26 September 2002
Following the launch of “Campus Watch”, a new Daniel Pipes project to monitor the views of Middle East Studies lecturers on campuses, EI’s Nigel Parry interviewed academic Juan Cole about how he felt to be one of the professors on which a “dossier” had been opened. Read more about Campus Watch: Interview with Prof. Juan Cole
25 September 2002
Following the launch of “Campus Watch”, a new Daniel Pipes project to monitor the views of Middle East Studies lecturers on campuses, EI’s Nigel Parry interviewed Palestinian academic Rashid Khalidi about how he felt to be one of the professors on which a “dossier” had been opened. Read more about Campus Watch: Interview with Prof. Rashid Khalidi
25 September 2002
The Palestinian people are stuck between a brutal and lethal Israeli occupation, and leaders who have served them poorly. Hasan Abu-Nimah writing for EI, argues that root and branch reform is needed, but not the kind advocated by Israel and the United States. Read more about The role of leadership in a democracy
25 September 2002
Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum has launched a website called Campus Watch to police academics’ views on the Middle East. EI’s Nigel Parry and Ali Abunimah report on the developments and announce a series of interviews with the academics that Pipes’ site is “monitoring”. Read more about Campus Watch: Middle East McCarthyism?
24 September 2002
The UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding Israel ends its siege on Yasser Arafat’s Ramallah compound. EI’s Ali Abunimah argues that while the international community scrambles to respond to such artificial crises, the real issues are being ignored, and greater danger is to come. Read more about Artificial Crisis, Artificial Response
23 September 2002
‘Israel must unconditionally withdraw from the territories it occupied since 1967 and implement all relevant UN resolutions’. This petition has been signed by two hundred prominent Dutch citizens, including politicians, writers, and artists and will be published in an advertisement in the Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant. EI’s Arjan El Fassed reports. Read more about Prominent Dutch citizens: 'End the occupation'
20 September 2002
US media outlets were quick to declare two suicide bombs which killed Israelis an end to a period of “relative calm.” Michael Brown and Ali Abunimah note that the past six weeks have been anything but calm for the dozens of Palestinians killed and injured as Israeli occupation forces continue their destructive rampage away from the media’s attention. Read more about Killings of dozens once again called "period of calm" by US media
Columbia 20 September 2002
“I have very disturbing news,” the lady on the phone said in Arabic with a shaky voice, “The Israeli army took over the building where you lived in Ramallah.” Palestinian journalist Walid Batrawi writes from Missouri about his reaction to news that the building housing his apartment in Ramallah had been occupied by Israeli army. Read more about Occupation: Only teddy bears sleep in peace
19 September 2002
The following document was compiled by Uri Strauss for the Electronic Intifada, from a UN document and from a report by Palestinian human rights organisations LAW and Al-Haq. The document presents the internationally-accepted definition of ‘Apartheid’ alongside relevant examples of Israel’s human rights record in the occupied territories. Read more about Defining Apartheid: Israel's Record
18 September 2002
September 2002 marked the 30th anniversary of the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and the 20th anniversary of the murder of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. The US media remembered only one of these anniversaries. Guess which one? The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah investigates. Read more about How the US Media Forget and Remember an Anniversary