News & Analysis

The News & Analysis section of the Electronic Intifada (EI), offers a quick window on the latest articles added to the Opinion/Editorial, Diaries from Palestine, Human Rights, Development, Israel Lobby Watch, Internet & Technology, and Business & Economy feeds.

Opinion/Editorial

Israel's prison regime can no longer go unnoticed

Safa Joudeh
18 May 2012

The demands at the heart of the historic hunger strike in Israeli prisons are only the tip of the iceberg.

Horowitz smear will only invigorate boycott Israel campaign

David Letwin
New York City
7 May 2012

David Horowitz’s New York Times attack ad exploits the Holocaust to distract from Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.

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Development

Egyptian presidential hopeful Amr Moussa still committed to decade-old Arab Peace Initiative

15 May 2012

The decade-old Arab Peace Initiative “is our initiative and we will stick to it,” Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Moussa told The Electronic Intifada in an audio interview.

After narrow escape, Gaza woman educates peers about lethal danger from generators

Rami Almeghari
Gaza Strip
7 May 2012

Ten persons have died so far this year due to various accidents with generators in the Gaza Strip, plagued by chronic power shortages.

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Israel Lobby Watch

California professor under attack for opposing "study in Israel" scheme

Nora Barrows-Friedman
Berkeley
25 January 2012

The well-funded Israel lobby continues to wage attacks against university faculty, staff and students who engage in Palestine solidarity activism. One professor talks about why he refuses to be silent despite the threats against him, and why he thinks the tide is turning.

UK Labour Party student officials face backlash over free tour of Israel, settlements

Asa Winstanley
London
16 January 2012

A member of the UK’s National Union of Students Executive Council has denounced several youth and student officers from the opposition Labour Party for taking part in an all-expenses-paid tour of Israel and its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The Labour students delegation met with Captain Barak Raz, an Israeli army spokesperson and other Israeli officials.

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Human Rights

Water apartheid leaves Palestinian children ill

Alex Abu Ata
Jerusalem
23 May 2012

How one village is severely impacted by Israel’s control of Palestinian water resources.

"I want to live in a state that's not racist;" a Bedouin keeps fighting for his people's rights

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
22 May 2012

A Bedouin activist has filed an appeal to Israel’s highest court in an attempt to make the state recognize his land rights.

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Internet & Technology

An Egyptian revolution, unplugged

Aprille Muscara
1 February 2011

WASHINGTON (IPS) - Despite the Hosni Mubarak regime’s attempts at muzzling communication and dissent, and the reportedly government-sanctioned shutdown of Egypt’s last standing Internet service provider to individual users Monday, Egyptians are still managing to get their voices heard and mobilize — both through advanced technical workarounds and older, traditional technologies.
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Business & Economy

Bamboo furniture-making tradition, brought from Jaffa, survives in Gaza

Rami Almeghari
Gaza City
17 January 2012

It is a craft that has been passed down from one generation to the next. The al-Mathloums were one of the best-known bamboo furniture-making families in Gaza but now, of his brothers, only Zakariya, the eldest son, is struggling to keep the tradition and the business alive.

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