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CAIR Asks DOJ to Probe Oregon FBI`s `Coercion` of Muslim Citizens

CAIR Staff Attorney Gadeir Abbas cites a pattern of unconstitutional activity.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization is calling on the DOJ's Civil Rights Division to investigate acts of “coercion and intimidation” in the FBI’s Portland Field Office.

The agency is accused of pressuring Muslims into giving up constitutional rights if they wish to return to the U.S. from overseas.

THE ARAB SPRING: A Year that Changed the World

Portland State University, SMSU Rooms 294,238,296 Saturday, February 25th, 2012 10 AM to 10 PM — Registration begins at 9:00 AM —

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Students United For Palestinian Equal Rights has organized a wide-ranging conference that is designed to analyze the events of the Arab Spring.

The event will examine its regional and international implications, and its effects on the future of Palestine.

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Israel plans Demolition of Village Solar Panels Near Hebron

A coordinator warns Israel's Civil Administration "will take the village back to the stone age".

(HEBRON) - The Israeli occupation authorities plan to demolish a renewable energy project; the only source of lighting for the houses in a Palestinian village near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

The people of Al-Mnazel received the demolition notice advising of Israel's plans to destroy the solar panels which provide them with electricity.

Yet another War for Israel

“Men use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.” (Voltaire: Dialogue XIV, Le Chapon et la Poularde)

(LAVERNE, Calif.) - Voltaire’s wit often illuminates truth. Consider this revealing “thought” as expressed recently in Alert, the voice of AIPAC to its membership:

“Some Americans believe if the Israelis strike Iran, the U.S. will pay the political costs anyway, so it would be better for the Americans to do the job and do it properly...”

Updates from Occupied Palestine

Includes several updates on Israel's ethnic cleansing project.

(BETHLEHEM) - Three were arrested at Al-Walaja village Video of the event today at Al-Walaja- they were later released.

Herzliya conference, action item to do for Brussels Air, Youth Conference in Palestine in July, and more.

Dershowitz Attacks Penn BDS Conference; Next In Line, The United Methodist Church

No help from PEPs (Progressive Except on Palestine) as Dershowitz continues attacks.

(CHICAGO) - Blogger Noam Sheizal writes that most Israeli voters have no interest in ending the country’s 44 year military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Sheizal, a columnist for +972, concludes in his FP essay, that the “peace camp” has disappeared from Israeli politics.

The American Dilemma

In the ‘land of the free’ money can buy everything.

(NEW YORK) - I was initially perplexed by the Zionist influence within the NYC Quaker Seminary. Why would Zionists send their kids to a Quaker school?

Foreign National Injured at Weekly West Bank Demonstration

Lies & violence from the IDF...

(WEST BANK +972 Mag) - A photographer and two women were injured at this Friday’s anti-occupation demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.

The civilians injured in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh today required hospitalization, according to reports from several eyewitness.

Tears of Gaza

257 of Israel's victims in 'Operation Cast Lead' were children under 16.

(NEW YORK) - In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed.

The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience.

The BBC Censors its own Report on Tunisia`s Jews Saying `No` to Israel!

Tunisia’s Jews have rejected the Israeli call...

(LONDON) - There was a moment in a report from Tunisia by the BBC’s Wyre Davies when I could not stop myself laughing. I was listening to it on the Corporation’s generally excellent World Service radio.

In my view this particular BBC service is generally excellent because unlike all other BBC news and current affairs outlets, radio and tv, it often reflects some of the truth about what is happening in and over Palestine that became Israel.