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Mairead Corrigan landing at Dublin Airport on release of The Rachel Corrie Five from their Israeli kidnappers. Sound is not great until about 5 minutes in.
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Rachel Corrie was a young American peace activist who was killed in 2003 in Gaza while working with the International Solidarity Movement. As Corrie stood in front of a Palestinian home to protect it from being
demolished by
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday hailed the peaceful ending to a standoff between the navy and Gaza-bound foreign aid ship the Rachel Corrie, which was carried off without violence. The Israeli army released footage of the ship before and during the army's intervention. Duration: 00:55
Israeli troops have boarded a humanitarian aid ship flying under an Irish flag, sixty kilometres off the blockaded coast of Gaza. The Israeli army says they met no resistance and the vessel is now being towed to the port city of Ashdod.
Aerial footage from 5 June 2010 when the IDF naval commandos boarding the ship attempting to break the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip, they did so with the full compliance of the ship's crew members. According to initial reports, there was no violence or injuries amongst the soldiers or the crew, as the use of force was unnecessary and no shots were fired. The boat and its crew are being led to the Ashdod port and will be transferred to the custody of the appropriate authorities. During the morning hours a naval force identified the ship and, as it did in the past, issued numerous calls for it to dock in Ashdod and transfer the goods via the crossings upon inspection. The calls were ignored and it became clear that the boat intended to reach Gaza's shores. The Israel Navy contacted the boat and clarified again that the Gaza Strip was under maritime closure and due to security risks in the area, it would not be permitted to enter. A short while ago, with the compliance of the crew members, the naval force boarded the ship without incident under the command of the Commander of the Israel Navy, Vice Admiral Eliezer Marom, and is now directing it to the Ashdod port. Any organization or country wishing to transfer humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip can do so legally via the established ground crossings by coordinating with the relevant authorities, as is done on a near daily basis.
MOXNews.com July 30, 2007 KBTC
Contact has been lost with activists onboard an Irish-flagged aid ship heading towards Gaza. In their last communication they said the Israeli navy was shadowing them. The Rachel Corrie is attempting to get emergency supplies and building materials to the blockaded area. It comes just days after Israeli commandos raided an aid flotilla, leaving nine people dead.
The Israeli Navy has intercepted a new Gaza-bound aid ship Rachel Corrie following its earlier attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, pro-Palestinian activists say. "They are being followed," Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza group told Reuters on Saturday. Berlin said earlier that the Rachel Corrie was some 55 km (35 miles) west of Gaza in the Mediterranean. The new ship, scheduled to arrive in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, was seeking to break a three-year-long blockade of the coastal sliver. There are no immediate reports of violence on board the Irish ship. The activists have already rejected an Israeli demand to unload its cargo in the Israeli port of Ashdod, adding that they would not resist Israeli forces in case of an attack. The Rachel Corrie is carrying some 750 tons of aid including medical and school supplies, and 15 people including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire and former UN assistant secretary general Denis Halliday. The ship is named after Rachel Corrie, a US activist killed in 2003 as she tried to prevent an Israeli military bulldozer from razing a Palestinian home in Rafah Reload from encryptedreality0
Update from Gaza - Press TV Live - Rachel Corrie Aid Ship - Israel Threatening Rachel Corrie Aid Convoy - Encircling Rachel Corrie like vultures - PM Erdogan to travel to Gaza - Next convoys to be escorted by Turkish Navy. Major Update - Live from Gaza Coast - Footage of Israeli Warships on sea. Please share, tweet, fb, myspace, everywhere, Rachel Corrie will not be murdreed twice - MAJOR UPDATE
UPDATE: It appears that when this report was made, the Rachel Corrie had not been boarded. However, in the last hour or so (it is 6am New York City time on Saturday, June 5, 2010), it has been apparently confirmed that Israel has in fact boarded the vessel without incident. Reports claim that early Saturday morning, June 5, 2010, Israel boarded a ship named the "Rachel Corrie" that was headed towards Gaza. CNM has the information in the video and in the links below. "'Rachel Corrie' boarded, no one hurt" bit.ly Wikipedia: Rachel Corrie (person) bit.ly Here is a link to CNM's report on the confrontation between Israel and the initial Gaza Flotilla -- bit.ly * Photo Credit: Description: Naval Sail By on Tel Aviv Beach Date: 8 May 2008 Source: "Own work" Secondary Source: Wikimedia Commons bit.ly Author: Deror avi bit.ly Permission: "The copyright holder of this file allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that the copyright holder is properly attributed. Redistribution, derivative work, commercial use, and all other use is permitted." bit.ly #
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The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs announced Friday that it had reached an agreement with the Israeli government on the 'Rachel Corrie', by which it would dock at Ashdod and submit the aid it was carrying to inspection, but that the ship's
