Rachel Corrie

BDS roundup: Major divestment victory at UMass Boston

Submitted by nora on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 18:12

UMass Boston’s undergraduate student government unanimously passes a divestment resolution against Boeing; the US’ largest Latin@ youth association continues to endorse BDS across the country; Moroccan activists say no to orientalist Israeli belly dancers; and more!

Tom Friedman's latest advice to Palestinians: accept a farce of a state

Titus North
23 April 2012

In a recent op-ed, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman smugly offers the Palestinians how to settle their “conflict” with Israel: accept the settlements and the violent settlers, give up a large part of East Jerusalem, and forget about the refugees’ right of return.

Judge postpones verdict in Rachel Corrie case

Submitted by nora on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 22:04

9 years after the killing of US activist Rachel Corrie by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip, the family continues to wait for a verdict — and, ultimately, for justice for Rachel.

"Words flower from fragile bodies": the poignant poetry of Lisa Suheir Majaj

Patricia Sarrafian Ward
6 February 2012

Poet Lisa Suheir Majaj writes exquisitely of the profound personal and collective loss that defines Palestinian history in her book, Geographies of Light.

We will not be intimidated: Video with Cindy Corrie backs Olympia Food Co-op fight against anti-boycott lawsuit

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 17:37

Cindy Corrie is among several people appearing in a short video calling for solidarity with the Olympia Food Co-op in Olympia, Washington and condemning a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Co-op’s boycott of Israeli goods.

Video: Israeli police wrestle US citizen to ground, put knee on his neck

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 22:45

In this video which appears to have been shot on “Jerusalem Day” — marked this earlier this month by thousands of right-wing Israeli settlers who provocatively marched in Jerusalem — a young American Jew states his solidarity with the Palestinian people before being roughly arrested by Israeli police.

Corrie lawyers expose army smear campaign against ISM

Charlotte Silver
26 May 2011

Israeli army spokesperson Brigadier General Ruth Yaron testified this week in what was expected to be the final hearing of the Rachel Corrie trial, now in its fifteenth month of oral testimonies.

Corrie lawsuit challenging Israeli impunity

Nora Barrows-Friedman
8 April 2011

Several Israeli soldiers testified at the witness stand in the Haifa district court earlier this week, as trial hearings continued in the case of Corrie vs. the State of Israel. As the trial drags on, years after Rachel Corrie’s killing, Israel’s impunity is being challenged and carefully cross-examined.

Israel's evidence questioned as Corrie trial resumes

7 September 2010

Testimonies resumed in the ongoing civil suit lodged by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel in Haifa’s District Court this week, as the state’s defense team called three witnesses to the stand.

Film Review: Simone Bitton's investigative documentary, "Rachel"

Jimmy Johnson
16 April 2010

One of a filmmaker’s primary roles in any inquiry is to illuminate the topic of the narrative through entertainment, information, posing challenges or any other kind of engagement. Simone Bitton’s Rachel, a new documentary about the death of International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie, struggles to do this. Jimmy Johnson reviews for The Electronic Intifada.

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