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West Bank village steps up protests against Israel's theft of land

Ben Lorber
13 December 2011
Palestinians in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddoum have been holding regular protests against the Israeli occupation and settlement encroachment.

Former prisoner, PFLP leader: hunger strike "made revolution in the prisons"

Ben Lorber
Hebron
7 December 2011
Abdel-Alim Da’na, a leader of the PFLP and a professor at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron, speaks to Ben Lorber about his experience in Israel’s prisons.

South African activist: "Palestine casts light on our own history"

Adri Nieuwhof
South Africa
5 December 2011
A South African activist working for the global boycott movement against Israeli apartheid connects the ongoing anti-colonialist struggles from Johannesburg to Palestine.

Boycott Israel campaign grows among UK unions, despite Zionist backlash

Asa Winstanley
London
30 November 2011
So many UK trade unions have now passed motions in support of the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement that even the often conservative Trades Union Congress has been compelled to change policy.

Attempts to break Gaza blockade won't stop, vows Freedom Waves activist

Michelle Gyeney
28 November 2011
As the Australian delegate on the Tahrir boat with the recent Freedom Waves initiative, Michael Coleman recently confronted all of the barriers that the government of Israel could muster.

Interview: Why is concert promoter suing Lebanon boycott activists?

Maureen Clare Murphy
18 November 2011
Lebanese concert promoter Jihad el-Murr has filed a lawsuit against four groups over a boycott campaign they organized against the band Placebo in June 2010.

Israel arrests "Freedom Riders" challenging apartheid road system

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
15 November 2011
Several activists were arrested by Israeli forces today while attempting to ride segregated buses serving illegal Israeli settlements.

Activists in Israel arrested for calling for release of prisoners

Budour Youssef Hassan and
Michael Treiger
30 October 2011
Israeli police arrested 16 activists at a protest at HaSharon prison calling for the release of Palestinian political prisoners

Despite attacks, national conference unites Students for Justice in Palestine

Alex Kane
New York City
21 October 2011
Hundreds of student activists from dozens of colleges and universities across the US are expanding the grassroots movements for Palestine solidarity activism despite aggressive smear campaigns by pro-Israel groups.

"Our identity is under attack;" Palestinian youth activist interviewed

Adri Nieuwhof
5 October 2011
Sawsan Khalife’ is a young woman activist and a Palestinian citizen of Israel. The daily discrimination she encounters in Jerusalem and the tragic killing by Israeli forces of a school friend have been determining factors for her work.

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