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Category Archives: Justice

No room at the school unless you’re racially pure

Internal blatant discrimination against Israeli Arabs who make up a fifth of the population is well known and documented, as is the brutal and longest running occupation in modern times … Continue reading

4 September, 2007 · 2 Comments

The New (York City) Anti-Semitism: Reinstate Debbie Almontaser to the Kahlil Gibran International Academy

Any intelligent observer can easily discern that the “new” anti-semitism today has little connection with discrimination against Jews. Anti-semitism nowadays is mostly about deplorable discrimination and racist attacks against Arabs. … Continue reading

1 September, 2007 · 8 Comments

IPCRI Campaign for Palestinian Textbooks and other Take Action items

Gazan children are being denied the right to learn — the Israeli government is currently obstructing shipments of textbooks and printing paper (along with foodstuffs, trading, aid, money, resources and … Continue reading

23 August, 2007 · Leave a comment

Unsettling the settlements

A mural on the apartheid wall imposed by Israel, courtesy http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com Articles of interest Sami Awad reports on the latest non-violent actions in Bil’in in “…then they fight you, then … Continue reading

19 August, 2007 · 1 Comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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