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Activism
Petition: Alicia Keys, Boycott Apartheid Israel!


Petition calling to free Natan Blanc
after having been sentenced to ten consecutive prison terms for same offence

On the 46th year of occupation, Women in Black will hold special protest vigils


Protest Vigil for imprisoned refuser Natan Blanc, now serving his 10th prisone term.
Opposite ministry of defense, Caplan Str. Tel Aviv, Tuesd. 21/5 at 6pm

Help women activists indict corporate collusion


In Palestine, Trying to Let Our Voice Reach Outside
Weekly workshops by Sharek Youth Forum

J Street petition in support of the Arab Peace Initiative


Pick up truck for Ezra Nawi
Kobi Snitz - We are working on raising money for a new pick up truck for Ezra Nawi. We are using something new

Features & translations
Solidarity shifts in Sheikh Jarrah: 17 to 20 May
Sheikh Jarrah Protest - "The Shamashne family has decided to erect a protest tent outside of their house, an

Never a dull moment in this crazy country (week review)
Adam Keller - Crazy Country - The Shamasnah family in the Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood of East Jerusalem is far

Red Rag column: The secret plan
Gideon Spiro - The secret plan - Racism in the Knesset, the religion, Orit Struk and Shai Dromi - Purity of the

Video:Israeli occupation bulldozers demolished a house and a building in al-Tur village– Jerusalem
Video - Silwanic Net ca

Red Rag Column: The death-cult
Gideon Spiro - The Week of the Dead in Israel - 65 years of independence - Brainwashing Israeli children - The l

Red Rag Weekly Column: Barack Obama, Superstar
Gideon Spiro - Barack Obama, Superstar - The Apology - 46 years of Occupation - Male chauvinist pork

Red Rag: new Intifada? - Arafat Jaradat - Mississippi in Israel - Pollard
Gideon Spiro - Why was Jaradat examined five times in the five days of his interrogation? Because that is the

“Ich bin ein Bil’iner!”
Uri Avnery - THIS DOES not happen every day: a Minister of Culture publicly rejoices because a film from her coun

`You`re not allowed to use public transportation at all`
Ofra Yeshua-Lyth - First-hand report of "bus apartheid": Palestinian workers returning home are forced to leave a

Red Rag weekly column: the Ben Zygier affair; Akiva Orr, RIP
Gideon Spiro - I will always treasure the image of Aki as a comrade in ideology and struggle, as one of the pilla

`Equal burden` - a disaster for the IDF
Uri Avnery - Translation of Haaretz Hebrew for OM - There is a simple solution to the problem of "equal burden":

Red Rag Weekly Column: Natan Blanc, Yair Lapid, Ben-Dror Yemini
Gideon Spiro - Natan Blanc; the resilience of the Right; buds of hope; "leftist Mafia"? "Nazification project"

General Staff terrorism (1992)
Gideon Spiro - A meeting of the IDF General Staff, as imagined by Gideon Spiro in 1992.

Winds of war
Adam Keller - From the polling stations to the long waiting lines at the gas mask distribution stations (...) aft

Red Rag column: letters to judges and politicians
Gideon Spiro - "In short, Mr. dishonourable Minister: take off your shoes when you stand before Mordechai Vanunu,

A story of a Palestinian village without basic infrastructure #2
Blog - Wordpress "Why Do They Want Wipe an Entire Palestinian Village from the Map, and Not for the First Tim

Red Rag Weekly Column: Naftali Bennett, Haneen Zoabi, Moshe Feiglin
Gideon Spiro - On refusal - Haneen Zoabi - Moshe Feiglin, the new "Benefactor" - the fiction of "Area A"

The Israeli Green Party and Gideon Spiro: a correspondence
Gideon Spiro - How can an "Israeli Green Party" that ignores the issue of radioactive waste be relevant?

