8 March 2012
The mother of Hana al-Shalabi, the Palestinian woman who has been on hunger strike since 16 February when she was violently seized from her home by Israeli occupation forces, has spoken out in a video interview. Read more about VIDEO: Hana al-Shalabi's mother speaks out about her daughter's hunger strike and her own
7 March 2012
Khitam Saafin, chairwoman of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, talks to The Electronic Intifada about the challenges Palestinian women face today and why Hana al-Shalabi’s hunger strike should be supported. Read more about Interview: why Hana al-Shalabi's hunger strike is the focus of Women's Day in Palestine
7 March 2012
Students at the University of Ottawa say that the campus administration threatened to cancel an 8 March panel discussion they are scheduled to hold as part of Ottawa’s Israeli Apartheid. Meanwhile, at Carleton University, also in Ottawa, students found their posters defaced with slogans such as “This is where the Holocaust began.” Read more about Students react to University of Ottawa threat to cancel Israel Apartheid Week event
7 March 2012
The head of the press association in Granada, Spain, took off his belt and threatened to beat a Palestine solidarity protestor at the opening ceremony of a graphical exhibition celebrating “25 years of diplomatic relations between Spain and Israel.” This is the latest of several incidents of violence being threatened or used against Palestine solidarity protests in recent weeks. Read more about Head of Spain press association assaults Palestine protestor with belt, video shows
7 March 2012
The human rights organization Amnesty International issued an urgent appeal today regarding the renewed administrative detention order against Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh. Read more about Amnesty calls for urgent action to protest administrative detention of Palestinian academic
6 March 2012
Palestinian orphan children were first among other children to express solidarity with Palestinian administrative detainee Hana Shalabi. Read more about Palestinian orphans in solidarity with Hana Shalabi
6 March 2012
Yesterday, Aljazeera Stream’s episode was titled ‘Blackwashing’ and the Israel lobby, it hosted Journalist Max Blumenthal and BreitBart.com editor Ben Shapiro. You can watch the whole episode on The Stream and see Shapiro trying to evade the topic at hand and purposelessly attacking Blumenthal, the episode was very interesting, it is embedded here: Read more about Black people against Zionism, Black people against Apartheid
6 March 2012
Students at UC Irvine in Southern California staged a silent walk-out during a presentation by Israeli soldiers on campus. Read more about VIDEO: UC Irvine students walk out on event with Israeli soldiers
6 March 2012
While almost the entire US Congress genuflected to Israel and its supposed “democracy” at the annual AIPAC convention in Washington this week, victims of Israel’s political repression, including Hana al-Shalabi who is on day 20 of her hunger strike, languished in its prisons ignored by world media. Read more about Hana al-Shalabi: 20 days of hunger strike while world looks away from Israel's abuses
6 March 2012
The Israeli Prison Service has transferred about 80 political prisoners from Gilboa prison section 4 to Nafha prison in the Naqab located in the sotuh of Israel. The transfer follows a recent solidarity hunger strike undertaken by the prisoners. Addameer’s Sahar Francis comments that the practice of transferring political prisoners is often used by Israel to repress organizing amongst Palestinian prisoners. Read more about Israel punishes hunger striking prisoners by transferring them to other end of country