Lina Khattab, an 18-year-old Birzeit University student and dancer in the prominent El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe, was arrested by Israeli troops on December 13 2014. She, along with an array of other students, had been participating in a protest on behalf of Palestinian political prisoners, in celebration of the 47th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Israeli authorities charged her with “throwing stones” and “participating in an unlawful demonstration.” On February 16, Khattab was sentenced to six months in prison, three years on probation, and a 6,000 NIS ($1,500 USD) fine. The only evidence used against her in court were the testimonies of the three Israeli police who arrested her. No independent proof was provided.

“I’ve read quite a bit on this whole one-state jazz,” says Mikhael Manekin of Molad, a liberal Zionist Israeli thinktank — and no one envisions what the army of a single state would look like. How do you answer him?

On February 17, the Undergraduate Senate of Stanford University voted 10-1-4 to pass a resolution to divest from the occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Senate leaders motioned to reconsider the resolution after it was narrowly defeated by one vote last week (9 for, 1 abstention, 5 against). The senators stated that the hostile environment opponents of divestment created at last week’s hearing impeded their ability to vote with clarity and requested the opportunity to align their votes with their true opinions.

‘Anata and Issawiya, Palestinian villages in occupied East Jerusalem, will see hundreds of acres of land given to a solid waste landfill to serve the new E1 settlement that Israel announced in defiance of the U.S.

By 63 to 33, Americans say that Republicans should not have invited Israeli PM Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress next month to try and overturn Obama’s Iran policy — CNN poll

The world’s Jews are under dire threat around the world, and so is Israel. That was the message, in so many words, that emanated last night from Cooper Union’s Great Hall during an event featuring Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.

Instro Precision, an arms company near Broadstairs (Kent), was occupied at 5am this morning to protest its sales to both Israel and Afghanistan. Four people are on the roof with banners to shut the factory down, with ten more on the ground, one of whom is locked to the fence. This is the second UK-based Elbit factory to be targeted by activists, after the successful occupation last summer of a drone engine factory near Birmingham.

This is one of the craziest stories we’ve ever reported. The student government at the University of Toledo is so frightened by a debate over divestment from Israel that it is rigging the debate on the topic tonight. It will hold the debate behind closed doors and limit how many students can come to the meeting. Only five representatives from two campus organizations. And each organization has to leave the room when the other side is making its case. Though guess what– two officials of the Jewish Federations of Greater Toledo are invited to the debate! “We are fully 100 percent opposed to this model of debate,” says Derek Ide of SJP

53-year-old mother and activist Linda Bevis is bringing Palestine into American high school classrooms. Bevis is the force behind the Palestine Teaching Trunk, an educational tool with hundreds of pages of materials designed for teachers. But as with all things Palestine, the teaching trunk has faced pushback.

James Baker was purged from the Republican Party as an “Arabist,” neocon Bill Kristol once bragged. Well he’s speaking at the J Street conference next month, a sign that the lobby is splitting