Red Rag: A toothless condemnation
Gideon Spiro - Toothless condemnation - corrupt politician - in praise of fear - heroism - "No miracle happened h

The colonization instinct has not been tamed
Dimitry Shumsky - Haaretz - It isn`t just Gush Emunim and the fanatics in Hebron who want to colonize the West Ba

Red Rag Weekly Column
Gideon Spiro - Gaza held out - Israel and North America against the world - New face of the Likud - Barak`s depar

Red Rag - Gideon Spiro`s weekly column
*Elections 2013 *`Mood` parties *In memory of Senator George McGovern *Letter to Judge Hadad *Occupation refuser

Red Rag: can Germans criticize Israel?
Gideon Spiro - Is a German allowed to criticize Israel? Reflections on the history of the dehumanization of the O

The new expropriation regime in the West Bank - Week 2362 of Occupation
Daniel Breslau - Occupation Magazine - Israel’s takeover of West Bank lands for settlement construction has p

Red Rag weekly column: polishing swords; value of a Palestinian woman`s life
Gideon Spiro - polishing swords - price of a Palestinian life - hardship of life in Israel - brainwashing Jewish

Week 2357 of Occupation
Daniel Breslau - Occupation Magazine - The cleansing of the Jordan Valley and South Hebron Hills

Red Rag weekly column: terrorist ping-pong
Gideon Spiro - terrorist ping-pong - chemical weapons - cycle of history - letter to Judge Daphne Barak-Erez

Silwan: Conflicting Narratives in East Jerusalem
Brian Britt - Jerusalem’s ancient past is changing quickly. Since 1967 when Israel captured the eastern part of

Week 2356 of Occupation
Daniel Breslau - To appreciate the almost sadistic callousness of Mitt Romney’s infamous July 30 comments in Jeru

Red Rag column: Moshe Silman; propaganda film; Olmert`s acquittal; the Levy Report; ugly Israel
Gideon Spiro - Moshe Silman; Propaganda about Dimona; Olmert`s acquittal; military service for Haredim; the Occup

No Accreditation for Expropriation
Reuven Kaminer - Email "The Israeli Council for Higher Education has protested the usurpation of its authori

URGENT: TAKE ACTION TO STOP THE DEMOLITION OF SUSIYA!
Email: Moriel Rothman "Take facebook action! Take a picture of yourself inside or outside of your house– whi

An immigrant in his own country
Sami Michael - If we don’t find a solution besides the machine-gun and the tank, which we have already seen are h

Beating & abuse
B"Tselem - "Testimonies taken by B’Tselem indicates that during April 2012, soldiers arrested Muhammad a-Zir

Susiya Forever - Stop the Demolition
Susiya Forever - "On Friday, June 22 we will stand side by side with the residents of Palestinian Susya in a p

URGENT: Act now for Mahmoud Sarsak on 88th day of hunger strike; Palestinian soccer star at risk of death
SAMIDOUN - Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network "As European soccer stars compete in the European Champi

The 45th birthday of the Occupation
Nurit Peled-Elhanan - Speech given at Gan Meir in Tel Aviv, 9 June 2012 - This year the apartheid regime of the S

Living the occupation, 45 years
Adam Keller - Would Israel put an end to the occupation, before the occupation puts an end to Israel?

Red Rag weekly column: `One leader, one nation, one kingdom`
Gideon Spiro - One leader, one nation, one kingdom - Ahinoam Nini - file closed on Samouni family massacre - Nakb

Choose Your Theatre: London or Ariel
Vardit Shalfy - Haaretz - Did the theaters really have no choice but to surrender to the dictate of Culture Minis

To talk about ourselves
Nir Baram - Haokets - Today it was reported that after Nir Baram’s speech at the Writers’ Festival two years ago,

Police besiege, arrest activists planning to commemorate Nakba in Tel Aviv
Haggai Matar - +972 Some 15 activists from the organization Zochrot were besieged by police on Wednesday night

Life in prison, on both sides of the walls
Ilana Hammerman - An Israeli peace activist takes Palestinian women and children on recreational expeditions in I

Israel mobilizes special forces to deport ‘flytilla’ activists
Allison Deger - Mondoweiss "The AirFlofilla2 is an expensive direct action. Activists from around the world w

Deal reached to free Hana Shalabi
Ma`an News Agency - "The officials say Shalabi will be sent to Gaza for three years in exchange for giving u

Red Rag column: Israel as Auschwitz? Pavlov`s dog - Hillary Clinton is right
Gideon Spiro - Israel as Auschwitz? - "Pavlov`s dog" syndrome in Gaza - Retirement of Israeli Supreme Court Presi

Open Letter to Beit Berl College
Open letter in protest against the anti-democratic exclusion of MK Haneen Zoabi from the annual conference in mem

Civil Disobedience
Nurit Peled-Elhanan - Israelis must refuse to obey unjust laws just as South Africans did.

