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		<title>Wolf prize money donated to Birzeit University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The algebraic geometer David Mumford, one of the three winners of the Wolf prize this year, is donating his share of the prize money to Birzeit University &#8211; a Palestinian university, and Gisha &#8212; an organisation that promotes Palestinian freedom of movement.  From the Haaretz article:
&#8220;I decided to donate my share of the Wolf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2008-06-14/wolf-prize-money-donated-to-birzeit-university/</link>
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		<title>London Jewish Cultural Centre meeting &#8220;Two States for Two Peoples: Solution or Illusion?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The London Jewish Cultural Centre is running a series of events on Israel at 60.  Last night&#8217;s was on the theme &#8220;One State or Two?&#8221;  I found it astonishing, not at all what you would expect - certainly not if you go along with the usual right-wing convention that one-state means &#8220;pro-Israel&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2008-05-07/london-jewish-cultural-centre-meeting-two-states-for-two-peoples-solution-or-illusion/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Something quite interesting taking place at the JC&#8221; - impossible, surely?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Kuper (ex-chair of JfJfP and more recently its publications and policy officer) has posted to the Just Peace UK group a long list of surprisingly sympathetic pieces in the Jewish Chronicle, and ending with the proposition

Opinion within Britain&#8217;s Jewish community has shifted massively in recent years and the JC seems to be making an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2008-05-04/something-quite-interesting-taking-place-at-the-jc/</link>
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		<title>Mike Marqusee - If I Am Not For Myself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I went to Glasgow to hear Mike Marqusee speak about his new book If I am Not for Myself - Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew.  You can read about the book on Mike&#8217;s blog, and details of the remainder of his short Scottish tour are here.  In his talk, he described the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2008-05-04/mike-marqusee-if-i-am-not-for-myself/</link>
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		<title>Action on Gaza blockade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some armchair activism for you, in protest of the Gaza blockade.
For everyone:  sign a petition urging an end to the blockade and a free flow of supplies:
To the United Nations, the European Union, the Quartet, the Arab League &#38; Israel:  We demand that you end the blockade and growing humanitarian crisis in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2008-01-24/action-on-gaza-blockade/</link>
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		<title>US and Israel to boycott UN meet on Gaza blockade, while Gazans rush to Egypt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Border crossings into the Gaza Strip have been closed for a week, stopping shipments of all imports except &#8220;emergency supplies&#8221;, resulting in shortages of fuel, food, and medicines.
A section of the fence at the Rafah crossing was toppled early this morning, and some 200,000 Gazans crossed into Egypt to get supplies.
From the NYTimes article:
Aid officials [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2008-01-23/us-and-israel-to-boycott-un-meet-on-gaza-blockade-while-gazans-rush-to-egypt/</link>
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		<title>More on double standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An op-ed by Gideon Levy in Ha&#8217;aretz raises the question of whether the Isreali government actually wants peace at all.  One may or may not agree with his conclusion, but he highlights some important examples of the Isreali government&#8217;s double standards and convenient excuses regarding negotiation.
Terror, used as the ultimate excuse for Israeli refusal, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2007-04-10/more-on-double-standards/</link>
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		<title>Forgiveness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In London last week I went to a showing at the ICA of a new film, Forgiveness, made by the Israeli director Udi Aloni (son of Shulamit Aloni, for people who like making connections).  Aloni was at the showing and discussed the film with the audience afterwards.  &#8220;Forgiveness&#8221; is a tremendous film, about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2007-03-10/forgiveness/</link>
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		<title>SPSC on Atzmon, again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A follow-up to this post: Mick Napier of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign has written a highly critical article on Atzmon.  (At the time I&#8217;m writing, the SPSC server isn&#8217;t working, but you can get a flavour from an extract here).  I can&#8217;t resist ungraciously pointing out that Mick doesn&#8217;t actually mention anywhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2007-03-04/spsc-on-atzmon-again/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on the demands made to Hamas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Palestinian government is constantly being told that it must renounce violence and recognise the state of Israel.
Here&#8217;s the thing:  Hamas has no incentive to renounce violence as long as Israelis aren&#8217;t being told to do the same.
And what does it mean to recognise the state of Israel?  It doesn&#8217;t mean &#8220;acknowledge Israel&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sjjp.org.uk/index.php/2007-03-02/thoughts-on-the-demands-made-to-hamas/</link>
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