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The Truth Will Set Us Free? Comment about Cafe Palestine Freiburg versus University of Freiburg

The university itself is clearly terrified of the truth being told within its walls.

(FREIBURG) - I was brought up in a country that believed itself to be open and tolerant. Indeed after the Second World War Germany undertook to transform guilt into responsibility.

For me, it was always clear that our commitment to those "inviolable and inalienable human rights(1)" as well as freedom of speech (2), were the most precious values and lessons to be drawn from our problematic past.

Palestinian-Jordanian Crossing Open for Trade for the First Time

Israel closes the crossing for religious and national occasions.

(AL KARAMA CROSSING, Jordan) - Chief of General Committee for Crossings and Borders, Nazmi Mohana, announced on Thursday that Al-Karama Crossing connecting Jordan with the West Bank is open for commercial purposes.

"This is the first time the crossing is going to be used for commerce," Mohana said.

European Football Determined to Reward Racism

Please ask your MP to write to Hugh Robertson, Minister for Sport, to complain.

(LONDON) - Israel has an unsporting record of sheer bloody-minded obstruction towards Palestinians’ efforts to participate in a wide range of sporting activity.

It is quite outrageous for the British government, to applaud and reward their racist behaviour.

Ninth Prison Term for Conscientious Objector Natan Blanc

כליאה תשיעית לסרבן המצפון נתן בלנק | الحكم بالسجن على رافض الخدمة العسكرية ناتان بلانك للمرة التاسعة‎

(TEL AVIV New Profile) - Natan Blanc, 19 years old from Haifa, arrived, Wednesday, 17.4.2013, to the Induction Base in Tal-hashomer, where he again declared his refusal to serve in the Israeli Army.

In 18.4.2013 he was sentenced to 20 days in the military prison No. 6 near Atlit.

I Am So Blessed

Losing my father, in one of their raids, I am so blessed, that it was not I, flying planes of terror, firing that missile, then Laughing and rejoicing....

(LONDON) - I am so blessed, being a Palestinian, being a refugee, for over fifty years,

I am so blessed, I wasn’t in the tank, with an army uniform, killing and destroying, to frighten people away, “It was a barren land”, later on to say! I am so blessed...

Changing The Conversation Around Israel/Palestine

Please visit Kickstarter and help raise finishing funds for the feature-length film “A People Without a Land”

(LOS ANGELES) - Four years ago, my wife and I began working on a documentary film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that we believe has the potential to change the way people think about Israel/Palestine.

“A People Without a Land” explores the roots of the conflict, explains why the peace process has failed, and articulates a vision for a just and practical solution.

Lawyer: Israel Pressuring Issawi to End Hunger Strike

Israel has also offered to exile him to the Gaza Strip.

(RAMALLAH Ma'an) - Intensive efforts are being made by Israel to convince hunger-striking prisoner Samer Issawi to end his protest action, a lawyer said Tuesday.

Israeli negotiators have been visiting Issawi at Kaplan Medical Center since Friday and pressuring him to accept proposals to end his hunger strike...

Controlled Opposition - From Goldstein to Soros and Beyond

Contrary to popular belief, it is not ‘right wing’ Zionists who facilitate Jewish power, It is actually the ‘good’, the ‘enlightened’ and the ‘progressive’ who make Jewish power the most effective and forceful power in the land.

(LONDON) - Jewish power is the unique capacity to stop us from discussing or even contemplating Jewish power.

It is the capacity to determine the boundaries of the political discourse and criticism in particular.

G8 and Abbas Still Block Road to Middle East Peace

Palestinians should not be bullied into pleading or bargaining with a brutal occupier for their freedom.

(LONDON) - Yesterday the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in London issued the following statement on the British government's website...

It is a driveling, sniveling way to mark 65 years since the massacre at the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, near Jerusalem.

The Tarnished Truth

Not even a man of God and peace is safe from the Zionist Hasbara.

(LONDON) - Since the late nineteenth century the Zionist movement and its drumbeaters have perfected the art of propaganda.

This last week has seen a renewed vigour in this art form, simply because of the visit of Mr. Obama to the Middle East followed by his Secretary of State, Mr. Kerry, trying to inject some life into the dead and buried so-called ‘peace process’.