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Category Archives: Activism
Why Israel freed Khader Adnan
Adnan’s case, as numerous commentators rightly note, has drawn attention to Israel’s practice of administrative detention. But by promising to release Adnan, the Israeli government headed off what could have been an embarrassing political and legal debacle.
Visualizing Palestine: Hunger strikes
A graphic outlining the history, and physical effects, of hunger strikes.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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PennBDS still being smeared two weeks after student conference
Though it has been two weeks since the much-discussed PennBDS conference, it seems that some opponents of Palestine solidarity simply cannot let it go.
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Occupation, US Politics
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Global march to challenge the ‘Judaization’ of Jerusalem
Hundreds of community organizations in dozens of countries spanning the globe have decided to participate in a massive Global March to Jerusalem on March 30, 2012.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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Assault on Beinart begins with poll claiming young American Jews love Israel
Beinart is wrong about Zionism, say critics– American Jews heart Israel
Video: mob of settlers call Hanin Zoabi a ‘terrorist’
Settlers mob member of Knesset Hanin Zoabi on Sunday as she walks through Hebron with military escort.
Posted in Activism, Flotilla, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists
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2013 US budget: ‘difficult cuts’ for Americans, jackpot for Israel
As the U.S. makes tough choices on budget cuts for 2013, Obama has pledged to kept aid to Israel at unprecedented levels, climbing over $3 billion next year.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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Day and night in a Bahraini jail
Radhika Sainath describes her arrest and interrogation in Bahrain: “They had got me. In Bahrain, supporting human rights was something akin to terrorism, and I had just admitted to it.”
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East
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Gaza sit-in, rally back Khader Adnan; general strike set for Tuesday
Every Monday morning the families of 445 Gaza Palestinians detained by Israel occupy the courtyard of Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters to demand that the ICRC fulfill its obligation to protect the rights of their imprisoned relatives. This week’s gathering was infused with fresh energy and a singular focus as Khader Adnan.
Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, On the ground reports
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Israeli government sending 100 Israelis abroad to ‘defend the state’ during Israel Apartheid Week
Israel’s Public Diplomacy Ministry plans an intensive hasbara campaign to counter Israel Apartheid Week.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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The end of the ‘two-state solution’ is the beginning of a more just future
Ever aware that the struggle for liberation must be led by Palestinians, our collective task at the moment, in my view, is to bring about the collapse of the present situation in Palestine in order to exploit its fundamental unsustainabilty.
Ambassadors of Apartheid: Batsheva Dance Company to tour San Francisco and New York
In the next few weeks activists in New York and San Francisco will protest the Batsheva Dance Company because the ensemble receives Israeli government funding as part of the “Brand Israel” campaign.
A criminal for witnessing: A US activist’s deportation from the Kingdom of Bahrain
K. Flo Razowsky describes her tumultuous time in Bahrain trying to stay a step ahead of the government while supporting the growing “revolutionary movement for democracy.”
Khader Adnan is honored at Bil’in protest
Palestinians unfurl huge image of hunger striker Khader Adnan at weekly Bil’in protest in occupied Palestine
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, On the ground reports
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Presbyterian investment committee recommends divestment from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola over complicity in the occupation
The Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Mission Responsibility Through Investment committee is recommending that the denomination divest its holdings in three companies – Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions.
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, US Politics
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Write a letter of support and solidarity to Khader Adnan and his family
A small group of writers, students, and activists is collecting letters of support and solidarity for Khader Adnan and his family. All of these letters are published at http://khaderadnan.posterous.com/.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
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Video: right-wing groups attack U.S. professors over Ilan Pappe speaking tour
A group called the AMCHA Initiative, founded by University of California faculty, launched a campaign against three California professors over an upcoming Ilan Pappe speaking tour.
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons
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Wael Ghonim at Harvard: a key figure of the Egyptian revolution speaks truth to U.S. power
Hailed as the spark that ignited the Egyptian revolution, Wael Ghonim spoke at Harvard University earlier this month on Egypt and U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Book Review: ‘A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship’
The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) book A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship offers a behind the scenes window into a continued struggle to give voice to a people whose cultural identity has been assaulted, ignored, hidden, repressed, attacked and stolen.
Khader Adnan, 61 days on a hunger strike, near death
A Palestinian prisoner on his 61st day of hunger strike while shackled to a bed in an Israeli hospital is in immediate danger of death, according to a medical report submitted to the supreme court in an effort to secure his release.
BDS interview fallout: Finkelstein ‘showed his own fear of the paradigm shift in discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’
Three responses to Norman Finkelstein’s interview slamming the BDS movement.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine
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‘A level of racist violence I have never seen’: UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement
UCLA professor Robin D.G. Kelley just returned from a delegation to Israel/Palestine with the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and speaks to Mondoweiss about Palestine, BDS, black Zionism and much more.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
Tagged academic boycott, Americans for Middle East Understanding, featured, Grace Halsell, Jesse Jackson, Jewish Defense League, Marcus Garvey, PLO, Robin Kelley, Students for Justice in Palestine, USACBI, Vanguard Leadership Group
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In photos: PennBDS
Sara Jawhari’s exclusive photographs of the watershed Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference held at the University of Pennsylvania.
Out of the Ballpark: Susan Abulhawa’s speech to the PennBDS conference
A video and partial notes from Susan Abulhawa’s speech to the PennBDS conference.
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Nakba, Occupation, US Politics
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Israeli rights group to Ehud Barak: Put Khader Adnan on trial or release him immediately
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel sent the following letter to Ehud Barak yesterday.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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