12 March 2012
In this week’s roundup of news from the global BDS movement, Palestinian campaigners urge writers not to participate in the upcoming International Writers’ Festival in Jerusalem; Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Co-op’s BDS initiative gets a boost of support from Israeli boycott activists; and more. Read more about BDS roundup: Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Co-op's BDS initiative gains support
Bethlehem 12 March 2012
Christian theologians, academics and church leaders recently converged in Bethlehem to meet with the local Palestinian church and challenge the Christian Zionist influence within the evangelical movement. Read more about Palestinian Christians attacked for challenging Christian Zionism
12 March 2012
Israeli talk show personality and socialite wife of Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom has called for escalated bombing of Gaza and for the “passive residents” to be made to “suffer.” Judy Nir Mozes Shalom, wrote on her Facebook page in Hebrew on Saturday: Read more about Israel TV celebrity, wife of vice PM demands bombing, "suffering" of Gaza civilians
12 March 2012
Today Hillary Clinton supported the “right” of Syrian civilians to use arms in “self-defense.” But after 63 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and occupation are Palestinians ever to be considered, like Syrians, “civilians under siege driven to self-defense”? Read more about Hillary Clinton, Gaza and the right of civilians to self-defense
11 March 2012
By this Sunday evening in Gaza, a weekend of relentless Israeli bombing has left 18 people dead and dozens wounded. Israeli propaganda insists that the attacks are about preventing “terrorism” and stopping “rockets.” But in fact, Israel provoked this violence and according to some Israeli commentators its goals are to escalate pressure for war with Iran and to drag Hamas away from diplomacy and back into violence. Read more about "Mowing the lawn": On Israel's latest massacre in Gaza and the lies behind it
9 March 2012
The Canadian government’s close relationship with the Israel lobby is the topic of a new book on academic freedom. Read more about Canada's Zionist lobby exposed in new book
9 March 2012
The parents of Hana al-Shalabi, who has been on hunger strike since 16 February to protest Israel’s holding her without charge or trial, are pleading for action to save their daughter’s life. Read more about Parents of Hana al-Shalabi plead for urgent action to save their daughter
Washington, DC 9 March 2012
Between the years 2000 and 2009, the US transferred “more than 670 million weapons, rounds of ammunition and related equipment,” according to a new report. Read more about US sent 600,000 tear gas canisters to Israel, says new report
8 March 2012
Women have been at the heart of liberation struggles in the Middle East and North Africa, contrary to Orientalist misrepresentations. Read more about Women at the heart of struggle
8 March 2012
The Public Committee Against Torture (PCATI) submitted two group complaints to the Israeli authorities after 29 Palestinian women testified about their ill-treatment and torture by the Shabak and Israeli soldiers last year. Read more about Palestinian women testify about ill-treatment and torture during their arrest and interrogation