Ahmad Moor-Al Jazeera
"Israeli apartheid has been permitted
to metastasise unimpeded across Palestinian lives - and that has
galvanised the human rights community," says author [EPA]
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| On Palestine, change is underway.
Despite the best efforts of Binyamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama and John
Boehner, the Palestinian cause is gaining ground in the American
mainstream - a necessary step for changing the reality on the ground.
Just how much we have gained was evident in downtown Manhattan in the
first week of October. The first Russell Tribunal was convened by Bertrand Russell in 1966 in opposition to the American war in Vietnam. Jean Paul-Sartre and Julio Cortazar were only two of about 30 Tribunal members who gathered to review evidence of war crimes. Their activism led to a condemnation of the war and a non-binding, but morally profound verdict finding that crimes against humanity had been committed." Red more |
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