What Will It Take to Defeat the War?

Not Another Popular-Front “Peace Movement,”
Mobilize the Working Class to Fight for Power!

Break with All the Capitalist Parties – For a Revolutionary Workers Party!

For Workers Strikes Against the War
Defeat U.S. Imperialism – Defend the Iraqi and Afghan Peoples

Professor Norman Finkelstein, an American Jewish scholar known for his trenchant criticism of Israeli policy, was detained and interrogated by Israels security forces, Shin Bet, for 24 hours at Tel Avivs Ben Gurion airport on May 23, denied entry into Israel and deported back to Amsterdam where he had been lecturing. He has also been banned from entering Israel for 10 years, for so-called “security reasons.”

As supporters of how Israel was created, were celebrating down the Ben Franklin Parkway, Palestinians and solidarity activists sent a cloud of 1000 black balloons into the sky to mark the 60th anniversary of Palestinian dispossession, when the Israeli military uprooted and killed Palestine's indigenous population to make way for the Israeli state. Sixty years later this occupation and dispossession continue. Today there is growing public recognition of this reality, which Palestinians have know all along. Read Report by Philly Al Nakba Coalition | See photos by Joe Piette

ALSO SEE: alnakba.org | phillyalnakba.org | Philadelphia SUSTAIN | Dissident Voice series (1, 2, 3)

More Coverage of 60 Years: Nakba Commemoration On the Mall from DC-IMC | 60th Anniversary Protest from Seattle IMC | Architecture of the Nakba and Occupation: Carving Israel Then and Now from Rustbelt Radio

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Below is the latest piece by the Israeli columnist Uri Avnery. He is a very sharp writer in general, but this time he is in his sharpest form.