Red Rag - non-violent victory - kosher sperm - fascist? - bogus equality
By: Gideon Spiro - Khadr Adnan`s non-violent victory - kosher IDF sperm - who`s a fascist? Bogus "equality" at th

New extreme right plan: How to `Annex all of Judea and Samaria` and maintain Jewish supremacy
KM Uri Ariel of the National Union party today presented a new plan: The entire West Bank to be annexed to Israel

The guilt of the judges
Ofra Ben Artzi - They give a judicial seal of approval, without which the Occupation would have ended long ago..

Red Rag: Divine Terror
Gideon Spiro - Divine terror - All quiet on the Gaza Front - The Great Inventor - another right-wing innovation -

UN report: Smuggling tunnels help alleviate Gaza`s economic woes
Amira Hass - Haaretz "The smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border are the primary cause of the improvem

Dissolving the Palestinian National Authority or considering a new strategic direction
Sameer Abu Eisheh - Bitterlemons "The facts on the ground, especially the accomplishments in building insti

Better an Iranian A-Bomb in the Basement than missiles on the roofs of Tel Aviv
Shraga Elam - cafe.themarker.com translated from Hebrew by George Malent

Israeli leftists demonstrate for PA statehood in TA
Ben Hartman - Jerusalem Post "Dozens of Israeli artists and academics on Thursday proclaimed their support fo

The Shabab Vs.The Jesh at Qalandia Checkpoint 21-9-2011.wmv
You Tube "During a violent five-hour clash between Palestinian youths and Israeli special forces at the Qaland

Jenin’s Freedom Theater raided by the Israeli army
Joseph Dana - 972 magazine "Overnight, roughly 50 Israeli Special Forces troops raided the Jenin Freedom Thea

The other Jerusalem march
Haaretz - Editorial "The Friday march is meant to be a joint demonstration by the peace-seekers of both Israe

A Palestinian woman’s response to Israel’s Naomi Chazan on BDS (recommended reading)
Although she presented herself as a veteran Israeli peace activist, Chazan’s mission here in Australia was oste

Pyrrhus in Piraeus
Adam Keller - One could have thought that Israel was facing a major invasion by a mighty fleet of dreadnaughts. <

Israel 2011 - it depends what you are boycotting
Adam Keller - If this law is passed, Israeli consumers would be allowed to call for a boycott of products sold at

Israeli geography 101: song
David Rovics - For a long time now, every time I hear an Israeli patriot or apologist complaining that such-and-s

On the hunting of Palestinian children and re-education at the Ofer prison
Ofra Ben Artzi - On 15 November 2010 the IDF spokesman issued the following news flash: “During the night IDF for

Covering for a war criminal from the Kafr Qasim massacre
Shraga Elam - Gabriel Dahan lives in a European capital, where he is a manager for Israel Bonds. He is the only o

Greenstein and Fine: debate on BDS and Zionism
Professors Greenstein and Fine - Is Israel being held to an unfairly high standard by the West?

On the academic boycott (again) - plus exchange of letters
Article on boycott of Israel by Prof. Ran Greenstein, followed by an extended exchange of letters with Prof. Robe

Dr. Avineri and Mr. Lieberman
Ran Greenstein - Occupation Magazine - A discussion of the liberal Zionist apologetics for an exclusionary Jewish

Red Rag Weekly Column
Gideon Spiro - Judges of the Deportation Service - Dr. Strangelove - Another step towards fascism

Video 5 minute-- A Week in Gaza
Helping traumatized children

Israel/Palestine and the apartheid analogy (part 2)
Ran Greenstein - In the previous section I made a distinction between historical apartheid (unique to South Afric

Israel/Palestine and the apartheid analogy: critics, apologists and strategic lessons (part 1)
Ran Greenstein - University of the Witwatersrand - Is the Israeli system of political and military control over t

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) releases a Statistical
Statistical Report 2009 - PCBS "Available data indicate that the number of settlers in the West Bank reache

