Goldstone and the question of intent
In its attempts to evade international accountability, Israel is silencing its own civil society
Miri Weingarten is an Israeli human rights activist and Director of JNews.
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EU Parliament endorses Goldstone report, supports Israeli NGOs
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In a resolution adopted on 10 March, the European Parliament (EP) endorsed the recommendations of the UN Fact-Fin
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Seeing Israel as it is, but not keeping a distance
Hagai El Ad on Israel’s image among Jews in the UK
I was delighted to be one of close to 2,000 participants in Limmud.
Hagai El-Ad is the Executive Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Israel’s largest human rights organization. An edited version of the piece was originally published as a comment in Hebrew on nrg, the Israeli news website of Maariv, on January 5 2010. An edited English version was published in the Huffington Post on February 10 2010.
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Israel, apartheid, and the Hasbara machine
Ran Greenstein responds to the recently published pieces by Richard Goldstone and Benjamin Pogrund which reject the analogy of Israel and apartheid.
Ran Greenstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa. He has written extensively on the genealogies of the conflicts in Palestine/Israel and South Africa.
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