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5 February 2012
Video and report about my Penn BDS conference keynote, and my account of how an anti-Palestinian filmmaker misrepresented himself as a CBC journalist in a dirty trick. Read more about Video of my Penn BDS speech and how Zionist filmmaker pretended to be from Canada's CBC
4 February 2012
Despite all attempts to bully BDS activists at UPenn into cancelling their historic conference, they have prevailed. Omar Barghouti, a human rights activist and founding member of the Palestinian civil society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in this video salutes PennBDS and all US activists who have adopted BDS as the most effective form of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality. Read more about Video: “We - the global 99% - shall overcome!” Omar Barghouti’s salute to PennBDS conference
2 February 2012
Leading Palestinian figures including prominent human rights advocates Dr. Eyad Sarraj, and Raji Sourani have boycotted a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Gaza today over the latter’s refusal to meet with the families of Palestinian prisoners. Read more about Leading Palestinians boycott UN head Ban Ki-moon in Gaza as rebuffed prisoners' families greet him with shoes
2 February 2012
Unchecked inflammatory rhetoric by opponents of the Penn BDS conference, and the University of Pennsylvania’s failure to act, is making students feel unsafe. Read more about As anti-BDS attacks mount, students feel unsafe but U of Penn President maintains shameful silence
1 February 2012
In the latest shot against the upcoming boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) conference at the University of Pennsylvania next weekend, the movement is being openly compared to Nazism. Read more about BDS is Nazism and Omar Barghouti is Hitler says UPenn professor in shocking smear
31 January 2012
Israel has announced it plans to deport thousands of refugees from South Sudan. The reasoning behind the move suggests it could be a rehearsal for the expulsion of Palestinian citizens of Israel if an independent Palestinian state is ever established. Read more about Rehearsal for mass expulsion of Palestinian citizens? Israel's deportation of South Sudanese
30 January 2012
Khader Adnan, 34, a Palestinian being held without charge or trial, is at grave risk of death after 45 days of continuous hunger strike, according to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR), whose doctors examined him. Read more about Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan at risk of imminent death after 45 days hunger strike
30 January 2012
The relentless drumbeat for war against Iran got a little bit louder last night with comments by US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on CBS’ 60 Minutes that Iran is only a year from making a nuclear bomb. Read more about Is Iran really 'one year away from a bomb' or did Obama defense secretary just cave in further to Israel lobby?
29 January 2012
The Phildelphia Inquirer today publishes opposing op-eds on the upcoming boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) conference one by Ali Abunimah and the other by former CIA chief James Woolsey and Jonathan Schanzer of the pro-Israel neocon group Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Read more about EI's Ali Abunimah vs former CIA chief Woolsey on Penn BDS conference, in dueling Inquirer op-eds
28 January 2012
Cindy Corrie is among several people appearing in a short video calling for solidarity with the Olympia Food Co-op in Olympia, Washington and condemning a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Co-op’s boycott of Israeli goods. Read more about We will not be intimidated: Video with Cindy Corrie backs Olympia Food Co-op fight against anti-boycott lawsuit