2 November 2011
In the latest attempt to challenge Israel’s heinous, inhumane, and unjustified blockade over the Palestinian Gaza strip, two boats carrying Palestinian and international activists and journalists have set sail towards Gaza. Israel has used filthy tactics to foil last summer’s Gaza-bound flotilla. Read more about FreedomWaves to Gaza!
2 November 2011
One of the boats in the Freedom Waves flotilla is broadcasting its position which we’re plotting on a map you can embed on your site. Read more about Track the location of the #FreedomWaves flotilla
Washington, DC 1 November 2011
The administration of US President Barack Obama announced Monday that it would immediately cut US funding for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, just hours after UNESCO’s governing board voted overwhelmingly to grant Palestine full membership. Read more about UNESCO funding cut over Palestine vote may harm US economy
1 November 2011
My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle, the memoirs of the late Shafiq al-Hout, is historically sweeping, politically critical and fascinating throughout. Read more about Shafiq al-Hout memoirs provide warts-and-all history of PLO
1 November 2011
British rock legends Yardbirds cancel a show in Tel Aviv, while BDS activists encourage Hindi Zahra and Oumou Sangaré to cancel theirs; and Artists Against Apartheid encourage the boycott of the Creative Community for Peace. Read more about BDS roundup: Yardbirds cancel Tel Aviv show; BDS activists urge two singers to do the same
1 November 2011
Judge Richard Goldstone has written an op-ed in The New York Times denying Israeli apartheid as a “slander.” But Goldstone ignores key facts in order to make a shameless defense of Israel. Read more about Answering Judge Goldstone's defense and denial of Israeli apartheid
31 October 2011
Since last week’s First Tier Tribunal ruling against Raed Salah’s appeal against deportation from the UK, Zionist ideologues have been gloating. But in fact the judgment (now released online) clears Salah of the central government accusation against him: that he wrote an anti-Semitic poem containing the line: “You Jews are criminal bombers of mosques”. This “poem” was fabricated in the context of a long-standing Israeli campaign of attacks, detentions and disinformation against Salah. The following is my analysis of the judgment. Read more about UK anti-Semitism charity CST still spreading Israeli disinformation about Raed Salah
31 October 2011
A Wikileaks gem that I came across after the final dump of all the cables this summer is all the more shiny in light of today’s vote to make Palestine a member state at UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Read more about Wikileaks: Israel wanted to overcome diplomatic isolation at UNESCO
31 October 2011
Solitary confinement should be banned says UN Special Rapporteur on torture. Israeli continues this cruel practice. Read more about Israel's cruel practice of isolation of prisoners should be banned
31 October 2011
The jury of the third session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, taking place in Cape Town this week, will hear from individuals who experienced South African apartheid, fought against it and won. Read more about Not judges, but witnesses: the third Russell Tribunal on Palestine begins