An Anti-Defamation League injunction described as an “attack on the freedom of expression” has been dismissed by a court in Iceland, but it is appealing the decision.

Local Palestinian community members and anti-racist allies are calling for a mobilization on Saturday, November 5th to shut down the Jewish National Fund’s 2022 national conference in Boston.

Many in the Palestine movement have supported the work of the Mapping Project but there have been critics as well. Nora Lester Murad writes that while the project is a Herculean effort that provides lots of useful information, it is a poor piece of research and a destructive piece of activism.

After the Mapping Project published a study of links between establishment institutions responsible for the colonization of Palestine, and the economy of imperialism and war, and policing and gentrification, critics landed on it as a supposed antisemitic hitlist. We honor the Mapping Project’s work in a tradition of activist journalism; and recognize a familiar pattern: Whenever Israel lobby organizations in the Jewish community are held to account for their power over the discourse and U.S. policy, those same organizations seek to stifle the criticism by alleging antisemitism.

The Mapping Project shows connections between oppressive institutions where we live – including NGOs, weapons companies, computer/logistics companies, universities, biomedical research institutions, and others. The intersections between agents of oppression offer possibilities for connecting our struggles. They study us and are networked; we need to study them and form our own networks of resistance.

An interview with the activists behind the Mapping Project, a project created to “investigate local links between entities responsible for the colonization of Palestine, for colonialism and dispossession here where we live, and for the economy of imperialism and war.”