23 December 2011
Donor Opium is a new documentary film directed by Mariam Shahin and George Azar about the impact of international aid to Palestinians. The film features Palestinian criticisms of this externally funded “development”. Featured speakers are Khaled Sabawi, Sami Abdel-Shafi, Linda Tabar, Iyad Al Riyahi and Khalil Nakhleh. Read more about Film: Donor Opium
22 December 2011
A year after being served a subpoena by the FBI because of my political work, the state of civil liberties in the US has only gotten worse. Read more about One year after FBI subpoena, civil liberties protections in US frighteningly eroded even further
22 December 2011
Despite rumors of tension, the UK and other EU countries have agreed that Israel may “own” the West Bank. Read more about "Bickering" Britain accommodates Israeli settlements
22 December 2011
One of the largest shareholders of high-end French fashion firm Lacoste is a major donor to Israel and Zionist causes. Lacoste has been at the center of a scandal over the company’s insistence that Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour be forced out of the prestigious Lacoste Elysée Prize in Photography. Read more about Owner of Lacoste, which censored Palestinian artist, is major donor to Israel, Zionist causes
22 December 2011
Holiday shopping-related actions took place around the world as BDS activists encouraged shoppers not to buy Israeli products. And a group in California calls on the state pension fund to investigate its investment ties with Israeli companies and US companies that do business with the Israeli military. Read more about BDS roundup: "Don't put the fruits of apartheid under your Christmas tree!"
21 December 2011
Containing the full documentation, this blog entry is a companion piece to my special report on the CST: “UK charity with Mossad links secretly denounced anti-Zionist Jews to government”. Read more about The secret CST documents that smeared anti-Zionist Jews as extremists
London 21 December 2011
An influential UK charity denounced Jewish critics of Israel in secret reports to the government earlier this year, The Electronic Intifada has learned. Read more about EI exclusive: UK charity with Mossad links secretly denounced anti-Zionist Jews to government
21 December 2011
The Musée de L’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland has suspended the 2011 Lacoste Elysée Prize, a presitigious international photography contest, over the sponsor’s decision to expel Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour. The following press release was issued by the museum. Read more about Swiss museum suspends Elysée Prize to protest Lacoste's exclusion of Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour
21 December 2011
Susan Youssef’s new feature film Habibi has won the award for Best Arab Feature Film at the 8th Dubai International Film Festival. This achievement comes after a decade-long struggle by Youssef to make the film. Last year she wrote for The Electronic Intifada about the trials of making a feature film set in Gaza and what inspired it: Read more about Susan Youssef's Habibi, a Gaza feature film a decade in the making, wins major award
21 December 2011
Earlier today, I wrote about the scandalous expulsion of Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour from the prestigious Lacoste Elysée Prize shortlist at the request of Lacoste, the high-end French fashion company that sponsors the contest. Sansour, who was born in Jerusalem, said in a press release that Lacoste wanted her out because she was too “too pro-Palestinian.” The press release also stated: Read more about Evidence of Lacoste's censorship of Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour captured by Google cache