BHL joins in the IMF rapist debate with typical flowery pomposity

"French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy..." You can tell how atrocious French intellectual culture is that this clown is called a "philosopher". Has he ever had one insight? Ever?

Now Zionists are digging up the graves of the Armenians

They just heard about it now you know.

Mubarak to apologise?

You'd think he would have learned by now that everytime he addresses the Egyptian people they just even more angry at him. So I hope it's true he's going to try this stupid idea. Oh and apparently "Under Egyptian law, prosecutors can waive charges for financial crimes if the money involved is restored." I somehow doubt that if any normal Egyptian stole millions of pounds and when caught agreed to give back the money they'd just be let off.

National Union of Students Executive Committee passed this motion today

Freedom for Palestine

Motion No: 411

Conference believes:

1. Israel’s continuing oppression of the Palestinians has been compared by South African trade unions and activists including Desmond Tutu to the Apartheid regime.

2. Israel does not allow Palestinian refugees or their descendents to return to the territory from which they were expelled in 1948. The population of the Gaza strip is subject to a blockade described by the Director of UNRWA Operations as a “Medieval siege”.

3. Palestinian organisations have called for a policy of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. The TUC supports a boycott of goods produced and companies operating in Israel’s illegal settlements.

4. Israel’s attack on Gaza, launched in December 2008 killed over 1,400 Palestinians - more than 300 were children. Gaza’s general infrastructure including schools, universities, hospitals and homes suffered enormous damage.

5. Since 2007 Israel has imposed a blockade on Gaza which violates international law and leaves the people of Gaza short of food, medicines and other vital supplies such as cement. The damage caused by Israel’s attack cannot be repaired.

6. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has had a detrimental impact on students. Gaza’s electricity supply is controlled by Israel and shut-down for several hours most days, making it difficult for students to study. Moreover, the blockade means insufficient quantities of educational equipment, such as paper, desks and books, reach students.

7. The Trade Union Congress – representing 7 million people – has strongly condemned the siege on Gaza. 8. The National Union of Students has so far refused to join the growing movement in support of Palestinian human rights. For example, the NUS leadership refused to condemn Israel’s war on Gaza in 2009 and failed to condemn

the killing of 9 civilian peace activists onboard the Mavi Marmara – the international aid flotilla to Gaza - in May 2010.

Conference resolves:

1. To demand freedom for Palestine, calling for an end to the siege of Gaza and occupation of the West Bank and the right to return for all refugees.

2. To encourage unions to twin with universities in Palestine and to send an NUS delegation on future convoys to the Gaza strip.

3. To join the TUC in promoting a boycott of goods produced and companies operating in Israel’s illegal settlements. (was removed)

4. To strongly condemn Israel’s siege on Gaza and actively campaign for it to be lifted in accordance with international law.

5. To support the Palestinians’ right to education by building links with students at the Islamic University of Gaza and other educational institutions in Gaza.

6. To affiliate to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (was removed)

It's not great, especially seeing how they removed the sections that would actually involve them taking concrete action rather than just Arab League style ineffectiveness. However it's a step in the right direction and will strengthen the hand of anti-Israel student activism as we now have solid ground to build upon.

Only in Haririland would such a ridiculous article be published

A democratic Arab world would welcome peace with Israel? Really? Is that why Israel's friends in the Arab world are all dictatorships and whenever Arabs have been given a free vote they've elected opponents of Israel? All just a coincidence no doubt.

On extremism

Take everything in moderation; including moderation.

Egyptian besieging the Israeli embassy in Cairo yesterday

Rotton Egyptian army protects Israeli occupation embassy

Watch the video it's very good reporting.

Free Tarek Shalaby

But since Tarek is an opponent of Israel the Western media will not go crazy about his arrest like they did for the bizarre Egyptian Zionist Maikel Nabil.

