Tomgram: Sandy Tolan, The One-State Conundrum

Tolan: In June 2010, I began to document his dream -- now a reality -- to build a music school in occupied Palestine. Now, his SUV bound for Sebastia is cutting through the West Bank, a land smaller than the state of Delaware but dotted with more than 600 checkpoints, earthen barriers, and other obstacles to normal travel.

New Boycott Coke Campaign for Palestine

Boycott Coca-Cola #BoycottCoke January 1, 2015 | by AWC Staff antiwarcommittee.org USPCN* launches #BoycottCoke campaign Join the campaign on Facebook! In 2005, Palestinians issued a call for a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, because of its violations of international law and attacks on Palestinian rights. BDS is now a worldwide movement against More

Robert Parry: Netanyahu Unmasks Israel

Parry: And, whenever some Palestinians act up, Israel will wage war against them, killing thousands at a time and destroying their homes and infrastructure, what Israelis call “mowing the grass.”

S & R: Israel’s emphatic election result embraces the Apartheid state

From the article: Apartheid does more than just the brutality of the oppressed. Such rules are expensive to enforce and turn the state into a massive and corrupt bureaucracy. The business of the state becomes the business of enforcing Apartheid, and given the corruption inherent in such a system, outright theft and embezzlement by people who can never be sanctioned (because they have “special” rights) becomes part of the fabric of government.

Chris Hedges: Banning Dissent in the Name of Civility

 Being banned from speaking about the conflict between Israel and Palestine, especially at universities, is familiar to anyone who attempts to challenge the narrative of the Israel lobby. This is not the first time one of my speaking offers has been revoked and it will not be the last. By Chris Hedges  truthdig.com  December 21, More

▶In U.N. Speech, Noam Chomsky Blasts United States for Supporting Israel, Blocking Palestinian State

 [youtube=http://youtu.be/zWaLuVQ_LCc] Editor's Note: On November 27, 2014 (Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.) Democracy Now! re-broadcast Noam Chomsky's speech to the U.N and the dialog that followed in regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict .Today Rise Up Times posts these three videos of Professor Chomsky speaking about Israel/Palestine  conflict and solutions in honor of International Day of Solidarity with More

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