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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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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.”
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.
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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Six US activists arrested in Bahrain while monitoring military crackdown
Yesterday, six international activists where arrested in Bahrain while attempting to monitor the government crackdown on protesters commemorating the one year anniversary of uprisings.
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Middle East
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Happy Valentines Day: Anonymous takes down web sites for tear gas company and Bahrain government
Marking today’s anniversary of the Bahrain anti-government uprising, the hacker group Anonymous shut down the Bahrain government’s website, along with the websites of several U.S. manufacturers of “less than lethal” weapons.
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, US Politics
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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.
Controversial US police chief hired by Bahraini Interior Ministry
Former police chief of Philadelphia and Miami, John Timoney, has been recruited by Bahrain’s Interior Ministry to advise the Bahrainis on policing strategies.
Posted in Arab Spring, US Policy in the Middle East
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Israeli military escalating arrests in Hebron of boys aged 12-15 years old; at least 10 children arrested last week
Hebron: At least 10 children arrested by Israeli military in one week The extreme Golani Unit of the Israeli military is escalating its arrests of Palestinian children in Al Khalil (Hebron), targeting boys between the ages of 12 to15 years … Continue reading
US citizens arrested in Bahrain supporting peaceful protest near one-year anniversary of uprising
US Citizens Huwaida Arraf and Radhika Sainath were arrested by Bahraini security forces in downtown Manama on Saturday during a peaceful protest. They are both active with Witness Bahrain.
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, US Policy in the Middle East
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As Khader Adnan struggles through his 55th day on a hunger strike, a reminder that he has not been charged with a crime
Khader Adnan enters the 55th day of his hungry strike in Israeli detention, he has not been charged with anything Palestinian hunger striker nearing death A Palestinian prisoner on a hunger strike for 55 days to protest against his detention … Continue reading
Coalition of Syrian artists: Resistance liberates the imagination from slavery
Translation of a statement by a coalition of prominent Syrian cultural figures that was first published in the online edition of French newspaper Le Monde at the end of January.
‘Commentary’ covers its eyes and makes Palestinians disappear
Commentary decides that Hamas is irrelevant
Settlers spray ‘Death to Christians’ on a monastery, ‘Death to Arabs’ on a school and ‘Mohammad is a pig’ on village entrance
More “pricetag” attacks by Israeli settlers
Does the US have anything to teach Egyptians about democracy?
When will the Egyptian Democratic institute come to the U.S. and lecture Americans on how to excercise the popular will?
Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt, Middle East
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New Knesset bill, ‘Regulation of the Bedouin settlement in the Negev’ seeks to turn Bedouin dispossession into law
A new bill seeks to turn the controversial Prawer Plan into Israeli law. If the Knesset passes the legislation, it will pave the way for Israel to step up its efforts to disposess the Negev’s Bedouin and relocate them to impoverished townships.
Mossad chief held secret talks in DC with top U.S. officials
The Senate’s Worldwide Threat Assessment– excuse me, but there are too many If’s here for anyone to endorse a preemptive attack on Iran
In interview of Muslim Brotherhood leader, NPR repeatedly asks about Israel’s security
Four times Robert Siegel of NPR asks a Muslim Brotherhood spokesman about Israeli security
Tadamun: Israel detained student because of computer engineering graduate project
Tadamun: Israel detained student because of his graduate project The international Tadamun society for human rights said the Israeli occupation forces detained about one month ago a university student from Tulkarem city because of his graduate research project. link to … Continue reading
Two settler attacks on Palestinian teens, both are tragedies but one ended in death
Palestinian teen hit by Israeli car at checkpoint JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian teenager was struck and injured by an Israeli driver near an East Jerusalem checkpoint on Saturday morning, witnesses told Ma’an. Suleiman Abu Mahamid, 18, was waiting to … Continue reading
Obama opposes Assad’s human rights violations now, but not when they were useful to the US rendition program
The case of Maher Arar demonstrates the Obama administrations hypocrisy on human rights violations in Syria.
Posted in Arab Spring, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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Max Ajl, “One State, Two States: Who is the subject of Palestinian liberation?”
Max Ajl, “One State, Two States: Who Is the Subject of Palestinian Liberation?” In Finkelstein’s explicit demands to water down the struggle lies a tacit recognition that his battalions of disaffected liberals, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, are not the ones … Continue reading
