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USPCN: protest Bashar Masri's appearance at America-Israel Chamber of Commerce

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 02:01

Today the US Palestinian Community Network issued a statement on the occasion of International Workers’ Day, giving a summary of the sacrifices Palestinian workers have made for the national liberation struggle, and describing the violations of Palestinian workers’ rights by Israel. Here’s an excerpt:

Israeli high court decision a serious setback for Gaza war crimes victims

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 18:32

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights issued the following press release on Saturday, 30 April following the Israel high court’s rejection of an appeal to extend the two-year statute of limitations imposed on filing compensation cases.  According to PCHR, this ruling “epresents a serious setback for the victims, and their legitimate quest for accountability and redress.”

Israel’s High Court of Justice Dismisses Petition Filed on Behalf of More Than 1,000 Victims of Operation Cast Lead

Long struggle ahead for Palestinian workers

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 17:15

Yesterday marked International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day and Labor Day. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights has issued two statements related to this annual commemoration. The first outlines Israel’s violations of Palestinians’ right to work, and the other condemns the Interior Ministry in Gaza’s banning of an assembly of workers to mark International Workers’ Day.

 

On Israel’s labor rights violations:

Dr. Cornel West endorses BDS, supports Ethnic Studies at University of Arizona

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 16:52

Following the recent direct action on the University of Arizona (UA) campus — in which an enormous mock wall was constructed to bring attention to Israel’s wall in the West Bank and the wall at the US-Mexico border — legendary intellectual and academic Dr.

Disappearing Palestine and "typically Israeli" landscapes

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 01:42

The last paragraph of an article published by Haaretz today on the disappearance of wildlife in Israel reads: “Only 298 winter rain pools remain in the entire country, and other typically Israeli landscapes are also disappearing.”

“Typically Israeli” landscapes?

Qatamesh's detention extended despite insufficient evidence

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 00:09

Ma’an News Agency reported today that the Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer is condemning the extended detention of Palestinian write and political activist Ahmad Qatamesh. The Electronic Intifada published a report on Qatamesh’s arrest yesterday; his wife told EI that Israeli soldiers raided their family home in al-Bireh, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on 21 April.

51 Canadian filmmakers protest festival's normalization with Israel

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 00:53

Fifty-one Canadian filmmakers issued a letter last week to the co-chairs of the Hot Docs documentary film festival to protest its partnership with the Israeli organization CoPro Documentary Marketing Foundation. According to a press release issued today, “The funders of CoPro include the Israel Film Council, an official part of the Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Golan Heights Winery, which operates illegally in the occupied Syrian Golan heights.”

London Palestine Film Festival opens tomorrow!

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 23:08

The 2011 London Palestine Flim Festival will open tomorrow, Friday, 29 April and will run through 11 May.

The opening night will feature Zindeeq to be followed by a q & a with director Michel Khleifi and producer Omar Al-Qattan, chaired by Karma Nabulsi.

Israel lobby strikes again as Seattle billboards are canceled?

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 21:36

You may recall that in January the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign had contracted with the local bus company to place ads calling for an end to aid to Israel on area public buses. However, under Zionist pressure, King County officials, responsible for the bus system, reneged on the contract and censored the ads before they appeared. This prompted the ACLU to sue the local authorities.

Elia Suleiman's "The Time That Remains" is a masterpiece of cinema!

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 20:33

Elia’s Suleiman’s latest film The Time That Remains set in Nazareth after 1948 is as close to flawless as a film can be.

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