January 2010
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Israel to boycott UK products, including Marks & Spencer?
Well aware of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against it, the state of Israel appears to be attempting to ape the very strategy being used by opponents of the apartheid regime it is practising.
Ronit Tirosh of Tzipi “I’ll brave arrest for Israel” Livni’s Kadima party, headed up a petition...
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WatchGaza: A Soldier’s View
A year ago the Israeli army was readying itself to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, after a three-week campaign which led to accusations of war crimes. The Israelis said they launched their assault because they could no longer tolerate the indiscriminate rocket attacks which were being launched on Israel from inside Gaza. One year on, celebrated Gulf War veteran Colonel...
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WatchJerusalem: A Walk in the Park
The fight is on for the holiest city in the holy land. The Israelis say Jerusalem must never be divided; the Palestinians say the east of the city is theirs and must become the capital of a new state. Jane Corbin walks through the disputed streets and parks, meeting families thrown out of their homes, witnessing bulldozers demolishing houses and goes underground to...
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Israel born again in Haiti?
Amidst the death and horror of the Haiti disaster, news reaches us of the Zionization of disaster relief. Until publishing an article critical of Israeli efforts in disaster relief, Prof. Yoel Donchin was a part of nearly all the international disaster response teams dispatched by Israel.
In yet another example of the inadmissibility of any criticism of the state of...
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WatchHARDTalk: Dan Meridor, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister
A year into Binyamin Netanyahu’s premiership, Israel is fighting a series of diplomatic battles. Relations with Turkey, its main ally in the Middle East are at crisis point, and the once unbreakable relationship with America is not what it used to be, with threats from Iran and attacks from militants in Gaza escalating. In an exclusive...
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Israel to demand more reparations from Germany?
Norman Finkelstein (Via Haaretz) informs us that Israel is apparently going to ask Germany for more compensation for Holocaust survivors, possibly totalling 1bn Euros.
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz will demand between 450 million to 1 billion euros in reparations from Germany on behalf of Jews forced into slave labor during the Holocaust, it...
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WatchNYT: Putting Lens on Lives in Suspended Animation in Gaza
Watch more videos from B’Tselem’s camera distribution project…
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WatchDemocracy NOW!: Samouni Family Remember the Tragedy that Killed 29
One year after Israel’s assault on Gaza, we go back to a deadly attack that took place on one Gazan neighborhood. The Samouni family, who live in an agricultural area in the Zaytoun area of Gaza City, lost twenty-nine members of their family in the attack. Anjali Kamat and Jacquie Soohen visited the surviving members of the...
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WatchAJE: Gaza’s Open Wounds
Riz Khan talks to Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish (Abu al-Aish)
Riz Khan takes a closer look at the human toll of the war. He speaks with Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, a Palestinian gynecologist who practiced medicine in Israel and Gaza, and who was well known to Israelis as a peace activist. He lost three daughters and a niece when the Israeli military bombed his home in Gaza...
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