Dirar Abu Sisi on Hunger strike to attain basic human rights
UFree Network | Media Centre UFree Network to defend the rights of Palestinian prisoners and Kasr Al Qaid organisation expressed their profound fear over the health condition of the sole Palestinian detainee held in solitary confinement in Israeli jails Dirar Abu Sisi.
Mali’s Salif Keita cancels his Israeli gig “to respect cultural boycott of Israel”
by BDS South Africa Mali’s internationally celebrated afro-pop singer, Salif Keita, has cancelled his Israeli gig at Israel’s “Season of Culture” music festival. On Thursday (22 August) the Israeli festival organisers announced via their official FaceBook page that a few hours before boarding a plane to Israel: “the musician from Mali, Salif Keita, decided to […]
Israel’s booming Occupation tourism
Dr Sarah Marusek | reposted from Middle East Monitor | Friday, 23 August 2013 When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington two years ago, the US Congress gave him 29 standing ovations, four more than they had given to President Obama during his State of the Union address earlier that year, leaving some […]
Call to action: Join ISM for the 2013 Olive Harvest Campaign
22nd August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied West Bank At a time of regular settler violence in the West Bank, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is issuing an urgent call for volunteers to join us for the 2013 Olive Harvest Campaign at the invitation of Palestinian communities.
Racism and the Movement to End the Israeli Occupation
August 23, 2013 | reposted from Counterpunch by PAUL LARUDEE On August 6, 2013, State House spokeswoman Jen Psaki made history by telling AP reporter Matt Lee that the U.S. had “determined that we do not need to make a determination” whether the military coup in Egypt was in fact a coup d’état, which would […]
Action Alert: Three leading Palestinian women prisoners’ activists arrested
19th August 2013 | Samidoun | Occupied Palestine Leena Jawabreh, Linan Abu Ghoulmeh and Myassar Atyani, three Palestinian activists and former prisoners were seized by the Israeli police at 10:00 pm on the evening of August 15 while visiting a friend, former prisoner Woroud Qasem, in the 1948 occupied areas of Palestine. All three are […]
STAY HUMAN – Roger Waters interview
Pro-Palestinian students suffer from harassment, police intimidation and death threats on US campus
Dr Sarah Marusek | reposted from the Middle East Monitor Friday, 16 August 2013 Last April, the Zionist Organization of America and the student group Owls for Israel invited Israeli Colonel Bentzi Gruber to speak at Florida Atlantic University (FAU).
Alice Walker Describes How Lobby Banned Her From University of Michigan
Alice Walker was recently uninvited to speak at the University of Michigan. The following post was taken from her blog today: An Invitation to speak at the 50th Anniversary for the Center for Education of Women at the University of Michigan has been withdrawn I’m saddened to write this because I’m a proponent of free […]