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Update/analysis: Cameron changes "no comment" stance on JNF departure

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 06:38
Last month Asa Winstanley reported for The Electronic Intifada on how British Prime Minister David Cameron had stepped down as honorary Jewish National Fund patron. Asa, a journalist in London who blogs at winstanleys.org and who can be followed on Twitter, wrote up an update and analysis after the prime minister’s spokespersons broke the silence on Cameron’s resignation.

Former professors refute Israel's indictment of kidnapped Gaza engineer

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 04:00
Former professors of Dirar Abu Sisi, the engineer from Gaza who went missing during a train trip in Ukraine last February, refute allegations in Israel’s indictment that the man was taught weapons systems at university. The indictment also claims that one of Abu Sisi’s professors studied at a military engineering school in east Ukraine, though no such school exists, the Associated Press has found.

Israeli bullets killed protesters, yet Syria is responsible say Israel, US

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 00:55
The Government of Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has stated its intention to complain to the United Nations over the march from Syria on the occupied Golan Heights yesterday. At least twenty persons are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire during a protest marking Naksa Day or the 1967 occupation of Arab lands.

Trial of grassroots activist Bassem Tamimi to begin Sunday

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 05:31
Popular resistance organizer Bassem Tamimi, from the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, will be put on trial in an Israeli military court this Sunday.

Persecution of Hamas activists continues in the West Bank

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 05:42

While the composition of the new Palestinian Authority technocrat government is meant to be announced on 6 June, on the ground, the Palestinian Authority collaboration with the Israeli occupation and the persecution of Hamas activists continues as usual.

Photostory: Nakba march in south Lebanon

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 17:44
Omar Yashruti, a photographer based in Lebanon, photographed these stirring images from the Nakba march in south Lebanon on 15 May. The images include demonstrators carrying away land mines, civil defense workers loading the injured into ambulances, and the Lebanese army chasing the marchers back up the hill, away from the border fence.

EI in the Press: AIPAC speechifying vs. Sabra boycott referendum

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 21:07

The progressive magazine In These Times blogs today on last night’s event featuring The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah and celebrated Palestinian spoken-word artist Remi Kanazi at DePaul University — which student activist Sami Kishawi described as “ground zero of the growing campus boycott movement in Chicago” in an op-ed for The Electronic Intifada

Lawsuit filed to seek information on US role in deadly flotilla attack

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 22:15

The Center for Constitutional Rights launched a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit today seeking documents regarding the US government’s knowledge and role in the deadly Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla this time last year.

BREAKING: FBI plans, interview questions discovered in raided activist's home

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 21:52
Activists in the Twin Cities today announced at a press conference that they were releasing a recently-found document that was left behind by federal agents when they raided Mick Kelly and Linden Gawboy’s Minneapolis home on 24 September 2010.

Moving extended footage of Sunday's Nakba march in Lebanon

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 19:42
A new 19-minute video from Sunday’s Nakba march in Lebanon shows emotional scenes from the day.

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