Blogs

A hasbara video called “The Rhythm of Israel”, produced by the American Jewish Committee’s initiative ‘Project Interchange’, includes a church from an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village.

Israel, already one of the world’s most negatively viewed countries, according to an annual BBC survey, has seen its reputation sink even lower in 2012.

Details of the Israeli concessions that ended an historic 28-day mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and the more than two-month hunger strikes of several prisoners, emerged today.

Is there a pattern of pressure to isolate prisoners and coerce them into accepting deals?

Palestinian prisoner Thaer Halahleh has agreed to end his hunger strike after 77 full days, on 15 May, EI blogger Linah Alsaafin tweeted after speaking with his father a short time ago.

This week in BDS news around the world: 10,000 signatures delivered to Irish building materials corporation demanding divestment from Israeli business contracts; a call for 24 hours of hunger in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails; and more!

“Peace agreements” with Israeli apartheid affect the people of neighboring Jordan and Egypt, who become consumers of Israeli products rather than producing their own.

On his 77th day of hunger strike, Israel continues to subject Bilal Diab to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, blackmail and other unethical medical practices. Meanwhile reports of a “deal” must be treated with utmost caution.

10 million Palestinians worldwide. At 9 am GMT, 12 pm Palestine time, every Palestinian and their supporters are invited to step outside their stores, homes, schools, workplaces for ten minutes on the 28th day of the Palestinian prisoners’ mass hunger strike.

Watch a film that tells the story of Israel’s systematic looting of tens of thousands of books and other cultural treasures during the Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinian people.