[The former Israeli soldier] talked slowly about his time in Gaza. He spoke about 20 Arab teenagers filled with ecstasy tablets and sent running towards the base he’d patrolled. Each strapped with a bomb and…
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Israeli Deputy Ambassador in Dublin Advocates Intimidation & Smearing Human Rights Activists
Press release from the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. ISRAELI DEPUTY AMBASSADOR/CULTURE OFFICER IN DUBLIN ADVOCATES INTIMIDATION & SMEARING HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS; SUGGESTS HUMILIATING THEM BY ASSOCIATING THEM WITH MOSSAD AND ‘SEXUAL IDENTITY PROBLEMS’ In an exposé by…
Dublin’s newspapers declare open season on Palestine solidarity campaign
Yesterday Ireland handed over 2.25 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to a bunch of wealthy gamblers whose names have not been revealed. These “bondholders” – as they are politely called – lent money to Allied Irish…
Acceptable Racism
Apparently the 84-year-old American novelist Cynthia Ozick is favourite to win the “Orange Prize for excellence in fiction written by women” for her novel Foreign Bodies. In an article in the UK Guardian’s series My…
Non-Judeo Christians Unwelcome at “Faces of Israel” Hasbara Event?
And so, Ireland finds itself in the hasbara gun-sight once again. A story appeared in last week’s Sunday Times (19/02/2012, Irish edition) proclaiming that an Israeli hasbara “charm offensive” would be touring Ireland beginning on Thursday….
Following the Pack Regardless of the Consequences
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has once again demonstrated his willingness to support US and Israeli policy regardless of the consequences. In answers to parliamentary questions last week he justified sanctions against…
Normalising Apartheid: The Israeli Parliamentary Visit to Ireland
On the evening of Wednesday 18th January, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held a protest against an official Israeli parliamentary visit to the Oireachtas. This visit of two Israeli Knesset [Parliament] members and their…
Culture and the Right Hand of the State: Lessons from Filmbase’s “Israeli Film Days”
Between 24-27 November 2011, the Government of Israel held “Israeli Film Days” at Filmbase in Temple Bar, Dublin’s “cultural quarter”.In advance of this event, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) requested Filmbase to reconsider its…
Emergency Demonstration – Support the #FreedomWaves ships to Gaza – End the Siege of Gaza 6pm, The Spire, O’Connell Street
Emergency Demonstration – Support the #FreedomWaves ships to Gaza – End the Siege of Gaza Friday 4th November 6pm, The Spire O’Connell Street Dublin 1 At 7.30pm on Thursday the Irish Ship To Gaza shore…
Riverdance: Dancing into the Trap
Recently the popular Israeli internet news service Ynet published an article by Itamar Eichner called Foreign Ministry beats Israel boycotts (7 October 2011). The article tells us that ‘Pro-Palestinian groups calling for a cultural boycott…
Appeal to the Riverdance company not to tour Israel
Note from IPSC: There will be a final action in the IPSC’s series of ongoing protests at the Gaiety Theatre before Riverdance heads off to perform for Israeli Apartheid – so please make the effort…
Near FM Interview with Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is a veteran journalist and columnist with the liberal Israeli daily, Ha’aretz. Along with Amira Hass, he is one of the few Israeli journalists – one of the few Western journalists – to…
Art is freedom without force: interview with the late Juliano Mer-Khamis
This interview with the late Juliano Mer-Khamis was originally published on South/South on the 5th of April, after a shorter version appeared on Electronic Intifada. Many thanks to Maryam Monalisa Gharavi for allowing us to…
IPSC Open Letter to Bob Geldof: Do not choose the side of the Israeli oppressor
IPSC Open Letter to Bob Geldof: Do not choose the side of the Israeli oppressor Issued: Wednesday 23rd March 2011 Dear Bob Geldof, Your decision to accept an honorary doctorate from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU)…
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