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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel’s military dictatorship jails peaceful Palestinian activists

    Media coverage of the release of 26 Palestinian prisoners last week, such as it was, tended to focus on their alleged crimes. Especially in the Israeli media, the reader...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Inventing a genocide as pretext to bomb Syria

    Of all the stupid justifications given for the American plan to bomb Syria, this week I read the stupidest one yet in a Guardian column. Probably the most common...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Are Israeli spooks reading your emails?

    Courageous American journalist Glenn Greenwald had another massive scoop this week, revealing a secret agreement that American spy agency the NSA made with Israel. A memorandum of understanding between...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel and Saudi Arabia: the permanent counter-revolution

    What has the record of 2011’s Arab uprisings taught us so far? One could list many things, but to me, the most striking reality is the now open nature...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Edward Said’s legacy lives inside us

    This past week marked a decade since the sad, early passing-away by cancer of Edward Said, and I would like to dedicate this column to him. Edward Said was...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Is Zionism more “Christian” than “Jewish”?

    A poll of American Jews published by Pew Research this week had a headline finding that many will perhaps find surprising: “Jews’ feelings for Israel are equaled or even exceeded...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Time to start talking about Zionist anti-Semitism

    During the recent media dust-up over the Daily Mail’s attack on Labour leader Ed Milliband’s father, many people on the left called attention to the right-wing tabloid’s history of...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Recognising the right of return is not optional

    Fortress Europe’s tyrannical border continues to claim lives. Last week there was another terrible shipwreck in the Mediterranean which claimed the lives of dozens of desperate, fleeing refugees. It...

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  • January 30, 2014

    BDS campaign is erecting counter-siege on Israel

    This week, the pop star Rihanna played a gig in Tel Aviv, despite many requests made to her by Palestinian and solidarity activists to observe the cultural boycott of...

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  • January 30, 2014

    Israel likely behind cyber-spy hacking on French president

    Glenn Greenwald is on a roll. This column has followed his historic coverage of Edward Snowden’s leaked National Security Agency documents with great interest. Last week there was another...

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