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Watch: The Great Book Robbery, Israel's 1948 looting of Palestine's cultural heritage

Watch a film that tells the story of Israel’s systematic looting of tens of thousands of books and other cultural treasures during the Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinian people.

Take action now: Amnesty issues urgent alert for Palestine hunger strikers who are near death

Amnesty International today issued a call for Urgent Action from individuals around the world to contact Israeli authorities about Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, two Palestinians men who are at immediate risk of death on their 67th day of hunger strike.

148 professors sign letter objecting to New York Times Nazi ad, but paper refuses to run it

One hundred and forty-eight US college professors signed a letter objecting to an advertisement in The New York Times by notorious racist David Horowitz naming indvidual faculty members at several US colleges and accusing them of inciting murder of Jewish children, and likening the movement to boycott Israel (BDS) to Nazism.

New York Times ad accuses BDS movement, college professors of inciting murder of Jewish children

In a sign of growing desperation among anti-Palestinian groups, a full-page New York Times ad published today likens the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement to the Holocaust.

Roseanne Barr and former Obama official join criticism of Israel as Khader Adnan on day 65 of hunger strike

American actress and comedian Roseanne Barr and former Obama administration State Department official Anne-Marie Slaugher are among the latest people to join criticism of Israel’s use of administrative detentions of Palestinians highlighted by the 65 day hunger strike of Khader Adnan as global attention, solidarity grow.

Memo to New York Times: the spirit of Gandhi is alive in Palestine

Bilin is being used to test new Israeli weapons but the villagers keep protesting.

Thomas Friedman's bouts of hypocrisy

Belén Fernández
4 November 2011

Belén Fernández takes The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to task in this excerpt from her new book, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work.

Book review: Fernández skewers empire's messenger Tom Friedman

David Cronin
4 November 2011

After reading The Imperial Messenger by Belén Fernández, the thought of sharing a profession with Thomas Friedman revolts me, says EI reviewer David Cronin.

Answering Judge Goldstone's defense and denial of Israeli apartheid

Judge Richard Goldstone has written an op-ed in The New York Times denying Israeli apartheid as a “slander.” But Goldstone ignores key facts in order to make a shameless defense of Israel.

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