Mind Over Matters interviews Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of “Obstacles to Peace: A Re-framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict” and “An Israeli In Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel”.
Halper describes the beginnings of ICAHD and what the organization is doing today. ICAHD not only offers humanitarian help for affected Palestinians, but also emphasizes the importance of political resistance in Israel/Palestine and abroad.
This program was produced by Mind Over Matters on February 21, 2010.
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http://icahd.org/eng/
Phil Weiss provides us with his experience and analysis of the US media’s stand, and their one-sided coverage and one-sided censorship on issues and cases related to Israel and the Israel lobby. He discusses the parallels between the tactics used in Gaza by Israelis and those implemented during the holocaust. Mr. Weiss talks about the Jewish identity question around the Israel lobby, the Obama administration’s hypocritical stand on and lame no-response response to the Goldstone Report, the importance of Jewish money and the Israel lobby to Obama and the Democrats, the recent changing perception of Israel, and much more.
Philip Weiss is an investigative journalist who has written for The Nation, The New York Observer, The American Conservative, Harper’s Magazine, and New York Times Magazine among other publications. He is the author of American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps and an editor of the website Mondoweiss, which covers the Israel-Palestine conflict.
This program was produced by The Boiling Frogs show for February 19, 2010.
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http://mondoweiss.net/
The website, GoldstoneFacts.org has produced this video combining readings from chapter 11 of the Goldstone Report with images, video, and excerpts from the public hearings help by the commission. Chapter 11 is titled “Deliberate Attacks against the Civilian Population.” Factual findings narrated by Ross Vachon, factual and legal findings narrated by Noam Chomsky.
This program was produced by Goldstone Facts.
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The three month deadline the United Nations General Assembly gave Israel and the Palestinians to begin investigations into allegations of war crimes in last year’s attack expired last week. Now, the Secretary General was expected to issue his conclusions regarding sending the Goldstone’s recommendations for implementation by the UN Security Council. Because the five member organization has indicated it will not pursue it further and the investigations the Israelis and Palestinians conducted were “inadequate,” and “disappointing” The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky asks what alternatives exist.
This program was produced by The Real News for February 12, 2010.
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Official Goldstone Report site
Israel issued its response to the UN Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead in Gaza this week. The final report was released on September 15, 2009. Israel refused to cooperate with this fact finding mission and continues to respond with “hysterical” accusations on the accuracy of the report and publicly misrepresents the findings of the mission. In this show Goldstone’s speech at Brandeis University is revisited to clarify what the report does contain and to address some of the attacks on his statements and the report itself.
This program was produced by Rustbelt Radio for February 1, 2010.
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Israel has submitted a report to the United Nations responding to allegations of war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
This program was produced by Voice Of America News for January 30, 2010.
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A report back and critical look at Gaza, one year after the invasion. Noam Chomsky is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a world renowned linguists, philosopher, cognitive scientist and political activist. Here, Chomsky speaks about the strategic isolation of Gaza from the rest of the Palestinian territories, the continued US/Israeli crimes, the corrupt Israeli prison system, the Israeli decision to choose expansion over security and many other US backed Israeli atrocities committed with complete impunity and in violation of international law. This event was sponsored by The Newton Dialogue on Peace and War, Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, CodePink, Greater Boston, Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/Palestine, and others. Prasannan Parthasarthi was moderator.
This program was produced on December 8, 2009.
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http://chomsky.info/
The Jerusalem Fund’s 2009 Annual Conference was held in Washington D.C. last month. This year’s theme was “The Erasure of Palestine.”
The conference’s first panel was chaired by Ms. Nadia Hijab, and featured Dr. Leila Farsakh, Ms. Jennifer Loewenstein and Ms. Phyllis Bennis. The discussion focused on the concepts of “one state” and “two state” solutions and what it really means to attain Palestinian liberation, why internationals must travel to Gaza, the burying of the Goldstone Report, and how the notion of statehood is changing.
This program was produced by The Palestine Center for November 26, 2009.
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http://palestinecenterblog.org
Human rights activist Adam Shapiro discusses Congressman Tom Perriello’s vote denouncing the Goldstone report. Shapiro met Rep. Periello when both were working in Afghanistan in 2007. They bonded over discussions of human rights and international law. Shapiro says Periello’s vote amounts to selling out to the powerful Israel Lobby.
This article was first published by The Huffington Post. This exclusive podcast was produced by PalCast for November 30, 2009.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-shapiro/selling-out-in-congress_b_369464.html
http://perriello.house.gov
Norman Finkelstein was interviewed on Danish TV by Adam Holm.
This program was produced for November 13, 2009.
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http://www.normanfinkelstein.com