#49651 Media Pro Greta Berlin Will Show Her Power Point Presentation Anywhere in U.S. 
by Pat McDonnell Twair in WRMEA (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), October 2004
“IT'S THE CHILDREN, it’s always the Palestinian children who burn into my memory,” lamented International Solidarity Movement (ISM) volunteer Greta Berlin as we watched televised images of the latest Israeli assault on Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp.
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#64581 Sailing to Gaza - An Interview with Greta Berlin
by Silvia Cattori in CounterPunch, 7 June 2007
Greta Berlin, 66 years old, is a businesswoman from Los Angeles, CA. She is the mother of two Palestinian-American children and has been to the occupied territories twice in the past four years with the International Solidarity Movement. She is also ...
#87763 Can unarmed seaborne civilians break the siege of Gaza?
by FreeGaza.org, 1 August 2008
In August, unarmed Palestinians, Israelis and internationals will sail directly to
Gaza without going through Israeli territory or seeking permission from Israeli
authorities. They include an 81-year-old Catholic nun, an 83-year-old Holocaust
surv ...
#88022 Blair relative in Gaza protest
by Donald Macintyre in The Independent, 6 August 2008
The Israeli authorities are giving little away on how they will handle a planned sea voyage by some 40 pro-Palestinian activists from Cyprus to Gaza in an effort to "break the siege" of the blockaded Strip.
The group of Palestinians, Israelis an ...
#90763 Activists Challenge L.A. City Council’s Expensive June Junket to Israel
by Pat McDonnell Twair, Samir Twair in WRMEA (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), September 2008
HISTORY WAS made June 25 in Los Angeles City Council chambers when 16 citizens protested the $225,000 purported public relations junket Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made to Israel in mid-June. In tow were three other council members, Dennis Zine, Jack ...
#89988 Of Pirates, Provocateurs and Peaceful Pests - Breaking the Siege of Gaza
by Ed Gaffney in CounterPunch, 13 September 2008
On August 22, two small boats left the port of Larnaca in Cyprus bound for Gaza, with 44 peace activists from around the world on board. The captains and crew were seasoned sailors. Few of the activists had sea legs prior to this voyage.
The name ...
#106108 Righteous
by John F. Mahoney in The Link, April 2009
Gerald Kaufman was elected to the House of Commons in 1970. From 1987-1992 he served as Shadow Foreign Secretary under Neil McKinock. In 2002 he made a TV documentary “The End of the Affair” in which he recounted his early support and later disillusi ...
#111879 Israel deports Nobel laureate
by Michael Jansen in The Irish Times, 7 July 2009
NOBEL PRIZE laureate Mairead Maguire and electrician Derek Graham are set to arrive in Dublin today on board a flight of Israel’s domestic airline Arkia. They were moved yesterday from Giv-On prison near Tel Aviv to holding cells at Ben Gurion airpor ...
#128451 'A battle For The High Seas. And The High Ground'
by Lauren Booth in Gilad Atzmon's website, 29 May 2010
If you’re hoping to see news about the extraordinary events taking place in the Med sea around Cyprus on either the BBC or Sky this weekend. Forget it. For now. Despite the fact that almost three dozen Brits are amongst the 700 brave souls heading to ...
#128606 Israel's 'gunboat diplomacy' provokes global outrage
by Donald Macintyre in The Independent, 1 June 2010
Israel was struggling to contain a rapidly mounting diplomatic crisis last night after naval commandos killed at least nine pro-Palestinian activists in international waters after storming their Turkish passenger ship as it attempted to reach the coa ...
#128789 Ireland to Israel: Let new aid ship break Gaza blockade
by Barak Ravid, Liel Kyzer in Ha'aretz, 1 June 2010
International activists vowed on Tuesday to try to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip with another ship carrying humanitarian aid, a day after an Israel Navy blockade on the first six-ship convoy left nine people dead and several more wound ...
#128875 Grey power for Gaza
by Robert Booth in The Guardian, 3 June 2010
They are the generation who protested in the 1960s and have girded themselves again to campaign for Palestinian rights. The Free Gaza movement, which chartered the Challenger yacht as part of the flotilla that was attacked by Israel on Monday, is led ...
#153493 PASSENGERS ON THE AUDACITY OF HOPE
by US Boat To Gaza, retrieved 4 July 2011
These short bio’s were written by the passengers. They give a sense of the breadth of experience and interests of the people who will be making this journey. If the names are links, they go to the passenger’s blog. ...
#153494 Greece prohibits Gaza flotilla boats from leaving its ports
by Michael Jansen in The Irish Times, 4 July 2011
ORGANISERS OF the blockade-busting Freedom Flotilla bound for Gaza have said the boats will set sail this week. Today has been mentioned as a possible departure date, but this is unlikely.
The Greek government has issued an order prohibiting all b ...
#154295 Gaza-bound yacht planning to dock today
by Amira Hass, Anshel Pfeffer in Ha'aretz, 19 July 2011
Israel defense establishment expects no violent resistance from 10 activists, 3 crew members abord the Dignite-Al Karame. ...
#170621 Statement from former board members of Free Gaza movement
by Ali Abunimah (introduction), Huwaida Arraf (signatory), Caoimhe Butterly (signatory), Eliza Enshire (signatory), Alex Harrison (signatory), Fathi Jaouadi (signatory), Ewa Jasiewicz (signatory), Niamh Moloughney (signatory), Adam Shapiro (signatory) in Electronic Intifada, 8 October 2012
#170643 But who in hell commissioned Abunimah to be the decider of who is and who isn't a part of this movement...
by Jeffrey Blankfort in Gilad Atzmon's website, 9 October 2012
#170718 How infiltrated is the movement for justice?
by Alison Weir in AlisonWeir Blog, 12 October 2012
»Most people are aware (but sometimes forget) that movements are almost always infiltrated by people who wish them to fail.
Infiltrators are there to do two things: to monitor what is going on, and to interfere with its effectiveness. Such ...
#170749 The Madness Continues: Ann Wright Disinvited to Sail
by Gilad Atzmon (introduction), Ann Wright in Gilad Atzmon's website, 16 October 2012
Two days ago, on October 13, three hours before I was to board a flight to Europe to meet up with the Swedish boat to Gaza, the "Estelle," the next boat to challenge the Israeli blockade, I was called by a board member of the Estelle who said t ...
#170781 Norr responds to Ash: Who is trying to get the solidarity movement back on track and who is merely fanning the flames of division?
by Henry Norr in MondoWeiss, 17 October 2012
Gabriel Ash’s diatribe reminds me of an adage that seems to become truer by the week: “Anti-semites used to be people who hate Jews; now they’re people Jews hate.”
Among the 1,614 words Ash uses to denounce my 116-word paragraph criticizing the Sw ...
#170822 Inciting Division
by Gilad Atzmon in Dissident Voice, 20 October 2012
»The recent attack on Free Gaza's Greta Berlin and Colonel Ann Wright suggest that we have crossed a red line – Jewish domination within the Palestinian solidarity movement belongs to the past. We are now, it seems, under Zionist occupati ...