Qumsiyeh being arrested in Al-Walaja 6 May 2010 |
Israeli colonial officers destroy the Bedouin village of Al-Araqib in the Negev for the fifth time (the village existed in this location before Israel was created in 1948) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Koc7iEx8E
• Colonial apartheid soldiers seal shops in Hebron to add to hundreds of shops closed because illegal settlers took over nearby buildings. Video and story by Israeli human Rights group B’Tselem http://www.btselem.org/English/Hebron/20100901_Army_Seals_shops_in_Hebron.asp
• Must Read: Where has the hypocrisy gone? Amira Hass in Ha'aretz
No one thinks to ask about the consensus among the residents of Palestiniancities and villages on whose land the settlements have been built. Themillions of Palestinians don't count at all. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/where-has-the-hypocrisy-gone-1.313887
• Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics released a report showing thenumber of settlers in the West Bank reached 517,774 http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/desktopmodules/newsscrollEnglish/newsscrollView.aspx?ItemID=1239&mID=11170
But popular resistance is growing and more people are getting involved.There is widening gap between government officials and the people around theworld on this issue. Millions of activists are being mobilized for theboycotts, divestments and sanctions movement and as the negotiations leadnowhere, the apartheid system is being exposed more. It will happen just as suddenly and unexpectedly as the fall of apartheid in South Africa. Your involvement can help.
• Action: Sign petition Ban Israel from the 2012 Olympics http://www.petitiononline.com/12101982/petition.html
Example of the thousands of lectures and events organized around the world.
• Houston Conference for One Democratic State October 22-24, 2010 http://www.onedemocraticstate.com/
B R E C H T F O R U M and COMMITTEE FOR OPEN DISCUSSION OF ZIONISM
Present Resolving the IsraeliˆPalestinian Conflict: Why One Democratic State Is the Best Solution
featured speakers: Joel Kovel & Norton Mezvinsky
Wednesday, October 27 7:30 p.m. at the Brecht Forum, 51 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets, New York, NY 10014 Phone: (212) 242-4201
Join Professors Joel Kovel and Norton Mezvinsky as each presents hisrespective argument for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Kovel will argue that a two-state solution cannot solve the conflict, because it continues the Jewish ethno-chauvinism that lies at the core of Zionism. Mezvinsky will propose that a democratic and just two-state solution is highly unlikely to occur and that the presently constructed one state can and must be changed by an emphasis upon and implementation of fair and equal human rights for all inhabitants of the state.
Discussion to follow.
Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD • A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home
http://www.qumsiyeh.org Professor, Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities
Chairman of the Board, Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People, http://www.pcr.ps
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