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May 20, 2002
Christian Salmon
The Bulldozer
War
Edward Said
The Crisis for American Jews
May 19, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Canada,
NAFTA and Kyoto
May 18, 2002
M.G. Piety
Economic Fiction:
From Here to Annuity?
Michael Colby
Bush Fiddled
While
New York Burned
May 17, 2002
Wayne Madsen
Fox News Flashback:
Defending McKinney
James T. Phillips
Ceasefires
and Terrorists
Phillipe Dambournet
The Truth at Last:
Bush as the Energizer Bunny
Lori Berenson
In Defense
of Political Prisoners
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Terrorist Warnings
Hussein Ibish
Clarifying
the Obstacles
to Peace in Palestine
Alexander Cockburn
Israel and "Anti-Semitism"
May 16, 2002
Marylin Robinson
A Garden
in Tent City, But Where Do You Bathe?
Paul de Rooij
Worse than CNN?
The BBC and Israel
David Krieger
The Bush/Putin
Agreement:
Nuclear Dangers Remain
Steve Perry
Unsafe at Any Speed:
Youth, Sex and the Heresies
of Judith Levine
May 15, 2002
Ahmad Faruqui
Revisiting
Camp David
Rick Giombetti
Spiderman v. Pentagon:
Working Class Hero Battles Corrupt Defense Contractors
Stanton / Madsen
When the
War Hits Home:
Planning for Martial Law, Telegovernance and Suspension of Elections
May 14, 2002
Jacob Levich
Leaving the Truth Out?
Alternative Online Publication
Tells the Big Lie about Palestine
Michael Colby
Bush's
Cuba Blunder
Dave Marsh
Scapegoats: the Music Industry's War
on Cassettes
Jensen / Mahajan
US Power
Mideast Power Plays
May 13, 2002
Robert Fisk
Why Does John Malkovich
Want to Kill Me?
Mokhiber / Weissman
IMF
and World Bank:
Out of Control
Dean Baker
Will Darth Vader do Time?
The Enron Saga Continues
Nelson Valdés
American
Democracy:
A Lesson for Cubans
May 12, 2002
Bernard Weiner
Why Is America Acting Like This? A
Letter to European Friends
John Patrick Leary
Aiding Colombia
Kathleen Christison
Israel
and Ethics
May 11, 2002
Joady Guthrie
The Holy Lands:
A Peace Vision
Patrick Cockburn
Bombing
Iraq:
the Pentagon Prepares a Prolonged Campaign
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May
20, 2002
In Defense of
a Disvestment
Campaign Against Israel
by
Francis Boyle
During the drafting of the Palestinian Declaration
of Independence, the Palestinians carefully studied the American
Declaration of Independence as well as the 1916 Proclamation
of the Irish Republic. As can be seen from the text of their
Declaration, the Palestinians deliberately patterned their Declaration
upon Jefferson's document.
In other words, the Palestinians purposefully
sought to communicate with Americans in terms the Palestinians
thought the Americans could readily comprehend and sympathize
with. There are good grounds to believe that their message has
finally gotten through and been well received.
During the course of a public lecture
I gave at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal on
30 November 2000 at the request of Professor Jamal Nassar, Chair
of their Political  Science Department, I issued a call for
the establishment of a nationwide campaign of divestment/disinvestment
against Israel, which I later put on the internet.
In response thereto, the Students for
Justice in Palestine of the University of California at Berkeley
launched a divestment campaign against Israel there.
Then the City of Ann Arbor Michigan considered
divesting from Israel. Next, the Palestinian Students at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (whom I am privileged
to advise) launched an Israeli divestment campaign here.
As of last count, over 30 campuses in
the United States have organized divestment/disinvestment campaigns
against Israel. This grassroots Movement is taking off!
Concerned citizens and governments all
over the world must organize a comprehensive campaign of economic
divestment and disinvestment from Israel along the same lines
of what they did to the former criminal apartheid regime in South
Africa. This original worldwide divestment/disinvestment campaign
played a critical role in dismantling the criminal apartheid
regime in South Africa.
A worldwide divestment/disinvestment
campaign against Israel will play a critical role in dismantling
its criminal apartheid regime against the Palestinian People
living in occupied Palestine as well as in Israel itself.
For much the same reasons, a worldwide
divestment/disinvestment campaign against Israel can produce
an historic reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians--just
as it successfully did between Whites and Blacks in South Africa.
This new divestment/disinvestment campaign should provide the
Palestinians with enough economic and political leverage needed
to negotiate a just and comprehensive peace settlement with the
Israelis--just as it did for the Blacks in South Africa.
Today the Republic of South Africa stands
as a Beacon of Hope for Peoples and States all over the world.
The same could be true for Palestine and Israel.
Francis Boyle
is Professor of International Law Legal at Illinois University,
an advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization on Creation
of the State of Palestine (1987-1989) Legal Advisor to the Palestinian
Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations (1991-1993)
Sometime Legal Advisor to the Provisional Government of the State
of Palestine. He is the author of The
Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, just published by
Clarity Press.
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