PA officials in Ramallah “have no problem letting fellow Palestinians suffer for their own benefit.” Read more about Arab states should “strike” Gaza like Yemen, says advisor to Mahmoud Abbas 

US Department of Defense reaffirms its belief that Israel did not do enough to protect civilians in Gaza. Read more about Pentagon denies seeking advice from Israel on limiting civilian deaths 

Ten activists with the Glasgow Palestine Action Network promise to intensify BDS after being arrested for shutting down the Thales UK factory in Glasgow. Read more about Glasgow activists arrested for shutting down drone maker tied to Gaza slaughter 

Testing “non-lethal” weapons on civilians may be a war crime, says the research group Who Profits. Read more about Israel sprays "skunk water" into Palestinian homes  

Activists in Pennsylvania hold a protest outside the headquarters of Combined Systems, Inc., the company that manufactures lethal tear gas canisters used against people from Palestine to Oakland. Adalah-NY has a full-length report on CSI and its domestic and international contracts. Read more about MLK Day protest at weapons manufacturing company 

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