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UPDATED: Minister hints at UK, EU move towards ban on Israeli settlement goods

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 09:00
Update 2 appended: Foreign office (FCO) minister Alistair Burt yesterday dropped the strongest hint yet that the UK may be moving towards a ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements.

London activists protest G4S abuses, complicity in Israeli occupation

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 17:53
Palestine solidarity activists on Thursday protested the annual general meeting of G4S, the massive British-Danish private security company heavily invested in Israel and its colonial West Bank settlements.

Disruption of Israeli theater group in London, as BDS proves a win-win strategy

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 12:32
Israel’s national theater company performed The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare’s Globe in London yesterday and Monday. But Habima’s presence was fiercely contested for months in advance, and both performances were disrupted by Palestine solidarity activists in the audience.

London theater promises “enhanced security” for Israel, as activists set to disrupt Habima tonight

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 15:46
Bag and body searches to be undertaken on visitors to the prestigious Globe theater as Israeli drama group performs Shakespeare.

Palestinians shut down UN building in Ramallah to protest inaction over hunger strikers

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 12:39
At 7.30 this morning a small group of Palestinian prisoner solidarity activists in Ramallah swooped down on the United Nations compound in Ramallah. They blocked the main gate and doorway, preventing entrance to the UN building. UN employees have been turned away, sent home for the day. I went along a couple of hours later. Activists told me they intend to stay until the end of the working day at 5pm. Family members of prisoners took part in with the action, with more joining as the day went on.

Raed Salah wins appeal against deportation from UK: upper tribunal rules Theresa May was "misled"

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Sun, 04/08/2012 - 11:57
The news broke last night that Palestinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah had won his appeal against deportation from the UK in the Upper Tier (Immigration) Tribunal in London. My full story will be published on EI soon, including new revelations about the case, and its implications for the government’s Prevent “anti-terrorism” strategy. Meanwhile, here is the judge’s decision (a scan of the full document is forthcoming, but this extract is essentially the bottom line).

PA regime fears our work, says Palestinian journalist arrested for article about youth activist groups

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 16:53

Another Palestinian journalist was arrested by the Palestinian Authority yesterday. Like Yousef al-Shayeb who was arrested last week, Tariq Khamis was arrested for writing things that the PA does not want the public to know.

Khamis, who writes for Zaman Press, told The Electronic Intifada today that the reason for his arrest was more to do with an article about Palestinian youth groups he had written than anything he had written on Facebook.

Israeli union defends internment of Palestinian journalists, threatens to leave international federation

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 16:48
One might expect a journalists’ union to defend the rights of other journalists against detention without trial (what Israel calls “administrative detention”). But it seems for the union of Israeli journalists, actually campaigning against the basic human rights of Palestinian journalists is what they do.

Visualizing Palestine debuts with stunning graphic illustrating context of Khader Adnan's hunger strike

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 10:21
Visualizing Palesine is new project whose website is yet to fully launch but already they have used their Twitter account to release this amazing graphic. It combines a history of hunger strikes around the world with a factual illustration of what Palestinian political prisoner Khader Adnan must have been going through since he started the 66-day hunger strike that concluded yesterday after a deal to release him in April was reached.

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