By: Asa Winstanley

Published Monday, January 2, 2012

London - While the European far-right once made the Jewish community their primary scapegoat, their more recent focus on Muslims has made them Israel’s latest bedfellows.

Islamophobia has been on the rise in recent years, with Muslim communities coming under increasing attack both rhetorically and physically. This political climate of Islamophobia has been dubbed “The Cold War on British Muslims” by a recent report.

THE PALESTINIANS: “We already have a one-state solution”

Q. Let’s talk about the Palestinians. Why has the Arab Spring passed them by? And do you think the two-state solution is still possible? Your detractors say that you would not be unhappy about such a development

A. Anyone who is an advocate of the two state solution has to tell me how a forty plus year old process can be reversed. That process, even since Meron Benvenisti starting talking about it in the late eighties, hasn’t changed one bit. No Israeli government has ever stopped it. I mean Rabin did a little bit, but that’s it. It’s inexorable – the bulldozers never stop

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When a riot squad from the New York Police Department destroyed and evicted the “Occupy Wall Street” protest encampment at Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan, department leadership drew on the anti-terror tactics they had refined since the 9/11 attacks. According to the New York Times, the NYPD deployed “counterterrorism measures” to mobilize large numbers of cops for the lightning raid on Zuccotti. The use of anti-terror techniques to suppress a civilian protest complemented harsh police measures demonstrated across the country against the nationwide “Occupy” movement, from firing tear gas canisters and rubber bullets into unarmed crowds to blasting demonstrators with the LRAD sound cannon.

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door Hamid Dabashi
'De Arabische Lente is het begin van de Derde Intifada op supranationale, pan-Arabische en panislamitischeschaal’

Hoeveel walging de leugenachtige toespraak van Barack Obama in de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties in september 2011 ook opriep, waarin hij ongegeneerd de acceptatie de Palestijnse staat trachtte voor te zijn, zou die walging nooit de hypocrisie kunnen evenaren waarmee meneer Audacity of Hope besloot een stempel op zijn presidentschap drukte.

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Miriyam Aouragh, Oxford University

De huidige discussies over de stemming in de VN hebben discussies en het
politieke zelfbewustzijn op scherp  gezet. Het lijkt er op dat Abbas de
onafhankelijke grassroots bewegingen wil ondermijnen terwijl hij ook
nog eens de hete adem van de verse revoluties in zijn nek voelt. Een
staat met, en van, de huidige PA is een fantasie: gefragmenteerd en
zonder autonomie.

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By Mahmoud N. Musa

Before Palestinian politicians go to the General Assembly of the United Nations to ask for recognition of their nominal state, they have to answer this question: Is this what the Palestinian people want?

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Part 1: Despite Israeli denials, eyewitnesses verify that indeed revolutionaries broke into the Israeli Embassy in Giza, se

Palestinian Grassroots Anti-apartheid Wall Campaign, , Sep 7, 2011

At not more than 15 days from the UN General Assembly session on Palestine, during which the Palestinian official leadership will present an initiative on the Palestinian state to the world community, many pros and cons are being hotly debated. Yet, even without entering these debates, one of the most serious concerns is the fundamentally flawed process underlying the UN bid. It appears to be a distressing dejá-vu of past mistakes.
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