Peticija Depeche Modeu: Izbacite Izrael iz svoje svjetske turneje

Link na peticiju: Depeche Mode: Drop Israel from your World Tour

Depeche Mode bi trebao 07. svibnja 2013. održati koncert u parku Yarkon u Izraelu. Park Yarkon je podignut na ostacima sela Jarisha, koje su 15. svibnja 1948. godine uništili pripadnici cionističkih milicija.

Na linku možete potpisati peticiju članovima Depeche Modea kojom ih pozivamo da zbog brojnih izraelskih kršenja ljudskih prava Palestinaca, uključujući otimanje zemlje, uništavanje domova, etničko čišćenje, aparthejd i kolektivno kažnjavanje civila, otkažu planirani koncert i pridruže se brojnim drugim savjesnim glazbenicima koji podupiru kulturni bojkot Izraela.

Za potpisivanje peticije potrebno je na linku upisati Ime (First Name), Prezime (Last Name), Email adresu (Email), Grad (City) i kliknuti na Sign. Ukoliko ne želite da vam potpis bude vidljiv na internetu uklonite kvačicu iz kvadratića ispred teksta: Display my signature on Change.org. Ukoliko ne želite primati daljnje obavijesti o ovoj i drugim kampanjama inicijative Don't Play Apartheid Israel, uklonite kvačicu u kvadratiću ispred teksta: Keep me updated on this campaign and others from Don't Play Apartheid Israel.


Izvor i link na peticiju: Depeche Mode: Drop Israel from your World Tour


DODATNO:
PALESTINA/IZRAEL:
Depeche Mode, It's Time to Start Playing Your Part: Boycott Israel! (video)

Palestinian prisoners showcase their own misery
The pictures illustrate the misery of daily life for Palestinian prisoners; how they eat, sleep and spend their times in Israeli jails. The organisers call the prisons "tombs for living people". Some of the photographs show those prisoners in need of medical attention who are kept in dirty rooms with a single bed and one pillow. In others, the brutality and callousness of the Israeli guards is clear as some are shown firing tear gas at the prisoners. As the organisers point out, all of this is taking place in front of the eyes of the world but there is very little compassion or care for the Palestinian prisoners being held, often without charge or trial, by Israel.
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ŽIVOTINJE:
Op-Ed: Landmines Are Hugely Destructive to People and Other Living Things
Every year, between 4,000 to 5,000 people are killed or maimed by landmines. Approximately, 72 percent of the casualties are civilians, and 30 to 40 percent of those are children under the age of 15 years old. Considering there are still tens of millions of landmines in the ground in 78 countries, is it any wonder that 11 to 12 people are injured or killed each day? ... Since Soraida opened FAE in 1993, she knows of 90 elephants that have stepped on landmines along the Thai-Myanmar border. Of those, 15 made it to FAE, eight healed and were returned to their owners, four passed away, three still remain under FAE's Elephant Hospital, and two are walking with prostheses. ... Until the remaining 35 countries sign the Mine Ban Treaty and we consistently fund landmine clearance around the world, we will continue to have human and non-human casualties.
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Peticija Red Hot Chili Peppersima: Otkažite svoj nastup u Izraelu

Link na peticiju: red hot chili peppers: Cancel your performance in Israel 

Na linku možete potpisati peticiju Američke kampanje za akademski i kulturni bojkot Izraela upućenu Red Hot Chili Peppersima kojom ih pozivamo da poštuju globalni kulturni bojkot Izraela i otkažu svoj zakazani nastup u toj zemlji.

Potrebno je upisati Ime (First Name), Prezime (Last Name), E-mail adresu (Email), Ulicu i kućni broj (Street Address), Mjesto (City), odabrati državu, upisati Poštanski broj (Post Code) i kliknuti na SIGN. (Ukoliko ne želite da Vaš potpis bude vidljiv javnosti na internetu uklonite kvačicu u kućici ispred teksta Display my signature publicly. Ukoliko ne želite na e-mail primati obavijesti o ovoj i drugim kampanjama Američke kampanje za akademski i kulturni bojkot Izraela uklonite kvačicu u kućici ispred teksta Keep me updated on this campaign and others from USACBI.) 

