15 September 2011
It may be time to recognize that historic Palestine today resembles one giant Northern Ireland, but with a lot more firepower, including, on the Israeli side, nuclear weapons. Read more about Putting away the partitionist's knife: Palestine and approaches to "ethnic conflict"
15 September 2011
Amnesty International is calling for urgent action after an Israeli military commander renewed the administrative detention order against Ahmad Qatamesh by another six months last week. Read more about "Prisoner of conscience" Ahmad Qatamesh to be detained another 6 months without charge
15 September 2011
Two significant milestones in the Palestinian-led movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) were marked this week with a vote by the UK’s Trades Union Congress to reconsider its ties with Israel’s national trade union federation, and with the confirmation that boycott target Agrexco was ordered into liquidation. Read more about UK trade unionists put Histadrut under review; victory declared over Agrexco liquidation
14 September 2011
In a shocking statement today, Maen Areikat, the “ambassador” of the unelected, unrepresentative Palestinian Authority/PLO leadership, has reportedly espoused Israel’s brutal vision of apartheid and racial segregation. Read more about PLO ambassador Maen Areikat offers tacit support for Israeli ethnic cleansing, apartheid
14 September 2011
Why is a medical conference involving the Israeli military being sponsored by the European Union? Read more about EU helps Israeli colonel pose as Florence Nightingale
14 September 2011
Attorneys for the Irvine 11 attempt to bring evidence of an Israeli official’s plans to attend an LA Lakers game into the courtroom — blowing a hole in the prosecution’s claims that he had to cut short his speech due to protests — but the judge has refused to let the jury see the photograph. Read more about Irvine 11 update: Attorneys use key evidence, as reported by EI, in courtroom
12 September 2011
The US project for normalization with the the Israeli colonizing and apartheid regime was dealt a severe blow last Friday when protesters battered down the walls of the Israeli embassy in Cairo and even managed to break into the embassy’s offices. Read more about Wikileaks, the Israeli embassy takeover, and the US normalization project
11 September 2011
How Israel jumped on George Bush’s bandwagon. Read more about "Sacred" 9/11 and the shock doctrine in Palestine
10 September 2011
While world attention remains focused on whether or not the UN will admit as a full member a nonexistent Palestinian state, Israeli occupation forces are escalating their very real demolitions of Palestinian homes and infrastructure in the occupied West Bank. On 8 September, Chris Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine Refugees, stated: Read more about With focus on bogus "statehood" bid, Israel resumes home demolitions
10 September 2011
A group of pro-Israel activists has filed a lawsuit against the Olympia Food Co-op (OFC) to try to force it to end its boycott of Israeli goods. On 6 September, The Electronic Intifada exclusively revealed that the activists who had threatened the lawsuit were working in close collaboration with StandWithUs, a national pro-Israel organization, and that their plans had been discussed in advance with an Israeli government official. Read more about Lawsuit filed against Olympia Food Co-op, seeks to force end to Israel boycott