18 March 2011
A trade mission of the US government in partnership with a settlement-based aerospace and consulting firm raises questions about why Washington is promoting the Israeli arms trade and why it is doing so with a firm based in an illegal colony which explicitly contradicts official US policy as well as international law. Read more about US promoting arms trade mission organized by settlement firm
18 March 2011
Under pressure over its involvement with the Israeli occupation, Danish-British security firm G4S recently stated its intention to withdraw from some of its contracts with Israeli companies in the West Bank. Read more about Security firm G4S partly withdraws from W. Bank
18 March 2011
Several Canadian universities launched campus divestment initiatives, a Danish-owned Israeli security company is forced to pull out of contracts in the occupied West Bank due to public pressure, and legendary musicians Pete Seeger and Roger Waters come out in support of the BDS movement. Read more about Boycott roundup: Canada campuses mobilize to divest
17 March 2011
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Tens of thousands of Palestinians from across the political spectrum took to the streets throughout the West Bank and Gaza on Tuesday to mark 15 March, “the day of rage” to protest the political division between Hamas and Fatah. Read more about Unity calls stifled in West Bank and Gaza
17 March 2011
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IRIN) - The Israeli blockade has restricted a generation of youth in Gaza from educational and employment opportunities, say UN and other sources. Read more about Blockade denying Gaza youth education, employment
16 March 2011
AWARTA, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Food supplies are running low, ambulances have been detained for hours at checkpoints and hundreds of young men have been held, interrogated and beaten up, some requiring hospitalization, in the Palestinian village of Awarta in the northern West Bank. The village has been under continuous curfew for four days. Read more about Palestinian village under siege following settler killings
al-Araqib 17 March 2011
As Israel continues to deepen its claims on land in the occupied West Bank, the state is aggressively pursuing a similar project within the green line boundary. Read more about Palestinian Bedouins in al-Araqib: "We won't leave"
Jabalia refugee camp 16 March 2011
Gaza power plant official Derar Abu Sisi went missing in Ukraine earlier this year and is now believed to be held in an Israeli prison. Rami Almeghari reports for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Family of engineer believed kidnapped by Israel speak out
17 March 2011
Last month witnessed the launch of the first Polish-Israeli governmental forum held in occupied Jerusalem. The biannual dialogue accelerates an existing partnership between the two countries which includes trade agreements, joint military training exercises and arms deals under an ongoing “Polonization of Israeli Technology” drive. Ewa Jasiewicz comments for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Bad romance: Poland and Israel's "love story"
15 March 2011
After hearing that the New York City LGBT Center was planning to host Israeli Apartheid Week’s final celebratory fundraiser, “Party to End Apartheid,” gay porn director Michael Lucas made some phone calls, sent some emails and spent upwards of $1,000 to pressure the center to close their “open doors policy” and cancel the event. Anna Lekas Miller comments for The Electronic Intifada Read more about Palestine is a queer issue