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Israeli performers boycott settlements |
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Aug 29, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
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UPI Aug. 29, 2010 JERUSALEM -- Some of Israel's most prominent actors, artists and directors are refusing to perform in West Bank settlements. More than 50 artists, actors, directors and playwrights signed a petition last week in response to a report in Haaretz that said some of Israel's leading theatrical groups planned to participate in the opening of a new cultural center in the West Bank city of Ariel in November. In the petition, the artists said they oppose performing in Israeli settlements located in the West Bank. At Sunday's cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the last thing the country needs is a boycott from within Israel. Read full article... |
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Yale University and the Problem of Anti-Semitism - An Analysis |
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Aug 29, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
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By Professor Lawrence Davidson
Department of History
West Chester University
West Chester, Pa 19383
USA Between the 23rd and the 25th of August, Yale University held a conference on Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity." It was sponsored by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism. Therefore, this was a university event and not one brought in from the outside to use Yale facilities. On the surface there is nothing wrong with this. Anti-Semitism is an age old form of racism and it calls for ongoing academic study. The problem is that this particular conference approached the subject from the ideologically driven position of radical Zionism. In other words, many of the assumptions upon which the conference was built were unfortunately tainted with bias. Indeed, in at least one instance (a panel on the "self-hating" Jew), one might suggest that the event was itself promoting a particularly virulent form of anti-Semitism. Very odd indeed. |
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Opponents of Israeli occupation greet truckers at port of Vancouver |
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Aug 24, 2010 at 12:16 PM |
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Vancouver – Port truck traffic slowed to a crawl along the Deltaport causeway as a group of about 50 protesters approached drivers with leaflets containing information about the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza. They also offered the drivers coffee and muffins in a gesture of solidarity. The protesters were there to draw attention to the fact that the Israeli container ship Zim Djibouti had landed in Vancouver to unload its containers. |
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Aug 29, 2010 at 05:33 PM |
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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has released the English-language version of Targeted Civilians: A PCHR Report on the Israeli Military Offensive against the Gaza Strip (27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009). This report comprehensively documents the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, in which more than 1,400 Palestinians were killed, and over 5,300 injured. The overwhelming majority of those killed and injured were civilians. Attention is also paid to the extensive destruction of civilian object, including homes, and the damage inflicted on industry, agriculture, and the infrastructure of the Gaza Strip. Read full article... |
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Trauma, grief, and PTSD in Palestinian children victims of War on Gaza |
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Aug 29, 2010 at 05:20 PM |
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Abstract Purpose: Exposure to war trauma has been independently associated with posttraumatic stress (PTSD) and grief in children and adults. The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between war traumatic experiences due to last war on Gaza, PTSD, and traumatic grief children. |
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Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2010 |
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Jul 02, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
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Published July 2, 2010 Executive summary When The Lancet published its Series on Health in the occupied Palestinian territory in March, 2009, we pledged to return to the issues raised in the series in subsequent years. On March 1-2 this year, we took part in a research conference on Palestinian health that was held at Birzeit University in the West Bank. Billed as the 2nd Lancet-Palestinian Health Alliance Conference, our goal was to nurture and encourage a network of local and international scientists to do work that would advance the health of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, as well as the wider Palestinian diaspora. The best peer-reviewed abstracts of that meeting are today published online. We also publish 3 Comments, to set the context for that meeting and to describe the current status of the Palestinian health predicament.
The abstracts provide a window into life as it is in the occupied territory. We plan to track what we hope will be progress in coming years with annual research-based meetings of the Lancet-Palestinian Health Alliance. Read full article... |
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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, occupied Palestinian territory |
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Aug 29, 2010 at 05:15 PM |
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This section includes reports, press releases and other resources published by the humanitarian organizations in the occupied Palestinian (oPt) territory, including OCHA, UN Agencies and International non-governmental organizations. http://www.ochaopt.org/gazacrisis.aspx?id=1000 |
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Reporting Israeli Assault Through Israel's Eyes |
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Jun 01, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
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Attack on humanitarian flotilla prompts little media skepticism: On May 31, the Israeli military attacked a flotilla of boats full of civilians attempting to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip. Reports indicate that at least nine and as many as 16 of the activists on board were killed, though details remain sketchy due to Israel's censorious limitations on media coverage. Much of the U.S. media coverage has been remarkably unskeptical of Israel's account of events and their context, and has paid little regard to international law. Read full article... |
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CPJ denounces Israel’s use of footage seized in flotilla raid |
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Jun 03, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
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New York, June 3, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces Israel’s editing and distribution of footage confiscated from foreign journalists aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla that was raided on Monday. On Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces spokesman’s office released edited portions of confiscated video on its YouTube channel, where the footage was labeled as “captured.” The Foreign Press Association in Israel, which represents hundreds of foreign correspondents in Israel, called the use a "clear violation of journalistic ethics and unacceptable" and warned news outlets to "treat the material with appropriate caution." Read full article... |
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