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What will it take to get the media pundits – who constantly demand that Palestinians produce Gandhis – to pay heed to Hana al-Shalabi’s struggle? She’s on Day 40 of her hunger strike against arbitrary detention by Israel.

A ten-minute speech by Mbuyiseni Ndlozi powerfully relates the South African struggle for freedom to the Palestinian one.

Talking Palestine: A diary from London of a life hugely shaped by being Palestinian.

John Spellar, Britain’s shadow Foreign Office minister, has enjoyed hospitality from influential Zionist lobby BICOM.

Swedish students, professors and lecturers sign on to a call for a comprehensive academic boycott against Israel and Israeli educational institutions.

Tonight’s performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was disrupted repeatedly by solidarity activists. These activists who protested inside and outside the venue, Royal Albert Hall, were responding to a call by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

The 2011 London Palestine Flim Festival will open tomorrow, Friday, 29 April and will run through 11 May.

The opening night will feature Zindeeq to be followed by a q & a with director Michel Khleifi and producer Omar Al-Qattan, chaired by Karma Nabulsi.