15 December 2010
In October, the Israeli parliament moved to enshrine in law the right of “cooperative associations” — communities mostly established since Israel’s creation in 1948, comprising nearly 70 percent of all communities in Israel — to accept only Jews. Read more about Israel moves to legalize segregated Jewish-only communities
14 December 2010
Western publishers have too often neglected the perspective of Palestinians and other Arabs when it comes to books on Israel and the Palestinians. Letters from Palestine, a new collection of Palestinian writing edited by Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah, is thus a welcome initiative. Read more about Book review: Humanity and warmth in "Letters from Palestine"
14 December 2010
On 2 December, the Western Massachusetts Coalition for Palestine organized a protest of an event entitled “Overcoming Terror: A True Story” which took place on the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. Read more about Activists protest Israeli army sergeant's campus propaganda visit
13 December 2010
In his new book Spy Trade, Grant F. Smith offers a richly detailed narrative discussing the how and who of lobby activities in the United States from 1948-2009, uncovered through insistent Freedom of Information Act requests. Read more about Book review: "Spy Trade" details history of Israel lobby in the US
13 December 2010
After almost two years of attempting to bribe Israel into “restraining” the expansion of its Jewish-only colonies on occupied, stolen land, and its violent Judaization of Jerusalem, the Obama administration concluded that it could do nothing. Of course one thing the administration never tried was real pressure using as leverage the billions in annual no-strings aid the fiscally-bankrupt United States provides to Israel. Read more about Rescuing Zionism at Palestinian expense
10 December 2010
Air strikes by Israeli warplanes at dawn on Thursday caused serious damage to the Gaza Strip’s only power plant, plunging the territory — which already suffers from frequent outages — into darkness. Read more about Latest Israeli bombing plunges Gaza into darkness
10 December 2010
Palestine solidarity activists are organizing a day of action today to encourage “people of conscience” to join the more than 18,000 who have already signed a US-wide petition urging financial holdings corporation TIAA-CREF to disinvest from Caterpillar. Read more about Boycott roundup: day of action against TIAA-Cref
10 December 2010
Chicago-based Palestinian American rapper Gon isn’t apologizing. In his recently released hip-hop album Consider Violence, Gon aggressively confronts political and personal realities, boldly lyricizing his uncompromising opinions. Read more about Palestinian American hip-hop artist asks you to "Consider Violence"
9 December 2010
A huge Palestinian flag was carried up a steep hill in Issawiya on 3 December, passed hand-to-hand between the at least 200 Palestinians, Israelis and international activists taking part in the first-ever solidarity march and demonstration in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood. Read more about Defiant Jerusalem Palestinians say "we will remain here"
8 December 2010
Jews must not rent homes to “gentiles.” That was the religious decree issued this week by at least fifty of Israel’s leading rabbis, many of them employed by the state as municipal religious leaders. Jews should first warn, then “ostracize” fellow Jews who fail to heed the directive, the rabbis declared. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israel turns blind eye to racist state-employed rabbis