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MOXNews.com June 03, 2010 BBC World News
May 18, 2010 — The more people in the world who know the less likely any harm will come to them as Israel is going try and stop this ship at all costs. Please share this video and join the facebook group- Free Gaza - Break the Siege- www.facebook.com ... Join the news letter here- lists.riseup.net Website- www.freegaza.org On May 14, 2010, the MV Rachel Corrie pulled out of the docks in Ireland and began her long journey down the coast of Europe to the Mediterranean. She is named after the 23 year old American, Rachel Corrie, who was killed in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer as she was protecting the home of a Palestinian doctor. She will join seven other vessels in the Mediterranean and sail to Gaza to deliver vitally needed construction, medical and school supplies to the imprisoned population of Gaza. Reuploaded from gazafriends channel- www.youtube.com Category: News & Politics Tags: axis4peace2 Palestine Israel Rachel Corrie gaza rights flotilla boats tommy sands mass destruction jews ghandi princess diana obama lying politicians anti war Iraq settlers aipac agenda crimes criminals terror cia israel settlements occupation middle east nwo new world order buffer zone dead body demonstrations Gaza children Occupied Palestinian Territories zionist
On May 14, 2010, the MV Rachel Corrie pulled out of the docks in Ireland and began her long journey down the coast of Europe to the Mediterranean. She is named after the 23 year old American, Rachel Corrie, who was killed in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer as she was protecting the home of a Palestinian doctor. She will join seven other vessels in the Mediterranean and sail to Gaza to deliver vitally needed construction, medical and school supplies to the imprisoned population of Gaza.
Seven years ago American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting against the demolition of Palestinian homes in Gaza. Her parents are now suing the Israeli government. The trial got underway on the anniversary of her death. RT caught up with filmmaker Simone Bitton, who made it her mission to find justice.
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...Corrie as a young girl Rachel Corrie has taken a new leap into the realm of official martyrdom--at least among Palestinians. Yesterday, officials in the West Bank town of Ramallah named a street after the Olympia native, who seven years ago was crushed to...
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Michael Moore - This Just In
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/palestinian-streets-new-name-rachel-corrie
on march 16th , Rachel Corrie was killed by israeli military forces . And after seven years Rachel's family are still struggling to prosecute the israeli government . more over , the same day Rachel was killed , israel intending to announce two important islamic sites in Jerusalem as jewish heritage sites .
On 10 March 2010, in Haifa, northern Israel, the family of Rachel Corrie, the altruistic young American and perhaps the first of the New Fourth Estate-citizen journalists- is bringing a civil suit against the Israeli defense ministry seeking accountability for Rachels death under the wheels of a US Made Caterpillar D9R Bulldozer driven by Israeli army troops as Rachel stood up in defense of the home of a pharmacists with five children in Gaza seven years ago and four days before George W. Bush ordered the bombing of Baghdad. Four eye witnesses three Britons and an American who were on the scene when Rachel was run down and over twice are scheduled to give evidence. The Israeli government initially blocked the activists from entering Israel but Britain and the US exerted strong pressure, and they were allowed entry. All are members of the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister at the time of Corries death, promised a thorough, credible and transparent investigation would be conducted. An internal military inquiry cleared the two soldiers operating the bulldozer was even criticized by US officials. Human Rights Watch noted it fell far short of the transparency, impartiality and thoroughness required by international law. Rachel has been eulogized and demonized, celebrated and castigated. Her ...
BBC 100310 [linktv/Mosaic] - Corrie was volunteering with the group International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which formed after Israel and the United States rejected a proposal by then-United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson to place international human rights monitors in the occupied territories. The ISM defines itself as 'a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles'. Israel was building a large steel wall to separate Rafah from Egypt, and was bulldozing homes and gardens to create a 'buffer zone'. Corrie and seven other activists responded to a call on that March day to protect the home of the Nasrallah family, which was being threatened with demolition by two of the armored Israeli military bulldozers made by the US company Caterpillar. Cindy Corrie, Rachels mother, related what happened: The bulldozer proceeded toward Rachel... She was in her orange jacket. When it kept coming, she rose on the mound, and the eyewitnesses testified that her head rose above the top of the blade of the bulldozer, so she could clearly be seen, but the bulldozer continued and proceeded over her, and so that it was covering her body. It stopped and then reversed, according to the eyewitness testimonies, without lifting its blade, so backed over her once again. The civil action against the Israeli defence ministry will decide whether damages should be paid for her ...
