7 December 2011
Update and resolution: Telemundo contractor terminated after racist tweets exposed Telemundo released the following statement this afternoon, 7 December: We have investigated the matter and have found that the person associated with the twitter handle @hotchulo was a part-time contracted worker. Read more about NBC's Telemundo investigating anti-Muslim tweets by "social media coordinator"
7 December 2011
Ahmad Attoun, a lawmaker from the Hamas party, was expelled from Jerusalem today after Israeli forces released him from prison and took him to Qalandia checkpoint between the city and Ramallah. Read more about Israel forcibly transfers Palestinian lawmaker from Jerusalem
6 December 2011
Danny Danon, a member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, is proposing that all Israeli citizens – especially the 1.4 million Palestinian citizens of Israel – should be forced to declare an oath of loyalty to the political ideology of Zionism as a condition for obtaining an ID card. Read more about Israel lawmaker wants to force Palestinians to swear "Zionist" oath
6 December 2011
Yitzhak Ben-Israel, a representative of Ariel, a university in an illegal Israeli settlement, takes part in EU-funded science conference. Read more about Settler "professor" top attraction at EU-Israel science show
5 December 2011
Veolia feigns commitment to peace by supporting the Veolia Desert Challenge sports event. Meanwhile the company continues to be involved in Israeli colonization projects in the occupied West Bank. Read more about Veolia blows it again by trying to promote "peace" through normalization sports event
5 December 2011
Streisand and former Israeli military Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi — commander of Israel’s attacks on Gaza in 2008-09 — raise money for occupation soldiers this week in LA. Read more about Barbra Streisand to perform at Los Angeles fundraiser for Israeli military
4 December 2011
Update: After “hundreds” of complaints, the Guardian has refused to publish subsequent ads from the Israeli tourism ministry. See full update below. An Israeli tourism map appearing in the Guardian last weekend rendered occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories as part of “Israel”. The map very much appears to be in breach of UK advertising regulations. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in 2009 upheld complaints against an Israeli tourism bilboard because it included a similar map, ruling the ad “must not appear again in its current form”. The three-page advertising spread from the Israeli tourism ministry in the Guardian Weekend is part of what increasingly looks like a major new advertising campaign in the UK. Read more about UPDATED: Israeli campaign to attract UK tourists wipes Palestine and Syria off the map
4 December 2011
A new Israel propaganda video uses a Facebook motif to present Israel as the eternal victim of unremitting violence and enmity while skipping over Israel’s record of ethnic cleansing, occupation, colonization, violence and official hatred against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims. Read more about Israel as a spurned Facebook friend: the worst propaganda video ever?
4 December 2011
Students at the University of Michigan have done it again — a year after the silent mass walk-out from a propaganda event on campus featuring an Israeli soldier, setting an example followed by students at several other campuses, students organized another mass walk-out from a hasbara lecture by the Israeli government’s token Arab spokesperson, Ishmael Khaldi. Read more about Video: Students organize mass walk-out targeting Israel's token Arab spokesperson
3 December 2011
Volvo equipment was once again used by Israeli forces in home demolitions on 24 November. Volvo should follow the example of Japanese crane manufacturer Tadano. The company decided to end business with Iran because their cranes were used by the regime in the hanging of people. Read more about Home demolitions in Beit Hanina executed with Volvo and Hyundai equipment