easyJet enables “pinkwashing” of apartheid
6 October 2011
Why is budget airline promoting Tel Aviv as world’s gayest city? Read more about easyJet enables “pinkwashing” of apartheid
6 October 2011
Why is budget airline promoting Tel Aviv as world’s gayest city? Read more about easyJet enables “pinkwashing” of apartheid
Birmingham 6 October 2011
The Electronic Intifada has obtained email correspondences between Israeli lobbyists and British governmental officials which prove a plot to ban Palestinian political leader Sheikh Raed Salah from the UK. Read more about Revealed: UK government plotted with Israel lobby to ban Salah
Gaza City 5 October 2011
As reports come in that the US may be preparing to cut a substantial portion of the aid it gives to the Palestinian Authority because of its bid for statehood, people in the occupied West Bank and Gaza are bracing for possible consequences. Read more about Palestinians brace for US aid cut following PA statehood bid
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. Read more about "Our identity is under attack;" Palestinian youth activist interviewed
Gilboa Prison 5 October 2011
By not dealing with the root causes of the unjust system in Israel, the Israeli social movement wishes to make things less unjust rather than to change the system and the regime. Read more about A Palestinian political prisoner's take on Israel's protest movement
5 October 2011
A complaint by a professor at Columbia University who co-founded the anti-Palestinian Zionist group “Scholars for Peace in the Middle East” has resulted in the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opening an investigation into the university. Read more about US launches "civil rights" probe at Columbia University as Zionist censorship, smears intensify
5 October 2011
Swiss artist Brenar warns in his painting “Work in Progress” of right wing extremism and intolerance of different, unique opinions. Read more about Swiss artist Brenar warns of intolerance of dissent
4 October 2011
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) joins a growing coalition of civil rights and advocacy organizations in condemning the recent convictions of the Irvine 11, and say they are “concerned about the future of free speech within the UC system.” Read more about US academic and cultural BDS campaign condemns convictions of Irvine 11
4 October 2011
In a sign of changing times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) carried a 30 minute interview with Ali Abunimah and Daniel Gavron, both supporting a one-state solution, on its flagship radio news program The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti. Read more about One-state solution goes mainstream? CBC interviews Ali Abunimah and Daniel Gavron
4 October 2011
Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip rallied in recent days in support of political prisoners who are protesting worsening conditions in Israeli detention. Thousands of prisoners are said to be taking part in the civil disobedience protests which began on 27 September. Read more about Action urged as Israel punishes dozens of hunger-striking political prisoners