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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.

Green Party conference calls for revocation of JNF UK charitable status

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 23:48

The annual conference of the Green Party of England and Wales this weekend passed a motion endorsing the Stop the JNF campaign and calling for the Jewish National Fund to have its charitable status revoked in the UK.

 Motion passed at the Green Party of England and Wales Spring conference on 26th February 2012

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.

Israel student society attacks peaceful Palestine protest with water bombs at LSE

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 21:31

A student street theatre put on by the Palestine Society at the London School of Economics was attacked by members of the Israel Society today.

Part of Israeli Apartheid Week, the peaceful mock checkpoint was attacked with water bombs, knocking down some of the set. LSE Palestine Society member Jen Izaakson said they shouted “Hamas” and “death to Israel” as they threw the water bombs.

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.

Palestinian student councils condemn UK Labour Students for breaking BDS picket line

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 16:05

A open letter from a huge coalition of Palestinian student groups published today, condemns the UK Labour party student officers who went on a recent propaganda tour of Israel and illegal Israeli settlements, for crossing “a picket line established by the entirety of the Palestinian civil society”.

Israeli propaganda officer boasted of taking UK Labour Students partying in Tel Aviv, deletes Tweet

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 15:50
Since the story of the Labour party students officers who took an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel and its illegal West Bank settlements broke last week, they have been coming under increasing pressure from student activists. But strong evidence has now emerged the delegation spent a night clubbing in Tel Aviv with a spokesperson for the the Israeli occupation army in the West Bank.

Paul Flynn, BICOM and the nexus between Zionism and anti-Semitism

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 18:02
Paul Flynn’s comments last month were misguided, but the main perpetrators of anti-Semitic ideas about “Jewish loyalty” are the Zionist movement and Israel. BICOM’s chief executive took part in a panel at a Zionist conference in November whose title reflected exactly the same idea.

Israeli propaganda group HonestReporting denies encouraging employee to smear UK professor

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 22:07

My recent article exposing a smear by an Israeli pressure group worker seems to have touched a nerve. Israeli masters student Smadar Bakovic claimed in the Jewish Chronicle last month that Warwick University professor Nicola Pratt had given her a lower grade for her dissertation than she deserved because of anti-Israeli bias.


But Warwick university strongly denied her story, saying that the new higher mark given was in fact for a revised version of her dissertation. A university spokesperson told me that Bakovic’s story was untrue, and has subsequently issued a press release with further details.

The Jewish Chronicle’s reporter Marcus Dysch didn’t seem to think it relevant to mention that Bakovic works for MediaCentral  — a “free or low-cost” pro-Israel fixer agency in Jerusalem.

But now her employer has defended her actions.

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