11 July 2012
Signatories to the open letter to the European Commission include Gérard Toulouse, a member of the French Academy of Science, Malcolm Levitt, a member of the UK Royal Society, and renowned philosopher Slavjoj Zizek Read more about 250 European academics call for exclusion of Ahava and Israeli arms companies from EU research projects
11 July 2012
Despite widespread condemnation by human rights groups, the European Union’s Catherine Ashton appears to defend Israel’s use of “administrative detention” Read more about Why is EU's Catherine Ashton defending Israel's use of administrative detention?
11 July 2012
In his latest book, Norman Finkelstein superbly criticizes Zionist revisionist historians but ignores Palestinian agency. Read more about Book review: Finkelstein airbrushes Palestinians out of their own struggle
11 July 2012
Ali Abunimah debates Jonathan Tobin of the far-right anti-Palestinian publication Commentary on Democracy Now today about Israel’s settlements and Jim Crow. Read more about WATCH: Ali Abunimah and Commentary's Jonathan Tobin debate Israel's settlements, Jim Crow on Democracy Now
11 July 2012
Campaign to register American voters living in Israel targets West Bank settler communities. Read more about iVoteIsrael: a campaign to collect US ballots from American settlers in the West Bank
Ramallah 10 July 2012
Is it really “popular resistance” when Palestinians are sometimes outnumbered by Israeli activists at weekly demonstrations? Read more about How obsession with "nonviolence" harms the Palestinian cause
10 July 2012
If the Israeli government succeeds in extending the Apartheid Wall through Beit Jala, the Salesian Sisters of Cremisan will be on one side, and the school children they have taught for many years on the other. Read more about Salesian Nuns and Priests to be separated by Apartheid Wall
10 July 2012
It has emerged that Flame might also have been used for more robust attacks in addition to spying. Read more about Cyberwar updates: Flame could have been weaponized; claim worm used to spy on Ehud Barak
10 July 2012
Palestinian footballer Mahmoud Sarsak was greeted joyously in Gaza today as he returned home from Israeli prison where he was held for three years without charge or trial. Read more about Alive and victorious: Palestinian footballer Mahmoud Sarsak home after epic 3 month hunger strike -photo
9 July 2012
An exhibition at Amman’s Darat al Funun explores varying responses to decades of conflict in the Middle East, in which the Palestinian people have often played an involuntary and tragic role. Read more about Exhibition review: when lemons have more freedom than humans