23 March 2012
Video has emerged from a shocking mob attack by hundreds of Israeli football fans on Arab workers and shoppers at the Malha Mall in western Jerusalem. Read more about Video emerges of Israeli mob shouting "Death to the Arabs" that attacked Palestinians at Jerusalem mall
23 March 2012
British parliamentarian Denis MacShane, a Labour party MP with a history of Israel advocacy, has linked the recent killings in Toulouse to pro-Palestinian boycott motion motions in UK trade unions. Read more about British MP links Toulouse killings to movement to boycott Israel
23 March 2012
Graduate students at Carleton University in Ottawa have overwhelmingly voted for divestment from companies profiting from Israeli occupation and human rights abuses in what is the first ever such referendum on a university campus in Canada. Read more about In Canadian first, Carleton University students pass Israel occupation divestment resolution by large margin
22 March 2012
Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice tells the stories of individuals in the United States whose rights have been abused as a result of the racist, Islamophobic backlash and the so-called War on Terror that followed the attacks of 11 September 2001. Read more about Book review: "Patriot Acts" tells shocking stories of post-9/11 injustice
22 March 2012
A new report by Defense for Children International-Palestine section has documented systematic, routine abuses by Israeli soldiers and interrogators of Palestinian children across the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem. Read more about New report documents systematic abuse of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention
22 March 2012
B’Tselem’s Executive Director Jessica Montell has admonished the Palestinian human rights groups for speaking out against the Israeli human rights’ group’s participation in J Street’s conference featuring war crimes suspect Ehud Olmert. Read more about "Dismayed" B'Tselem scolds Palestinian rights groups for "conduct," speaking out over Olmert gala
22 March 2012
Wednesday’s annual donor meeting in Brussels will blame everyone but Israel for the fiscal crisis in the Palestinian territories, but it’s no secret why the Palestinian economy is faltering. Read more about Obfuscation never helped anyone: the Palestinian fiscal crisis
22 March 2012
Chicago activists released a video today to bring attention to the heroic hunger strike undertaken by Palestinian political prisoner Hana al-Shalabi, who is at risk of imminent death as she has refused to eat since she was arrested on 16 February. Read more about WATCH: Solidarity with hunger striker Hana al-Shalabi
21 March 2012
I arrived to Jordan and I went to the Dead Sea where the reunion of the leadership program I went to America for was held. It was a bittersweet feeling to be on the other side of Jericho. I could see Jericho’s hills in the horizon line. I was so close yet so far away, since Israel’s apartheid regime deprives me as a Palestinian from Gaza from reaching it. Read more about My journey in Jordan
