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Irvine 11: Sentenced to community service, no jailtime; attorneys prepare appeal
Nora Barrows-Friedman Nora Barrows-Friedman's blog Rights and Accountability 24 September 2011 At approximately 2:35pm this afternoon in the Orange County Superior Courthouse in Santa Ana, California, the presiding judge in the Irvine 11 trial, Peter ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 11 comments
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Mahmoud Abbas: the Second Coming
prisoners, the settlements…it was a speech that was comprehensive of what every Palestinian wanted to hear.” ... eight thousand Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli jails. Nor has Abbas been shy about ...
Linah Alsaafin - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 2 comments
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Searching for Palestinian voices in the UN bid media coverage
independent political parties in Beit Jala in mid-September that attracted various high-profile Palestinian ... keeping with the almost total media blackout on independent political parties in Palestine that has ...
Jaime Omar Yassin - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 3 comments
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Hasbara in Helsinki
by the European Commission (a political body to which Ashton belongs), it features two finalists from ... demonstrate that fascism has roots in left-of-center politics. “Hopefully, this insight would be useful in ...
David Cronin - 08/03/2015 - 04:04
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Lesson from South Africa for Palestine: Support the political prisoners
involving political prisoners. Ghadija coordinated the Western Cape Relief Fund that supported prisoners on ... Robben Island, a maximum security prison for political prisoners in apartheid South Africa. Vallie also ... worked with most prisons in the Western Cape province and visited political prisoners on death row. ...
Adri Nieuwhof - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 6 comments
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Why should Israeli settlers influence an Irish election?
Hebron area. Norris has been hugely supportive of his ex-partner’s political work by, among other things, ...
David Cronin - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 1 comment
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Defense attorneys for the Irvine 11: "This prosecution is an affront to the constitution"
Nora Barrows-Friedman Nora Barrows-Friedman's blog Rights and Accountability 1 October 2011 Responding to a recent op-ed in the Orange County Register by District Attorney Tony Rauckauckas — whose office led the prosecution against the Irvine 11 stud ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 2 comments
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Action urged as Israel punishes dozens of hunger-striking political prisoners
political prisoners who are protesting worsening conditions in Israeli detention. Thousands of prisoners are ... political prisoners by banning academic study. Ending the abuse of solitary confinement is also a key demand ... resistance forces in Gaza. National unity amongst political prisoners While national unity efforts between ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 5 comments
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US academic and cultural BDS campaign condemns convictions of Irvine 11
outrageous verdict that makes a mockery of freedom of political expression and that has already had ... afraid to openly express their political views on Palestine and to engage in public politics due to the ... acts and student acts of political dissidence thereby bringing into fruition the systematic repression ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 08/03/2015 - 04:04
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US launches "civil rights" probe at Columbia University as Zionist censorship, smears intensify
politics and intellectual history at Columbia. Marcus, who headed the OCR himself between 2003 and 2004, ...
Ali Abunimah - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 2 comments
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easyJet enables “pinkwashing” of apartheid
politics of the region was via a quote from the Israeli movie director Eytan Fox: “There are some people ...
David Cronin - 06/07/2015 - 02:34 - 5 comments
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Leaving the Shore: Reflections on a Night with Alice Walker, Ali Abunimah and Historic Occupy Wall Street Protests
Palestine to put it mildly, but it seemed somehow anti-climactic to sit down for a political conversation. ... At its heart, that feeling was a reaction to the segmentation of issues that infects our political ... sometimes permeates the movement for justice for Palestinians seems often at odds with our other political ...
Jaime Omar Yassin - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 1 comment
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Salah ban: Theresa May's serious problem with the truth
personally signed the order to exclude respected Palestinian political activist Sheikh Raed Salah from the ...
Asa Winstanley - 08/03/2015 - 04:04
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Dire Consequences for Backing the US State Department's Consensus on the Two State Solution
humanity is merely a nod to political correctness that belongs in speeches and preambles about Middle East ...
Jaime Omar Yassin - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 1 comment
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Support for Palestinian political prisoners is gaining momentum
the Palestinian political prisoners started their hunger strike on 27 September, we talked about what ... revenge on Palestinian political prisoners because of Gilad Shalit. We are on hunger strike because we, ... nation was not united. The case of the political prisoners will take us back to our roots and unite us. ...
Adri Nieuwhof - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 3 comments
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UK TV regulator rejects Saeb Erekat complaint of unfair coverage of Palestine Papers
around eastern occupied Jerusalem, colluded in the siege of Gaza, and worked to torpedo a prisoner ... exchange that could have seen a thousand Palestinian prisoners freed from Israeli jails. I took part in the ...
Ali Abunimah - 08/03/2015 - 04:04
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#TweepStrike: A Call from Gaza to Support Palestinian Prisoners
political prisoners #HS4Palestine political prisoners ... Rana Baker Rana Baker's blog 11 October 2011 In solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held ... 12th. A few months ago, I was on visit to one of the prisoners’ families. With moist eyes and a shaky ...
Rana Baker - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 1 comment
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Silencing Occupy Wall Street and criticism of Israel through demonization
Ali Abunimah Ali Abunimah's blog 11 October 2011 What do the efforts to silence criticism of Israel and the attacks on Occupy Wall Street have in common? Paul Krugman has a great column today on the “panicked” reaction of the country’s plutocrats to ...
Ali Abunimah - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 3 comments
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Hunger strike movement for Palestine develops rapidly
today to support the demands of the Palestinian political prisoners in their hunger strike. The BNC ... impunity. The BNC writes: For the fifteenth day in a row, our brave political prisoners continue their ... UN day of solidarity with South African political prisoners, the UN, under US hegemony, has turned ...
Adri Nieuwhof - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 3 comments
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Hip-hop band DAM supports Palestinian prisoners' actions with new track
IMEMC. If the swap deal materializes, about five-thousand Palestinian political prisoners still remain in ... political prisoners ... Palestinian hip-hop band DAM released a new track ‘A Letter From a Prison Cell’ to support the Palestinian ...
Adri Nieuwhof - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
