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
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
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
8 March 2012
The Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer put out a statement today marking International Women’s Day (March 8), calling for the release of all Palestinian female political prisoners. Read more about On International Women's Day, stand with Palestinian women prisoners
8 March 2012
The mother of Hana al-Shalabi, the Palestinian woman who has been on hunger strike since 16 February when she was violently seized from her home by Israeli occupation forces, has spoken out in a video interview. Read more about VIDEO: Hana al-Shalabi's mother speaks out about her daughter's hunger strike and her own
7 March 2012
Students at the University of Ottawa say that the campus administration threatened to cancel an 8 March panel discussion they are scheduled to hold as part of Ottawa’s Israeli Apartheid. Meanwhile, at Carleton University, also in Ottawa, students found their posters defaced with slogans such as “This is where the Holocaust began.” Read more about Students react to University of Ottawa threat to cancel Israel Apartheid Week event
7 March 2012
The head of the press association in Granada, Spain, took off his belt and threatened to beat a Palestine solidarity protestor at the opening ceremony of a graphical exhibition celebrating “25 years of diplomatic relations between Spain and Israel.” This is the latest of several incidents of violence being threatened or used against Palestine solidarity protests in recent weeks. Read more about Head of Spain press association assaults Palestine protestor with belt, video shows
7 March 2012
The human rights organization Amnesty International issued an urgent appeal today regarding the renewed administrative detention order against Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh. Read more about Amnesty calls for urgent action to protest administrative detention of Palestinian academic