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[Katherine: The letter below was sent from Dr. Dhafir to Warden Jett. Please consider writing to Warden Jett to ask that Muslim prisoners be allowed to continue fasting as they have done for the last two years. Dr. Dhafir and other Muslims are being held in a special prison unit in Terre Haute, Indiana.]

Dear Warden Jett:

After months of requesting you to meet with us (more…)

By Professor Francis A. Boyle Information Clearinghouse 1/12/09

As long ago as October 19, 2000, the then United Nations Human Rights Commission (now Council) condemned Israel for inflicting “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” upon the Palestinian people, most of whom are Muslims. (more…)

By RASHID KHALIDI Op-Ed Contributor New York Times 1/07/09

NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip. (more…)

Letter from Yassin Aref’s lawyers to The Honorable Rush Holt
Chairman, House Appropriations Select Intelligence Oversight Panel (more…)

Why Has This Documentary, Never Been Broadcast On U.S. Media ?

Twenty-five years ago, I made a film called Palestine Is Still The Issue. It was about a nation of people – the Palestinians – forced off their land and later subjected to a military occupation by Israel. An occupation condemned by the United Nations and almost every country in the world, including Britain. (more…)

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR THE PEOPLE OF GAZA
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2009, 5.30 p.m.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, HENDRICKS CHAPEL STEPS, SU QUAD

Sponsored by the Muslim Student Association
Contact: muslimsg@syr.edu

KH: See John Pilger’s documentary, Palestine is Still the Issue and Ilan Pape’s book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Glenn Greenwald Salon 1/08/09

There are few viewpoints, if there are any, which trigger more fervent agreement across the political and media establishment than the view that George Bush, Dick Cheney and other top officials should not be criminally investigated, let alone prosecuted, for the various laws they have broken over the last eight years. (more…)

Writing in the New Statesman, John Pilger calls on 40 years of reporting the Middle East to describe the ‘why’ of Israel’s bloody onslaught on the besieged people of Gaza – an attack that has little to do with Hamas or Israel’s right to exist.

“When the truth is replaced by silence,” the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, “the silence is a lie.” (more…)