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of Palestine An Online Resource of Jewish Activists for a Free Palestine www.jewishfriendspalestine.org |
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A personal website run by an Israeli named Uri Shani in English, German, Arabic, French, and Hebrew deevoted to ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Many interesting links. | ||
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"I am a Jewish-American two-time volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service, a human rights organization based in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I am currently organizing a Spring 2006 tour through parts of Europe, Asia Minor, Canada, and the United States with a presentation on my personal experiences, observations, and photographs from five months documenting human rights violations and working with Palestinians and Israelis active in nonviolent resistance to the Occupation." | ||
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"I have created this web site in order to make public some of my writings, especially those on the Middle East conflict. I want to reach Palestinian people in the hope of providing some comfort: I am a Jew and former Israeli who sees their suffering and acknowledges its origins. I want to reach Israelis in the hope that my views and feelings will perhaps help to free them from their trauma, enough to see the situation more clearly, and not only through the distorting lens of their fear." | ||
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Children of Abraham: Initiative by Shlomi Sendak |
"Shlomi Sendak devoted more than 20 years to the new-age spiritual field and was one of the founders of Ale Yarok (the green leaf party). Lately he devoted himself to his dream, moved to the Negev desert in the South of Israel, founded "Khan Eden" and started his way to end the oldest conflict on earth. ... After more than 20 years in the new-age spiritual field, Sendak decided at the age of 47 to follow his dream, move to the South of Israel, to the place where the Jews made their first steps as a nation and try to settle the bitter disagreement who started about 5000 years ago in Abraham's tent." | ||
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"Das Palästina Portal - Für einen gerechten Frieden im Nahen Osten - einen freien + unabhängigen Palästinenserstaat - ein Israel in Grenzen" | ||
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"Last fall I spent almost four months in the West Bank of Palestine working with communities and grassroots organizations helping build and support nonviolent resistance to the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation. It was one the most profound experience of my life. I will, no doubt, spend a good deal of time on this site writing about what brought me to the cause of Palestinian liberation and how standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people does not make one stand in opposition to the existance of the Israeli people." | ||
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"David Rovics has been called the musical voice of the progressive movement in the US. Amy Goodman has called him "the musical version of Democracy Now!" Since the mid-90's Rovics has spent most of his time on the road, playing hundreds of shows every year throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. He and his songs have been featured on national radio programs in the US, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and elsewhere. He has shared the stage regularly with leading intellectuals (Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn), activists (Medea Benjamin, Ralph Nader), politicians (Dennis Kucinich, George Galloway), musicians (Billy Bragg, the Indigo Girls), and celebrities (Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon). He has performed at dozens of massive rallies throughout North America and Europe and at thousands of conferences, college campuses and folk clubs throughout the world." | ||
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Ecce Homo: A Diary of a Jewish Revolutionary |
"I must admit of have been relishing rather severe Anti-Zionist sentiments for quite a long while. In the course of one's life I came to regard our venerable Rabbis of old with the highest possible esteem. I used to consider Rabbi Yolish of Satmar as my paramount spiritual mentor, and hailed the eminent Rabbi Amram Blau, the august institutor of Neturei Karta, as well as Rabbi Aaron Katzenellenbogen, his rival withal the acclaimed disassociation among the Guardians of the City, as the greatest revisionists of their times. It goes without saying that religious and ideological belligerencies have never motivated me to violate any state, public, criminal, civil or foreign law, by any means whatsoever. There should be no contrariety at all between religious and ideological antagonism, and civilian loyalty as well as observance of the law, that, in my opinion, would be the cornerstone of a democracy. I never thought I would live to experience myself so bitterly persecuted in Eretz Ysroel, it would appear, however, that some things would never change, videlicet: Zionism and it's heretic adherents." | ||
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"I created these pages as a resource for those studying the peace movement in Israel, particularly the women's peace movement. It includes many of my email reports since 1988 ("Dispatches from the Peace Front"), as well as a book telling the early history of Women in Black in Israel. When we do get to peace between Israel and our Arab neighbors, women peace activists will deserve a special place in history." | ||
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"Hannah's Palestine blog includes her reflections from Palestine as she works in solidarity with the Palestinian people resisting occupation. She works mostly with Birthright Unplugged (www.birthrightunplugged.org) and with the International Women's Peace Service (www.iwps.info)." | ||
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" I dared pose a question to Rabbi Arik Ascherman. Realizing that the maintainers of the occupation cannot possibly claim to be Jewish, in a sense Isaiah, Jesus, Spinoza or Buber would have approved of [although they hold Joshua, the ethnic cleanser, or Samson, the suicide bomder, in great esteem], wouldn't the seven commandments of the sons of Noah be more applicable? Rabbi Ascherman wished they followed just one commandment. Any of them." | ||
