Category Archives: Palestine
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Resisting Despair
Leave a commentFebruary 20, 2015 by IJV
Despair, surely, is what Israeli policy has been resolutely instilling in Palestinians from the beginning. It is pointless to resist! Abandon any dreams of justice and sovereignty. This is why, for many Palestinians, resistance is simply about surviving. It is what Eyad himself emphasized, observing ‘the long path of humiliation and despair’ that lies behind the creation of a so-called ‘terrorist’: ‘the struggle of many Palestinians is how not to become suicide bombers’, he wrote thirteen years ago. [3] He tirelessly sought to prevent such destructive martyrdom, standing implacably against all forms of violence, whether from Palestinians or the infinitely deadlier modes of Israeli state violence: that ‘eye for eyelash’, as Schlaim put it. Eyad liked to insist that the Israelis and Palestinians needed each other: ‘for only the Palestinians can release Israel from its moral guilt, from all that has gone wrong since those first Zionist dreams to the nightmare of living in a country permanently at war with its neighbours; while only the Israelis can negotiate a just peace with Palestine, allowing them control over their own affairs and thereby laying the basis for security, freedom and dignity for both sides’.[4]
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IJV announces “Equal Rights for All: a new path for Israel/Palestine?” 2-day International Conference
Leave a commentFebruary 13, 2015 by IJV
Independent Jewish Voices is pleased to invite you to join us for a our spring conference, organised in conjunction with Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL: A NEW PATH FOR ISRAEL-PALESTINE?
14 – 16 MARCH 2015, BIRKBECK
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Alon Liel calls on EU to recognise Palestine
Leave a commentNovember 7, 2014 by IJV
Alon Liel, former Director of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently thanked the Swedish Prime Minister and government for their …
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Urgent Appeal from Physicians for Human Rights
Leave a commentJuly 25, 2014 by IJV
Urgent call from Physicians for Human Rights – Gaza
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Tony Klug in Letter to The Guardian
Leave a commentJuly 22, 2014 by IJV
The letter below was published in Saturday’s Guardian, 19 July 2014 Seumas Milne argues that the price of Israel’s occupation needs …
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A visual anthology of the image war for Israel-Palestine
Leave a commentJuly 11, 2014 by IJV
Operation Defensive Edge began on 7 July 2014. The context is the 2014 FIFA World Cup. And a history of …
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Uri Avnery’s latest: The Atrocity
Leave a commentJuly 11, 2014 by IJV
Uri Avnery’s latest: When the canon roar, the muses fall silent The Atrocity July 12, 2014 BOMBS ARE raining on …
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IJV SG Statement on current cycle of violence
Leave a commentJuly 10, 2014 by IJV
We watch in horror and utterly condemn the pointless cycle of violence being stoked by Israel’s ongoing bombing of crowded civilian areas in Gaza, resulting in an escalating death toll, devastating civilian injuries and the continued destruction of homes and livelihoods. We reject the UK government’s one-sided support for Israel’s massive and disproportionate retaliation to the rocket attacks from Gaza and urge instead that it calls for peace negotiations and an end to all bloodshed.
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If Kerry fails, what then? by Sam Bahour and Tony Klug
Leave a commentApril 19, 2014 by IJV
We need to break free of the divisive and increasingly stifling one-state-versus-two-states straightjacket that tends to polarize debate and in practice ends up perpetuating the status quo — which is a form of one state, albeit an inequitable one. The aim of our proposal is to bring matters to a head and to enable people to advocate equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis, in one form or another, free of the implication that this necessarily carries a threat to the existence of the state of Israel.
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Joint statement by Judith butler and Rashid Khalidi condemns censorship of Israel critics in US
1March 5, 2014 by IJV
In the wake of Judith Butler’s withdrawal from her planned talk on Kafka at the New York Jewish Museum and …
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