Sunday 10 October 2010

Science Fair at Bethlehem University, Israeli torture and more‏

Mazin Qumsiyeh Mazin



Video: Students at Bethlehem University put together a very successful science fair despite limited resources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTtNWnEC5UM

Palestinian Sam Bahour's take on the peace process [in a Jewish publication]
Jews and Israelis are asked to comment on this
http://www.jewishpostandnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=531:bahour&catid=38:local-news&Itemid=112&lang=en

Are the Israeli occupation tasks outsourced to US trained Palestinian forces?
Detailed article on Israeli-American-Palestinian security “cooperation”
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/14/our-man-palestine/

Action Call for International Solidarity: Stop raids against US anti-war activists and international solidarity activists http://www.ijsn.net/632/

IDF learns lessons from Turkish flotilla: Oketz unit dogs will be first to go aboard, keep area sterile until soldiers arrive
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3966094,00.html

Right wing settler leader runs over two palestinian Children in occupied Jerusalem. The settler leader helps bring settlers to live in Silwan, E Jerusalem where homes are being demolished under the guise of the "city of David" colonial project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYtllgWUobM

Israeli soldier dancing and taunting blindfolded Palestinian woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxFlmXbzY3I
and the woman filmed here describes torture, humiliation
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=321957

[more fascist state action] Israel expels Nobel peace laureate over Gaza protest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/05/israel-deports-corrigan-maguire

Video of Great Boycott Action in France (English subtitles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f41t82bnO0 but there is a crackdown on activists and we need you to speak to European MPs, see
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/Index7b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=4&l2_id=106&Content_ID=1527


Jewish population in Israel is declining: Despite a million immigrants over the past two decades, the percentage of Jews in the Israeli population is declining.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/jewish-population-in-israel-is-declining-1.317042
This argument in Israel between Zionists about "demographics" is itself revealing about the level of racism engendered in the notion of wanting maximum geography with minimum demography (of the native inhabitants)

Israeli Rabbi: Honey-pot sex is kosher for female Mossad agents Rabbi Ari Schvat's ruling appeared in a study, 'Illicit sex for the sake of national security,' published by the Tzomet Institute, which studies the
interface between religion and modernity.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/israeli-rabbi-honey-pot-sex-is-kosher-for-female-mossad-agents-1.317288

Israel's Netanyahu backs Jewish loyalty oath
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11491988

Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home
http://www.qumsiyeh.org
Professor, Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities
Chairman of the Board, Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People,
http://www.pcr.ps


River to Sea Uprooted Palestinian

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