It’s been a busy time for Palestine solidarity folks in Albuquerque. Five and half years ago after Israel’s 08-09 massacre in Gaza, the Coalition to Stop$30Billion to Israel, a grassroots group of ordinary citizens, launched a campaign erecting 10 billboards in their city that inspired campaigns in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Portland, Washington DC, Boston, Arizona, and Seattle, just to name just a few. They’re at it again. Last Monday Sept.8 the coalition up their first digital billboard in response to the recent carnage in Gaza.

Saturday night activists in Amsterdam pulled off a fantastic action at an Israeli whitewashing event promoted as “Israel=Culture” the first Israeli theatre mini-festival in Amsterdam, “three days of presenting the rich and vibrant theatre culture of Israel.”

One American News network’s On Point show with Tomi Lahren is determined to educate Americans about the Israel/Palestine conflict from a fresh perspective. A fiery debate between Moe Diab and Philippe Assouline showed the smashmouth tactics of the pro-Israel side with Assouline’s misrepresentations

Here’s an important story we’ve been following from Athens, Ohio: the student senate president at…

s we keep saying, Gaza has changed Israel’s image in American politics: the grassroots are appalled by Israel’s carnage and they’re going to be more and more of a force in American elections, countering the Israel lobby. When Ted Cruz lumped Hamas with ISIS and said Israel was on the right side, he got booed at a Middle East Christian conference in Washington Wednesday night and left the stage. Sort of like VT Sen Bernie Sanders getting booed for defending Israel in Vermont.

After Ohio University student president Megan Marzec posted a video of herself dumping a bucket of fake blood over her head in solidarity with Gaza massacre victims, the school’s Hillel rabbi called on her to resign and she received death threats and the school has distanced itself from her. But a group of faculty are supporting Marzec, as are letter writers to local publications.

Jerusalem police have ordered the Abu Khdeir family to dismantle a monument in Shu’afat to their murdered child, Mohammed, age 16. The family said if it is taken down, they will rebuild it on the tracks of the Jerusalem light rail line.

Cycling4Gaza began in 2009 as four London friends recruited cyclists to raise funds for Gaza. Now it is teamed with the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and coming to the U.S., with a Philadelphia to Washington trip on Sept. 18-21.

Tzipi Livni is Israel’s Justice Minister. Five years ago she was afraid to travel because…

A body of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has slapped harsh fines on three of its member clubs, because some fans flew Palestinian flags during their games. UEFA deems the flags to be “a political, ideological, religious or provocative nature.”