13 March 2012
Rana Baker recounts a traumatizing experience for her grandmother, whose home was right in front of where a recent extra-judicial assassination by Israeli forces took place in Gaza. Read more about They almost killed my grandmother
13 March 2012
With this letter, we call for the disavowal of Atzmon by fellow Palestinian organizers, as well as Palestine solidarity activists, and allies of the Palestinian people, and note the dangers of supporting Atzmon’s political work and writings and providing any platforms for their dissemination. Read more about Palestinian writers, activists disavow racism, anti-Semitism of Gilad Atzmon
13 March 2012
A 1998 film presented by Edward Said raises questions that are just as relevant today. Read more about Film: In Search of Palestine - Edward Said's Return Home
13 March 2012
One might expect a journalists’ union to defend the rights of other journalists against detention without trial (what Israel calls “administrative detention”). But it seems for the union of Israeli journalists, actually campaigning against the basic human rights of Palestinian journalists is what they do. Read more about Israeli union defends internment of Palestinian journalists, threatens to leave international federation
13 March 2012
The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah appeared on Democracy Now this morning to discuss Israel’s extrajudicial executions and attacks in Gaza and reports of a ceasefire, Hillary Clinton’s support for armed struggle, the ongoing hunger strike of Hana al-Shalabi, now in its 27th day and the Harvard One-State Conference. Read more about Video: Ali Abunimah discusses Gaza attacks, Hillary Clinton, Hana Shalabi on Democracy Now
13 March 2012
In a first ever musical collaboration between South Africa and Palestine, South African band, The Mavrix and Palestinian Oud player, Mohammed Omar, have released a music video called “The New Black.” Read more about South African-Palestinian music video celebrates common struggle against racial intolerance
12 March 2012
In this week’s roundup of news from the global BDS movement, Palestinian campaigners urge writers not to participate in the upcoming International Writers’ Festival in Jerusalem; Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Co-op’s BDS initiative gets a boost of support from Israeli boycott activists; and more. Read more about BDS roundup: Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Co-op's BDS initiative gains support
Bethlehem 12 March 2012
Christian theologians, academics and church leaders recently converged in Bethlehem to meet with the local Palestinian church and challenge the Christian Zionist influence within the evangelical movement. Read more about Palestinian Christians attacked for challenging Christian Zionism
12 March 2012
Israeli talk show personality and socialite wife of Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom has called for escalated bombing of Gaza and for the “passive residents” to be made to “suffer.” Judy Nir Mozes Shalom, wrote on her Facebook page in Hebrew on Saturday: Read more about Israel TV celebrity, wife of vice PM demands bombing, "suffering" of Gaza civilians
12 March 2012
Today Hillary Clinton supported the “right” of Syrian civilians to use arms in “self-defense.” But after 63 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and occupation are Palestinians ever to be considered, like Syrians, “civilians under siege driven to self-defense”? Read more about Hillary Clinton, Gaza and the right of civilians to self-defense