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French academics join the call for boycott

Their statement follows in English and French. UPDATE See also an April 2010 video clip of the action protesting the naming a Paris street after war criminal Ben Gurion. Israel’s … Continue reading

15 February, 2009 · 2 Comments

Viva Palestina: UK Aid Convoys To Gaza

Cross-posted from HarpyMarx with thanks.  Note the appended recent development that nine members of the convoy have been arrested under “anti-terror” legislation — six have now been released but without … Continue reading

15 February, 2009 · 1 Comment

Out-last, out-legitimize: Eqbal Ahmad on Strategy for Palestine

An interesting snippet from artist and author Ricardo Levins Morales on a propositional strategy for Palestine as posited by Eqbal Ahmad. Ahmad might well have anticipated the Free Gaza campaign. … Continue reading

13 February, 2009 · Leave a comment

Barcelona Basketball Fans: “Boycott Israel — Viva Palestina”

The sporting side of the BDS campaign continues to strike around the world, with Barcelona basketball fans receiving Maccabi Tel Aviv with dozens of Palestinian flags, chanting: “Boycott Israel — … Continue reading

7 February, 2009 · Leave a 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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