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DODATNO: 
PALESTINA/IZRAEL: 
Palestine takes center stage at World Pride 
World Pride, with a march through London and a rally in Trafalgar Square, provided an ideal target audience for an initiative to 'pinkwash' Israel. Surely the fun-loving crowd would be receptive to the idea of partying on the beach in Tel Aviv – particularly with two gay Israeli acts on the main stage in Trafalgar Square? But as Harel Skaat, Israel's 2010 Eurovision entrant, came on stage, a sea of Palestinian flags sprang up in the audience and were waved high above the crowds throughout his performance and through some excruciatingly bad lip-syncing from the next act, 4 Drag Queens from Tel Aviv. 
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Letter from Alice Walker to Publishers at Yediot Books 
Thank you so much for wishing to publish my novel THE COLOR PURPLE. It isn't possible for me to permit this at this time for the following reason: As you may know, last Fall in South Africa the Russell Tribunal on Palestine met and determined that Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. The testimony we heard, both from Israelis and Palestinians (I was a jurist) was devastating. I grew up under American apartheid and this was far worse. Indeed, many South Africans who attended, including Desmond Tutu, felt the Israeli version of these crimes is worse even than what they suffered under the white supremacist regimes that dominated South Africa for so long. It is my hope that the non-violent BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, of which I am part, will have enough of an impact on Israeli civilian society to change the situation. 
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Roger Waters and BDS: Moral Courage and Unwavering Commitment to Human Rights 
Roger Waters is certainly not the first nor the only prominent cultural figure to call for a cultural boycott of Israel. World renowned and bestselling authors, including John Berger, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein, Henning Mankell, and Iain Banks; prize-winning filmmakers, including Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, the Yes Men, and John Greyson; violinist Nigel Kennedy and classical guitarist John Williams; the Irish artists union, Aosdana; and Belgian dance sensations Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Alain Platel were all among many famous cultural figures around the world that have all endorsed one form or another of the Israel boycott in the cultural sphere. Hundreds of artists in Montreal, Canada, Ireland, South Africa and India have also formed artists-against-Israeli-apartheid type groups that have played a critical role in spreading the cultural boycott into the mainstream. Yet, Waters's endorsement of BDS carries special significance, given the combination of his eminence in the rock music world where he enjoys a mass base of millions of fans, his inspiring courage in going all the way in advocating BDS, and his unwavering commitment to speak truth to power in defending equal human rights for all humans. 
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Now is not the Time to Perform in Israel 
It is with great disappointment that the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has learned of your scheduled performance in Israel set for September 10, 2012. We write to add our voice to the many appeals that you must surely have read by now. We had hoped that the international solidarity, with letters from India, Lebanon, Italy, Israel and the US, not to mention individuals who have appealed to you both publicly and privately, would have convinced you that your future performance in Israel is not well conceived. We hope that a personal appeal from us, a campaign that enjoys overwhelming consensus amongst Palestinian civil society, will convince you otherwise. 
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World Psychiatric Association: Enabling Israeli Apartheid? 
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is deeply disturbed by the decision of the World Psychiatric Association – Transcultural Psychiatry Section (WPA-TPS) to hold its 1st International Conference on Cultural Psychiatry in Mediterranean Countries in Israel in November 2012. We urge the WPA-TPS to uphold its commitment to ethical standards, dignity and human rights by relocating this conference to another country that does not embody injustice through maintaining a regime of occupation, colonialism and apartheid, as Israel does. We also appeal to all members of WPA-TPS to refrain from participating in the conference if it is to be convened in Israel. ... More importantly, the Israeli medical establishment has consistently refused to shoulder its ethical responsibility to ensure that its institutions and members do not engage in serious violations of universal medical ethics, not to mention basic human rights, particularly Palestinians' rights to life and freedom from torture and ill treatment. It is in this context that we expect your association not to lend its name to covering up these injustices -- to do no harm, at the very least. Many conveners of this conference are no doubt aware of the persistent calls to the Israeli medical establishment, and the Israeli Medical Association in particular (of which the Israeli Psychiatric Association is a member), to investigate evidence of the collusion of medical personnel, including physicians, in the ill-treatment and torture of Palestinians in detention centers, prisons, and other facilities supervised by the security forces. 
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Call to academics, students and artists around the world: Join the World Social Forum Free Palestine to build Solidarity with the Palestinian People! 
From November 28 to December 1, 2012 the World Social Forum Free Palestine will be held in Porto Alegre (Brazil). This is a historic event that brings together solidarity, human rights and social justice movements and organizations from across the globe to develop and debate ideas, share experiences, network, and plan strategies and campaigns to advance solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation. (For more information and the full call for the WSF Free Palestine, see: http://wsfpalestine.net/ and www.facebook.com/WSFPalestine) The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel calls on academics, students and artists around the world to mobilize in support of the WSF Free Palestine. By expanding and strengthening academic and cultural boycott campaigns and strategies amongst a broader audience across the globe, we wish to build a new generation of Palestine solidarity. We ask you to join the effort by organizing delegations to the event and developing ideas for discussions and strategies. This can include organizing academic and cultural boycott campaigns, discussing the role of the academy with regards to Palestine, enhancing anti-colonial studies, promoting right to education campaigns, and developing other areas drawing on your own experiences to share and build upon with the global solidarity community. 
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Break free of U.S.-Israel shadow 
India's historical support to the Palestinian cause was dampened in the 1990s when the government sought a new equation with Israel as part of the general pro-U.S. foreign policy tilt. Under the BJP-led government (1998-2004), relations between Israel and India hardened, with intelligence cooperation and arms sales as the cement. By 2006, India registered a record purchase of $1.6 billion of defence equipment from Israel. The head of Israel's Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Department Major General Yossin Ben-Hanan told the Economic Times in 2007 that India was Israel's biggest customer. Over the course of the past five years, India continued to buy Israeli equipment, although both governments are chary about releasing data. Israel's flagging economy has been buoyed by its arms sales sector. The government-owned Israeli Arms Industry (IAI), the Israel Military Industries and the Rafael Arms Development Authority anchor Israel's 150 defence firms, which collectively employ 60,000 people and earn revenues over $4 billion. India has been buying missile systems, radars and early warning systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and field guns from Israel. On March 8, 2012, the Indian Ministry of Defence banned the Israel Military Industries for 10 years over a 2009 bribery scandal, where Israeli bribes opened doors at the Ordnance Factory Board of India. Selling arms is central to the Israeli economy, and selling arms to India has become essential at any cost. 
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Linkovi - Palestina/Izrael, svijet, Sirija

