Viva Palestina, an aid convoy destined for the Gaza Strip, have clashed with Egyptian riot police in the town of El-Arish. The resistance of Egyptian authorites to simply allow an humanitarian mission to Gaza is deeply revealing:
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Gaza’s suffering is Israel’s shame
My following article is published today by the Sydney Morning Herald/The Age: The 85-year-old Jewish, anti-Zionist, Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein is a sturdy looking woman. Her slightly hunched frame hides the determination to continue a life-long dedication to social justice. This week in Cairo she joined close to 1400 international delegates on the Gaza Freedom…
Haunted faces in the ruins of Gaza, one year on
Guardian films on the one-year anniversary of the Gaza conflict, families whose lives have been shattered by US-made weapons. Such images are sadly familiar. I saw similiar scenes in Gaza in July and nothing has changed.
US helps Cairo isolate the Gaza Strip
A photoessay on the wall Egypt is building on its border with Gaza, cutting off the Strip even more from the outside world.
Why BDS is growing, realistic and necessary
The issue of BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) against Israel is growing. The Gaza Freedom March released Cairo Declaration is just the latest step. The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel has its first newsletter to outline the future: The Year 2009 has proved to be a watershed in the growth…
The few Israelis who won’t forget Gaza
Resistance within Israel itself… to the sheer inhumanity and illegality of the Jewish state’s blockade of Gaza is small but noisy. A group protested a few days ago on the Israeli side of the border and this report, from Australian Kim Bullimore, explains the energy and despair on that day. Here’s a video of proceedings.
Australians’ Gaza protest
The following appeared in the Melbourne Age on 1 January: By Andra Jackson A delegation of Australians including Jewish journalist Antony Loewenstein are among hundreds of people from around the world who will hold mass protests in Cairo and Gaza today over Israel’s continuing blockade of the Palestinian enclave. Today marks the first anniversary of…
Cairo is poor and needs reliable “friends” to keep it afloat
Uri Avnery on the very simple but shameful reasons Egypt remains a well behaving client state of its pay-masters, dances to the tune of Israel and Washington, isolates Gaza and refuses entry to the Gaza Freedom Marchers: Cynics point out that the Egyptian government receives a huge American subsidy every year – almost two billion…
How the Gaza Freedom March brought the assembled crowd together
The last days of the Gaza Freedom March here in Cairo were hectic, inspiring, frustrating and energising. The collective goal was to enter Gaza, but alas, that wasn’t to happen. I’m currently sharing a room with a girl who just returned from Gaza, and was quoted in the New York Times, and she tells of…
A few Israelis oppose criminal Gaza policies
Despite the Israeli tendency to support most government “security ” policies, lone voices of reason still exist: Hundreds of Israelis have rallied in central Tel Aviv to protest against the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. Israeli Arab and Jewish activists marched on Saturday in the city’s Rabin square, chanting slogans and waving signs calling…