Week 2252 of Occupation
Daniel Breslau - Occupation Magazine - When talks are bad for peace - The prison diet improves - Wave of West Ban

Is Israel singled out - and why?
Adam Keller - "The State of Israel has been vociferously criticized for planting settlers in the occupied territo

Jerusalem/al-Quds Multi-Day Tour
The Jerusalem/Al Quds Multi-day tour is a unique experience that allows you to get to know the city and its many

Sleepless in Gaza
A video diary about life in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

The unbearable nonviolence of Bil`in
Adam Keller - The army`s escalation shows the increasing brutalization since the Gaza War, inherited and expanded

Articles by Victoria Buch
The editors of Occupation Magazine are mourning the recent loss of our friend and co-editor, Professor Victoria B

Our friend and co-editor, Victoria Buch, has passed away
The Occupation Magazine Team



21/05/2013

Israel Social TV: Supporters stage prison vigil for conscientious objector Natan Blanc
Jamal al-Dura: Israel killed my son in cold blood
Ma`an - An Israeli report by the ministry of international affairs and strategy said raw footage of the incident Sept. 30, 2000 showed that Muhammad was seen alive in the video. According to father Jamal al-Dura "the Israelis come up every year with a new narrative." [The version which was circulated years ago as if Muhammad had died from a Palestinian bullet seems to have become obsolete-bz]
Army raids: detentions, demolition of buildings, destruction of farmlands and irrigation systems
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - In the past 24 hours, army raides in various parts of the west Bank resulted in: The detention of three residents, aged 22, 25 and 38 at Kufur Qalil village, south of Nablus; the uprooting of more than four Dunams (0.98 Acres) of agricultural lands in Al-Baq’a village, east of Hebron, planted with tomatos, beans, and zucchinis, as well as the destruction of irrigation systems; and the demolition of five commercial buildings at Barta’a Ash-Sharqiyya near Jenin.
London protest outside UEFA congress to call for cancelation of Israel tournament
Adri Nieuwhof - Electronic Intifada - The protest march starts at noon near the main entrance of St. Pancras station. There will be live music, red cards, footballs and goals. Protestors are requested to bring or wear football shirts. bz
Israel calls off UNESCO Jerusalem tour, blaming Palestinians
Reuters - The UNESCO experts were to examine the state of conservation of the walled Old City, a World Heritage site. The Netanyahu governemnt called off the visit, charging that the Palestinians had "politicised" it - i.e. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki`s reference to the UNESCO tour as a "probe (of) the occupation measures" in the city. ak
Erekat throws his weight behind Kerry`s bid to revive talks
Reuters - Jerusalem Post - "Make no mistake we are exerting every possible effort in order to see that Mr. Kerry succeeds. No one benefits more from the success of Secretary Kerry than Palestinians and no one loses more from his failure than Palestinians," Erekat said. He said that in the past two months Kerry had met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas five times, Erekat three times and that the three spoke by phone almost weekly. "Mr. Kerry is keeping things (close to) his chest. He likes to work very, very, very below the radar and grow things like mushrooms," Erekat said. "We did everything ... in order to enable him to succeed. He is not going to wait for years or months actually, he`s working very hard." bz
Israel jails conscientious objector Natan Blanc for tenth time
Harriet Sherwood - The Guardian - "I have no idea how long this will go on for," Blanc told the Guardian last month. "The bad scenario is that I will be put in front of a military court and sentenced to something like a year in prison. The better scenario is that they`ll get tired of this, and will let me do [alternative] national service instead." bz
Shut In, Shut Down, Shut Up: Three Years after Mavi Marmara
Greta Berlin - The Palestine Chronicle - "In an attempt to shut in the people of Gaza, shut down the voyages and shut up the people who advocate for freedom of movement for the 1.5 million people imprisoned there, the Israelis have failed… Miserably"
Video: Protest against the occupation, Nabi Saleh, West Bank, 17.5.2013
Silence is no longer an option: A call to action from Israel
Daniel Bar-Tal - +972 - It is imperative that Jews around the world who cherish humanistic values publicly express their concern about the current situation in Israel, and call for the government to return to peaceful, moral, democratic, and humanistic values
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