“I know that the invitation was issued after heavy pressure on FC Barcelona so that it could get out of its dilemma,” Sarsak said. Read more about In interview, Mahmoud Sarsak confirms FC Barcelona Clasico invite, says he won't attend with Shalit 

Shalit “represents” the Israeli army and shouldn’t be at Barcelona stadium, say activists. Read more about Protests expected as FC Barcelona extends VIP invite to Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit 

Islamophoic hate speech ads are plastered over by New York City activists. Read more about Activists alter Islamophobic hate speech ads in New York City 

Is Obama ready – like Bill Clinton – to “get in a ditch, and fight and die” for Israel? Read more about Official Israel government Twitter account joins partisan attacks on Obama 

Black Star held their fists high and declared, “Let’s get free just like the Palestinians!” Read more about Rappers Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) give a lyrical shout-out to Palestine 

I never thought of myself as a teacher, and when my mother used to suggest the profession to me as a kid, I would flinch. But lately, that’s exactly who I am finding myself becoming – not just as an answer to our obsession with the “what do you do?” question, but as a general identification of how I see myself. Read more about From Shatila to Ramallah: an introduction 

Palestinian footballer and former hunger striker Mahmoud Sarsak with Shahd Abusalama on the ongoing prisoner hunger strikes in Israeli jails; and an interview with Eric Romann of LA Dump Veolia. Read more about Podcast: The “revolution inside Israeli prisons” continues, says hunger striker Mahmoud Sarsak 

In a precedent-setting move, Norway has ended tax-deductions for organizations that finance Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. Read more about Will other countries follow? Norway bans tax deductions for donations to Israeli settlements  

My reflections on the verdict of Vik’s murderers which came as we were commemorating the 30th anniversary of Sabra and Shatila. Read more about Justice for Vittorio in Gaza, but Israeli impunity continues 

Boycott campaigners confronted Los Angeles city officials and urged them not to renew contracts with Veolia because of the company’s involvement in Israel’s human rights violations. Read more about Los Angeles activists put Veolia's complicity with Israel's human rights violations in the spotlight 

“The way the Israeli establishment uses our history from the 1950s, is not in order to give us our rights back, but in order to get rid of the rights of the Palestinians,” Iraqi Jews say. Read more about Iraqi Jews reject ‘cynical manipulation’ of their history by Israel, Zionists, writer Almog Behar tells EI 

An exclusive interview with Githa Hariharan of the Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, on the various initiatives across India which connect to the global BDS movement. Read more about Podcast: Indian boycott activist talks about “tremendous response” to Palestine solidarity call 

Ties between South Korea and Israel have contributed to Israel’s impunity, activists say Read more about End complicity in Israeli occupation, South Korean activists tell their government 

BNC calls on a Palestinian businessman to end “shameless” normalization of “the worst type.” Read more about Boycott committee: Palestinian “Rawabi” tycoon Bashar Masri “must end all normalization activities with Israel” 

Samer al-Barq may have only minutes to live, his father explains in a telephone call with The Electronic Intifada blogger Shahd Abusalama. Read more about "Every minute matters" for gravely ill hunger striker Samer al-Barq, says father 

A former South African government media director tells The Electronic Intifada he contacted the BBC and the UK’s Channel 4 News in 2007 “warning them that Paul Martin Cainer was a fraud”. Read more about BBC filmmaker Paul Martin "a fraud" says former South African government media director