Category Archives: Activism

Activists block entrance to Ma’ale Adumim settlement in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strike

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

Yesterday, protesters blocked the entrance to the Ma’ale Adumim settlement in support of the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike. The road that was blocked leads to the “Judea and Samaria Central Unit’s interrogation center”, one of the largest in the West Bank.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation | 8 Comments

Israeli officer threatens to rape Palestinian activists in custody (if this happened in Syria it would be headline news)

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Today in Palestine

Israel faces major West Bank uprising over hunger strikers

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 8 Comments

Palestinian writers call for boycott of Jerusalem int’l writers’ fest

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Eleanor Kilroy

Writers at int’l fest who tour East Jerusalem are gulty of ‘colonial voyeurism’, says Palestinian boycott committee

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Scorched earth in Bil’in

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Annie Robbins

Settlers are laughing about burning fields in Bil’in

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East | 1 Comment

House support for Israel damages prospects for peace

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Josh Ruebner

On Monday, the House of Representatives released a draft of the 2013 budget bill, which includes an eye-popping $1.5 billion in weapons earmarked for Israel.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 42 Comments

Protests on behalf of prisoners sweep the West Bank

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Allison Deger

Today protests in support of the 2,500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike reach a new height with demonstrations spreading across the West Bank. Marches were held in Hebron, Kafr Qaddoum, Nablus, Nabi Saleh, Ni’lin, Ramallah, al-Walaja and outside of Ofer prison.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 12 Comments

Mandy Patinkin speaks his truth

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Annie Robbins

Returning to Hebron after 30 years, Mandy Patinkin is shocked to find that he is attacked by his own people.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine | Tagged | 27 Comments

Thousands march across the West Bank in support of the prisoners’ hunger strike

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

Thousands took to the streets today in Palestinian cities and villages across the West Bank, in solidarity with over 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 4 Comments

CNN’s Amanpour interviews Kopty and Pollak on Palestinian prisoner strike

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Adam Horowitz
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video | 5 Comments

Palestinians shut down a second int’l aid organization to demand action on dying hunger strikers

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Allison Deger

A day after protesters shut down the U.N. offices in Ramallah, they shut down the Red Cross offices, demanding international action on the rights of 2,500 Palestinian prisoners now on their fourth week of a hunger strike against conditions inside of Israel’s prisons.

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Right of Return key goes on tour

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Annie Robbins

Al Arabiya: A huge key that weighs approximately a ton and symbolizes the right of return for Palestinian refugees was transported from the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem to the Berlin Biennale in Germany.

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video | Tagged | 52 Comments

Rejecting boycott, Tom Rob Smith and Tracy Chevalier prepare for Jerusalem International Writers Festival

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Eleanor Kilroy

The Jerusalem International Writers Festival is sponsored by the Jerusalem Foundation which, together with the Jerusalem municipality and settler organizations, is responsible for projects of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem.

Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government | 5 Comments

Under mounting pressure from hunger-strikers and UN protest, Ban Ki-moon criticizes administrative detention (but weakly)

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Allison Deger

Following 23 days of open-ended hunger strike by more than 2,500 prisoners, today Palestinians fed up with the lack of support to their cause shut down a United Nations (UN) building in Ramallah.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation | 7 Comments

Nowhere to go — Jahalin Bedouin homes slated for destruction outside Jerusalem

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Annie Robbins

‘Forcible transfer’ is the measure Israel has adopted for 27,000 Palestinian Bedouins living in Area C in territory filled with settlements

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East | 8 Comments

Standing up for equality at the ‘Equality Forum’ celebration of Israel

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Matthew Graber

A report from a protest at the Equality Forum’s celebration of LGBTQ rights in Israel.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 4 Comments

Report from the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike, and the movement growing to support it

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Lia Tarachansky reports on the Palestinian prisoner strike for the Real News.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 5 Comments

Israeli military raids office of human rights organization ‘Stop the Wall’; steals computers and hard drives

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Stop the Wall

Early this morning the Israeli military in ten armored jeeps surrounded and raided the Ramallah office of Stop the Wall, confiscating computers and archival documents.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 16 Comments

‘Battle of the Empty Stomachs’: Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab surpass 70 days on hunger strike

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Today in Palestine

Addameer: Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab’s petitions to the Israeli High Court regarding their administrative detention orders were rejected yesterday, four days following their High Court hearing on 3 May. Thaer and Bilal are on their 71st day of hunger strike and at immediate risk of death.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 7 Comments

In ‘Nation’ BDS debate, Barghouti demands rights, Avishai pleads to protect ‘progressive and creative’ Israeli elites

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Omar Barghouti and Bernard Avishai face off in a forum on BDS publshed by The Nation.

Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine, Media | 7 Comments

Operation Glass Houses: IDF agent provocateurs admit to throwing stones at the IDF in Bilin

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Haaretz: Undercover soldiers hurled stones in the “general direction” of IDF soldiers as part of their activity to counter weekly demonstrations in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, the commander of the Israeli Prison Service’s elite “Masada” unit revealed during his recent testimony in the trial of MK Mohammed Barakeh

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 15 Comments

Settlers poison grapevines belonging to occupied village, Beit Ummar

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Today in Palestine

Beit Ummar is also attacked by soldiers firing tear gas and rubber bullets after a funeral

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Politics | 2 Comments

Feminist scholar Katherine Franke refuses to be pawn in Oren’s equality game

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Allison Deger

At this year’s 2012 Equality Forum on advancing the rights of international LGTBQ communities, the “featured nation,” Israel, will pinkwash itself by exploiting Tel Aviv’s gay culture in order to manufacture conference goers into hasbara-ites.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Reports/Video | Tagged | 32 Comments

BDS Scorecard: Methodists recommend sanctions & boycotts; reject divestment

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Anna Baltzer

There has been confusion as to what was actually passed at the recent United Methodist Church General Conference. Anna Baltzer, from the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, sets the record clear.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | Tagged | 15 Comments

RIP MCA: Yauch challenged Islamophobia and US militarism in the Middle East on MTV in 1998

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Above is the Beastie Boys receiving a lifetime achievement award from MTV in 1998. Skip to 6:35 to hear what Adam Yauch had to say. Yauch, who was also known as MCA, died today from cancer at age 47. While … Continue reading →

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Native American and Indigenous Studies Scholars defend UCLA Professor David Shorter and supporters of BDS

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Native American and Indigenous Studies Scholars

In an open letter condemning the Amcha Initiative’s charges of anti-Semitism, Native American and Indigenous Studies scholars who endorse the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) defend their colleague, UCLA Professor David Shorter.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons | 6 Comments