Human Rights

NOVANEWS In Israel, which is also known as the only democracy in the Middle East, human rights websites as well as the websites of some extreme right-wing organizations cannot be accessed from Ben-Gurion, the country’s only international airport. By Neve Gordon in The Nation Imagine a college student returning to her university after spending Christmas break at home. At the airport she logs on to the Internet to double check some of the sources she used in her final take-home exam for the course “Introduction to Human Rights.” She gets online and begins to surf the web; however, she soon realizes that the websites of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are blocked. She calls the service provider’s 800 number, only to find out that all human rights organizations’ websites have i...

NOVANEWS     Muhannad is a Palestinian artist who resides in Alazzeh refugee camp in occupied Palestine. However, he originates from the southern Palestinian village of Biet Jibrin, which has been ethnically cleansed by the Israeli Zionist troops in 1948. “Don’t beautify the Apartheid wall”, a quote by Alazzeh for an interview on the role of Palestinian and international artists and his views on the segregation wall built around the West Bank. Al Azzeh was born in September of 1981 to Othman Alazzeh, an Arabic literature teacher and Amal Alazzeh. Since he’s shown an interest in Art and painting at the age of 10, his parents got him to participate in ‘Alwan’ (meaning colours in Arabic) workshop in Jerusalem, where he learnt and developed his talent at a young age and then publish...

Buy The Goldstone Report Nation Books has just published our new book -- The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict, which is an abridged copy of the UN report accompanied by a dozen essays, exploring the political, legal and social legacy of the report and the Israeli attack on Gaza in the winter of 2008-2009. The book comes out at an important new moment in the history of the conflict, with the collapse of talks between the two sides, and growing international calls for accountability for Israel’s conduct in the occupied territories.   A diverse group of leading commentators on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is assembled here. Our forward Is from Justice Goldstone’s longtime friend,   Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Our introduction, wh...

NOVANEWS 04.01.11 Ramallah – PNN – The international relations unit at the Palestine Liberation organization issued a report this week documenting the Israeli viol Report: 107 Palestinians Killed by Zio-Nazio army; 16,479 Settlers Homes Approved During 2010 actions against Palestinians during 2010.   Archive According to the report 107 Palestinians were killed by Zio-Nazi army last year while the Zio-Nazi regime had destroyed 145 homes and approved 16,479 homes in West Bank settlements. The report says that Zio-Nazi army has arrested 400 Palestinians during invasions targeting Palestinian communities.   Killed by Zio-Nazi gestapo: Among those 107 killed by Zio-Nazi army during 2010, the PLO report shows that 10 were children,  4 women,2 political detainees in Nazi's jail...

NOVANEWS   The Nation, January 12, 2011 Israel's Assault on Human Rights   http://www.thenation.com/article/157664/israels-assault-human-rights   Neve Gordon   Imagine a college student returning to her university after spending Christmas break at home. At the airport she logs on to the Internet to double check some of the sources she used in her final take-home exam for the course “Introduction to Human Rights.” She gets online and begins to surf the web; however, she soon realizes that the websites of Amnesty International [1] and Human Rights Watch [2] are blocked. She calls the service provider’s 800 number, only to find out that all human rights organizations’ websites have indeed been restricted and that they can no longer be accessed from the airport.   This, you are probably thinki...

NOVANEWS Perhaps the most shocking of all things in Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is the way that children are treated. It is unimaginable that an Jewish Israeli child would be brought to court in shackles or even be placed in a court of law. Beatings and abuse of children by the Israeli military is common and judges, such as the one below, don’t even blink an eye. Thus is legal racism established. Below this is a paper circulated by Dr Derek Summerfield from Defence for Children International - Palestine Section, on the shooting of children working near the northern border of Gaza. Tony Greenstein The Children's Judge True, in the military courtroom itself Palestinians are neither shot nor beaten. They are not ‘targeted for elimination’ nor even sentenced to death. At least not...

NOVANEWS Palestinian Family’s Account of Israeli Soldiers Using Their Son For Target Practice  January 10, 2011 by crescentandcross      Most Popular Content: Speaking In Tongues–The Deadly Dialect of the Zionist Language The Ugly Truth Podcast Dec 5, 2010 Michael Collins Piper’s Initial Statement Concerning his Departure From RBN     CLICK TO VIEW Like Comments

NOVANEWS Al-Arakib activist hit with 7-month jail sentence for … operating garage without license January 4, 2011 by Michael Leon Commenting on the conviction [Dec. 30] of former president Moshe Katsav for rape, the current Israeli President Shimon Peres declared, “There are no two states of Israel, just one state. There are no two kinds of citizens here; citizens of only one kind exist in Israel — and all are equal in the eyes of the law.” By Max Blumenthal Right. Ask Nuri el-Okbi who attempts to return to his family’s rightfully owned land near al-Arakib; his tribe was ethnically cleansed from the area in 1951: As Israelis celebrated the conviction of Katsav, the “eyes of the law” also focused in on a Bedouin activist named Nuri el-Okbi who heads the Association for Protection of th...

NOVANEWS PALESTINIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN TREATED LIKE CATTLE [MUST SEE VIDEO] Posted: January 8, 2011   by crescentandcross    CLICK TO VIEW: Like

NOVANEWS   What is happening in the Middle East should be of primary concern to us all. We have violence, religion, land grabs, nuclear power, politics, imperialism, siege, cruelty, war, and hope. The outcome of the Palestinian situation will affect every person on the planet because it will mean the difference between real democracy and peace, or sham democracy and violent imperialism – perhaps for us all. We are witness to a pan-governmental crisis of morality. The South American continent, against all the plotting, bribery, violence, civil wars and massacres instigated by Western powers (for Western read US and its puppets), has lately risen to the principle of liberation and equality. It has at last resisted the ‘savage justice of the Europeans’ (Adam Smith) and created a revival of in...