Orange County School of the Arts shut down a student meeting on Palestine after being contacted by the Anti-Defamation League. Students say the administration won’t acknowledge that it was censorship.
Pro-Israel pressure gets Burlington, VT city council to hit pause on BDS measure.
A battle over pro-Israel censorship in the art world shows how Palestine activists can fight back and win.
Michael Arria talks with Vermonters for Justice in Palestine member Wafic Faour on how the group’s grassroots campaign to pressure Ben & Jerry’s led to the company’s groundbreaking announcement this week. “There’s one direction we’re going in. We are struggling against an apartheid regime and we saw what happened in South Africa,” Faour says. “If we continue working and educating the public and these leaders continue with their incoherent messaging, we will win.”
Too often Palestine solidarity organizations expect the expertise of Palestinian women for free, while paying Nice Guys handsome amounts of money, for being “decent.”
The Campaign for One Democratic State in Historic Palestine calls on all freedom-loving people of the world to expand their solidarity with the cause of Palestine by burying the illusion of a “two-state solution,” restoring the unity of the Palestinian people around a vision of national liberation and democracy and developing a strategy for a phased and long-term struggle.
Who is allowed to discuss the Jewish narrative of Zionism in Berlin? Apparently, not Israelis as Germany tests its first case of a new anti-BDS law, surprisingly targeting a group of Israeli artists.
There is a pressing need for a serious discussion of how and why Palestinian concerns are often dismissed and marginalized in progressive spaces.
Rada Daniell reports from an IWPS trip to Palestine during the last olive harvest, “Every year there is another line of catalog-style settlement buildings spilled over the hills, another patch of land cleared out.” International volunteers help Palestinians under occupation harvest olives, then go home to break a de facto information embargo on the reality in Palestine.