Source: The Daily Beast
Bestselling author Henning Mankell, who sailed on the ships trying to break Israel’s Gaza blockade, shares his diary of the journey: being attacked by Israeli commandos, robbed of his possessions, and finally deported back to Sweden.
One of the creators of Oscar-nominated animation Waltz With Bashir has made a short film to alter Israeli perceptions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. A 90-second film Closed Zone has been launched online in support of the human rights group Gisha, which advocates freedom of movement for Palestinians. It shows a Palestinian boy chasing a bird but having his path blocked.
http://www.closedzone.com/
Source: SACSIS
Justice Richard Goldstone is accused of being unfair to Israel in his investigative report on the war in Gaza, which the Israeli government has stepped up efforts to discredit in the international media. But Phyllis Bennis, author of “Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,” contends that there is no way that the credibility of the Goldstone report can be challenged. The real challenge, she says, is how much pressure we, as civil society, can bring to bear on our governments to make the report real.
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