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Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Palestine

January 2, 2011

Gaza Youth Manifesto

A group of youths — students, in the main — from the Gaza strip have published the following Manifesto, picked up by the Guardian in the UK from which I reprint it. You can...

Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Middle East / Palestine

August 19, 2010

Gaza: Between the Fence & a Hard Place

Yesterday I was reading the forthcoming translation of Mahmoud Darwish‘s first — 1973 — collection of prose essays on Palestine. This is an extremely moving book, and I will come back to it when...

Essays / European History / Intellectuals / Israel / Obituaries

August 9, 2010

Tony Judt died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Lou Gehrig’s disease — on Saturday. Over the years I have immensely enjoyed the historian’s brilliant and insightful essays (at times acerbic-romantic, at times outrageous-calmly British) ...

Blogs / Book Reviews / Gaza Strip / Intellectuals / Israel / Palestine / Paris / Uncategorized

June 10, 2010

Two or Three French Takes

At Drouot’s in Paris (the French equivalent of Sothby’s or Christie’s) a big literary sale has just taken place: The manuscript of Jacques Prévert’s “Quai des brumes” (the 150-page scenario of the film directed...

Censorship / Freedom of Speech / Gaza Strip / Human rights / Islamic Fundamentalists / Israel / Journalism / Palestine / Uncategorized

June 2, 2010

Alternate News re Israeli Acts of Piracy in International Water

The New York Times (the rag they call the “paper of record”) after 48 hours of holding its journalistic guns has come out blazing away… at the people attacked by Israeli commandos on the...

Agitprop / Gaza Strip / Human rights / Israel / Middle East / Palestine / West Bank

March 5, 2010

A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST IDF GALA DINNER

JOIN US FOR A MOVING PROCESSION TO PROTEST THE 2010 ANNUAL NY GALA DINNER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES (IDF) NO to the IDF’s brutality! NO to the Occupation and Siege...

Israel / Journalism / Palestine

January 29, 2010

New York Times' Ethan Bronner's Conflict of Interest

The Electronic Intifada broke an important story about the New York Times, and Alison Weir has written the following commentary on it, posted on her blog. I felt the readers of NOMADICS would want...