PALESTINA/IZRAEL:
Public appeal to international writers: do not partake in celebrating apartheid Jerusalem!
Your participation would function as a whitewash of Israel s practices, making it appear as though business with Israel should go on as usual. Concretely, Israel routinely violates Palestinians' basic human rights in some of the following ways:
1. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip live under a brutal and unlawful military occupation. Israel restricts Palestinians' freedom of movement and of speech; blocks access to lands, health care, and education; imprisons Palestinian leaders and human rights activists without charge or trial; and inflicts, on a daily basis, humiliation and violence at the more than 600 military checkpoints and roadblocks strangling the West Bank. All the while, Israel continues to build its illegal wall on occupied Palestinian land and to support the ever-expanding network of illegal, Jewish-only settlements that divide the West Bank into Bantustans. The International Court of Justice in its historic 2004 advisory opinion concluded that Israel's wall and colonies built on occupied Palestinian land are illegal. [8]
2. Palestinian citizens of Israel face a growing system of Apartheid within Israel's borders, with laws and policies that deny them the rights that their Jewish counterparts enjoy. These laws and policies affect education, land ownership, housing, employment, marriage, and all other aspects of people's daily lives. In many ways this system strikingly resembles Jim Crow and apartheid South Africa.
3. Since 1948, when Zionist militias and later Israel dispossessed more than 750,000 Palestinian people in order to form an exclusivist Jewish state, Israel has denied Palestinian refugees their internationally recognized right to return to their homes and their lands. Israel also continues to expel Palestinian communities from their lands in Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and the Naqab (Negev). Today, there are more than 7 million Palestinian refugees still struggling for their right to return to their homes, like all refugees around the world.
4. In Gaza, Palestinians have been subjected to a criminal and immoral siege since 2006. As part of this siege, Israel has prevented not only various types of medicines, candles, musical instruments, crayons, clothing, shoes, blankets, pasta, tea, coffee and chocolate, but also books from reaching the 1.5 million Palestinians incarcerated in the world's largest open-air prison. [9]
With Israel's continued disregard for international law and the basic rights of the Palestinian people, the kind of solidarity we expect from people of conscience around the world is to heed the Palestinian civil society call for BDS against Israel and its complicit institutions, as international artists and cultural workers did in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
In heeding the Palestinian call for boycott, you will be joining the increasing number of international writers including John Berger, Arundhati Roy, Alice Walker, Judith Butler, Iain Banks, Naomi Klein, Ahdaf Soueif, Eduardo Galeano, among others, who have in recent years refused to engage apartheid Israel and who have chosen not to cross the Palestinian picket line.
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SVIJET:
Dražen Šimleša: Četvrti svjetski rat je pred nama
Danas je i više nego jasno tko su napadači na život, na koji način je život ugrožen u cijelom svijetu. Znači, riječ je o globalnom napadu. Kad kažem život, mislim na sve ono što on predstavlja, sve ono što čini osnovu života, a to su zrak, tlo, biljke i voda. Paralelno s tim događa se napad i na osnovu kvalitete života u našim društvima, pa se napada pravo na obrazovanje, zdravstvenu skrb, ljudska prava, demokraciju, javne prostore i slobodno vrijeme. Napad se događa na ljude, druga živa bića i svijet oko nas, na cijeli planet. Napadamo sadašnjost i time gazimo budućnost.
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Goran Jeras: Demokratičnost planiranja i upravljanja u postojećim poslovnim organizacijama
Trenutna svjetska gospodarska kriza možda je i najbolje pokazala prednosti kooperativnog ekonomskog modela u kojem je jasno naznačeno da stvaranje profita nije primarni cilj tih organizacija, već da je to kvaliteta života članova kooperativa te vrijednosti koje kooperativa donosi zajednici. Takav koncept pokazao se iznimno otporan na učinke krize; u trenutku najveće nezaposlenosti u Španjolskoj od 1994. godine, broj zaposlenih u radničkim kooperativama porastao je 7,2 % u zadnjem kvartalu 2011. godine. Iako u javnosti to uglavnom nije tako percipirano, produktivnost radnika u radničkim kooperativama se pokazala višom od produktivnosti radnika u klasičnim organizacijama te i unutar kapitalističkog sustava i tržišnog gospodarstva mnoge radničke kooperative uspješno posluju i kontinuirano rastu. Najtipičniji primjer je baskijski multinacionalni div Mondragon koji je ustrojen kao federacija radničkih kooperativa i koji danas zapošljava preko 80 000 ljudi u 17 država te posluje s godišnjim prihodom od preko 14 milijardi eura. Trend osnivanja radničkih kooperativa prisutan je u cijelom svijetu, a osobito u državama Latinske Amerike (s naglaskom na Venezuelu gdje je to dio službene vladine politike), Kanadi, Španjolskoj, Francuskoj, Italiji i Portugalu.
