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28 March 2012
Dennis Bernstein spoke to Ali Abunimah on KPFA’s Flashpoints, about Hana al-Shalabi and the struggles of other Palestinian political prisoners against Israel’s systematic abuses. Read more about Hana al-Shalabi's hunger strike: Listen to Ali Abunimah interview on Flashpoints
27 March 2012
Students from Brandeis University and other Boston-area colleges disrupted a town hall meeting on 26 March where five Israeli lawmakers from anti-Palestinian parties were due to speak. Read more about Video: Brandeis students disrupt panel by anti-Palestinian Israeli lawmakers
26 March 2012
What will it take to get the media pundits – who constantly demand that Palestinians produce Gandhis – to pay heed to Hana al-Shalabi’s struggle? She’s on Day 40 of her hunger strike against arbitrary detention by Israel. Read more about Why the silence? Hana Shalabi on day 40 of hunger strike as Israel rejects appeal
25 March 2012
What does the spokesman of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do when his propaganda efforts fail to conceal Israel’s abuses of Palestinians? He uses the blood of Jewish children murdered in the French city of Toulouse last week to try to blot them out. This is low, even for Israeli official propaganda. Read more about Israel exploits Toulouse murders to justify no-charge jailing of hunger striker Hana al-Shalabi
23 March 2012
Video has emerged from a shocking mob attack by hundreds of Israeli football fans on Arab workers and shoppers at the Malha Mall in western Jerusalem. Read more about Video emerges of Israeli mob shouting "Death to the Arabs" that attacked Palestinians at Jerusalem mall
23 March 2012
Graduate students at Carleton University in Ottawa have overwhelmingly voted for divestment from companies profiting from Israeli occupation and human rights abuses in what is the first ever such referendum on a university campus in Canada. Read more about In Canadian first, Carleton University students pass Israel occupation divestment resolution by large margin
22 March 2012
B’Tselem’s Executive Director Jessica Montell has admonished the Palestinian human rights groups for speaking out against the Israeli human rights’ group’s participation in J Street’s conference featuring war crimes suspect Ehud Olmert. Read more about "Dismayed" B'Tselem scolds Palestinian rights groups for "conduct," speaking out over Olmert gala
21 March 2012
The decision of Israeli human rights group B’Tselem to participate in J Street’s upcoming conference featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is “incredibly damaging” to the effort to achieve justice and accountability for victims of war crimes. Read more about B'Tselem role in J Street's gala featuring Olmert "incredibly damaging" says Palestinian rights group PCHR
19 March 2012
Hana al-Shalabi is at risk of “imminent death” after more than a month on hunger strike against her violent, arbitrary detention by Israel has led to a serious deterioration in her health. She has been transferred from HaSharon prison to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba. Read more about Hana Shalabi at risk of "imminent death" in Israel custody on day 33 of hunger strike, doctors warn
19 March 2012
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has backed away from its sponsorship of US Israel lobby group J Street]s 26 March “gala” featuring former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert under whose leadership thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese were killed and injured in what B’Tselem itself has termed war crimes. Read more about Human rights group B'Tselem backs away from "sponsorship" of J Street's Olmert gala