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Opinion/Editorial

Israel's prison regime can no longer go unnoticed

Safa Joudeh
18 May 2012

The demands at the heart of the historic hunger strike in Israeli prisons are only the tip of the iceberg.

Horowitz smear will only invigorate boycott Israel campaign

David Letwin
New York City
7 May 2012

David Horowitz’s New York Times attack ad exploits the Holocaust to distract from Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.

United Methodist Church's shameful failure to divest from injustice

Susan Abulhawa
4 May 2012

This week, the United Methodist Church failed to pass a resolution to divest from three major beneficiaries of the most incendiary human rights abuses and colonial crimes of our time.

“Where do I sign?”

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Diaries: Live from Palestine

How Abu Dis' hills were stolen in the night

Lee Baker
18 May 2012

Stories from Abu Dis, a suburb which found itself suddenly cut off from Jerusalem by Israel’s wall.

In pictures: portraits of al-Aqaba, a village surrounded by the Israeli army

Calum Toogood
17 May 2012

Al-Aqaba is a small Palestinian village in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank surrounded by Israeli military checkpoints and training grounds.

Human Rights

"We must sustain hunger strike solidarity," says leading prisoner rights campaigner

Nora Barrows-Friedman
Berkeley
18 May 2012

Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, analyzes the hunger strike agreement signed by Palestinian political prisoners.

EU denounces Israel's destruction of aid projects in West Bank

Daan Bauwens
Brussels
17 May 2012

Some analysts say that Israel is deliberately targeting European Union-funded projects in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip for demolition.

Activism News

"We will not be silenced": Stop the Wall youth activist speaks on repression and resistance

Eoin O'Ceallaigh
17 May 2012

Hassan Kharajeh, a youth coordinator with Stop the Wall, on the role played by youth in the hunger strike demonstrations, and why they have Israel scared.

Art, Music & Culture

Palestinian artists take on identity and politics with humor in "Subversion" exhibition

Sarah Irving
13 May 2012

Subversion, an exhibition at Manchester’s Cornerhouse gallery, shows that young Palestinian artists are at the cutting edge of contemporary Arab art.

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