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SIRIJA:
Years of Fear: The Forcibly Disappeared in Syria
The story of those missing in Syrian prisons is the story of a country that has devoured its own sons. The enforced disappearances of oppositionists and the impunity of the perpetrators is the price paid for the “Kingdom of Silence” established by the authoritarian and abusive Syrian regime. Among the portfolio of human rights violations in Syria, the issue of persons forcibly disappeared in particular has become a national disaster. While the missing number in the thousands, deleterious effects extend to hundreds of thousands of Syrian citizens who were stripped of their political and civil rights. The phenomenon has led to the psychological, social, and economic destruction of many Syrian communities for more than 30 years.
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New report finds systemic and widespread torture and ill-treatment in detention
The scale of torture and other ill-treatment in Syria has risen to a level not witnessed for years and is reminiscent of the dark era of the 1970s and 1980s. ... Many victims said beating began on arrest, then they were beaten severely - including with sticks, rifle butts, whips and fists, braided cables - on arrival at detention centres, a practice sometimes called the ‘haflet al-istiqbal’ or ‘reception’. Newly-held detainees are usually stripped to their underpants and are sometimes left for up to 24 hours outside. ... Several survivors told of their experience of the dulab (tyre), where the victim is forced into a vehicle tyre - often hoisted up - and beaten, including sometimes with cables or sticks. Amnesty International said it had observed an increase in the reported use of shabeh -where the victim is suspended, from a raised hook, handle or door frame, or by manacled wrists, so that the feet just hang above the ground or so the tips of toes touch the floor. The individual is then often beaten. Eighteen-year-old “Karim”, a student from al-Taybeh in Dera'a governorate, told Amnesty International that his interrogators used pincers to remove flesh from his legs when he was being held at an Air Force Intelligence branch in Dera’a in December 2011. Electric shock torture appears to be widely used in interrogations. Former detainees described three methods: dousing the victim or cell floor with water, then electro-shocking the victim through the water; the “electric chair”, where electrodes are connected to parts of the body; and the use of electric prods. Gender-based torture and other crimes of sexual violence appear to have become more common in the last year. "Tareq" told Amnesty International that during his interrogation at the Military Intelligence Branch in Kafr Sousseh, Damascus in July 2011 he was forced to watch the rape of another prisoner called "Khalid": "They pulled down his trousers. He had an injury on his upper left leg. Then the official raped him up against the wall. Khalid just cried during it, beating his head on the wall." ... Amnesty International said that the testimonies of torture survivors presented yet more evidence of crimes against humanity in Syria. The organization has repeatedly called for the situation in Syria to be referred to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) but political factors have so far prevented this happening, with Russia and China twice blocking weakened UN Security Council draft resolutions that made no reference to the ICC. In light of the failure to secure an ICC referral, Amnesty International said it wanted to see the UN Human Rights Council extend the mandate of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria and reinforce its capacity to monitor, document and report, with a view to eventual prosecutions of those responsible for crimes under international law and other gross violations of human rights. The organization also said it wanted to see the international community accepting its shared responsibility to investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity in their national courts - in fair trials and without recourse to the death penalty - and called for the formation of joint international investigation and prosecution teams to improve the chances of arrest. "We continue to believe that the ICC represents the best option of securing real accountability for those responsible for the grave crimes that have been committed against people in Syria," said Ann Harrison. "But while politics makes that prospect difficult in the short term, Syrians responsible for torture – including those in command - should be left in no doubt that they will face justice for crimes committed under their watch. ..."
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Deadly Detention in Syria (video)

