Month: July 2010

Labor 4A Just Palestine weekly report beginning 26 July – including another village demolished

Dear all

Including CFMEU (C&G) QLD 2010 convention motion passed (see attached)

Regards

David Forde

Labor 4A Just Palestine

Weekly update for week beginning 26/07/10

This week’s articles

· UN Protection of Civilians Weekly Report | 21 July – 27 July

· LA Times – Israel razes homes in Bedouin village

· Arab News – Editorial: ‘A prison camp’

· Guardian – Israel’s harassment of citizens could ignite uprising, warns Arab politician

· Mondoweiss – Israeli BDS bill would turn opponents of the regime into enemies of the state

· Ma’an – Oxfam calls for compensation from Israel

· Ma’an – Abbas: Israel renewing cycle of violence

· Christian Science Monitor – Ten years after Camp David, Israel has made peace even harder

· Australian – New settlements to build tension

· Haaretz – Do you still have hope after the IDF killed your daughters and niece in Gaza?… Go to Article

Refugee Afghanistan war logs: Kabul – inciting ethnic violence

This comes from a friend in Kabul.

Last night Emruz TV in Kabul broadcast a sermon by Mullah Mir Farooq Hussaini in which he stated that:

– Shias are worse than infidels

– Shias are the enemies of Islam

– Shias should not be in the parliament, we must not elect them

– At the time when the Mujahedin took Kabul in 1992 he claimed to have seen 20 [shipping] containers full of women’s breasts which he claims
Shia people in Ghazni were distributing as ‘presents’.

… Go to Article

Challenging the Jewish National Fund

Challenging the Jewish National Fund
Hazem Jamjoum, The Electronic Intifada, 21 July 2010

For anyone taking a road trip along the highways of the part of Palestine that became Israel in 1948, one is bound to spot a blue and green structure in the shape of a bird marked with the Hebrew letters KKL, which stands for Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael, the Hebrew name of the Israeli branch of the Jewish National Fund (JNF).… Go to Article

Major win for conservation groups on North Stradbroke Island against sand mining

[Editor’s Note: The Supreme Court decision referred to in the Media Release below does not relate to nor does it directly affect attempts by indigenous and environmental groups to stop construction sand being stolen by Unimin from the Vance Mine referred to in Quandamooka land claim frustrated by 16 years of unlawful sand mining ]

MEDIA RELEASE STRADBROKE ISLAND MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION 23.7.2010

A mining company’s plans to truck construction sand off North Stradbroke Island for a hundred years is in tatters today.… Go to Article

Supporters of Israel’s Occupation and Genocides Must Not Get Our Votes!

Elections are imminent. Please send me your thoughts and suggestions if you believe we can extend the BDS to the political arena and do something to:

 

* apply pressure on all political parties this federal election to reconsider their support to Israel’s occupation, expansionism and crimes against humanity

* send political parties and politicians a message that their support to Israel/half-hearted support to Palestine will cost them votes

* link up with similar pressure groups across Australia As all of us know, there are currently no spokespersons in Parliament for the Palestinians barring Julia Irwin who, in frustration with Labor policies, has announced her retirement from politics.… Go to Article