Crazy conspiracy theories from the BBC analyst

According to the BBC's Middle East expert Jim Muir the Nakbah demonstrations were an Iranian/Syrian/Hezbollah plot. This is just hilarious. Apparently "To allow a controlled burst of tension on the borders with Israel might have been seen by the Syrian regime as serving several useful purposes: to divert attention from its internal troubles, and to burnish its nationalist credentials of steadfast resistance to Israel." Oh yeah. What the Syrian regime really wants to do now is divert attention towards the fact that Israel has been occupying its territory for 44 years and stealing its lands without any resistance. That'll really 'burnish its nationalist credentials of steadfast resistance to Israel', reminding everyone how the regime kills Syrians demonstrating against the regime at will yet does nothing when Israel occupies its lands and kills people on Syrian territory. Get real. The occupation of the Golan Heights is a national humiliation/scandal and the recent events are an embarrassment for the Syrian regime. He really has no clue. And on Hezbollah, really this guy thinks there's any chance of Hezbollah forcibly stopping tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees from protesting at the border on Nakbah day? That would tarnish their reputation so much even if they wanted the protests not to happen I doubt they'd consider interfering. If Hezbollah wanted to really put their weight behind things they could have mobilised tens of thousands of their own Lebanese supporters to demonstrate too, but they didn't.

Remembering the Nakba

‘There is no greater sorrow on earth’, wrote the Greek tragedian Euripides, ‘than the loss of one’s native homeland’. From Brother Hesham.

Four miles of protesters in Yemen

From Friday.

Darth Abdullah

‎"King Abdullah may not be head of an evil empire..." Erm, yes he is.

GCC is "anti-Iran" bloc

When discussing the Arab world 'Iran' is now just code for 'the Arab public'. As if Jordan and Morocco joined the GCC because they're really afraid of IRAN. They might as well rename GCC the Arab Evil Empire.

Bin Laden's 'dairy'

I really hope the Guardian knows that this is fake.

Long live the Gaza tunnels

They're smuggling tanks through the tunnels right now. Please book your tickets in advance, we have a busy schedule here.

Obsessions

Yet another article in the Israeli press about sexual abuse of women by Arabs, because sexual abuse of women by Israelis doesn't interest them. Nevermind sexual abuse of Palestinian women in Israeli prisons.

NHS to be shown no mercy

Tories should be shot on sight. Scum.

Osborne to target workers' rights with review of employment law

Tories attacking workers' rights? Whatever next.

More protests outside Cairo Israeli occupation embassy

Egyptian police back to doing their job: protecting Israel.

Abduljalil is hanging out in London

Libyan rebel leaders have been invited by Prime Minister David Cameron to set up a formal office in London. Mr Cameron met Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of the Interim National Transitional Council, in Downing St as fighting continued in Libya.

Slow ethnic cleansing

Israel has used a covert procedure to cancel the residency status of 140,000 West Bank Palestinians between 1967 and 1994, the legal advisor for the Judea and Samaria Justice Ministry's office admits...

Bahrainis ‘drugged’ by foreign agents during uprising

See how when Qathafi comes up with lunacy like this he's widely mocked in the Western media, but when the Bahraini military chief makes such claims they get ignored.

Saudi plan for Yemen is dead

Abdul Latif al-Zayani, the secretary-general of the Gulf Co-operation Council, has met Yemeni government and opposition officials, in attempt to revive a stalled deal offered by the group of Gulf nations to engineer a transfer of power in the volatile Arabian state. Man. They still don't seem to get that their terrible GCC deal is dead. The Yemeni revolutionaries have killed it in their firm rejection of compromise.

Demonstration in An-Nabi Salih yesterday

Israeli claims

IDF sources say Lebanese demonstrators were killed by gunfire from the Lebanese army during Nakba Day protests on the border... I actually wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be true. Supporters of the Lebanese army ought to chant the Israeli and Lebanese armies are one hand. I don't see how they can claim that "The last of the protesters who infiltrated across the border into Israel from Syria on Sunday have been returned to Syria by Israel Defense Forces soldiers and Israel police." How do they know they've already caught every last one. And as for this idiocy "The IDF said that the incidents clearly bore Iran's fingerprints." No. Massacres of Palestinians have Israeli fingerprints all over them.

Song of the Day

Oh look. Thomas Friedman has a new book out

Egypt uprising figure Wael Ghonim signs book deal... Entitled Revolution 2.0, it is due to be published in January next year. Who on Earth recommended such a rubbish lazy title.

Israel terrorists in action

Look at 1:16. See how much of a rabble the Israeli army is? They don't even bother with formations. I've seen police officers charge with more organisation than that. But when you're a heavily armed racist terrorist force fighting mostly defenceless refugee kids you don't bother much with discipline. Oh and notice the undercover agents in jeans helping them e.g. at 1:53.

Palestinians cross from Syria

Ash-sha`b, yurid, tahrir Falastin.