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Update/analysis: Cameron changes "no comment" stance on JNF departure

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 06:38
Last month Asa Winstanley reported for The Electronic Intifada on how British Prime Minister David Cameron had stepped down as honorary Jewish National Fund patron. Asa, a journalist in London who blogs at winstanleys.org and who can be followed on Twitter, wrote up an update and analysis after the prime minister’s spokespersons broke the silence on Cameron’s resignation.

EI in the Press: AIPAC speechifying vs. Sabra boycott referendum

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 21:07

The progressive magazine In These Times blogs today on last night’s event featuring The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah and celebrated Palestinian spoken-word artist Remi Kanazi at DePaul University — which student activist Sami Kishawi described as “ground zero of the growing campus boycott movement in Chicago” in an op-ed for The Electronic Intifada

EI's Ali Abunimah on Worldview & Al Jazeera's The Listening Post

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 21:08

EI’s Ali Abunimah appeared on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview and Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post to talk about recent developments related to Palestine. Watch and listen.

EI's Ali Abunimah discusses Nakba media coverage on FAIR's CounterSpin

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 16:16

This week on CounterSpin, the audio program of media watchdog FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah discussed US media coverage of Palestinian rights after the 15 May Nakba day protests and marches.

The same episode also features noted Salon writer Glenn Greenwald talking about the media.

Photo: Gun-toting Israeli soldier disguised as Palestinian woman

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 04:20
A photo published by The New York Times depicts an undercover Israeli agent, dressed as a Palestinian civilian, being loaded into an Israeli police vehicle after “helping detain a Palestinian protester” during today’s Nakba anniversary protest at Qalandiya checkpoint between Ramallah and Bethlehem.

Interactive map of Palestine villages destroyed in Nakba

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 15:01

The Electronic Intifada has produced this interactive map that allows you to see information about any of the more than 400 Palestinian cities, towns and villages depopulated and destroyed during the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist and later Israeli forces from late 1947 into 1948.

Update on the freezing of the Abudayyeh family's accounts

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 16:05

Yesterday, The Electronic Intifada reported that the US government has frozen the bank accounts of Hatem Abudayyeh, a Palestinian community leader in Chicago, and his wife, Naima:

EI's Ali Abunimah on "reconciliation" deal in Al Jazeera English

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 15:53

In an oped for Al Jazeera English today, The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah takes a deeper look at the “reconciliation” deal signed by Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah in Cairo last week and argues that contrary to the hopes of many Palestinians it may be a dead end:

Palestinian civil society leader Ameer Makhoul arrested one year ago today

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 05/06/2011 - 17:26
A year ago today, Palestinian civil society leader Ameer Makhoul, an Israeli citizen, was arrested from his Haifa home after it was raided by Israeli forces. Makhoul, the coordinator of Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community Associations and an advocate of boycott, divestment and sanctions, warned The Electronic Intifada in January of 2010 that Israel was increasingly persecuting the Palestinian community in Israel, attempting to cut the community off from the rest of the Palestinian national movement. “Israel uses its legal system and its laws on citizenship and loyalty to the Jewish state to achieve this,” Makhoul said.

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