Eyes on Syria: One year on (video)

Syria: Campaign to silence protesters overseas revealed
In many cases, the organization found that protesters outside Syrian embassies were initially filmed or photographed by officials then subjected to harassment of various kinds, including phone calls, emails and Facebook messages warning them to stop. Some activists say they were directly threatened by embassy officials. Naima Darwish, who set up a Facebook page to call for protests outside the Syrian embassy in Santiago, Chile, was contacted directly by a senior official who asked to meet her in person. "He told me that I should not do such things,” she told Amnesty International. “He said I would lose the right to return to Syria if I continued." A number of Syrians found that their families back home were targeted by security forces, apparently to deter them from their activities overseas, with potentially devastating consequences. Imad Mouhalhel's brother Aladdin was detained in Syria for four days in July. After apparently being tortured, he was shown photos and videos of protests outside the Syrian embassy in Spain and told to identify Imad among the participants. On 29 August, Aladdin was re-arrested and apparently forced to phone Imad to ask him to stop going to the protests. Imad and his family have not heard from Aladdin since then and have grave fears for his safety in detention. After Malek Jandali, a 38-year-old pianist and composer, performed at a pro-reform demonstration in front of the White House in July, his mother and father, aged 66 and 73 respectively, were attacked at their home in Homs. Malek told Amnesty International his parents were beaten and locked in a bathroom while their flat was looted. The agents told his parents: “This is what happens when your son mocks the government.”
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Syria: Campaign To Silence Protesters Overseas (video)

Neil Sammonds Interview on Syrian Crackdown (video)

Amnesty International Germany - Syrien: Blutvergießen stoppen! (video)

Amnesty International Croatia - Syria Public Action (video)

Razan Zaitouneh from Syria Wins 2011 Anna Politkovskaya Award (video)

Peticija: Pozovite Bostonski festival LGBT filmova da bojkotira izraelski aparthejd

Izraelska vlada u sklopu kampanje Brand Israel financira festival Out in Israel u Bostonu u sklopu kojeg zajedno s Bostonskim festivalom LGBT filmova namjerava sudjelovati u nizu priredbi koje imaju za cilj prikazati Izrael kao bastion napretka, liberalizma i raznolikosti i na taj način skreću pozornost s izraelske brutalne okupacije Palestine. Na linku možete potpisati peticiju kojom od Bostonskog festivala LGBT filmova tražimo da poštuje međunarodni kulturni bojkot Izraela i otkaže sve sadržaje povezane s festivalom Out in Israel!


