On 11/24/2008 a Texas Jury found Shukri Abu Baker and his comrades in the HLF case guilty of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Shukri Abu Baker shares his “sarcastically serious” thoughts on our sixth anniversary of the decision.
A poster put up by Students for Justice in Palestine at Wellesley College asked students What Zionism means to you? and included answers like genocide and apartheid. A pro-Israel student says the poster makes Jews feel unsafe and targeted.
Flamethrower Seth Lipsky is calling for the U.S. to join the “battle for Jerusalem,” while Bret Stephens says we may have to “militarily” engage in the conflict
Mondoweiss’ Alex Kane spoke with scholar Steven Salaita last week at the end of his three-week speaking tour. Salaita was set to join the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign’s American Indian Studies program when a pro-Israel pressure campaign targeted him. Salaita’s contract with the university was terminated, and he has become a cause celebre for academic freedom advocates and Palestine solidarity activists. Now, Salaita and his lawyers have sued the university for not releasing emails that would shed light on how the decision to fire him was made.
Ma‘an reports: A Palestinian youth was attacked and beaten by a group of Jewish settlers at Damascus Gate near the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem on Friday night, a local political activist who was present at the time of the incident said. 22-year-old Ahmad Yaqub al-Ghoul lost consciousness as a result of bruising and bleeding he suffered after three Jewish settlers described as being in their 20s hit him with an iron bar and belts in the al-Musrara area just north of Damascus Gate.
Phil Weiss talks with two American students he met while traveling in Hebron. They tell him about being asked what their religion is by Israeli authorities– first at the border at Allenby Bridge, and then in Hebron, at the entrance to Shuhada Street. They’d never been asked that question by an authority before. The students are both Muslims, and when they said they were Muslim, they were not allowed to walk down Shuhada Street. Even though they had American passports.
Ahmed Ghazzawi reports a frightening incident in which a mob of Israeli Jews attacked the train car he was traveling on with five female Palestinian students in West Jerusalem. The group feared for their lives
The occupied territories of Palestine sit almost 7000 miles away from my home in Albuquerque,…
Banksy’s iconic image of Joseph and Mary trying to get into Bethlehem past the high Israeli wall is featured in Christmas cards and an Atlanta billboard from If Americans Knew
During the five years of the existence of the landmark Kairos document on Palestinian conditions, solidarity with Palestinians has increased. But the reckoning that Kairos Palestine calls for hasn’t happened. It won’t happen in the near future either. The powers that be in the world are uninterested in Palestinian freedom