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Labour suspends officials for "antisemitism"

samedi 7 mai 2016 à 02:00

Labour has suspended two local officials for "antisemitism" because of statements that really only criticize the occupation of Palestine.

Those two people may or may not be antisemitic, but these statements don't indicate that.

Neither of the quoted statements appears antisemitic to me. One said that European support for Israel's occupation of Palestine helped to provoke terrorist attacks in Europe. This is surely true. The statement criticizes Israel, but does not express hostility towards Jews.

The other one compares Israel's occupation policies with Nazi genocide. To equate them would be an exaggeration — Israel is not trying to kill Palestinians, only to ethnically cleanse them from certain areas — but Uri Avnery sees a similarity. Unlike us, he saw real Nazis before his family fled Germany.

Egyptian journalists protest

samedi 7 mai 2016 à 02:00

Egypt's journalists are holding a sit-in next to the journalists' union after thugs raided it and arrested two journalists.

It takes real courage to protest in Egypt under General al-Sisi.

Murder of Berta Cáceres

samedi 7 mai 2016 à 02:00

Honduras has charged suspects with the murder of Berta Cáceres.

Given their job descriptions, I don't think they would have acted on their own initiative.

SCROTUS support for nuclear weapons plan

samedi 7 mai 2016 à 02:00

SCROTUS supports Obama's new nuclear weapons plan so much that they don't want to find out what this will cost.

Obama and the Republicans are both part of the Plutocratist Party.

SCROTUS = Sleazy Congressional Republicans Of The United States.

LA thugs redefine prostitution

samedi 7 mai 2016 à 02:00

LA thugs have redefined prostitution as "human trafficking" to make arresting prostitutes and their customers appear justified.