Gaza City 19 July 2011
While complementary medicine practitioners in Gaza see a niche for their work, they say it is imperative that the essential medicines and supplies at zero stock levels be brought into Gaza. Read more about Medicine shortages drive Gazans to alternative healing
19 July 2011
Israel’s Haaretz quoted The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah for an article on American views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read more about Haaretz quotes Ali Abunimah about boycotting Israel
London 18 July 2011
After nearly three weeks in British jails, influential Palestinian activist and religious leader Sheikh Raed Salah was conditionally released today. Read more about UK court releases Raed Salah as government case flounders
Nabi Saleh 18 July 2011
Nariman Tamimi must not be characterized as just the jailed grassroots activist Bassem’s wife. Linah Alsaafin interviews for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about "EU must do more than pay lip-service": Nariman Tamimi interviewed
Gaza City 18 July 2011
Despite Israel’s declared “easing” in June 2010 of the total siege on Gaza, manufacturers there are hurting badly. In June 2011 the World Food Programme (WFP) reported that “only 5 percent of the pre-blockade export volume was reached from November 2010 to April 2011.” Read more about Export bans - the other half of Israel's siege
18 July 2011
Remi Kanazi, professor Sunaina Maira and Ali Abunimah lay out the current strategies of the current global BDS movement led by Palestinian civil society, and analyzed the movement’s gains as well as the mounting backlash against BDS actions and activists. Read more about VIDEO: The BDS movement and strategic actions for justice
18 July 2011
The Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel and Palestinian Youth Against Israeli Apartheid have issued a call to their counterparts in South Africa to boycott a forthcoming tour of several South African university campuses by dozens of Israeli students designed to burnish Israel’s image. The Palestinian students write: Read more about Palestinian students ask South African counterparts: Boycott Israeli tour on your campuses
18 July 2011
Controversial New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner has spoken out at last on a topic he is expert in – advocacy journalism. In response to an email from a Facebook user called Scott Mohn complaining that The New York Times had not covered the 15 July march in Jerusalem held by thousands of Israeli left-wing Zionists and a number of Palestinians from eastern occupied Jerusalem, Bronner wrote: Read more about New York Times' Ethan Bronner speaks out about "advocacy journalism"
16 July 2011
Gaza Youth Break Out (GYBO) a Gaza-based youth activist group has produced a rap video celebrating the recent Gaza Freedom Flotilla and other efforts to break the siege of Gaza. Read more about Watch: Gaza Youth produce rap video honoring flotilla
16 July 2011
Following last week’s call by Palestinians for immediate military sanctions on Israel, “similar to that imposed against apartheid South Africa in the past,” US trade union members released a statement announcing full support of the call, BDS, and the right of return. Read more about US trade unionists support Palestinian call for military sanctions on Israel