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Leaving the Shore: Reflections on a Night with Alice Walker, Ali Abunimah and Historic Occupy Wall Street Protests

Jaime Omar Yassin 6 October 2011

I had to admit, it was hard to shift gears for the Alice Walker/Ali Abunimah talk yesterday. Just a few hours earlier, the Occupy Wall Street protests were hitting their apogee, where I’m told some 15 to 50 thousand people took to the streets in numbers so great that they swelled at the seams and burst into the streets at times, challenging the right of the city and police to control popular expression. Read more about Leaving the Shore: Reflections on a Night with Alice Walker, Ali Abunimah and Historic Occupy Wall Street Protests

easyJet enables “pinkwashing” of apartheid

David Cronin 6 October 2011

Why is budget airline promoting Tel Aviv as world’s gayest city? Read more about easyJet enables “pinkwashing” of apartheid

Revealed: UK government plotted with Israel lobby to ban Salah

Asa Winstanley Birmingham 6 October 2011

The Electronic Intifada has obtained email correspondences between Israeli lobbyists and British governmental officials which prove a plot to ban Palestinian political leader Sheikh Raed Salah from the UK. Read more about Revealed: UK government plotted with Israel lobby to ban Salah

Palestinians brace for US aid cut following PA statehood bid

Gaza City 5 October 2011

As reports come in that the US may be preparing to cut a substantial portion of the aid it gives to the Palestinian Authority because of its bid for statehood, people in the occupied West Bank and Gaza are bracing for possible consequences. Read more about Palestinians brace for US aid cut following PA statehood bid

"Our identity is under attack;" Palestinian youth activist interviewed

Adri Nieuwhof 5 October 2011

Sawsan Khalife’ is a young woman activist and a Palestinian citizen of Israel. The daily discrimination she encounters in Jerusalem and the tragic killing by Israeli forces of a school friend have been determining factors for her work. Read more about "Our identity is under attack;" Palestinian youth activist interviewed

A Palestinian political prisoner's take on Israel's protest movement

Ameer Makhoul Gilboa Prison 5 October 2011

By not dealing with the root causes of the unjust system in Israel, the Israeli social movement wishes to make things less unjust rather than to change the system and the regime. Read more about A Palestinian political prisoner's take on Israel's protest movement

US launches "civil rights" probe at Columbia University as Zionist censorship, smears intensify

Ali Abunimah 5 October 2011

A complaint by a professor at Columbia University who co-founded the anti-Palestinian Zionist group “Scholars for Peace in the Middle East” has resulted in the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opening an investigation into the university. Read more about US launches "civil rights" probe at Columbia University as Zionist censorship, smears intensify

Swiss artist Brenar warns of intolerance of dissent

Adri Nieuwhof 5 October 2011

Swiss artist Brenar warns in his painting “Work in Progress” of right wing extremism and intolerance of different, unique opinions. Read more about Swiss artist Brenar warns of intolerance of dissent

US academic and cultural BDS campaign condemns convictions of Irvine 11

Nora Barrows-Friedman 4 October 2011

The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) joins a growing coalition of civil rights and advocacy organizations in condemning the recent convictions of the Irvine 11, and say they are “concerned about the future of free speech within the UC system.” Read more about US academic and cultural BDS campaign condemns convictions of Irvine 11

One-state solution goes mainstream? CBC interviews Ali Abunimah and Daniel Gavron

Ali Abunimah 4 October 2011

In a sign of changing times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) carried a 30 minute interview with Ali Abunimah and Daniel Gavron, both supporting a one-state solution, on its flagship radio news program The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti. Read more about One-state solution goes mainstream? CBC interviews Ali Abunimah and Daniel Gavron

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