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Why Sasha Gelzin disrupted Netanyahu at AIPAC - interview

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 03:03

In an interview with The Electronic Intifada moments ago, Sasha Gelzin, 23, an activist with CODEPINK described what happened when she and four others disrupted the keynote speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington on Monday evening.

Obama's speech to AIPAC affirms commitment to Israel and US policies that doom it

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 17:04

Following his speech on Thursday night, and his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, US President Barack Obama spoke to the 2011 Policy Conference of AIPAC, the influential Israel lobby today.

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.

DePaul students vote by large margin to ban Sabra hummus

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 20:40

Students at DePaul University in Chicago voted by a large margin in a referendum asking if they support ending sales of Sabra brand hummus on their campus. Due to a technicality, however, the result will not be binding. A note received by The Electronic Intifada from campus activists with Students for Justice in Palestine at the university announced today the results of voting that took place earlier this week:

NPR responds to EI's criticism of White House "publicity stunt"

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 23:33


NPR’s managing editor for digital news Mark Stencel has responded to criticisms made by this blog of the network’s facilitation of a White House instigated event to talk about Obama’s Middle East policy speech that featured just one panelist: Obama’s speechwriter.

Did Obama's big speech offer any hope for Palestine?

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 19:59

President Barack Obama laid out in a little bit more detail a US “vision” of what “peace” would look like in his much anticipated speech on US policy in the Middle East and North Africa, there was precious little new. Moreover, the speech affirmed that the United States will not take any effective action to advance its vision of a two-state solution.

Video: Crashing The JNF Fundraiser to "Plant a Tree for Palestine"

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 23:51

On Monday 16 May, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) held a fundraiser at the Lincoln Center in New York City featuring the Broadway play “Scottsboro Boys.” Since the JNF plant trees and forests over ethnically-cleansed Palestinian villages to try and erase traces of their existence we (Existence is Resistance, Artists Against Apartheid, StoptheJNF.org and Max Blumenthal among others) decided to bring trees to give away. Each sapling was labeled with the name of a village that was cleansed in Palestine along with the date (some of which were before 15 May 1948) to “Plant for Palestine.”

NPR at White House's service in name of social media "conversation" on Obama speech

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 21:23

To great fanfare, NPR, Foreign Policy and The White House simultaneously announced this morning a joint event to be held tomorrow immediately following President Obama’s much-anticipated speech on US policy in the Arab world.

Israel actions "surpass barbarism of apartheid South Africa," group says after Na'eem Jeenah deportation

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 15:12

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign of South Africa (PSC) has confirmed that prominent scholar Na’eem Jeenah is expected back in Johannesburg Thursday morning after he was detained by Israeli authorities, interrogated and held incommunicado on arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport on 17 May, before being deported to Istanbul without his passport or belongings.

South Africa intervening to bring home Na'eem Jeenah after Israel deports him to Turkey without passport

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 12:42

The Electronic Intifada has received the following update sent by the wife of prominent South African scholar, activist and public intellectual Na’eem Jeenah, Director of the Afro Middle East Centre, who was arrested by Israeli authorities, interrogated and held incommunicado on arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport on 17 May, before being d

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