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students for justice in palestine’

November 13, 2009
Posted by yaman

November 13th and the Whitewashing of a Berkeley Hate Crime

As the House of Representatives passed its delusional resolution condemning the Goldstone Report last week, Congressman Kucinich forcefully objected: “Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist. Because behind every such deception is the nullification of humanity, the destruction of [...]

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September 19, 2008
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Racism is part of the problem in Israel-Palestine, not the solution

Tikvah Students for Israel’s false accusations that SJP members are behind hateful vandalism at UC Berkeley exacerbate campus tensions and endanger students on campus rather than defuse the situation
Anybody who has studied the Israeli occupation of Palestine knows that supremacist arguments and narratives frame much of the dissent against and support for Israeli state policies. [...]

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March 4, 2008
Posted by yaman

The Daily Cal sterilizes the news

Gee thanks Daily Cal, this really helped me understand what people were protesting about yesterday. It’s nice to know that students oppose “conflict.”

Actually, Daily Cal, yesterday students participated in a die-in in solidarity with the 116 Palestinians that the Israeli army killed over the weekend in Gaza. We did not stand against “conflict,” but the [...]

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February 11, 2008
Posted by yaman

A reflection on Israeli Apartheid Week

Though I was unable to help with the enormous efforts that members of SJP put into Israeli Apartheid Week over the past two months due to other obligations, I did come to recognize last week for the first time just how I felt about our organization.
To be sure, the number of asinine remarks, statements, opinions, [...]

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November 26, 2007
Posted by yaman

Responding to Campus Battleground

Background
Throughout the spring of 2006, students from the Israel Action Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley were filmed while organizing their activities. Many individual members of each group were interviewed by the documentarians, who had said they were making a documentary for the “America at a Crossroads” series about campus activism [...]

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November 2, 2007
Posted by yaman

The puffery of Israel “activists” and a woefully reckless ASUC resolution

On Wednesday evening, the ASUC Senate, in a vote of 11-7-2, narrowly passed SB75, a resolution “affirming the US-Israel relationship.” Among other things, the resolution suggested that the “relationship” between the US and Israel was based on “shared ideals” including “commitments to freedom, equality, and tolerance for all people.” The resolution, void of any mention [...]

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September 17, 2007
Posted by yaman

Vandals sabotage work of SJP activists at Berkeley

Is it really so surprising that those who support apartheid should be afraid of the Handala, that never-dying symbol of a never-dying Palestine, and of an image of the illegal wall Israel is building in and around the West Bank?
Click on the image for more information.

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    Tom Friedman Writes The Happy Ending To The Iraq War He Helped Enable

    OH, HELLO. Here’s some good news, after years and years of promoting the necessary destruction of Iraq and Iraqis, all for the purpose of a war that diverted the United States from pressing issues of national security, Tom Friedman has declared the Iraq misadventure to be a success and has officiall…

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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    Cops vs. Kids in New York City Schools – NYTimes.com

    It’s time to rein in the way police and safety officers in New York public schools mistreat students.

    Police the police.

    Source: www.nytimes.com

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    Student Activists Beaten After Rally On Interstate (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

    Produced by HuffPost’s Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit On March 4th, 2010, demonstrators in California and across the country took to the streets to protest massive cuts at all levels of education and government imposed austerity measures.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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    Occupy CA: Statement on Highway Takeover

    Frederick Douglas tells us that power concedes nothing without a demand: Street rebellions force the establishment to yield to the demands of the movement or be faced with an ungovernable, rebellious populace. In short, stopping highway traffic in protest of the dismantling of public education was a…

    Source: occupyca.wordpress.com

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    Heckling Oren at UCI was right | Taher Herzallah

    We would not be where we are today as a country if people who were politically marginalized had not stood up for their rights. As a student and human rights activist, I expect that our universities will allow space for all points of view, including my nonviolent and heartfelt protestations against O…

    Source: www.ocregister.com

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    It’s Not about Islam & Judaism, It’s About Anti-Colonialism, Territory, Liberation, and Lives – Nir

    On Sunday, February 28th the New York Times published an outrageous oped by Efraim Karsh full of lies, distortions and mistakes. Karsh claims that Muslims view themselves as part of the House of Islam and the rest of the world as part of the House of War. I have worked in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Soma…

    Nir Rosen destroys many of the myths that are common to American approaches to Iraq, Muslims, and the Middle East in general.

    Source: www.thewashingtonnot…

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    Kevin Huffman – Tweaking the RNC’s fundraising strategy

    Fear tactics? Not the best fundraising strategy. First, your plan divides Republican donors into two main categories: small donors who are “visceral,” “reactionary” and motivated by “fear,” and large donors who are “calculated,” “ego-driven” and motivated by “access.”

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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    Deportations to tear apart S.F. family

    Charles Washington with his wife Tracey, holding her 5-year-old son, speaks on behalf of his family at the Asian Law Caucus office in San Francisco.

    Gavin Newsom wrecking homes and families in San Francisco.

    Source: www.sfgate.com

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    Anti-racists turn up the heat at UCSD

    A noose hung to intimidate African-American students is the latest racist incident to spur activism at UC San Diego ahead of the March 4 Day of Action.

    Especially noteworthy is the section about the Black Student Union denouncing the administration-led “leadership bodies” as “a tactic to divide student leaders from the student movement.” All student ‘government’ is a tactic to divide student leaders from students.

    Source: socialistworker.org

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    Blanco: In Solidarity with 1.3% of UCSD | Racialicious

    The scandal is that many students at UCSD consider black people and communities as a product of their imaginations and consumer habits: an entertainment commodity we pay to watch on MTV, or hear on the radio. A stereotype we have the “right” to enjoy and take pleasure in, because we have paid good m…

    Source: www.racialicious.com

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