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Legendary Brazilian artists and political activists Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil are scheduled to perform to an already sold out crowd in Tel Aviv on July 28. Brazilian and international BDS activists have implored the artists to cancel their performance. Read a letter from Roger Water to Veloso on why he should cancel the concert.
The Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), led by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, has nixed three resolutions advocating boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) in non-violent protest of the Israeli occupation. The vote followed opposition from Archbishop Suheil Dawani of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem to adopting BDS because he fears reprisal from the Israeli authorities in threatening his travel and residence in Jerusalem.
Israeli forces used tasers on passengers aboard the Marianne, an aid ship bound for Gaza that was seized in international waters. An Israeli television reporter has released extended video of the seizure.
“I have three words of advice for you,” Netanyahu told Oren in one of their first meetings. “Media. Media. Media.” Any criticisms of Israel that got traction, Oren had to call the Congress or the major press
In the four months directly following last summer’s Israeli attacks on Gaza, the UK licensed £4 million of arms exports to Israel. This figure and others can be found in a new report, ‘Arming Apartheid’, published by War on Want, Campaign Against Arms Trade and Palestine Solidarity Campaign. The report details the UK’s complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people, with a specific focus on the multi-million pounds’ industry that is the UK-Israel arms trade. The authors call for an immediate two-way arms embargo against Israel, and for pressure on the UK government and arms producers to end this horrendous trade in death.
“It’s our celebration too,” Netanyahu says of July 4, and judging from his recent calendar the rightwing prime minister of a government gets tons of social support from Americans, from Katie Couric to Eric Schmidt of Google.
Amazing photographs from Karam Saleem who documents the second Friday of Ramadan in Palestine, which saw more than 350,000 Palestinians descend onto Al Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem. Many who made the trip took advantage of eased restrictions by Israeli authorities on those living in the West Bank. But for those unable to cross legally, smugglers organize locations along the separation wall for Palestinians to sneak in.
To commemorate her magazine’s 15th anniversary, US megastar talk show host and social justice philanthropist Oprah Winfrey glammed out wearing pearl-shaped 69 carat Leviev diamond earrings on the cover of the May 2015 edition of O, the Oprah Magazine. Activists are asking Winfrey to cut ties from Leviev which has been tied to notoriously brutal human rights abuses in Angola and thousands of illegal Israeli settlement homes built on Palestinian land in the West Bank.
As part of our current Be The Mondoweiss Megaphone campaign, we are sharing some of what we’ve learned about how to win people’s attention and engage them on the critical issue of justice in Israel/Palestine. Recently, we’ve introduced a new tool that, with your help, can increase the attention and sense of urgency among people less focused on Israel/Palestine — the weekly Mondoweiss e-newsletter.