NORWICH SHOWS SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE

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By Sean Meleady and Callum James

CN: death, violence, antisemitism, Islamophobia, colonialism, racism, ethnic cleansing

Norwich, like many cities and towns across Britain, has seen a number of Palestinian solidarity protests in recent weeks. These protests came in the wake of the latest series of aerial bombardments between Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of 256 Palestinians and 12 Israelis, according to UN figures. The spark for this recent escalation of violence occurred when an Israeli court greenlit eviction proceedings of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, and subsequent peaceful protests were brutally repressed, culminating in attacks by Israeli police on the holy site of Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, which elicited international condemnation.

DIGGING FOR PALESTINE IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Abbasid Caliphate, Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage, archaeology, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bible, continuity, discrimination, Egypt, Eretz-Israel, ethnic, featured, history, israel, Jerusalem, Judaism, Nakba, narrative, palestine, politics, power, proof, propaganda, religion, social, tradition, Trump, US, Yahwism, zionism.

by Jonathan Lee

Last week President Trump, with a push of his tiny thumb, attacked Palestinian leadership via Twitter and threatened to cut all US funding to Palestinian recipients. His angry tweets were in response to unrest across the occupied territories following his December recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, “that the Jewish people established in ancient times”. Despite the fact this came from Donald Trump, he does pose an interesting point. How accurate is this claim? How far back do the State of Israel’s ties to the land really go?Continue Reading

WHITENESS, PALESTINE AND ‘THE JEWISH STATE’

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Apartheid, Ashkenazi, Australia, BDS, Benjamin Netanyahu, canada, colonialism, culture, detention, Emmanuel Nahshon, Ethiopia, featured, Holot, identity, imperialism, income gap, indigeneous, israel, Jewish, migrant, Mizrahim, native, neocolonialism, palestine, racism, refugee, Richard Seymour, South Africa, Susan Abulhawa, systemic racism, two state, white supremacy, whiteness, zionism.

by Scott McLaughlan

Israel’s population is 74.7% Jewish, 20.8% Arab and 4.5% “other”. According to the latest population statistics, “those of European and American ancestry make up about 2.2 million (36%) of the Jewish population, while Africans fill out another 14.5% and Asians are 11.2%.”

That being said, there are also currently around 50,000 African Migrants in Israel, most of whom are from Eritrea or Sudan. Under the UN Refugee Convention (signed by Israel in 1954) no migrant can be forcibly returned to their country of origin. Israel currently abides by this convention, but systematically refuses to grant asylum to refugees, irrespective of their status and the potential danger and persecution they have fled.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, recently spewed out the reason for the impasse: Asylum seekers threaten Israel’s identity. The Israeli cabinet has now approved the morally repugnant Holot migrant detention centre, in Israel’s Negev desert, for closure. As a result, two options were laid on the table: step up deportations or jail those who refuse to leave Israel.Continue Reading

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NORWICH SHOWS SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE

By Sean Meleady and Callum James

WHITENESS, PALESTINE AND ‘THE JEWISH STATE’

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