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Leaked email shows Israel lobby group BICOM plans propaganda tour for bloggers

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 16:45

The Israel lobby group BICOM is organizing a five-day “social media delegation” of UK bloggers to “to Israel and the Palestinian Authority” starting on Sunday.

Bobby Sands' spokesman, close friend calls on Israel to immediately release Khader Adnan

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:53

Bobby Sands died on 5 May 1981, aged 27, after 66 days on hunger strike against British refusal to grant political status to him and other Irish republican prisoners. Today, as Khader Adnan is on his 65th day of hunger strike, the Secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust, Danny Morrison, called on the Israeli government to immediately release Adnan, who is close to death.

Roseanne Barr and former Obama official join criticism of Israel as Khader Adnan on day 65 of hunger strike

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:24

American actress and comedian Roseanne Barr and former Obama administration State Department official Anne-Marie Slaugher are among the latest people to join criticism of Israel’s use of administrative detentions of Palestinians highlighted by the 65 day hunger strike of Khader Adnan as global attention, solidarity grow.

PFLAG to take part in Israel Embassy pinkwashing event in Washington

Submitted by Benjamin Doherty on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 07:35

The Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC and PFLAG (Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays) will host Anat Avissar, the foreign policy director of The Israeli Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Association (The Aguda) for an “informal conversation” this Wednesday on the topic of “equality” and “the cultural differences that impact support, education and advocacy in Israel.”

Two Kinds of Non-Violence

Submitted by Jaime Omar Yassin on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 19:34

Violence has always been a useful term for governments and their allied establishment figures in media and punditry. Key to that utility is a very specialized use of the term as a descriptor for actions that don’t originate with the establishment or authorities. Police, armies, presidents and city administrators do not engage in violence. They use strategies, protocols, plans of action, deployments, operations and strikes. The people that are injured and die in those acts are not actively killed by violence. Rather, they suffer only in the passive voice.

Solidarity hunger strikers in Israeli jails face harsh punishment, prisoner says

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 18:26

Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in solidarity with Khader Adnan are facing harsh punishment by Israeli prison authorities who fear unrest could spread, if Adnan, who has been on hunger strike for 64 days, deteriorates further or dies.

Memo to New York Times: the spirit of Gandhi is alive in Palestine

Submitted by david on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 12:13
Bilin is being used to test new Israeli weapons but the villagers keep protesting.

Report hunger striker Khader Adnan to receive involuntary treatment "mistakenly published" by Ynet

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 09:39

Israeli officials are not force-feeding, or forcing treatment on Khader Adnan, who is in his 64th day of hunger strike against his detention without charge or trial by Israel, despite an earlier report to that effect on Israel’s Ynet website.

If not the governments, people around the world do speak: protect Khader Adnan

Submitted by Rana Baker on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 22:41

I have heard of Israel’s “men of peace” and “democracy” from the news since I was a child. I, however, have never felt or seen anything that could relate to such false, and indeed, useless allegations. As I write this, Gaza drowns in darkness. I write as a frenzied power generator roars upstairs causing not only an irritating noise but further damage to the environment too.

VIDEO: Belfast vigil for Khader Adnan

Submitted by Benjamin Doherty on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 18:54

Sinn Féin activists join with members of Belfast Friends of Palestine outside Belfast City Hall to support Palestinian Hunger Striker Khader Adnan as he enters his 63rd day on Hunger Strike.

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