7 December 2011
Update and resolution: Telemundo contractor terminated after racist tweets exposed Telemundo released the following statement this afternoon, 7 December: We have investigated the matter and have found that the person associated with the twitter handle @hotchulo was a part-time contracted worker. Read more about NBC's Telemundo investigating anti-Muslim tweets by "social media coordinator"
7 December 2011
Ahmad Attoun, a lawmaker from the Hamas party, was expelled from Jerusalem today after Israeli forces released him from prison and took him to Qalandia checkpoint between the city and Ramallah. Read more about Israel forcibly transfers Palestinian lawmaker from Jerusalem
Hebron 7 December 2011
Abdel-Alim Da’na, a leader of the PFLP and a professor at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron, speaks to Ben Lorber about his experience in Israel’s prisons. Read more about Former prisoner, PFLP leader: hunger strike "made revolution in the prisons"
Gaza City 6 December 2011
We Palestinians have nothing to cherish more than our roots and ancestral identity. And no matter how hard it tries, Israel can never take our heritage away from us. Read more about Israel can never steal our heritage
6 December 2011
Danny Danon, a member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, is proposing that all Israeli citizens – especially the 1.4 million Palestinian citizens of Israel – should be forced to declare an oath of loyalty to the political ideology of Zionism as a condition for obtaining an ID card. Read more about Israel lawmaker wants to force Palestinians to swear "Zionist" oath
6 December 2011
Yitzhak Ben-Israel, a representative of Ariel, a university in an illegal Israeli settlement, takes part in EU-funded science conference. Read more about Settler "professor" top attraction at EU-Israel science show
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South Africa 5 December 2011
A South African activist working for the global boycott movement against Israeli apartheid connects the ongoing anti-colonialist struggles from Johannesburg to Palestine. Read more about South African activist: "Palestine casts light on our own history"
5 December 2011
Veolia feigns commitment to peace by supporting the Veolia Desert Challenge sports event. Meanwhile the company continues to be involved in Israeli colonization projects in the occupied West Bank. Read more about Veolia blows it again by trying to promote "peace" through normalization sports event
Tel Aviv 5 December 2011
An amendment to Israel’s “Prevention of Infiltration” law will mean prison time for asylum seekers and their children — as well as for those who offer them humanitarian aid. Read more about Israel jails asylum seekers, labels them "infiltrators"