Support Burma! – Show your Saffon Solidarity!

In support of our incredibly brave friends in Bruma: May all people around the wrold wear a red shirt on Friday, sept 28!
The time has come for the World to really STAND UP FOR BURMA!
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Settlers plan five new West Bank outposts during Sukkot holiday

Right-wing activists are planning to set up five new settlement nuclei throughout the West Bank this Sunday, during the interim days of Sukkot.
The operation, details of which were announced yesterday, will include taking possession of the land at the following locations: Givat Ha’eitam near Efrat, Hill 1013 near Halhoul in the Hebron region, Nofei [...]

Comments Reg. Bollinger’s Treatment of Ahmadinejad

Embarassed American:
An open letter to Mr. Lee Bollinger:
Thank you, Mr. Bollinger. Thank you for so eloquently showing the Iranian people and government exactly what it means to be an American. Thank you for showing them that Americans are intolerant, spiteful, vitriol-spewing hate mongers. Thank you for showing them that Americans cannot be gracious hosts, even [...]

On Why Various Countries Hate the US

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: In an address to a Labour Party conference last week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair had this to say about the events of September 11th.
Prime Minister TONY BLAIR (Great Britain): Understand the causes of terror. Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this. Nothing could ever justify [...]

Guillotining Gaza

he death of a nation is a rare and somber event. But the vision of a unified, independent Palestine threatens to be another casualty of a Hamas-Fatah civil war, stoked by Israel and its enabling ally the United States.
Last month’s chaos may mark the beginning of the end of the Palestinian Authority. That might not [...]

Ahmadinejad’s speech at University of Columbia

Columbia President Bollinger Introduces Ahmadinejad

Ahmadinejad at Columbia University

Updated, 3:04 p.m. | President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran completed his appearance by thanking his audience. “I ask Almighty God to assist all of us to work hand in hand for a [...]

The Zionist Question: A History of Violence

In recent times, no nationalist project has been so completely mythologized by its partisans as Zionism. In the construction of nearly all aspects of its history, the official Zionist narrative is often at variance–even complete variance–with the facts as they are known to the rest of the world: and, more recently, even as they have [...]

Stand With Us

Education on behalf of Israel and the Jewish community worldwide
StandWithUs is an international education organization that ensures that Israel’s side of the story is told in communities, campuses, libraries, the media and churches through brochures, speakers and conferences.
Founded in 2001 in response to the second Intifada and the misinformation that surrounded the conflict, SWU now [...]

Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby

About three weeks ago Pluto books and the University of Michigan Press – our US distributor – came under attack by Stand With Us (a Zionist lobby group) who were objecting to the publication of Overcoming Zionism by Joel Kovel which resulted in the book being withdrawn in the US. The vitriolic attack questioned the [...]

The Quality of Mercy in Gaza

In these days of warmongering, peace and justice are tossed about like hot potatoes with no end to the suffering in sight. But, where is the compassion for the children, women and men who are being subjected to the excesses of power in all its guises?
Right now, some mercy for the Palestinians in Gaza is [...]