Echoes From The Warsaw Ghetto In Gaza

An Interview with Cecilie Surasky 
by Christiana Voniati

19 June, 2010
Countercurrents.org

Gazing at letters that her grandmother wrote from the Warsaw Ghetto before she was killed , Deputy Director of the global organization “Jewish Voice for Peace”, Cecilie Surasky, discusses Israel's “anti-Jewish” crimes and the inescapable comparison between the sufferings of Gazans and the gradual crushing of Jewish life in the Nazi ghettos in the period that led to the Final Solution . More significantly, the Jewish activist for peace reveals and explores the relationship between Jewish collective trauma and Israel 's aggression.

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Targeted for protesting Israel

Brian Napoletano reports on an attempt by the University of California Irvine to punish all Muslim students after a protest against a defender of Israel's war crimes.

June 22, 2010 | SocialistWorker.org

A UC Irvine student is escorted from a lecture hall after a protest against Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren

ACTIVISTS ARE outraged after administrators at the University California (UC) Irvine announced plans to suspend the Muslim Student Union (MSU) for a whole year starting in September. What did they do wrong? Students protested Israel's ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren.

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Ahava campaign comes to court

Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 17 June 2010

Activists protest outside of a US store selling Ahava products. (Stolen Beauty)

In France, the campaign to boycott Ahava Dead Sea cosmetics has entered a new phase with boycott, divestment and sanctions advocates taking legal action against the Sephora cosmetics retail chain's contract with the company.

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UC-Irvine Suspends Muslim Student Group for Disrupting Speech

June 14, 2010 | By Josh Keller | Chronicle of Higher Education

San Francisco

The University of California at Irvine has suspended the campus's Muslim Student Union for one year and placed the group on disciplinary probation after members of the group repeatedlyinterrupted a campus speech in February by Israel's ambassador to the United States, according to a letter released on Monday.

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Activists disrupt Caterpillar shareholder meeting

Kristin Szremski, The Electronic Intifada, 11 June 2010

Solidarity activists protest outside Caterpillar's annual shareholder meeting in Chicago, 9 June. (Kristin Szremski)

While pro-Palestinian activists and supporters of Israel lined opposite sides of South LaSalle Street outside the Northern Trust Building in Chicago on 9 June, James Owens, the outgoing CEO and Chairman of Caterpillar Inc., told a room full of shareholders the company was not responsible for the way Israel uses the bulldozers the company manufactures in the United States.

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Israel about to criminalize BDS

June 9th, 2010 | by Sydney Levy | The Only Democracy?

What is Israel’s reaction to the growing nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions? Well criminalize it, of course!

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