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"This weblog is intended to follow the antics of Zionists in the UK media. The list of journos willing to lie, smear or simply muddy the waters for the racist war criminals of Israel is growing all the time as new ones are coming on stream and, of course, Zionism is gaining new converts like David Aaronovitch (ex-Communist Party), Christopher Hitchens (ex-SWP) and Linda Grant (ex - Revolutionary Workers' League). This is an anti-racist site so holocaust deniers, Hitler admirers and other would be ethnic cleansers need not apply." | ||
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[Spanish, from Argentina]"Hoy, Medio Oriente está más solo que nunca. Nosotros elegimos así –"Medio Oriente"- porque no creemos en Israel y en Palestina, o en Palestina e Israel: creemos en la Tierra de todos y todas, Sagrada por o para Dios o no, pero sagrada, seguro, para y por nosotros, judíos y árabes. Nosotros queremos acompañar a Medio Oriente, desde aquí, desde nuestra doble pertenencia: territorial, como argentinos, pero, muy especialmente en éste momento, como judíos, como parte del Pueblo Judío. ... Creemos, soñamos, necesitamos construir otro mundo posible. Necesitamos construir al menos su posibilidad. Y nosotros creemos, como dijimos, que Medio Oriente es la nueva prueba que como Pueblo debemos enfrentar. La historia que los hombres han sabido edificar –o sea, ésos mismos hombres- hace latente la libertad." | ||
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"So now I am in Tel Aviv with my Israeli family- I arrived here on Wednesday after a short trip to Jerusalem and Bethlehem for a couple of meetings and to deal with some logistical details. ... My imagination takes me to the reality of the nightmares in the West Bank cities, villages and refugee camps and the normalized nature of curfew. It was bad before the bombing in a time of "relative peace" (for Israelis)- what will happen next? I get frustrated in my head and can't believe there isn't more outrage from Israelis and Palestinians alike. ..." | ||
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[French, from France]"Parce qu'il convient de ne jamais être du côté des bourreaux, ce site est solidaire de tous les persécutés, juifs et non juifs, des victimes civiles des conflits, des victimes civiles des attentats terroristes, des victimes civiles des occupations militaires, solidaire enfin des peuples opprimés et particulièrement du peuple palestinien." | ||
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"About my case now, I served the full sentence, even if it was an injustice. I am demanding my total freedom, that could be only by leaving Israel for the free world. Israel continues to punish me. They arrested me, I am under restrictions, not to leave, not to speak freely. I am demanding my freedom of speech, freedom of movement. There is no justice by Israel democracy system. I am calling to US media to report, to interview, for my human rights, freedom, and for telling the truth about NWs in Israel. I am staying in East Jerusalem under occupation, among Christians and Palestinians. I like to meet friends, supporters, talk about my case, every one is very welcome. My future plan is to continue to do for peace, and abolition of NWs." | ||
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Omnicrisis |
"Omnicrisis.com is the personal blog of Mike Medow. Based in Detroit, Mike is an editor of Critical Moment magazine, a staff organizer of the Allied Media Conference, and treasurer for the Detroit Summer Collective. Mike is also a member of the Culture and Education Work Group of the International Jewish Solidarity Network, a newly emerging network of anti-Zionist Jews. Mike also has an interest in extreme and avant garde music and will use this blog to talk about that stuff too." | ||
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Realistic Dove |
"Since the mid-1980s. I have spent much of my spare time and some of professional life trying to convince American Jews to support Israel’s peace camp. One of the challenges I’ve tried to address is figuring out how to criticise Israeli policy and the conventional Israel lobby without bolstering the arguments of those who reject the legitimacy of a Jewish state. I have fought this fight as a board member of Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now and the Givat Haviva Education Fund, as well as a member of B’rit Tzedek v’Shalom, four groups on the American Zionist left." | ||
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The website of Israeli peace activist and photographer Yair Gil. Most of the text is in Hebrew, but it is a massively visual site featuring photos from all manner of Israeli rallies and demonstrations for peace and against the occupation. | ||
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Israeli punk rock band lyrics include: "Shame that our country kids get arrested day by day just because they don't believe in fighting for the state / Which sends /Innocent kids to their useless death /Just for a piece of land/The shame is on us all/ I Know, you don't feel it now/but soon it gonna hit u bad/ THIS DEMOCRASEY does not mean NADA!/When your freedom is a lie! Chorus: What's the meaning of sacrifice for the state/ When there isn't such a thing/ What does it mean when U ARE DEAD/ SO lift your heads up /MY FRIENDS/and rise up from the dis-caring grave/join us / Be apart of the resisting parade*/COME on join us/brothers! / sisters! to the resisting parade!" |
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Richard Silverstein: "Unlike some religious traditions, Judaism comprehends evil as something inherently human. In the Zohar, it is this evil or impurity which causes the sacred keylim ("vessels") to break. Performance of mitzvot ("commandments") are the means to repair the vessels and so transmute evil into good. A Kabbalist would have no problem understanding that hatred and violence between Israels and Palestinians are evils that pollute the world. Likewise, I'd like to think such a Kabbalist might look favorably on efforts like this blog to repair this battered region with acts of gemilut chesed. ... I have been interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since I was a teenager in 1967 and have worked all my adult life to promote dialogue and mutual recognition." | ||