Football and False Consciousness
by Haidar Eid*, Gaza Strip I had hoped with all my heart that neither the Egyptian nor the Algerian teams would reach the World Cup finals that are to be held next year in South Africa. And, yes, by that I describe myself as being a "traitor" to Arab nationalism and I declare my innoc

Chomsky is 'too political' for the Politics Deparment at Glasgow!
Incongnito: "The Politics Department at Glasgow University refused to publicise the talk by Prof. Chomsky on the hilarious grounds that the event was ‘too political’! Noam Chomsky is the world’s most academically cited political writer. There are rumours that GU’s world-renowned Medical School will henceforth decline to sponsor events that are ‘too medical’."

The Chomsky Disappointment
Chomsky gave a lecture at the Institute of Education on Thursday Nov. 29, 2009. Many students came out dissapointed. Many revolutionaries came out... de-revolutionarized. I remember meeting Finkelstein in Gaza, and I was dissapointed similarly, particularly when it came to the right of return and BDS campaign. Here's John Ros

Latest Boycott News: Sussex and Trondheim
"Students at the University of Sussex, England have voted to boycott Israeli goods. The decision follows the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, which calls upon the Israeli state to respect internat

November 8: the Othmana family massacre
No week or two weeks pass without there being a commemoration of a massacre carried out by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinians.On November 8th, it was the commemoration of the Othmana family massacre in Beit Hanoun in 2006, where 19 martyrs, women, men and children, went down by 10 continuous tank bombings on the Othmana family neighborhood. It was during the night and the family was asleep