It’s Monday night, and I’ve been watching BBC4’s documentary on the Miners’ Strike, which started a quarter century ago, focusing on a small group of Hatfield strikers. It is a well made piece, and a powerful experience. Most striking are the men, the strikers – Dave Douglass, Dave Nixon, ...

Liana Foxvog, National Organizer, SweatFree Communities As the financial and employment crisis deepens, it is crucial that we respond by addressing the causal roots of the mess. Multinational corporations have undermined local economies with the help of lax government regulations and trade agreement...

I got an email on this but the link to the Ma'an News Agency didn't work at first so I googled "shoes israeli amsterdam and see for yourself what I got. 910,000 sites might actually not be the number of reports of shoes being thrown at Israelis in Amsterdam but top of the list at the time of writing...

The year is 2009. York University in Toronto. Jews chased through the campus and then basically held hostage. Couldn’t be true, could it? Sure is. According to the Jpost: “ Jewish students at York University in Toronto were forced to take refuge in the Hillel office last Wednesday night ...

This is a reminder that the situation in Gaza is a humanitarian crisis.  I often ask myself, if I were not Arab, raised in a household that offered counterhegemonic back talk in an a frustrated response to biased, unilateral reporting, I wonder if I would be in a position to sympathize with the Pal...

Jews in Solidarity with Palestine Sign on to this statement View signers Stop the U.S.-backed genocidal Israeli war on Gaza * Nearly a thousand women, men and children killed by U.S.-made Israeli bombs * Thousands more wounded * 1.5 million under siege for the past 18 months, without food, water, me...

For Immediate Release: January 14, 2009 JEWS SHUT DOWN ISRAELI CONSULATE! 10 JEWS CHAIN TOGETHER TO BLOCK DRIVEWAY AND ENTRANCE! Who Jewish people of conscience in Los Angeles, including a nurse, a school counselor, a retired school teacher, a retired union representative, and a community organizer....

The following motion was passed at the San Francisco Bay Area GMB January meeting, Thursday, Janury 8, 2009 with few dissenting votes: "WHEREAS the Apartheid State of Israel has conducted a siege of Gaza for many months; and WHEREAS this siege, itself, is an act of war as well as an act of coll...

On Sunday, January 11th the official Seattle Jewish community will host a “solidarity rally” for Israel at Temple DeHirsh Sinai.  The purpose of the event is to support Israeli policy and specifically its attack on Gaza.  One of the main speakers at the solidarity rally will be Nevet ...

Friend Shlomo Wollins, of IsraelReporter fame and now running WeJew.Com (the Jewish Video and Media SuperSite), sends this update from today's Rally in Support of Hamas and Killing the Jews from MIAMI !!! Today in South Florida, Miami, the Jewish community began a Rally for Israel to oopose the Rall...