Link na peticiju: Boston LGBT Film Festival Organizers: Stop Pinkwashing Israeli Apartheid

Izvor i više informacija: Tell Boston LGBT Film Festival Organizers to Stop Pinkwashing Israeli Apartheid



DODATNO:
SAD:
Man shot in face with rubber bullet during Oakland raid (video)
On January 29, 2011, Hillary Clinton told Hosni Mubarak: “We urge the Egyptian authorities not to prevent peaceful protests.” On October 25, 2011, US police told peaceful protesters: “I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly. If you refuse to go now, chemical agents will be used.”
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Banana država

Nakon što je to jučer učinio Večernji list, danas mi je komentar slijedećeg sadržaja:
„Dok hrvatski intelektualci divane s Izraelom na Interliberu, ta zemlja nastavlja kolektivno kažnjavati 1,5 milijuna stanovnika (od čega više od 50% maloljetnika) u Pojasu Gaze.
http://ambient-palestine.blogspot.com/2008/11/izrael-nastavlja-s-kolektivnim.html“
obrisalo on-line izdanje Jutarnjeg lista.

Na on-line izdanju Večernjeg lista sam zbog istog komentara banirana.

Tako se na on-line izdanjima tih listova mogu u komentarima pročitati razne (uključujući neutemeljene ad hominem) uvrede i govori mržnje, ali ne i istina o Izraelu, ni teškom kolektivnom kažnjavanju više od 750 000 djece u Pojasu Gaze.

Dakle, da ponovim, građani ne da ne mogu u našim mainstream medijima čitati objektivne vijesti o izraelsko-palestinskom sukobu, nego ne mogu čak niti u komentarima u on-line izdanjima tih medija navesti činjenice o izraelskim zločinima protiv palestinskih civila.

Ne smije se ni građane upozoriti na kampanju kulturnog bojkota Izraela koji već nekoliko desetljeća provodi etničko čišćenje i aparthejd uz pasivno odobravanje naše vlade, vlada zapadnih demokracija, ali i izraelskih umjetnika i intelektualaca.

Nema slobode izražavanja u Hrvatskoj, ali isto tako građani u Hrvatskoj nemaju pravo niti na istinitu informaciju, barem ne kad se radi o iznošenju činjenica o Izraelu. Drago mi je da smo to konačno utvrdili.

BOJKOTIRAJTE INTERLIBER

Apeliram na savjest svih građana (uključujući pisce) da ne sudjeluju na ovogodišnjem Interliberu kako bi se na taj način odazvali pozivu palestinskih akademika i umjetnika na kulturni i akademski bojkot Izraela i time iskazali svoje protivljenje višedesetljetnoj izraelskoj politici etničkog čišćenja, aparthejda i ostalih zločina protiv čovječnosti, a posebno obzirom da naše državne institucije po ovom pitanju ne djeluju u skladu sa svojim obvezama prema ženevskim konvencijama i s tom, izrazito nedemokratskom zemljom koja desetljećima ne poštuje međunarodno pravo i teško krši ljudska prava autohtonog palestinskog stanovništva, održavaju više nego dobre odnose.

Hrvatske autore pozivam da se priključe Free Gaza Movementu na jednom od njihovih putovanja brodom u Pojas Gaze kako bi skrenuli pozornost na kolektivno kažnjavanje civila koje nad stanovnicima tog područja provodi zemlja partner ovogodišnjeg Interlibera. (Više informacija: Poziv na međunarodno sudjelovanje u proboju opsade Gaze)

Zamislite vi koliki je jad i bijeda naših cenzuriranih i kontroliranih mainstream medija, kad ne samo da u njihovim tekstovima ne možete pročitati ništa o izraelskim zločinima protiv čovječnosti, nego ne smijete ni u komentarima (i to na on-line izdanju) pozvati na bojkot Interlibera zbog izraelske politike etničkog čišćenja i aparthejda.

