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Palestine Place brings resistance to heart of London

Asa Winstanley
London
8 June 2012
Palestine Place is a temporary space in an abandoned building in central London where activists are holding discussion, organizing action and educating on Palestine.

Campaigners strategize refugee return during South Africa visit

Nora Barrows-Friedman
Berkeley
5 June 2012
A delegation of activists from Palestinian refugee rights groups recently visited Cape Town, South Africa, to discuss the practicalities of implementing the right of return.

London lawyer takes on corporations abetting Israel's crimes

Adri Nieuwhof
1 June 2012
Simon Natas on the case of solidarity activists who blockaded Ahava’s London flagship store and the role of G4s in Israel’s occupation.

"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.

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.

Palestinians assert right to return on Israeli "Independence Day"

Asa Winstanley
the Galilee
1 May 2012
Thousands of Palestinians marched to destroyed villages and called for the return of Palestinian refugees.

BBC challenged for ignoring plight of Palestinian prisoners

Amena Saleem
London
25 April 2012
Hundreds of protesters in Glasgow, Scotland, converged on the BBC’s headquarters demanding an end to the media blackout of the ongoing hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners.

How California uni chief conflates real bigotry with criticism of Israel

Dalia Almarina
Berkeley
18 April 2012
University of California President Mark Yudof has double standards when it comes to on-campus criticism of Israeli policies.

Europe's airlines enforce Israeli travel ban on activists hoping to repair Palestinian schools

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
16 April 2012
Thousands of international solidarity activists were set to fly to Tel Aviv in a coordinated effort to volunteer with Palestinian initiatives in the occupied West Bank. However, Israel coordinated with European airlines to cancel many activists’ tickets.

Israel's pinkwashing exposed as dishonest at New York debates

Uri Horesh
6 April 2012
Israel’s strategy of “pinkwashing” — using its supposedly stellar record on gay rights — to obscure abuses of Palestinian human rights has done more to provoke than to quiet criticism.

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