatment for the injured." (Italics mine)
"the rockets red glare where
all these brown children
running scrambling around the globe
flames through the rubble
bombs bursting in air
Panama Nablus Gaza
tear gas clouding the Natal sun."
Dhoruba bin Wahad, and also Washington DC based independent journalist Naji Mujahid
Emperor's Clothes
Invincible
"The Emperor's Clothes (Detroit, San Francisco, Palestine, 4 mins)
Directed by Maha Bazzy and Wesley Taylor. Score by K-Salaam and Beatnick
Footage by Vanessa Huang and Al Jazeera Creative Commons Depository.
Poster artwork by Melanie Cervantes, Faviana
Rodriguez, and Jesus Barraza
Produced by EMERGENCE.
Indonesia to Build Hospital in Gaza
"Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation. It has long supported the Palestinian cause and does not have diplomatic relations with Israel."
"South Africa called for a concerted international effort to bring about a broader solution to the question of Palestine, which will ultimately contribute to the establishment of peace in the Middle East."
"In this photo taken on Saturday, former South Africa president Nelson Mandela is reunited with The Elders, three years after he launched the group, in Johannesburg."
"On Monday, President Obama spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone about the incident.
Afterward, the White House said Obama had expressed "deep regret" over the deaths, but declined further comment, citing "the importance of learning all the facts and circumstances" as quickly as possible."
"His comments came a day a day after Recep Tayyip Erdogan (typo), Turkey's prime minister, called for Israel to be "punished" for its "bloody massacre".
"It is no longer possible to cover up or ignore Israel's lawlessness.
It is time for the international community to say 'enough is enough'," he said."
Israel Said to Have Offered Nuclear Weapons to Apartheid South Africa
NYC Protests Fr Gaza Flotilla Massacre
McKinney: Israel Bought The Executive Branch
The Israel Lobby: The Influence of AIPAC on US Foreign Policy
Lauryn Hill
Oh Jerusalem
"Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.'
Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgment.
There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession." - Abba Eban, former Foreign Minister of Israel
"They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they." - Malcolm X
"And to have to deal with such people can be unutterably exhausting, for they are perpetually defending themselves against charges. The record is there for all to read.
It resounds all over the world." - James Baldwin
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