BBC News - Israeli Arab who 'raped' a woman says verdict 'racist' How did this man manage to deceive an Israeli Jewish woman that he was Jewish? Surely, as a native Arabic speaker, he would have an accent to match, even if he could speak good Hebrew (or English). The woman he slept with would […]
In response to the massacre yesterday morning on the Turkish ship that was delivering aid to Gaza, Amad at Muslim Matters has posted an article refuting some of the specious claims by the Israeli government and their fans, such as that those on the ship had links to al-Qa’ida or were armed, etc. You can […]
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Today’s Guardian had an exclusive story on how South Africa negotiated the purchase of nuclear weapons from Israel in the 1970s, and that there are documents that prove that Israel in fact had the weapons, which they have never confirmed or denied. The paper has three pages (stories here: [1], [2], [3]) on the news […]
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Jerusalem Post: Rejecting the burka As Muslims it’s been our recent experience that many of the voices raised loudest against Muslims in the west have connections to Israel, particularly in the United States but also in the UK; they include radical Zionists, secular Jews who like to police which types of Muslims the left, in […]
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Defamation, a documentary researched and presented by the Israeli journalist Yoav Shamir, was part of More4’s True Stories slot and was on Tuesday night. The idea that anti-Semitism was somewhat overhyped and used to muzzle criticism of Israel is not new, but what many people don’t know is how obsessed the media and state in […]
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BBC News - Romanian workers reveal true cost of beauty This is a story about Romanian workers who were tricked into coming to the UK to sell cosmetics on a “commission-only”, “self-employed” basis. This involved selling the products in a department store and being paid only for what they sold, not for the time they […]
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Judge Goldstone and the pollution of argument | Comment is free | The Guardian Antony Lerman in today’s Guardian on the ongoing smear campaign against human rights activists who criticise the state of Israel, particularly in regard to the Israeli army campaign against Gaza last winter. Among the people smeared has been Marc Garlasco, the […]
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Gambling with peace: how US bingo dollars are funding Israeli settlements — The Guardian Revealing how money raised from a casino frequented mostly by Latinos in California is funding Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and Jerusalem: Over the past 20 years, the bingo hall has funnelled tens of millions of dollars in to […]
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