PRESS RELEASE: China – IHRC expresses concern over media coverage of Uyghurs in China
August 8, 2008
The Islamic Human Rights Commission expresses alarm concerning the media’s handling of reports involving Uyghurs in China.
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UPDATE ALERT: Bahrain – Five detained human rights activists excluded from general amnesty
August 7, 2008
Five activists sentenced in July 2008, following demonstrations in December 2007, were excluded from the King’s amnesty.
Acknowledging Israeli Apartheid: The Beginning of the End for Zionism
August 6, 2008
Sixty years after the creation of Israel, the true nature of its underlying ideology of Zionism has become apparent for all to see. The writer examines whether a grassroots global boycott movement will have the same effect of ending apartheid in Israel as happened in South Africa in the Eighties. This article originally appeared in Crescent International (May 2008).
A Study of the Formation of Zionism from a Historical Perspective
August 5, 2008
A detailed examination of the struggle within the Jewish community during the formation of Zionism and the attempt to reconcile the policies of Zionism with traditional Jewish teachings and values.
Israel in the context of the “clash of civilizations”
August 4, 2008
The State of Israel is the product of a political movement, Zionism, aimed at providing a solution to “the Jewish question”, i.e. the rise of modern Anti-Semitism in Europe at the end of the 19th Century. “The Palestinian question” is the direct result of the unilateral drive to resolve the Jewish question by creating a Jewish State in Palestine, without taking into account the existence and the rights of the indigenous population.
The Price of Friendship
August 3, 2008
In this piece, Yvonne Ridley speculates as to whether or not Israel would be able to survive independently of aid and support from the United States. Ridley considers whether, politically and economically, Israel has become a greater liability than benefit to its greatest ally.
Permanent war, government, and interests
August 2, 2008
Review of Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East, by Jonathan Cook, Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0-7453-2754-9, pp204
Editorial
August 1, 2008
This issue marks the Nakba with an overview of how a permanent state of war is not just a myth promoted by the Israeli establishment to win international friends. Rather than the besieged, Israel’s genesis and academic, military and political history point towards the drive
