7 March 2012
The human rights organization Amnesty International issued an urgent appeal today regarding the renewed administrative detention order against Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh. Read more about Amnesty calls for urgent action to protest administrative detention of Palestinian academic
6 March 2012
Palestinian orphan children were first among other children to express solidarity with Palestinian administrative detainee Hana Shalabi. Read more about Palestinian orphans in solidarity with Hana Shalabi
6 March 2012
Yesterday, Aljazeera Stream’s episode was titled ‘Blackwashing’ and the Israel lobby, it hosted Journalist Max Blumenthal and BreitBart.com editor Ben Shapiro. You can watch the whole episode on The Stream and see Shapiro trying to evade the topic at hand and purposelessly attacking Blumenthal, the episode was very interesting, it is embedded here: Read more about Black people against Zionism, Black people against Apartheid
6 March 2012
Students at UC Irvine in Southern California staged a silent walk-out during a presentation by Israeli soldiers on campus. Read more about VIDEO: UC Irvine students walk out on event with Israeli soldiers
6 March 2012
While almost the entire US Congress genuflected to Israel and its supposed “democracy” at the annual AIPAC convention in Washington this week, victims of Israel’s political repression, including Hana al-Shalabi who is on day 20 of her hunger strike, languished in its prisons ignored by world media. Read more about Hana al-Shalabi: 20 days of hunger strike while world looks away from Israel's abuses
6 March 2012
The Israeli Prison Service has transferred about 80 political prisoners from Gilboa prison section 4 to Nafha prison in the Naqab located in the sotuh of Israel. The transfer follows a recent solidarity hunger strike undertaken by the prisoners. Addameer’s Sahar Francis comments that the practice of transferring political prisoners is often used by Israel to repress organizing amongst Palestinian prisoners. Read more about Israel punishes hunger striking prisoners by transferring them to other end of country
6 March 2012
Maureen Clare Murphy interviews Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon about his upcoming feature-length documentary, A People Without a Land, and his journey from a religious Zionist background to becoming an advocate for Palestinian rights. Read more about Interview: Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon on his upcoming documentary focusing on one-state solution
6 March 2012
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) loudly condemned Israeli Apartheid Week events, and last weekend’s One State Conference at Harvard. With its latest smears, it is trying to conceal the fact that its fearmongering is failing to intimidate students, including Jewish students who attended and participated with open minds: Read more about Why won't the ADL trust Jewish students and community media?
5 March 2012
UCLA students staged a silent walk-out during a presentation by Israeli soldiers there to defend Israel’s attacks on the Gaza strip in 2008-09. Read more about VIDEO: UCLA students stage walk-out at StandWithUs event featuring Israeli soldiers
Nazareth 5 March 2012
Katie Ramandan’s collection of photos currently on exhibition in Nazareth explores the meaning of home and the boundaries between private and public space. Read more about Stealing a moment in a stolen land: the photography of Katie Ramadan