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Ameer Makhoul is a prisoner of conscience and must be freed, say organizations across the globe

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 15:47
Twenty-five organizations from around the globe have added their voices to the call to free Ameer Makhoul.

Fair trade organizations protest Israeli orders to uproot 1,400 olive trees (PHOTOS)

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 00:06
Israel is ordering nine Palestinian farmers from Deir Istiya village to uproot hundreds of trees in the occupied West Bank.

WATCH: Alice Walker narrates new documentary on Jahalin Bedouin, with Roger Waters on soundtrack

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 16:02
Nowhere Left to Go: The Jahalin Bedouin, a new short documentary, can now be watched in its entirety on YouTube.

Mass hunger strike grows despite Israel's best efforts to repress it

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 17:16
The Palestinian human rights and prisoner advocacy group Addameer announced today that the mass, open-ended hunger strike in Israeli prisons which began on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, has grown to an estimated 2,000 participants. Addameer renews its calls for support of the hunger striking prisoners.

"You will be punished if you don't become an informant": ACLU's Nancy Murray on Tarek Mehanna case

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 21:05
Nancy Murray, education director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, explains why she believes a “Muslim exception” is being carved out of the First Amendment, how a juror came to Tarek Mehanna’s sentencing hearing last week to ask the judge for mercy, and why Mehanna’s case has wide-reaching implications.

Olmert disrupted by activists in Chicago (again)

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 22:24
Chicago gave former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert a proper greeting once again yesterday.

On Land Day and César Chávez Day, Latin@ youth association endorses Palestinian BDS call

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 16:59
In a landmark development in the US Palestine solidarity movement, M.E.Ch.A., the largest association of Latin@ youth in the US, voted overwhelmingly to endorse the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions.

WATCH: Solidarity with hunger striker Hana al-Shalabi

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 15:38
Chicago activists released a video today to bring attention to the heroic hunger strike undertaken by Palestinian political prisoner Hana al-Shalabi, who is at risk of imminent death as she has refused to eat since she was arrested on 16 February.

"Brand Israel" dance company's US tour dogged by protests

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 23:24
Batsheva Dance Company, identified by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as “the best known global ambassador of Israeli culture,” has faced protests throughout its ongoing US tour.

Daily Show takes on US punishment of UNESCO over Palestine membership

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 22:54
A two-part report aired yesterday on the US comedy program The Daily Show the US for cutting off funding to the United Nations education and cultural organization UNESCO after the UN body admitted Palestine as a member state last year.

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