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  1. Will FIFA bow to Israeli pressure over illegal settlement teams?

    Palestine. β€˜No normal sports’ Last year, Human Rights WatchΒ  detailed Β how FIFA and theΒ  Israel Football ... play there. At a recent event in Johannesburg, one of the letter’s signatories, South African sports ...

  2. Middle East: 'An incredible display of people power'

    East. It all happened after I visited occupied Palestine for the first time in 2003. I had been somewhat ... I understood how inaccurately our media in the US is portraying the situation in Palestine, and so I began to ... barriers exist that prevent such voices from being heard? When I was planning one of my trips to Palestine ...

  3. King Hussein and the end of an era

    in Palestine. According to Lawrence of Arabia, who liaised between the British government and the ... towards the aim of creating a Jewish-only state in Palestine. Abdullah held regular secret meetings with ... Zionist leaders aimed at partitioning Palestine between the Zionists and himself. These meetings continued ...

  4. Write on: letters to the editor

    recent address to the Australian Legal Resources International concerning the Palestine refugees ... in the region would harm their investments. Israel, known as Palestine at the time of the Balfour ... Palestine refugees should be repatriated back to Israel and compensated for the property and possessions ...

  5. West has ugly history of blocking Arab freedom

    idealism, it is a strategic necessity”. A cursory look at events β€” past and present β€” demonstrates the exact ... peasants rose up in British-controlled Palestine in 1936-9, as relations between the European Jews β€” who ... demands for the creation of Israel as a β€œJewish state” in historic Palestine as a weapon against Arab ...

  6. Sinn FΓ©in's Gerry Adams: β€˜Fidel Castro a hero and friend of Ireland’

    and women who in exceptional times in Ireland or Palestine, in South Africa or Cuba, in the Basque ... first night in Havana we were taken to an outdoor event to mark the formal opening of 200 new schools ... republican struggle and particularly toward the 1981 hunger strikers. Fidel recalled those events and praised ...

  7. Summer reading: Recommended books of the year

    readers trying to understand the history and propaganda surrounding Israel-Palestine. In the largest study ... Philo and Berry's careful analysis. BBC coverage of Israel and Palestine is, he said, "replete ... Harrison, ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ journalist Palestine by Sarah Irving Bradt Travel Guides, 2011 This is the ideal ...

  8. West Papua’s forgotten independence struggle β€” interview with Papuan leader Benny Wenda

    their struggle to the world. From September 30 to October 30, β€œRockin’ for West Papua” events will take ... place across Australia and other parts of the world. Wenda said the musical events offer the movement β€œa ... the struggles against oppression in Palestine and Western Sahara. β€œI think that it is a common ...

  9. Israel: Talking peace while waging war

    an event on its own or an event for an agreement or a[n] historic breakthrough". However, ... a move to consolidate Israeli control of all of historic Palestine while taking a large portion of the ...

  10. Youth festival in Venezuela

    occupation of Iraq, continuous aggression against Palestine and the economic blockade and threats against ... Students (WFYS), initiated in 1947, is the biggest event organised by progressive and democratic youth and ... orientation as an international, anti-imperialist, political-cultural and broad-based mass event of youth and ...

  11. Turkey: Crackdown intensifies against media and opposition

    this by not surrendering but resisting.” During the events in DiyarbakΔ±r, the internet was shut down in ... freedom fighter, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Politburo member Leila Khaled made ... to raise voices against the policy of detention. In the name of my people in Palestine and in ...

  12. Letters to the editor: Tribute to Bernie Rosen

    the Palestine Arab” was like a mantra for Bernie who may well have been Australia’s longest serving ... defender of Palestine and was appropriately cremated with a red black and green keffiyeh [scarf] on his ... cliche, that is probably the way to remember Bernie β€” as there in spirit, at every event and action of the ...

  13. M1 protests war on refugees

    event of protest and solidarity. In Sydney, Australasian Correctional Management (ACM), the company ... Friends of Palestine, the MUA, the CFMEU, the Finance Sector Union, the AMWU Activist Network and the May ... are indicators of this. May 1 will be a crucial event to draw the issues together." Organisers ...

  14. Communities, solidarity groups mark International Human Rights Day

    December 11 to mark International Human Rights Day in Sydney. The event, organised by the Latin America ... and the Free Aceh Movement, were also present. The event was kicked off with a welcome to country and ... Bassi from GDC spoke about the continued violation of human rights in Palestine (under Israeli ...

  15. Write on: Letters to the editor

    websites reporting the events and am horrified at the lack of perspective reported in the English media ... more it is so plain and simple to me β€” unless the illegal occupations of Palestine, Afghanistan and ... to attending some of the GLW events and meeting like-minded people, and I hope my small contribution ...

  16. Egyptian government feels its people's ire

    3. "We all know that the road to the liberation of Palestine is through the liberation of Egypt, ... Hamas!" and "With our blood and souls, we sacrifice ourselves for you Palestine!" "We will ... and dissent in Egypt as well as events in the region. Slightly abridged from.] January 7, 2009 777 ...

  17. UNITED STATES: 200,000 protest the 'war without end'

    innocent civilians, end the occupation of Palestine and pursue social justice as an animating principle ... repression" (Islamic Circle of North America). Organisers called the solidarity march for Palestine the ... calling the rally "an outstanding event". [Reprinted from <http://www.counterpunch.org>. ...

  18. M1 Melbourne: 10,000 workers strike for global justice

    of Palestine. A solidarity message was also heard from Irene Xavier, a touring Malaysian labour ... is Palestine. The Palestinians are getting the shit bombed out of them. We should support the ... support May Day, and we want workers to come out on May Day events like this, and I support a public ...

  19. Tariq Ali on the 'United Nations of America'

    the US, as has repeatedly been the case with Palestine and Kashmir? And does membership of the ... UN was also unable to stop the US war in Vietnam. Its paralysis over the occupation of Palestine has ... predicted this turn of events with amazing prescience. "The 'normal' exercise of ...

  20. PAKISTAN: WSF unites against military, fundamentalism

    high, as nothing phenomenal will come from this event." Asked whether non-government organisations ... meant by it drew some of the biggest crowds, as did the panels on the struggle for justice in Palestine ... forum, including some big delegations from India and Sri Lanka, the event was overwhelmingly a forum for ...

  21. In Brief

    presence in Iraq, as well as Haiti and Afghanistan and Israel's occupation of Palestine. The protest, ... protesters attended an ANSWER-initiated protest. According to ANSWER's report of the event, the protest ... Committee, Coalition for World Peace, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Free Palestine Alliance, Not ...

  22. Australian Jewish community limits debate

    Loyalties, that their session would not be included. They gave no reasons. At the event, the contributors ... speak at a variety of events to promote the book. Details for Beyond Tribal Loyalties can be found here. ...

  23. Chomsky exposes crimes and colossal lies of the β€˜masters of mankind’

    Israel-Palestine and the Oslo Accords, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (which Chomsky suggests should actually be ... book: it will be indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand events as they unfold in the new ...

  24. Libya: West’s bombs no solution

    Afghanistan: US β€˜kill team’ horror Palestine: Israel bombs Gaza as conflict escalates Palestine: Illegal ...

  25. Vale Luis Almario: A fighter to the end

    fresh out of hospital, he wanted to get along to a Palestine fundraising event put on by Latin America ...

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