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South Africa: What`s in a Label?

A new law requiring Israel to label products made beyond the Green Line will empower civil society.

(BE'ER-SHIVA, Israel) - South Africa's recent demand that products originating in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights remove the label "Made in Israel" is extremely significant.

Gaza Family, Victims of Israeli War Crimes, Appeal to British Queen to Remove `Blood Diamond`

29 members of the Sammoni family's innocent and defenceless children, women and men – were killed by the Givati Brigade in a single incident.

(DUBLIN / GAZA) - The Sammoni family has asked the British Queen to remove the Steinmetz Forevermark Jubilee Diamond in the Tower of London to mark the Queen’s Jubilee.

The Boycott Will Work, an Israeli Perspective

Includes introduction from Sonja Karkar with Australians for Palestine.

(MELBOURNE) - I have been a political activist for most of my adult life.

My Beloved has Many Faces

In the eyes of a Jerusalemite child, I saw the face of my beloved

(LONDON) - How constant must the call for freedom in Palestine be? How much longer, how much louder must this voice grow? For what length of time do the poets have to write verse?

The Queen Stands for Duty and Justice. But Do Her Ministers?

Alistair Burt's talk of "Israeli values of tolerance and... justice" (cough) is straight out of Tel Aviv’s propaganda training manual.

(LONDON) - The Queen's Jubilee generated a week of intensely loyal outpourings and a feast of pageantry.

Palestine and Optimism

We remain optimistic because our children and grandchildren are optimistic and we should not try to dissuade them from optimism or from acting to improve their lives. As we free our minds of dark thoughts, we can see the light.

(BETHLEHEM) - Overall life is good and people are good. Some people do foolish things once in a while: oppress, kill, steal land, destroy trees etc.

But life continues and people survive, adapt, and struggle to get to a better place. Here in Palestine, the apricots are in season and they are as sweet as can be.

Motherhood Redefined

Arming and training of Jewish-settler women, the Illegal colonists.

(LONDON) - How could anyone develop such a perception of themselves, of others, of the world, and of reality around them?

Israel: Illegal Arrest and Incommunicado Detention of Nabil Al-Raee

Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes contacts Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu over the arrest of Freedom Theatre Director.

(SALEM) - Many who keep up on the tragic saga of Palestine know the story of the Freedom Theatre in richly historic Jenin, a place recognized from the Bible, today a refugee camp for Palestinian people.

The theatre was raided at 3:00 a.m. by police from Israel and the matter has activists alarmed.

Israelis Arrest Palestinian Theater`s Artistic Director at 3:00 A.M.

Juliano was murdered just over a year ago and now they're after his theater.

(JENIN, Palestine) - Last night, Israeli armed forces raided the home of Nabil Al Raee, arresting the artistic director of The Freedom Theatre.

The Freedom Theatre manager, Jonatan Stanczak asked the soldiers why they were detaining Al Raee. They refused to say, “The only answer you get is a gun in your face.”

Lebanon, Palestine & Jewishness...

Gilad Atzmon: novelist, journalist and saxophonist speaks about Lebanon, Palestine, Jewishness and censorship.

(SALEM / LONDON) - I have to say that of all of my heroes in this world, and there are many, one at the top of the list is our friend Gilad Atzmon.