17 June 2011
The Mavi Marmara will not be going back to Gaza, the Turkish group sponsoring it, IHH said today. But the Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2 will sail and IHH will remain part of the international coalition to break the siege of Gaza. Read more about Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2 to sail with Turkish group's support, but without Mavi Marmara
13 June 2011
The Daily Star in Beirut reports on 12 June: James Wolfensohn, former World Bank president, has pulled out of the commencement due to honor him at the American University of Beirut following a petition from students and faculty members over his links to an Israeli think tank and businesses. Read more about Report on The Electronic Intifada boosted campaign to nix AUB speech by Wolfensohn
12 June 2011
Ali Abunimah and Benjamin Doherty have gathered compelling new evidence regarding the “Gay Girl in Damascus” blogger hoax. Read more about New evidence about Amina, the "Gay Girl in Damascus" hoax
9 June 2011
A UK legislator who has introduced an ‘anti-Sharia’ bill into the UK parliament supposedly in the name of equality is co-president of an Israeli organization that favors expulsion of Palestinians, denies the Nakba, and espouses extreme anti-Muslim views. Read more about UK 'anti-Sharia' legislator backed Israel group calling for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
8 June 2011
One of the big lies that the peace process industry has been telling for the past few years is of an economic boom in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, brought about by the supposedly competent, technocratic rule of the handpicked, US-backed “prime minister” Salam Fayyad and the Palestinian Authority. Read more about Busting the myth of the West Bank "economic boom"
8 June 2011
The PLO “chief negotiator” Saeb Erekat has categorically denied a report in The Washington Post suggesting that the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership that he represents has dropped its insistence that Israel halt settlement construction in the occupied West Bank before resuming US-brokered negotiations with Israel. Read more about Saeb Erekat denies Washington Post claim Palestinians dropped settlement freeze demand
7 June 2011
More information is emerging about events in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus, Syria. Read more about Update on protests, killings in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria
6 June 2011
Disturbing reports have emerged that a large number of Palestinians have been killed in a shooting in Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, Syria. Read more about Mass shooting reported in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria - video
6 June 2011
Those marching to Israeli-controlled frontiers of Palestine should be seen in the same light as Germans who tore down the Berlin Wall. Read more about If Arabs were Germans and Israel's frontiers were the Berlin Wall
5 June 2011
A video posted on YouTube by the website Baladee.net shows marchers trying to evacuate injured and possibly dead people in the Golan Heights today after Israeli forces opened fired on marchers commemorating the 44th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of area which is part of Syria. Read more about Video: Marchers rescue injured people, bodies in occupied Golan Heights