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July 14, 2007
Posted by yaman

What it means to be racist

Racism is nothing more than a mistake in analysis, and a logical error. It is not racist, as is often believed, to harbor malice towards another group of people. It is simply hateful. Considering that group of people to be a group worthy of any one feeling in the first place is what is racist. [...]

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June 22, 2007
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Where is the Arab B’tselem?

“You can lecture me about B’tselem the day you can show there is a B’tselem on your side prepared to do something about human rights violations in the Arab world,” I was once told after citing reports by the Israeli human rights organization B’tselem to mock a claim that the occupation of Palestine was ‘humanitarian.’ [...]

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April 10, 2007
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Are Hamas and Hizballah terrorist organizations?

Pundits and propagandists alike often pose this question to those who dissent against current American and Israeli policies in the Middle East. For them, the dichotomy is simply one of “I support terrorism” or “I am against terrorism.” The slightest deviation from thought deemed acceptable by those coordinating policy results in such a question, even [...]

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    ei: UC Berkeley student senate votes in favor of divestment

    Ibrahim Shikaki, a Visiting Scholar from Palestine, spoke in favor of the bill although he did not feel that it was written from the Palestinian perspective. Shikaki explained that “If this were a Palestinian bill it would have mentioned my grandfather’s land that was stolen from him, or my friend w…

    Source: electronicintifada.net

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    Palestinian classes held at Israeli army checkpoint | Sabbah Report

    Israeli soldiers prevent students and others from crossing a checkpoint between their homes and schools on the edge of the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on 17

    Source: sabbah.biz

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    UC Berkeley student senate passes divestment resolution | KABOBfest

    For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to Israel’s siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Senate bill directs both the UC…

    Congratulations everyone!!

    Source: www.kabobfest.com

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    David Bromwich: The Break on Palestine

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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    FBI Uses Fake Online Profiles To Spy On Suspects

    The document shows that U.S. agents are logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target’s friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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    Police: US troops kill Iraqi journalist and husband

    U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband, a police official said Thursday.

    Source: news.yahoo.com

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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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