29 December 2011
Ameer Makhoul writes from Gilboa jail about Israeli policies that aim to disconnect the Palestinian prisoners from their families, friends, and solidarity people. He calls for an international fact-finding mission of human rights organizations. Read more about Israeli policies disconnect Palestinian political prisoners from their families
29 December 2011
Islamophobic and Zionist websites are actively promoting a claim that Norway – and perhaps Europe – is experiencing an “epidemic” of rapes carried out by Muslim men. But this is completely false as the evidence shows. Read more about Debunked: the Zionist and Islamophobic libel of a "rape epidemic" by Muslims in Norway
29 December 2011
Boycott activists to French singer-actress Jane Birkin: there is “no balance” with apartheid. Read more about BDS news: Europeans, Moroccans urge Jane Birkin to respect boycott call
East Jerusalem 28 December 2011
An important precedent was recently set that could challenge the entrenched system of impunity for Israeli interrogators who torture and abuse Palestinian detainees. Read more about Israel's impunity challenged by torture victim in Jerusalem
28 December 2011
Electoral Commission in UK asked to investigate omissions in financial information for influential Zionist groups. Read more about Complaint filed over secret donors to "friends of Israel"
28 December 2011
An Israeli gunboat attacked the Oliva today off the shores of Gaza, according to two crew members, injuring the Palestinian captain. The Oliva, a boat operated by the Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGAZA) accompanies Gaza fishermen to sea to monitor frequent Israeli attacks and harassment of Palestinian fishing boats. Read more about Israel navy attempts to capsize international monitoring boat off Gaza, injures captain
27 December 2011
In an oped published Friday, Commentary magazine, the leading journal of neoconservative political analysis, offered advice to anti-Palestinian activists on “how to handle” professors who criticize Israeli policies. Read more about Commentary encourages students to accuse faculty who criticize Israel of "pedagogical intimidation" (UPDATED)
27 December 2011
If once you do not cave in, you discover that as time goes by, the ability of Zionist lobbies of intimidation around the world to affect you gradually diminishes. Read more about Confronting intimidation, working for justice in Palestine
27 December 2011
The One Democratic State Group in Gaza has issued this statement: We, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make 2012 the year when solidarity with us in Palestine captures the spark of the revolutions around the Arab world and never looks back. On this anniversary we demand an international liberation movement that eventually leads to just that, liberation for us Palestinians from 63 years of brutal military occupation and ethnic cleansing that pours shame on any organisation or government claiming to endorse universal human rights. Read more about Open Letter from Gaza: Three Years after the Massacre, Justice or Nothing!
27 December 2011
The popular Israeli web-based satirical show LatmaTV has released a musical video containing crude anti-Muslim stereotypes and mocking Europeans as “dummies” for supposedly allowing their countries to be taken over by Islam and turned into “Eurabia.” In one sequence, a Norwegian father tells his blonde daughter about Muslims: “When they rape you don’t object for that is politically incorrect.” Read more about "When they rape you don't object": Israeli "satire" show incites hatred of Muslims, Europeans