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...Rachel Corrie" ran into immediate controversy, with a New York staging being cancelled due to criticism. A website called "Rachel Corrie Facts" was launched to address perceived inaccuracies in the play. - with files from Reuters Photo: Members of the International...
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National Post
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7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Govt Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old student from Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago as she stood before a Palestinian home facing demolition. Today, a trial opens in Israel in a lawsuit brought by Corries family against the Israeli government. The eyewitness testimony is expected to challenge Israels version of events with evidence that she was clearly visible to the soldiers, standing before the bulldozer in her florescent orange jacket. We spend the hour with Rachel Corries family: her father Craig, her mother Cindy, and her sister Sarah.
7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Govt Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old student from Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago as she stood before a Palestinian home facing demolition. Today, a trial opens in Israel in a lawsuit brought by Corries family against the Israeli government. The eyewitness testimony is expected to challenge Israels version of events with evidence that she was clearly visible to the soldiers, standing before the bulldozer in her florescent orange jacket. We spend the hour with Rachel Corries family: her father Craig, her mother Cindy, and her sister Sarah.
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...people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer. Corrie was volunteering with the group International...
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-goodman/rachel-corries-posthumous_b_492537.html
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...see her very clearly, as she holds a megaphone in her hand. Beneath the picture’s caption was written: “Photographed before Rachel Corrie was run over by an IDF bulldozer.” Everyone who looked at the picture and the text understood that the driver, who saw...
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Israel Matsav
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2010/03/truth-about-rachel-corrie.html
Channel 9 Online | www.ch9.co.nz A play currently running at The Allen Hall Theatre is receiving excellent reviews, and the cast can pat themselves, or to be more specific, herself on the back. My Name is Rachel Corrie, is a portrait of a young American Peace Acvtivist killed in the Gaza Strip seven years ago, and the play is performed by a single actress who speaks Corrie's words.
A short interview with Mairi Philips, the actress playing Rachel in My Name Is Rachel Corrie - the true story of a peace activist who was killed in Gaza in 2003. My Name Is Rachel Corrie was edited from Rachel's own journals and writings, by actor Alan Rickman and Guardian Editor, Katharine Viner. MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE 2-20 March 2010 Citizens Theatre, Glasgow citz.co.uk Rehearsal Photography by Tim Morozzo. Photos of Rachel courtesy of the Corrie Family. Additional photos courtesy of the International Solidarity Movement. rachelcorriefoundation.org www.palsolidarity.org
Have you heard of Rachel Corrie? Rachel Corrie was the peace activist from ISM International Solidarity Movement, who travelled to Gaza in 2003 to protest the treatment of the Palestinian people by the government of Israel. On March 16th 2003, Rachel, along with 6 other ISM members, attempted to stop the demolition of houses which belonged to Palestinian refugees in Rafa refugee camp by IDF members by acting as human shields. She was deliberately ran over and killed by a bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier. She was 23 years old at the time of her death.
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PEG HOLZEMER: of Middleboro recently performed in a workshop production of four one-act plays at the Boston Playwrights Theatre.
MIDDLEBORO — Peg Holzemer of Middleboro recently performed in a workshop production of four one-act plays by Berthold
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SouthCoastToday.com
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Charlotte Silver, The Electronic Intifada, 2 December 2009
On 19 November 2009 the play My Name is Rachel Corrie, was staged at Stanford University. Amanda Gelender produced the play as a part of her Stanford senior thesis. Amanda is
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The Electronic Intifada
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/XBCRV8jOgno/article10922.shtml
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Feeding America, because as he said:
"It’s
a tragedy that more than 35 million people in this country alone -- 12
million of those children – often go to bed hungry and wake up each
morning unsure of where their next meal is coming from. I join the
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Arabisto.com
http://arabisto.com/article/Blogs/Eileen_Fleming/Yes_Virginia_Bob_Dylan_is_a_Santa_Claus_Rachel_Corrie_a_Light_unto_the_Nations_and_The_Wall_Must_Fall/50813
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had undoubtedly placed herself in a dangerous situation, but the incident did not take place in the context of active hostilities, and did not threaten the safety of IDF personnel or other persons at the site. Under pressure from the U.S. government
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/in-defense-of-rachel-corr_b_322554.html
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Israel controls the Palestinian population registry, and according to Al-Mezan, it is nearly impossible for Palestinians like El Frani to obtain an ID card. "There is only one mechanism, which is family reunification," says Mahmoud Abu Rahma, the group'
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Time Magazine
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Founder and executive director of the Rebuilding Alliance
"With so much bad news in the media about the situation in Gaza, we wanted to let you know about a positive event that is under way thanks to collaborative efforts of people throughout our
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Huffington Post
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-baranskiwalker/will-egypt-allow-rachel-c_b_288255.html
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Founder and executive director of the Rebuilding Alliance
The Rachel Corrie Ramadan Soccer Tournament is now underway in Rafah, Gaza on a field cleared from the rubble of demolished homes. The Rebuilding Alliance, the organization I founded to rebuild
