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SF officials describe ‘apartheid’ label as ‘intolerance alienating the Jewish community’
Coalition supporting apartheid ads on SF buses urges campaign to stop official action to label their ads hate speech
Posted in Israel/Palestine
27 Comments
Glenn Greenwald on the Woolwich attack and blowback from the ‘war on terror’
Glenn Greenwald wrote another of his important blowback articles this morning in the Guardian; Was the London killing of a British soldier ‘terrorism’? He asks an essential question concerning the definition and use of the term “terrorism”. The media in western societies should be scrutinizing this definition and the hypocrisy with which the term is applied.
Posted in Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
44 Comments
Video: Paterson, NJ raises the Palestinian flag over city hall for Palestinian-American Day
One day after the Palestinian flag reached the top of the world, a flag raising ceremony was held in Paterson, New Jersey (video 3:12) accompanied by the Palestinian national anthem and cheers of “Long Live Palestine”.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video, US Politics
14 Comments
Mohammed Assaf, singing sensation out of Gaza refugee camp, torches Arab Idol competition
Arab Idol finalist Mohammed Assaf managed to get out of Khan Younis refugee camp to Cairo and has has drawn comparisons to the late Egyptian nightingale Abdel Halim Hafez; Mahmoud Abbas has called him to say he has made Palestine and the Arab world proud; his poster is hanging in homes, restaurants and stores all across Palestine…
Posted in Israel/Palestine
33 Comments
Two friends meet for 5 minutes in Jerusalem

What power on earth can prevent two people from the same country meeting in their own land? Walaa Al Ghussein (on the right) had a permit to be in Israel for one day. She had to get back to Gaza by 7 PM. She had never been to Jerusalem before in her life. Her friend Maha from Umm al-Fahem was desperate to see her…
Video: Soldiers aim guns at fallen boy’s head outside West Bank settlement
A grim video of the occupied territories shows a Palestinian boy fallen apparently after being shot outside an Israeli settlement and soldiers and “security” pointing guns at his head.
Posted in Israel/Palestine
30 Comments
Demonizing Mandy Patinkin is a tough sell
‘Another soldier in the delegitimization war against Israel’– that’s what the Jewish Press calls Mandy Patinkin for favoring boycott of West Bank settlements and speaking to Peace Now
Posted in Israel/Palestine
24 Comments
‘If I had to choose between the wealth of the world and going home, I would go back’
Refugee Naifeh Abu Ayadah makes a video about the Nakba by Wafaa Aburahama
Posted in Israel/Palestine
17 Comments
Christians denounce Israel’s manhandling of worshipers at Holy Sepulcher on Easter weekend; Israel apologizes to Egypt
Heads of Christian churches in Jerusalem denouncing attacks on worshipers: A day of joy and celebration was turned to great sorrow and pain for some of our faithful because they were ill-treated by some Israeli policemen
International Criminal Court opens preliminary investigation into attack on Mavi Marmara
Yesterday May 14th Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), released a statement announcing her office would be opening a preliminary investigation into the massacre on board the Mavi Marmara in which the lives of 9 human rights activists were brutally cut short by the Israeli military on May 31, 2010, in international waters off the coast of Gaza.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
96 Comments
Washington state bus-ad campaign dares to state: ‘Equal rights for Palestinians’
‘I’m not allowed on Israel’s segregated buses’ and ‘I’m only allowed to attend Israel’s segregated schools’ — creative ads in Washington state feature portraits of ordinary Palestinians
Posted in Israel/Palestine
16 Comments
Mother’s Day in Seattle features a Nakba exhibit downtown
In its effort to break the “Information Blockade” the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign stages a Mother’s Day exhibit in downtown Seattle commemorating the Nakba in Palestine. Mothers Against Ethnic Cleansing!
Posted in Israel/Palestine
31 Comments
Church of Scotland backs away from boycott call in the face of pressure
Church of Scotland report came out for boycott and divestment to end Israeli settlements of Palestine. Jewish groups objected to the language. The Church has now bagged the report and will “reword” it
Posted in Israel/Palestine
62 Comments
On Monday, NYC-area students will bring national Divestment Action Day to TIAA-CREF headquarters
On May 13th, 2 days before Palestinians around the world commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, students from Columbia, NYU, Brooklyn College, CUNY Schools, Hunter, and Rutgers and the We Divest national campaign will be kicking off a national Divestment Action Day demanding TIAA-CREF divest from the Israeli occupation.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, US Politics
6 Comments
Musab Shawer sentenced to 5 months as Israel continues to target journalists
Another young Palestinian talent has been locked away by Israel. Broadcast Journalist Musab Shawer Al-Tamimi (22), who worked at Al-Khalil (Hebron)Radio, was sentenced to 5 months in prison on World Press Freedom Day.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
9 Comments
Colbert lumps opposition to Palestinian freedom with opposition to marriage equality
Stephen Colbert asks Donna Edwards if she isn’t “lukewarm on Israel” and she defends the two-state solution. A reminder of how broken the US discourse is
Posted in Israel/Palestine
19 Comments
Chomsky endorses Albany, NY ‘Stop $30 Billion Military Aid to Israel’ billboard
The Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel is proud to announce yet another billboard has just gone up calling for an end to military aid to Israel–this time in Albany, New York.
Israeli right denounces reported settlement freeze, promised by Netanyahu to Kerry
Israeli’s new Housing Minister Uri Ariel says Jewish Home Party will oppose any Gov’t budget without settlement expansion included
It’s in Jerusalem’s DNA to be under ‘sole Jewish rule,’ mayor declares
May 8 is Jerusalem Day, and Israelis are already celebrating by issuing declarations about how many Jewish babies Jerusalem Jews are producing and how many Palestinians are producing
Israel strikes Syria, explosions rock Damascus like ‘an earthquake’
The reports began last night. First the New York Times and Washington Post reported that Israel had struck Syria on Friday. Then Reuters and later AP reported fresh strikes by Israel on the Syrian capital. Video footage uploaded onto the Internet by activists showed a huge ball of fire rising into the night sky. The missile strikes are alleged to target Syrian arms being transported to Hezbollah.
Posted in Israel/Palestine
118 Comments
It’s World Press Freedom Day, and cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh is locked away
The cartoon movement held its celebration of World Press Freedom Day yesterday; and Mohammad Saba’aneh, a Palestinian artist locked in an Israeli jail, was honored
Google recognizes Palestine
PNN: “The International web search engine “Google” recognized the Palestinian state after it was referring to Palestine as “The Palestinian Territories” since its establishment.”
Posted in Israel/Palestine
17 Comments
US State Dep’t echoes David Sheen’s documentation of Israeli racism toward refugees– as infiltrators, disease-bearers
Last year the tireless chronicler of racism in Israeli society, David Sheen, showed how Israeli politicians described African refugees as ‘infiltrators.’ Now the US State Department appears to have picked up Sheen’s report.
Posted in Israel/Palestine
4 Comments
Palestinian-American lineman Oday Aboushi drafted by his hometown team, the New York Jets
Sami Kishawi at Sixteen Minutes to Palestine has the full story on Palestinian-American Oday Aboushi who was drafted last week by the New York Jets in the NFL draft.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Politics
11 Comments
‘Strategic Partner Act of 2013′ would give US seal of approval to Israeli discrimination against Arab-Americans
Racism by another name: The US-Israel “Strategic Partner Act of 2013” is raising ire across the nation

