Gaza City 14 October 2011
Families in Gaza wait to hear if their loved ones, imprisoned in Israeli jail cells, will be on the list as part of a prisoner swap deal that includes the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Read more about Gaza families wait for release of prisoners in Hamas-Israel deal
14 October 2011
The BNC says: “The refreshing scenes of determined peaceful protest for justice from around the world tell us that we, the 99 percent of the world, are in the process of straightening our backs, collectively, with unwavering fortitude and boundless hope.” Read more about Palestinian BDS National Committee supports Wall Street protests
14 October 2011
Netanyahu has condemned attacks on mosques and cemeteries by Israeli extremists but his government is facilitating such violence. Read more about Israeli government blamed for surge in racist attacks
16 October 2011
The new play Ana Hurra (“I am free”) explores the experiences of a Palestinian prisoner and the Israeli interrogator who tortures her. Read more about Timely play grapples with abuse of a Palestinian prisoner
13 October 2011
Education served through school is never enough; it does not define a student’s character and personality. What defines a student is his/her level of awareness of the environment they live in, the knowledge they gain by reading, learning about, and exploring the world around them. That is what motivated us to organize Palestine’s first high school Model United Nations conference, PalMUN. Read more about Palestinian Model United Nations
15 October 2011
Palestinian lawmakers in Jerusalem — kidnapped, arrested and threatened with deportation by the Israeli government — denounce the International Committee of the Red Cross for not adequately protecting them. Read more about Red Cross slammed for silence over arrest of Palestinian lawmaker
13 October 2011
I’ve struggled with writing about the hunger striking Palestinian prisoners. How to blend in the personal, the observations, the analysis, the facts, and the flowery writ all in one cohesive go? My scrambled thoughts below. Read more about You Might Take My Life, But You Can't Take My Soul*
13 October 2011
Its possible that there is a name more well-known than Gilad Shalit this week, but not likely. For the last two days, media of all kinds have been tripping over themselves trying to describe, explain, hagiographize, and contextualize Shalit, who is to be released soon after a five year detention by Hamas in a prisoner swap. Read more about The Most Important Prisoner in the Whole Wide World
Gaza City 13 October 2011
Amidst the ongoing Israeli blockade and an increasingly conservative socio-political atmosphere, musicians in the Gaza Strip face a myriad of performance obstacles. Read more about Gaza musicians find themselves confined to stag parties
12 October 2011
In an article today on the Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange deal, The New York Times’ scandal-plagued Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner falsely blames an August attack from Egypt into Israeli-controlled territory near the Red Sea port of Eilat on Palestinians. Bronner writes: Read more about New York Times' Ethan Bronner still falsely blaming August Eilat attack on Palestinians