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Facebook appoints Israeli censor to oversight board
Tamara Nassar Tamara Nassar's blog Power Suits 26 May 2020 Facebook habitually censors Palestinian journalists and news organizations on its platform. (Anthony Quintano / Flickr) Facebook has hired the former director-general of Israel’s justice min ...
Tamara Nassar - 05/26/2020 - 20:57 - 4 comments
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Joe Biden's hatred of Palestinians echoes his anti-Black racism
sanctions movement for Palestinian rights. “Welfare queens” Biden pledges to “Firmly reject the BDS ...
Ali Abunimah - 05/26/2020 - 14:42 - 13 comments
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Effort to blame BDS for anti-Semitism thwarted by facts
Ali Abunimah Ali Abunimah's blog Lobby Watch 21 May 2020 A participant in the Palestine Marathon runs with a sign urging support for a boycott of Israel, to help Palestinians secure their rights, in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, 22 March ...
Ali Abunimah - 05/24/2020 - 04:33 - 1 comment
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Agent for Israel drops lawsuit against National Lawyers Guild
divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights has been voluntarily dismissed by the ... commitment to BDS includes boycotting institutions complicit in Israel’s crimes, not Israeli individuals or ... Palestinian liberation, including the BDS movement. Suing human rights groups Abrams has a lengthy history of ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 05/20/2020 - 21:51 - 2 comments
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How Israel lobby pressured a Pittsburgh university
anti-Semitism with the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. The assertions ... and mischaracterization of the BDS movement by Paul Hennigan, the president of Point Park University ... pressure from major Israel lobby organizations to condemn BDS and shield Israel from criticism. The lawsuit ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 06/10/2020 - 16:53
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Solidarity means insisting on Palestinian right of return
BDS measures to the blocking of Israeli cargo ships. For a moment it felt like the Palestine ... websites that dox activists, the proliferation of anti-BDS laws and, most recently, Donald Trump’s ... justness of our positions.” BDS campaigns should apply to all of Israel over its ethnic cleansing and ...
David Cronin - 05/14/2020 - 17:48 - 1 comment
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Israel kills child in West Bank
Tamara Nassar Tamara Nassar's blog Rights and Accountability 13 May 2020 Mourners carry the body of Zaid Fadil Qaisiya during his funeral at the Fawwar refugee camp southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on 13 May. Mosab Shawer APA image ...
Tamara Nassar - 05/14/2020 - 13:43 - 3 comments
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Artists, scholars pledge to resist German censorship on Palestine
Ali Abunimah Ali Abunimah's blog Activism and BDS Beat 12 May 2020 German officials attempted ... a literary honor for British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie over her support for BDS – the boycott, ... BDS, which the mayor falsely labeled an “anti-Semitic movement.” As the pledge notes, the museum that ...
Ali Abunimah - 05/12/2020 - 12:18
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Trump turns on colleges, colleges on human rights
Canary Mission, an aggressive pro-Israel group. Canary Mission blacklists pro-Palestine and pro-BDS ...
Anonymous - 05/08/2020 - 22:49
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Ramadan shows promote normalization with Israel
Tamara Nassar Tamara Nassar's blog Activism and BDS Beat 4 May 2020 A scene from television ...
Tamara Nassar - 05/05/2020 - 16:23
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Boston students vilified for tackling how Israel trains US cops
Nora Barrows-Friedman Nora Barrows-Friedman's blog Activism and BDS Beat 1 May 2020 Tufts ... lobby talking points to smear the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian ... Tufts SJP Israel Lobby BDS anti-semitism Columbia University Point Park University campus activism ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 05/01/2020 - 19:54 - 7 comments
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UK Supreme Court boosts BDS
Asa Winstanley Asa Winstanley's blog Activism and BDS Beat 29 April 2020 A 2019 Palestine ... said was a historic legal victory for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement on Wednesday. BDS ... anti-BDS measures. Instead of attacking activists, said Hawwash, the government should be acting to uphold ...
Asa Winstanley - 04/29/2020 - 18:25 - 3 comments
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UN agency in Jordan dumps G4S over human rights abuses
Nora Barrows-Friedman Nora Barrows-Friedman's blog Activism and BDS Beat 24 April 2020 ... (UNDP) office in Jordan will not renew its contract with the British firm, according to Jordan BDS ... has also announced it is not renewing its contract with G4S, Jordan BDS has stated.. @G4S is ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 04/25/2020 - 07:55 - 1 comment
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EU backs off warning to Israel over West Bank annexation
Ali Abunimah Ali Abunimah's blog Power Suits 23 April 2020 EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in February that Israeli annexation of the West Bank “could not pass unchallenged.” But he now appears to have backed off. (European Parliament) The ...
Ali Abunimah - 04/23/2020 - 19:00 - 4 comments
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European Jewish Congress promotes anti-Muslim bigotry
solidarity activists, or the BDS – boycott, divestment and sanctions – movement for Palestinian rights had ... expends many words attacking the BDS movement and trying to associate its supporters with rising ... anti-Semitism. BDS is mentioned no fewer than two dozen times in the 17-page document. The report lists as ...
Ali Abunimah - 04/21/2020 - 21:48 - 1 comment
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Keir Starmer tilts Labour sharply towards Israel
Asa Winstanley Asa Winstanley's blog Power Suits 10 April 2020 Keir Starmer addresses a Labour Party event in November 2019. Han Yan Xinhua “I support Zionism without qualification” – those are the words of the UK Labour Party’s new leader, Keir Star ...
Asa Winstanley - 04/30/2021 - 11:07 - 20 comments
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Israel attacks Palestinians as they fight COVID-19
Ali Abunimah Ali Abunimah's blog Rights and Accountability 31 March 2020 Workers for the United Nations agency UNRWA in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, prepare food rations to be delivered to the homes of Palestinian refugee families on 31 March, in an ef ...
Ali Abunimah - 04/01/2020 - 15:28 - 5 comments
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Microsoft divests from Israeli surveillance firm
Nora Barrows-Friedman Nora Barrows-Friedman's blog Activism and BDS Beat 30 March 2020 Israel ... AnyVision. #DropAnyvision https://t.co/TZpSijUyz0 — PACBI (@PACBI) March 30, 2020 BDS WIN! We made this ... headquarters in January, according to Jewish Voice for Peace. Joint statement from the BDS Movement and ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 03/30/2020 - 23:08
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Palestinians rally online for Land Day
Ali Abunimah Ali Abunimah's blog Activism and BDS Beat 30 March 2020 Palestinians hold ... against Israel’s repression, plus COVID-19, the need for meaningful solidarity in the form of #BDS is even ... more urgent. pic.twitter.com/s9ZzNMfWoA — BDS movement (@BDSmovement) March 30, 2020 This year, ...
Ali Abunimah - 03/30/2020 - 17:29
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Sports stars train with Israeli military
of fans in the United States,” helping to offset the impact of the BDS movement. An additional ...
Michael F. Brown - 03/20/2020 - 20:25 - 1 comment
