25 August 2012
State Department Muslim communities advisor says people should “engage” with Islamophobic blogger who urged Israel to kill Americans on Gaza flotilla Read more about State Department advisor defends fired Guardian columnist Joshua Treviño who wanted Israel to kill Americans
Washington, DC 29 May 2012
The State Department is breaking US law by continuing to fund the Israeli military despite the human rights violations documented in its own annual report. Read more about By supporting Israel, Hillary Clinton and Congress flout US human rights law
21 February 2012
Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran is an exhaustive account of what happened to Obama’s campaign pledge towards Iran, particularly after the Israeli government and its lobby in the United States challenged the very notion of diplomacy. Read more about Israel lobby's machinations on Iran probed in new book
6 February 2012
The US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) is asking supporters to sign a pledge to defend civil and human rights as it was revealed last week that the lead government prosecutor of the Holy Land Five has been assigned to the ongoing secret investigation against anti-war and international solidarity activists across the US. Read more about US Palestinians organize as government renews threats to indict solidarity activists
London 2 December 2011
The World Monuments Fund rejected a petition to have Lifta, a destroyed and ethnically cleansed Palestinian village, officially included in their protected heritage site list. Read more about World bodies must act now to save Lifta
Washington, DC 1 November 2011
The administration of US President Barack Obama announced Monday that it would immediately cut US funding for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, just hours after UNESCO’s governing board voted overwhelmingly to grant Palestine full membership. Read more about UNESCO funding cut over Palestine vote may harm US economy
11 October 2011
The US Congress has voted to freeze aid to the Palestinian Authority worth $200 million. The common theme of the freeze is the disruption of activities that might reinforce the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) drive for statehood. Read more about US aid freeze designed to further punish Palestinians
12 September 2011
The US project for normalization with the the Israeli colonizing and apartheid regime was dealt a severe blow last Friday when protesters battered down the walls of the Israeli embassy in Cairo and even managed to break into the embassy’s offices. Read more about Wikileaks, the Israeli embassy takeover, and the US normalization project
30 June 2011
The Irish Ship to Gaza campaign released documentation today that they say shows the MV Saoirse, docked in the Turkish coastal port of Gocek, was sabotaged in way “intended to endanger and/or inflict injury or death on Irish citizens as they went about their lawful right to sail on the high seas.” Read more about Irish Ship to Gaza release documentation of boat sabotage
27 June 2011
In an op-ed published by Al Jazeera English today, I write about the US government’s attempts to criminalize the Palestine solidarity activists — including the State Department’s threats to prosecute activists involved with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. I also appeared on Al Jazeera English’s The Stream today to discuss FBI raids and subpoenas targeting activists. Read more about US government moves to criminalize Palestine solidarity