8 April 2014
Plaintiffs required to pay $160,000 in statutory damages over frivolous lawsuit targeting first US grocery store to formally boycott Israeli goods. Read more about Olympia Co-op lawfare case backfires as court fines anti-boycott plaintiffs
3 April 2014
Divestment resolution at the University of New Mexico gains urgency after police shootings in Albuquerque bring home Israeli military violence in occupied West Bank. Read more about Anti-boycott resolution defeated in Illinois state government
2 April 2014
Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of New Mexico is calling on administration to pull its investments from corporations that profit from human rights violations in Palestine and at the US-Mexico border. Read more about Divestment vote at University of New Mexico tonight
21 March 2014
University of Michigan students engage in a sit-in after the student government tables a divestment vote “indefinitely”; Max Geller of Northeastern SJP talks about repression of student activism by the administration and right-wing groups; and a report from Gaza during Israeli Apartheid Week. Read more about US students resist repression of Palestine solidarity on campus
12 March 2014
Northeastern University administration banned Students for Justice in Palestine and launched a police investigation after members distributed flyers critical of Israel on campus. Read more about Northeastern students fighting back against ban on campus Palestine group
12 March 2014
David Sheen explains the heightened racist treatment of African asylum-seekers in Israel; a report from Gaza after an Israeli drone strike kills two Palestinians; Amnesty International condemns “trigger-happy” Israeli soldiers; and music by Revolution Makers. Read more about Israel's ramped-up racist attacks on African refugees: "it's scariest when no one objects"
3 March 2014
Israeli forces detained and violently abused a 16-year-old Palestinian child, and nine children were arrested in one incident in January. Read more about 183 Palestinian children arrested by army, facing Israeli military courts in January
26 February 2014
Student activists at Harvard University ask fellow undergraduates, “what does apartheid mean to you?” Read more about Harvard students collect testimonies of apartheid from Palestine to US
25 February 2014
Chris Gunness of UNRWA says that some food and medical aid has been distributed inside the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, but more immediate aid is needed; students at San Diego State push for divestment; and Remi Kanazi’s poem dismantles myths about the BDS movement. Read more about People of Yarmouk "have suffered enough," says UN
24 February 2014
Activist and journalist Eva Bartlett talks about the impact of the Israel-Egypt siege on the economic, agricultural and humanitarian situation in Gaza. Read more about Video: Constant drones over Gaza "is psychological warfare"
Nora Barrows-Friedman is a staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, and is the author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine (Just World Books, 2014).