20 February 2012
Democracy Now today aired a brief video clip of Khader Adnan, who is now in his 65th day of hunger strike against his detention without charge or trial by Israel. Read more about In brief video clip, hunger striker Khader Adnan speaks out from hospital bed
20 February 2012
Five-day “social media delegation” of UK bloggers to “to Israel and the Palestinian Authority” starting on Sunday. Read more about Leaked email shows Israel lobby group BICOM plans propaganda tour for bloggers
20 February 2012
Bobby Sands died on 5 May 1981, aged 27, after 66 days on hunger strike against British refusal to grant political status to him and other Irish republican prisoners. Today, as Khader Adnan is on his 65th day of hunger strike, the Secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust, Danny Morrison, called on the Israeli government to immediately release Adnan, who is close to death. Read more about Bobby Sands' spokesman, close friend calls on Israel to immediately release Khader Adnan
20 February 2012
American actress and comedian Roseanne Barr and former Obama administration State Department official Anne-Marie Slaugher are among the latest people to join criticism of Israel’s use of administrative detentions of Palestinians highlighted by the 65 day hunger strike of Khader Adnan as global attention, solidarity grow. Read more about Roseanne Barr and former Obama official join criticism of Israel as Khader Adnan on day 65 of hunger strike
20 February 2012
The Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC and PFLAG (Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays) will host Anat Avissar, the foreign policy director of The Israeli Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Association (The Aguda) for an “informal conversation” this Wednesday on the topic of “equality” and “the cultural differences that impact support, education and advocacy in Israel.” Read more about PFLAG to take part in Israel Embassy pinkwashing event in Washington
19 February 2012
Violence has always been a useful term for governments and their allied establishment figures in media and punditry. Key to that utility is a very specialized use of the term as a descriptor for actions that don’t originate with the establishment or authorities. Police, armies, presidents and city administrators do not engage in violence. They use strategies, protocols, plans of action, deployments, operations and strikes. The people that are injured and die in those acts are not actively killed by violence. Rather, they suffer only in the passive voice. Read more about Two Kinds of Non-Violence
19 February 2012
Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in solidarity with Khader Adnan are facing harsh punishment by Israeli prison authorities who fear unrest could spread, if Adnan, who has been on hunger strike for 64 days, deteriorates further or dies. Read more about Solidarity hunger strikers in Israeli jails face harsh punishment, prisoner says
21 February 2012
Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran is an exhaustive account of what happened to Obama’s campaign pledge towards Iran, particularly after the Israeli government and its lobby in the United States challenged the very notion of diplomacy. Read more about Israel lobby's machinations on Iran probed in new book
19 February 2012
Bilin is being used to test new Israeli weapons but the villagers keep protesting. Read more about Memo to New York Times: the spirit of Gandhi is alive in Palestine
19 February 2012
Israeli officials are not force-feeding, or forcing treatment on Khader Adnan, who is in his 64th day of hunger strike against his detention without charge or trial by Israel, despite an earlier report to that effect on Israel’s Ynet website. Read more about Report hunger striker Khader Adnan to receive involuntary treatment "mistakenly published" by Ynet