Sue Blackwell's pages on Palestine and Israel

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I believe that some of the individuals and currents within the Palestinian movement compromise it in one way or another. Surprisingly, some of the unsavoury characters named on this page have got upset at being placed in one another's company here and have sent me litigiously-worded letters. Consequently, they all now have their own pages and it should not be assumed that any of the names below is associated with any of the others unless this is explicitly stated.

Please read what I say about each individual, and more importantly read what they themselves have said, to decide for yourself what you think of their politics, practices and associates. If you have suggestions for additions, updates or corrections on this page, please send me details and I will check it out.

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Sites I no longer link to

I have removed my links to the following websites. Thanks to those who brought them to my attention.

Gilad Atzmon - see above.
Labourstart
I thought this was a bona-fide trade union website supporting workers' struggles. However, it emerges that Eric Lee, who runs the site, is a supporter of the "Engage" anti-boycott site. Until a few years ago he actually ran Labourstart from Israel and even had a link to the IDF homepage!
Here is an Open Letter to Lee on the rival Labournet website accusing Labourstart of systematically under-reporting Palestinian labour news.
Marwen Media
There was nothing anti-semitic on the home page, which was all I was linking to; but buried in other pages on this site is some pretty nasty stuff which borders on Holocaust denial and further nasty stuff which crosses the border from anti-Zionism into anti-semitism. I'm happy to pull the plug on it.
Exposing Israeli Apartheid
I could not see anything anti-semitic on this site at a cursory inspection, but it's run by the same Wendy Campbell of Marwen Media.
True Democracy
Arlene Johnson, who runs the site, has assured me that she is not an anti-semite. So why, then, does she quote copiously and favourably from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? I haven't had a good answer.
What Really Happened
Apparently the Union of Jewish Students has submitted a memorandum to a Commons Select Committee on Home Affairs complaining about my links to this site. Can't for the life of me understand why they didn't just send me an e-mail asking me to look into it. It took me a long time before I spotted where the link was - on my general Politics page. I have now removed it. At first glance the site looks like just another source of alternative news, but on closer inspection it has dodgy stuff about 9/11 and a number of links to a site run by Holocaust denier David Irving.

Combating Holocaust denial

Holocaust Museum in Nazareth
- Al-KarithaThe Arab Institute for Holocaust research and education.
- First Arab Museum on the history of the Holocaust in Ha'aretz, 5th June 2005. (Scroll halfway down the page).
- Founder of Holocaust Museum in Nazareth invited to Tehran (Ha'aretz, 17th Nov 2006)
Other Victims of Denial An open letter to the President of Iran, by Mahmoud Al-Safadi, 4th December 2006. (French original in Le Monde, translation published in Mzine).
"Semites and anti-Semites, that is the question" Joseph Massad in Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 9 - 15 December 2004
Includes the immortal sentence: "All those in the Arab world who deny the Jewish holocaust are in my opinion Zionists."
In denial on the Internet (Sue B in student online mag "The Rundown")
Undeniable and uncomfortable truths (Sue B in Al-Ahram Weekly, 2-8 Feb 2006)

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It was last updated on 26th June 2007.