Komentar u kojem kritiziram sudjelovanje naših pisaca i intelektualaca na Interliberu i pozivam na kulturni bojkot Izraela obrisao mi je Večernji list.

Još vijesti i linkova za Palestinu/Izrael:
IDF soldier jailed for yawning during Rabin memorial service
Izraelski vojnik je osuđen na 21 dan u zatvoru jer je za vrijeme memorijalne svečanosti za ubijenog bivšeg izraelskog premijera Rabina zijevao. Vojnik je navodno zijevnuo dugo i glasno. U Izraelu se izgleda ide u zatvor za zijevanje, ali ne i za ubijanje palestinske djece.


Ostale vijesti i linkovi:
Saudi Arabia Seeks U.N. Platform to Promote Pluralism Abroad
But critics point out that the kingdom promotes interfaith dialogue abroad, not at home. They maintain that the long alliance between the ruling Saud dynasty and the clerical establishment remains robust. The senior ulema, or religious scholars, endorse the absolute rule of the princes as mandated under Islam in exchange for the religious establishment’s near monopoly over social and religious policy, they say.

Utjecaj izraelske okupacije na palestinsku ekonomiju

Na linkovima se mogu downloadati dva predavanja na engleskom na kojima AIC-ov ekonomist Shir Hever i palestinsko-američki poduzetnik Sam Bahour govore o posljedicama 40-godišnje izraelske vojne okupacije i uništavanja palestinskog društva na palestinsku ekonomiju, te ulozi koju u propadanju i devastiranju palestinske ekonomije ima međunarodna humanitarna i razvojna pomoć, ali i postupci Palestinske „samouprave“. Predavanja su održana u Ramalli u svibnju 2008.

The Economics of Occupation and the Business of Development: A Critical Look at Economics, Business, and Palestinian Rights, Pt. I by Shir Hever (mp3, 33 min)

The Economics of Occupation and the Business of Development: A Critical Look at Economics, Business, and Palestinian Rights, Pt. II by Sam Bahour (mp3, 44:33)

Više informacija

Izvor: AIC


Dodatni linkovi i vijesti Palestina/Izrael:
Just another Thursday in our Yamim Nora'im and their Ramadan
We immediately understood that Amid will be in jail for at least 96 hours before being brought to court. This is how it is, when you are an Occupied Palestinian. Israelis can be arrested only for 24 hours without trial. If you are Palestinian just before the weekend, and you have not been interrogated yet, they will extend your arrest by yet another 96 hours, because you are Palestinian and the Occupation law allows them to hold you for 8 whole days without any interrogation or arrest.

Ambassade britannique à Tel Aviv : un concert de protestations

Journalist discloses details of Israeli-PA security meeting
Nahum Barnea is a prominent Israeli journalist and regular columnist at the mass-circulation newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth. On Friday, 19 September, he revealed shocking details of a recent “security coordination” meeting between Israeli and Palestinian security commanders.

McCartney makes Bethlehem visit
Paul McCartney je nažalost, umjesto da se – kao svaki neovisni i nepristrani umjetnik koji drži do sebe, ljudskih prava, slobode, pravednosti, jednakosti i ostalih demokratskih vrijednosti - priključi kulturnom bojkotu izraelskog aparthejda i etničkog čišćenja i solidarizira s palestinskim umjetnicima, odlučio ignorirati i prešutjeti izraelski aparthejd, sociocid i ilegalnu 40-godišnju brutalnu vojnu okupaciju održavši koncert u Tel Avivu, u sklopu – iako to možda nije bilo izravno tako rečeno – proslava 60 godina cionističkog etničkog čišćenja Palestine.


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DEATH PENALTY: No One Too Young in Iran
In Iran it is difficult to figure out when a person is considered an adult. According to Article 49 of the Islamic Penal Code the age of legal responsibility is nine years for girls and 15 for boys. Youngsters of both sexes, however, have to wait until they are 16 to vote in elections, and 18 to open a bank account, get a driver's license, or sell property in their names. They can be hanged at any age.

Five Countries Responsible for All Executions of Juvenile Offenders Since 2005

Iraq: Not our country to Return to
Broj iračkih žrtava američke agresije i okupacije u Iraku, najcenzuriranija tema 2008. godine u SAD-u prema web stranici Project Censored