The Yes Men are a group of “culture jamming activists” who impersonate heads of corporations to embarrass them in the media. They are increasingly well known and put out a movie in 2003 about their work called, The Yes Men…
Anees of Jerusalem writes: Yesterday Naomi Klein gave a great talk at the Friends School in Ramallah. It was a short addendum to her January piece in The Nation supporting the BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) movement against Israel. I…
Naomi Klein (pictured right with Iyad Burnat of the Bil’in Popular Committee) visited the West Bank village of Bil’in today to voice her support for the weekly demonstrations against the Separation Wall, and to reiterate her support for boycotting Israel….
The Israeli ambassador to Brazil has filed a protest over fact that Brazilian soccer players, including the great Ronaldo, shown with keffiyeh, are planning to play Ramallah but not to have a companion date in Israel too. “An act of…
Ha’aretz is reporting that French company Veolia is pulling out of a controversial project to build a light rail system in Jerusalem. The rail is planned to connect West Jerusalem to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, making life in…
Here is an interesting Al Jazeera report on the legal strategies being used to challenge the Israeli occupation. It focuses on the Bil’in’s attempts to stop the settlement being built on their land, and a case against the light rail…
The growing movement for an academic boycott of Israel has been criticized as limiting academic discourse and debate. Defenders of the boycott point out that the discourse is already limited by Israeli occupation policy which shuts down Palestinian universities arbitrarily,…
Last night demonstrators outside Radio City Music Hall called on Leonard Cohen to cancel a gig he has planned for Israel in September. The pressure will continue through Cohen’s tour this summer. From Adalah: “With the construction of the Apartheid…