2 years of struggle in Bil'in (West bank, Palestine)

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Around 1000 demonstrators attended today's [2007-02-23] second anniversary protest against the Apartheid Wall in Bil'in.

"We have been working for two years but we haven't achieved our goal, which is to destroy the wall and the settlements being built on our land, behind the wall".

Israel : popular support for apartheid

Interesting poll from the "Center for the Campaign Against Racism "(who are they ? Anyone ?). Shows quite strong popular support for apartheid policies directed against arabs within Israel proper.

clipped from www.voltairenet.org Opinion poll: A majority of Israeli Jews are in favour of the Apartheid According to a survey conducted for the Center for the Campaign Against Racism and published on March 20th, 2007: Culture: 37 % of the Israeli Jews polled think that the Arabic culture is inferior to the Jewish one. Arabophobia: Each time overhearing someone speaking Arabic, 50 % of Israeli Jews feel fear and 31 % feel hatred. Security: 56 % of the Israeli Jews think that Israeli Arabs pose a security problem to the State of Israel. Segregation: 55 % of the Israeli Jews wish that the Jews and Arabs are kept apart in the places of leisure. Citizenship: 40 % of the Israeli Jews think that Israeli Arabs should be deprived of their right to vote.

DePaul denies tenure to Israel critic

Shameful. It looks very much like Finkelstein's views played a large role in his denial of tenure, since university officials cited his "tone" as justification to deny Finkelstein tenure.

BTW, a committee of faculty from DePaul's political science department looked at Dershowitz's charges and found them to be without merit.

clipped from chronicle.com Norman G. Finkelstein, the controversial political scientist who has been engaged in a highly public battle for tenure at DePaul University, learned today that he had lost that fight. In a written statement released to The Chronicle, the university confirmed that Mr. Finkelstein had been denied tenure. Mr. Finkelstein’s case has excited widespread interest, in part because of the involvement of Alan M. Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard University. The two scholars have sparred repeatedly in public. Last fall, Mr. Dershowitz sent members of DePaul’s law and political-science faculties what he described as “a dossier of Norman Finkelstein’s most egregious academic sins, and especially his outright lies, misquotations, and distortions.”