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UK students resist Israeli diplomats' campus offensive, despite repression

Israeli ambassadors have dispatched their “explainers” to campuses across the UK to combat activism such as Israeli Apartheid Week, but with decidedly mixed results.

UK police abuse "anti-terror" law to interrogate activists returning from Palestine

Two Corporate Watch researchers were denied right to silence, lawyers.

Protesters prevent Israeli deputy ambassador to UK from addressing selected Essex University audience

Updated with new video from inside: Alon Roth-Snir left campus early because of peaceful student opposition.

Spies "monitoring" Palestine solidarity groups around world, says Israeli military correspondent

Influential Haarertz journalist with access to Israeli army sources says shift in focus started in 2010 after deadly attack on Freedom Flotilla.

Revealed: UK anti-Semitism watchdog charity helps lead Israel anti-boycott group

The Community Security Trust claims to be a an apolitical charity that only combats anti-semitism, but once again its anti-Palestinian agenda has come to light.

Israeli mayor of Ramallah-area settlement wants to annex Palestinian city as "South Beit El"

Moshe Rosenbaum the mayor of Beit El implies he’d like to ethnically cleanse Palestinian city of 300,000

Subscription offer from liberal Israeli newspaper helps JNF, a "charity" implicated in ethnic cleansing

Give your money to the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz and you may be indirectly helping to expel Palestinians.

Is Oscar-nominated 5 Broken Cameras an Israeli or a Palestinian film?

Despite being a deeply Palestinian story, the Israeli press and government have tried to claim documentary as an “Israeli film.”

Pro-Israel blogger attacks Canada First Nation chief, but Palestinians express solidarity with Idle No More

Liberal website The Huffington Post last week published an attack on an indigenous rights activist who is on hunger strike in Canada, labeling her “the hungry chief mugging for the cameras on an island in the Ottawa River.”

Writing on the Canadian edition of the site, anti-Palestinian blogger Yoni Goldstein openly attacked Theresa Spence as a “problem” responsible for indigenous people’s woes in Canada and said he had “no sympathy” for her.

UK's Jewish Chronicle propagates anti-Semitic slander to rally support for Israel's Gaza war crimes

A pro-Israel newspaper promoted anti-Semitic slander on their website Friday. The story’s headline claimed “Unanimous UK Jewish community support for Israel” for its current attack on Gaza.

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