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Apartheid conference goes ahead in Paris despite university ban

Submitted by david on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 20:24

The University of Paris 8 is traditionally one of the more left-wing third-level institutions in France. Alas, its current president Pascal Binczak is seeking to negate this legacy.

Zionist group fails to disrupt Ilan Pappe's tour at California state universities

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 17:25
The California State University (CSU) system has sent a letter to a Zionist group rejecting their claim that Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian and a frequent contributor to The Electronic Intifada, should not receive CSU sponsorship during his upcoming campus tour.

Paris university pulls plug on "Israeli apartheid" talk

Submitted by david on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:26
CRIF, the leading Israel lobby group in France, is once again seeking to deny the right to free speech.

Presbyterian church body hits back hard at JCPA's "anti-Semitism" smear over support for Palestinian rights

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 19:27

The Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has hit back strongly at a smear campaign from a major pro-Israel group aimed at portraying it as “anti-Semitic.”

In responding to allegations from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), IPMN stated:

BDS is Nazism and Omar Barghouti is Hitler says UPenn professor in shocking smear

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 16:07

In the latest shot against the upcoming boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) conference at the University of Pennsylvania next weekend, the movement is being openly compared to Nazism.

Billionaire Gingrich backer Adelson regrets he served in US instead of Israeli military

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 13:04

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who along with his wife, has donated $10 million dollars in recent weeks to Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, has said that he wishes he had served in the Israeli army instead of the US military and that he wants his son to grow up to “be a sniper for the IDF.”

German foundation rejects NGO Monitor's attack over support for +972 Magazine

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 21:53

A German foundation has rejected intimidation efforts by NGO Monitor, an Israeli far-right group with ties to the government and military establishment.

Does this look like "incitement" to you? Zionist fabrications, smears intensify ahead of Penn BDS conference

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 18:51

In the run-up to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) conference at the University of Pennsylvania in early February, at which I will be speaking, the defamation and fabrication machines of anti-Palestinian groups have gone into over-drive.

In December, StandWithUS attempted to smear me as an “anti-Semite” with fabricated quotes.

Why hasn't NGO Monitor's US fundraiser filed legally required public disclosures with Internal Revenue Service?

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 03:40

NGO Monitor, the far-right Israeli group that fashions itself as a transparency watchdog, suffers from a mysterious lack of transparency itself.

The legally-mandated public disclosures required of US nonprofits are nowhere to be found for NGO Monitor’s US-based fundraising arm known as REPORT.

Indeed, The Electronic Intifada has obtained an Internal Revenue Service document that shows REPORT was warned of the consequences of failing to file its public disclosures.

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