Artists and companies continue to drop out of the Sydney Festival over its sponsorship deal with the Israeli government. The annual festival is a major arts event in the city attracting approximately 500,000 visitors a year. According to BDS Australia, 100 individuals and organizations have withdrawn, disrupting more than 40% of the scheduled events.
Sahar Francis, the General Director of the Ramallah-based group Addameer, warns that the Israeli government’s efforts to undermine Palestinian civil society organizations may just be beginning.
A growing chorus in the American Jewish community uses the word “apartheid” to describe Israel’s rule over Palestinians. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who helped save his Texas congregation from a gunman Saturday, is said to be among those who’ve made the charge. And the Forward suggests that’s why his contract was not renewed last year at Congregation Beth Israel.
Recently unearthed statements from Israel’s founders endorsing ethnic cleansing and violence during the Nakba will only be shocking if you are not familiar with the long history of Zionist leaders and thinkers showing genocidal intent towards Palestinians.
After a standoff that captured global attention, Israel forcibly displaced the Salhiya family from their home and demolished it in the middle of the night on Wednesday, in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
The Gaza Strip has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world – more than 50% – and an exceptionally young population. As more young people fall in love under the blockade, couples are turning to loan agencies to get married, and falling into crippling debt in the process.
Israel postponed its eviction of the Salhiya family in Sheikh Jarrah to make way for a Palestinian school after international outrage apparently caught the government by surprise. But it’s a familiar pattern. Israel gets away with whatever ethnic cleansing it can get away with, until the resistance, international critique, or condemnation become loud enough for it to delay and use other methods towards the same end.
Chile’s new president, Gabriel Boric, supports BDS and has promised to take an aggressive stance in defense of Palestinian human rights. But will he be able to shift Chilean foreign policy?
A 75-year-old Palestinian man from the village of Umm al-Khair in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank died on Monday, after succumbing to wounds he sustained when he was run over during an Israeli police raid last week.
Shanelle Jackson, Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Democratic primary challenger in Michigan’s 12th district, accused the lawmaker of “antisemitic rhetoric” and championed the United States’ relationship with Israel in a recent interview.