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PUBLIC MEETING: Terror Raid! Who is next?

On Wednesday 28th March 2007 at about 4.00 a.m. early morning some 40
members of the Metropolitan Police with at least a dozen armed officers
raided 5 homes in Tower Hamlet and 2 in Newham…

Yehudit Kirstein

Gateways to Hell: Military Checkpoints in the Occupied West Bank

Yehudit Kirstein-Keshet explains the horror of checkpoints as a tool  toward s  Israel’s realisation of maximum territory with a minimum of Palestinians; yet another element in the ongoing system of population transfer that began with the Naqba-Disaster of 1948 and that continues, by various means, up to the present time. (June 2007)

What’s New at www.ihrc.org.uk?

In this ‘What’s New’ the latest issue of the Palestine Internationalist, an important development in the case of Babar Ahmed, IHRC’s critical response to Salman Rushdie’s Knighthood, as well as an event commemorating the 2000th day of detention at Gitmo

Review of Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter, New York: Simon and Shuster, 2006, pp. 265+xvii.

Former US president Jimmy Carter’s historical narrative of the various efforts he has been involved in to bring peace to Palestine is a fascinating insight into the politics behind the would-be peacemakers. Carter shows great courage in describing how pro-Israeli bias within the current American administration is the real obstacle to peace in the Middle East; a bias which gives the green light to a system of oppression and apartheid.