Syria

BDS campaigner: "Israel no longer the attractive investment that it once was"

Michael Deas of the Palestinian National BDS Committee assesses the eight years of boycott victories since the initial call by Palestinian civil society in 2005.

“We have become refugees again,” say Palestinians from Syria now in Gaza

As Palestine refugees face an increasingly dire situation in Syria, some have made their way to Gaza. But this route to safety is now closed off amid the turmoil in Egypt.

Palestinians caught "between two fires" in Syria, says refugee

Patrick O. Strickland
Texas
5 July 2013

Opposition fighters expelled Palestinian refugee’s 86-year-old mother from Yarmouk camp home.

Palestine portrayed as plastic state in new art show

Sarah Irving
19 June 2013

Visitors to Larissa Sansour’s imagined nation have to navigate a bureaucratic maze.

Palestinian refugee who fled Syria recounts outpouring of support from EI readers

Medical expenses of injured son of Palestinian woman who fled Syria paid for by compassionate strangers.

Palestinian medical workers in Syria struggle to provide basic services

Mutawalli Abou Nasser
Damascus
7 June 2013

A nine-year-old girl is among those to have died because they could not receive essential treatment.

"Bone-breaker" Rabin lauded in new book by veteran lobbyist

Former American Jewish Congress chief Robert Lifton tries to put a human face on some of Israel’s most notorious war criminals.

Warren Buffett signs $2 billion check in support of Israeli apartheid

World’s fourth richest man delivers insult to Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions.

Five Pillars of Islam inspire humanitarian message in new bilingual poetry collection

Sarah Irving
1 May 2013

Iyad Hayatleh, a Palestinian poet raised in Damascus and now living in Britain, teamed up with Scottish literary figure Tessa Ransford.

Was Israel's flotilla apology really a triumph for Turkey?

Murat Dagli
Istanbul
17 April 2013

Voices critical of the rapprochement have been silenced by the Turkish media.

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