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Category Archives: Israeli Government
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.
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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The Palestinian refugees of Lebanon
In my native Lebanon, where I volunteered last winter in a number of Palestinian refugees camps such as Burj el Barajne, I saw first hand the immense level of deprivation Palestinians face as refugees in Lebanon, where they are prevented from the right to work, from joining any Lebanese trade unions, from owning property and even denied social security.
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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Khader Adnan ends strike and will be released in April, under reported deal
Israeli officials today offered a deal to hunger striker Khader Adnan, now in his 66th day of protest against his administrative detention.
Israeli spokesman Mark Regev grilled on CNN International over Khader Adnan
CNN International’s Hala Gorani interviews Mark Regev about Khader Adnan’s case.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation
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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.
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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Israel increases tax breaks to settlements
Last weekend a bill was passed giving a 35% tax break to organizations “strengthening Zionism and encouraging Zionist settlement.”
Israel gives ‘price tag’ youth a new West Bank hilltop
The Israeli government is violating a order by the high court, granting settlers with the “price tag” hilltop youth a new plot of land, marking the first new settlement construction in over a decade.
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.
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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Report: Last five years has seen a 315% rise in settler violence; this violence is ‘structural and symptomatic of occupation’
Yesterday, the Palestine Center released the new report “When Settlers Attack,” the result of of a two-year project which cataloged over 3,700 instances of settler violence from 2004-2011.
News roundup on the 59th day of Khader Adnan’s hunger strike
As Khader Adnan entered his 59th day on hunger strike, his wife Randa appealed for the international community to end his isolation and save his life.
Khader Adnan on his 59th day, when Francis Hughes died
Khader Adnan, age 33, is on his 59th day on hunger strike. Fifty-nine days was how long it took for Francis Hughes to succumb to his starvation and die. Hughes was one of ten Irish republican prisoners who died during the 1981 hunger strike, calling for the British government to recognize their status as political prisoners.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation
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‘Love is a force far more powerful than the state’: Taiseer Khatib tells his family’s story in Salon
Excerpt’s from Taiseer Khatib’s Salon article “Unhappy Valentine’s Day in Israel.”
Israel bulldozes Palestinian community center, making way for a ‘City of David’ visitor center
Today, a Palestinian community center, café and playground in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem was demolished, making way for a second “City of David” visitor center.
UN official condemns Israel’s ‘strategy of Judaization’ throughout Israel/Palestine
UN’s Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, charges Israel with dispossessing Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the West Bank as well as its Palestinian minority.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, One state/Two states
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Radio Against Apartheid: People of Color in the US and Palestinian Queers for BDS
Darnell Moore, a visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, a Jewish Arab writer and co-founder of intersections/intersecciones consulting, joined us on the program. The two recently returned from a delegation as guests of Palestinian Queers for BDS to the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank.