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WATCH: ‘Jaffa flotilla’ marks destruction of Palestine’s cultural capital
Dozens of Palestinians and Israeli Jews sailed along the coast last week to mark the destruction of Jaffa — the former political, cultural and economic capital of Palestine — during the 1948 War. Organized by the Israeli NGO Zochrot, which works to raise awareness of the Nakba and promote the right of return among Israeli…
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May 22, 2015
No, Arab MKs don’t ‘care too much’ about the occupation
Israel’s Arab politicians are often attacked for ‘dealing too much’ with the Palestinian issue. But if they don’t speak up for a people who lack even the most basic civil rights, who will? One of the most-repeated criticism of Israel’s Palestinian members of Knesset, which always come up around election time, is that they “deal…
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Haggai Matar
March 1, 2015
Turkey must fulfill its pledge to Israel
Netanyahu publicly placed his reputation and his country’s pride on the line in order to appease Obama and improve relations with Turkey; by ignoring its already agreed upon terms, Erdogan will make the Israeli people less likely to support another far-reaching agreement. By Aaron Magid At the end of a much-anticipated trip to Israel in…
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September 4, 2013
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Police prepares in force to meet “activist airlift” Friday (updated)
The Israeli authorities are determined not to let any visitor who would declare his desire to come to the West Bank enter the country this Friday. In a statement made yesterday, PM Netanyahu’s office called the planned attempt by hundreds of activists to conduct a solidarity visit in the Palestinian Territories “an effort to undermine…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 5, 2011
UPDATE: With the US boat out, Flotilla to set sail today
The US boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, is dead in the water. Its captain, an American citizen who goes only by the name Captain Jack, will be brought before a judge on felony charges on Tuesday in Athens. Passengers on the ship have been given the freedom to leave the military port where…
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Joseph Dana
July 3, 2011
Hundreds to challenge restrictions on traveling to Occupied Territories
Israel is not yet done with the second flotilla, and a new effort to challenge its control over the travel to and from Palestinian Territories might take place this week – in no other place than the Tel Aviv International Airport This post was updated. A coalition of organizations has made public [French, PDF] its…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 2, 2011
WATCH: US boat to Gaza stopped by Greek coast guard
Johnny Barber, a passenger on the “Audacity of Hope”, the American boat to Gaza, posted this video on Youtube together with the following message: The Audacity of Hope was stopped at sea by the Greek Coast Guard 20 minutes after leaving the port. Our captain refused to turn back irregardless of the pleas of the…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 2, 2011
Triumphant over flotilla, Netanyahu is stronger than ever
With no threat from his political rivals and no pressure from Washington, the Israeli PM is enjoying the best weeks of his career. Yet his rightwing politics are likely to bring a much bigger change than his supporters care to imagine If Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could have one wish, I guess it would be…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 2, 2011
Greek Coast Guard stop US boat from setting sail for Gaza
The ship’s organizers had decided to sail without permission from the Greek authorities, claiming delays in its departure were politically motivated. Earlier, Greece issued a blanket ban on all ships sailing to Gaza from its ports. The Greek Coast Guard intercepted the Gaza flotilla’s American ship this afternoon, less than one hour after it had set…
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Joseph Dana
July 1, 2011
Flotilla organizers: Greece aiding Israel in delaying departure
This post was updated. Athens — At a press conference held at 3pm local time on Thursday, organizers of the US boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, unveiled their ship to international press corps. Roughly 70 journalists , including a news crew from Israel’s Channel 10 as well as other Israeli journalists, were in…
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Joseph Dana
June 30, 2011
Flotilla: Even state officials say Netanyahu, IDF spread lies
According to government sources, the army doesn’t have any evidence that the flotilla activists are planning violent resistance, yet it publicly accuses them of conspiring to murder soldiers The top story in two of Israel’s leading daily papers yesterday was a bombshell: The IDF unveiled plans by flotilla passengers to kill soldiers trying to stop…
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Noam Sheizaf
June 29, 2011
Boycott bill: A way to persecute the Israeli left
Under the guise of a bill against boycotts, the Knesset is muzzling the anti-settlement left The Knesset’s Judicial Committee, led by MK David Rotem (Israel Beitenu) approved yesterday the “boycott bill” for its final reading. This likely means that the bill will imminently become a law. The former version of the bill (Hebrew) defined a…
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Yossi Gurvitz
June 28, 2011
Flotilla organizers: “We are ready to sail”
This post has been UPDATED (see bottom) ATHENS – According to recent tweets from the US boat “The Audacity of Hope,” which is part of the flotilla waiting to depart from Greece towards Gaza any day now, “the boat successfully completed its sea trials – there is no reason for any further delays on this…
By
Joseph Dana
June 27, 2011
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