North Carolina college bows to donor pressure over Steven Salaita talk
2 February 2015
Guilford College moves Palestinian-American professor’s speech after pressure from family that funded campus building.
Rights and Accountability
Israeli war criminal visits European Parliament
2 February 2015
Yoav Mordechai commanded a battalion that attacked Gaza in January 2009.
Violence prevents food aid to Yarmouk, where refugees live on one meal per day
31 January 2015
United Nations says it has been unable to successfully deliver aid since 6 December.
Death of arms salesman in Saudi Arabia casts suspicions on Israeli company Elbit
30 January 2015
Family has said it does not buy the company’s story that Christopher Cramer committed suicide.
Palestinian Authority arrests student for lampooning sports official on Facebook
29 January 2015
Bara al-Qadi has been repeatedly harassed for his “critical opinions,” says his sister.
Steven Salaita sues Univ. of Illinois, donors for firing over Israel criticism
29 January 2015
Lawsuit alleging a wide range of illegal conduct will be a test of whether fundamental notions of free speech in the United States pertain even to critics of Israel.
French police question 8-year-old on suspicion of “defending terrorism”
28 January 2015
Child was reported to police by school principal after allegedly refusing to take part in a minute of silence for Charlie Hebdo victims.
Investigators: Israel fired on Gaza civilians carrying white flags
28 January 2015
Only one team of medical experts has been allowed to enter Gaza to assess the harm inflicted after summer assault.
Jerusalem light rail suspended service to help Israeli army invasion
27 January 2015
Light rail operator Veolia facilitates arrest of ten-year-old Palestinian boy in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel defender Alan Dershowitz has long history of attacking sex abuse victims
27 January 2015
As rape allegations against Alan Dershowitz intensify, his bellicose denials, steeped in brazen hostility towards rape victims, reflect a shockingly overlooked history of hysterical misogyny and rape trutherism.