"I'm not shaking your hand, you've got blood on it."

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Saturday October 10, 2009 · 10:49 AM PDT

2009/10/10 · 10:49

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was told: "I'm not shaking your hand, you've got blood on it."from Peter Brierley, whose son Lance Corporal Shaun Brierley died in a road accident while on service in Iraq barely a week after the invasion in March 2003.

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Thursday January 29, 2009 · 1:39 PM PST

2009/01/29 · 13:39

Well, I knew it was a matter of time until the U.S. academics and students joined others in the world in saying enough is enough.
http://www.haaretz.com/...

In the wake of Operation Cast Lead, a group of American university professors has for the first time launched a national campaign calling for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

While Israeli academics have grown used to such news from Great Britain, where anti-Israel groups several times attempted to establish academic boycotts, the formation of the United States movement marks the first time that a national academic boycott movement has come out of America. Israeli professors are not sure yet how big of an impact the one-week-old movement will have, but started discussing the significance of and possible counteractions against the campaign.

Ella H

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Friday January 23, 2009 · 7:28 PM PST

2009/01/23 · 19:28

I have been reading in the Guardian that the student movement in Uk is growing and holding sit-ins over the gaza situation. These students are protesting against the devastating acts in Gaza. I imagine we are not as informed as they are since this is not the case here yet. But we will get there and I hope the US students take note. I applaud all students when they start to take action on behalf of people who are opressed. I did it in my college days around South Africa. currently, as of today, I know 16 universities involved. These students are drawing from a proud tradition of protesting and mobilizing against injustices around the world. This includes 1960's sit-ins here demanding civil rights for blacks, also against South African Regime and its Aparthied laws and in the 80s after Tiananmen Square massacre in China.

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Sunday January 04, 2009 · 4:18 PM PST

2009/01/04 · 16:18

Bloomberg flew to Israel Sunday to express solidarity with Israelis' attack on the people of Gaza. He doesn't speak for all the people fo New York who protested in front of Times Sqquare last night, and he def doesn't speak for me either as someone who pays taxes in that state.

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"I'm not shaking your hand, you've got blood on it."

For first time, U.S. professors call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel

Student protest over Gaza growing in UK

Bloomberg, you don't speak for me!