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Opinion/Editorial

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.

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Diaries: Live from Palestine

Too many tears have been shed in Palestine; let us laugh again

Yousef M. Aljamal
Gaza Strip
8 May 2012

My mother recently spent 32 days in the West Bank, where she was born and raised. A day for every year she has lived in Gaza.

In photos: widespread solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners

6 May 2012

A roundup of images showing widespread solidarity throughout historic Palestine for the approximately 2,000 political prisoners on hunger strike.

Human Rights

Palestinians in Egypt insist on right to return

Rami Almeghari
Alexandria
14 May 2012

Aging Palestinian refugees recount their exile from Palestine during the Nakba and demand the right to return to their homeland.

Israel puts "every possible obstacle" in way of respecting hunger strikers' rights, say doctors

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
14 May 2012

More than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners are weeks into an open-ended hunger strike in protest against worsening conditions in Israeli jails.

Activism News

Israeli police brutally arrest hunger strike demonstrators, threaten them with rape

Sawsan Khalife'
the Galilee
11 May 2012

A complaint has been lodged with the Israeli ministry of justice after the violent arrest of 17 demonstrators at a hunger strike solidarity protest near Ramle prison.

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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