Each year around 6,000 real estate brokers and agents from 62 countries around the world attend the RE/MAX annual convention in Las Vegas, so CODEPINK knew where to go challenge RE/MAX’s settlement profiteering. As CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans said, “People around the world are waking up to the immorality of settlement profiteering, and it is unclear why RE/MAX continues to risk its brand’s reputation through its involvement in illegal activities in the Occupied West Bank.”

Penn student for Marco Rubio who is working to get John Kasich thrown off PA primary ballot is also active in Penn’s pro-Israel organization, further evidence that neoconservatives are massing desperately behind Rubio.

I live inside a nation (Israel) embedded and indoctrinated with a sense of victimisation whilst inflicting the most unjust suffering, the most cruel and senseless oppression, on another people. I live in a nation embroiled in a self-righteous defensiveness without any ethical conscience, without any wish or ability to scrutinise the sickness of its own psyche.

2017 is a historic year in the history of Palestine, the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, 70th of the UN Partition resolution and 30th of the First Intifada. It will cement the new understanding of Zionism as a settler-colonialist project, underwritten by the west.

A study released in November 2015 by 416 Labs, a Toronto-based consulting firm, reveals that the New York Times portrays Islam and Muslims more negatively than alcohol, cancer, and cocaine. Based on a sentiment analysis of online and print headlines spanning 25 years and 2,667,700 articles, the study found “strong evidence that Islam/Muslims are consistently associated with negative terms in NYT headlines.”

Israeli soldiers killed a 34-year-old Palestinian mother of four in what her village leader called an “obvious execution” after she allegedly struck a soldier with her car at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. And Israelis have killed 41 Palestinian children since last October.

Trump’s penis moment recalls Teddy Roosevelt’s famous foreign policy line from 1901: Speak softly and carry a big stick

News reports on Hossam Haick, a groundbreaking scholar of nanotechnology who is Palestinian Israeli, abide by the self-imposed Israeli and AIPAC rules of discourse in which positive terminology is reserved for Jewish Israel and negative associations for Palestine and Palestinians.

Israel’s Channel 10 television station said this week that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has rejected a proposal to build Gaza new electricity lines to support the power sector in the impoverished coastal enclave. The project reportedly received Israeli consent, but failed to get the green light from the PA. Hamas criticized Abbas for rejecting the long-awaited project. “Abbas is not willing to miss any occasion in which he can stave off his political foes, even if it is done at the expense of his people. This does not make difference with him at all,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu-Zohri told Mondoweiss.

Recycling has become a way of life in Gaza. Not so much about protecting the environment– but for survival. Palm seeds become coffee, old clothes become dolls.