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-baranskiwalker/can-soccer-shoes-open-the_b_287188.html
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Why would a young woman from a well-to-do family in Olympia, Wash., want to risk life and limb to help people she didn't know? The opportunity to explore a new culture and remove herself from her usual lifestyle, for one. For another, the chance to
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Syracuse.com
http://blog.syracuse.com/entertainment/2009/09/simply_new_theatres_rachel_cor.html
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died in 2003 in the Gaza strip, an idealistic college student and activist crushed by a bulldozer while protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes (whether her demise was an accident depends on who you're asking). is based on her diaries and
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City Pages
http://www.citypages.com/2009-09-09/calendar/my-name-is-rachel-corrie
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"My Name Is Rachel Corrie" may or may not have deserved the controversy it aroused several years ago in London and New York, but one thing is certain:
As the title character in Simply New Theatre's production of this 90-minute one-women show, Jillian
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Syracuse.com
http://blog.syracuse.com/critics/2009/09/jillian_dailey_gives_a_powerfu.html
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DASHT-E LEILI, Afghanistan â Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern Afghanistan loaded with a human cargo of suspected Taliban and al Qaida members who'd surrendered to Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Afghan warlord and a
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1209204.html
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"When President Obama spoke in Cairo, he urged the Palestinians to abandon violence, but he also said the United States does not accept the legitimacy of Israeli settlements.
"I am for universal human rights and the right to keep your home is
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Huffington Post
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When the audience shuffled out of the Castro Theatre and the protesters headed home, the polarizing debate surrounding the July 25 screening of "Rachel” at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival was not over.
Rather than argue about the appropriateness
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The Public Press
http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2009-08/san-francisco-jewish-film-festival-screening-sparks-soul-searching-within-community
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When the audience shuffled out of the Castro Theatre and the protesters headed home, the polarizing debate surrounding the July 25 screening of "Rachel” at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival was not over.
Rather than argue about the appropriateness
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The Public Press
http://public-press.org/content/2009/08/05/san-francisco-jewish-film-festival-screening-sparks-soul-searching-within-communi
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Abraham Miller gives us a peek in the descent into anti-Israel and anti-Semetic Leftism, which has gripped the Jewish community of the San Francisco Bay area. The latest outrage was the Jewish film-festival at which the latest work of Simone Bittone,
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Commentary
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/75051
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July 30th entry and Paul Larudee's report about the new documentary film Rachel
directed by Moroccan-born, Israeli-raised filmmaker Simone Britton,
screened at the Castro theater in San Francisco on July 25, 2009, as
part of the Jewish Film Festival.
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Arabisto.com
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http://arabisto.com/article.cfm?articleID=43784
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SAN FRANCISCO (J WEEKLY) -- After weeks of community discord, the controversial "Rachel" documentary screened to an audience often inhospitable to divergent viewpoints.
“What happened to two Jews, three opinions?” asked Laynie Tzena, standing in the
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JTA
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/07/26/1006802/rachel-draws-passionate-crowd-to-sf-jewish-film-fest
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A film about the death of American activist Rachel Corrie is causing a stir at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, which began Thursday. Photo courtesy the Rachel Corrie Foundation.
Simone Bitton’s film “Rachel” is a documentary about the
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The Public Press
http://public-press.org/content/2009/07/23/san-francisco-jewish-film-festival-opens-amid-controversy-over-screening
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Defacing the memory of Rachel Corrie (image from "Rachel")
…In 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 22-year-old peace activist from the Pacific Northwest, attempted to stop a bulldozer operated by the Israeli military from demolishing homes and other buildings in
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Tikun Olam
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/richardsilverstein/ZOfh/~3/j8ZHwZOdJqQ/
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The San Francisco 'Jewish film festival,' sponsored by the local Jewish federation, has allowed itself to be taken over by Israel bashers according to community activists who have emailed me. The 'festival' is co-presenting a film call Rachel,
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Israel Matsav
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/07/san-franciscos-jewish-film-festival.html
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Now that Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu has taken over the government there in Israel, there's a modicum of sanity; the last Gaza boat full of ISM activists and other anti-Semites was finally intercepted at sea, its crew
ISM activists are trained to
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Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/8927
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TEHRAN, July 17 (Mehr News Agency) -- Michael Moore's
Traverse City Film Festival
is dedicating special sections to films from the Middle East in "Greetings from
Tehran" and "Palestine and Vine".
The "Greetings from Tehran" section of the festival
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