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O Estado de Israel e o movimento sionista utilizam a história do povo judeu de perseguição e genocídio para justificar o massacre e a colonização que realizam há 67 anos contra os palestinos, mas nem todos os judeus concordam com isso. Este é o princípio fundamental da International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, rede de organizações compostas por membros da comunidade judaica em diversos países do mundo,que está presente no Fórum Social Mundial Palestina Livre em Porto Alegre durante esta semana.

O Opera Mundi conversou com as ativistas Sara Kershnare Mich Levy, responsáveis pela formação do movimento há cinco anos, sobre os ideais, o funcionamento e o trabalho em rede que realizam.

Plant-a-Tree Delegation Report #3

Hello everyone, Writing from Jerusalem with update # 3. The refugee camp next to Dheisheh is Aida. It is home to 5,000 refugees from 27 villages in one half square kilometer. We began walking in the first foot of snow Bethlehem has seen in 20 years. Or was it the first six inches in 7 ...

Comments on current events: Gaza, UN observer status and the WSFFP

TheWorld Social Forum Free Palestine (WSFFP) took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, atexactly the moment that Palestine was on the front page of every newspaperaround the world. The United Nations had just voted (138-9) to grantPalestinians limited statehood observer status at the United Nations. Meanwhile, people in Gaza had also justsurvived another brutal Israeli onslaught.

Despiteour grief and rage at the latest attack on Gaza, the perseverance of thePalestinian people continues to be an inspiration. As has been true for almosta century, Palestine and the Palestinian people are in the stranglehold of aglobal negotiation for power and resources. And now, popular movements anduprisings throughout the region threaten the colonial hold of US, Europe,Israel and its collaborators with struggles against repression and massexploitation of resources, land and people and for basic survival and freedom. InSyria, the death toll has risen to an estimated 40,000-57,000 over the pasttwo-years as people's fights against repression are suffocated and infiltratedby the interests of these same forces.