Time for Action - BDS Israel
The carnage in Gaza continues. While most of the world sees what is really happening as Israel terrorizes 1.5 million people in the open-air prison of Gaza, the US Congress again makes sure that the US...
View ArticleTime to Embrace BDS
"From 1972 through 1999, James M. Wall served as editor and publisher of The Christian Century magazine. Since 1999, he has served as the Century's Senior Contributing Editor. Since 1973 Wall has...
View ArticleBoycott from Within: Israelis standing with Palestinians
In 2005, a broad coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations called for international solidarity to end the occupation through the use of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against...
View ArticleBritish government covers for Livni - so much for the "war on terror"
The British government's panic over the recent warrant issued by a British magistrate's court for the arrest of former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and its subsequent determination to change...
View ArticleEnd Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention
Mohammad Othman and Jamal Juma', two Palestinian prisoners of conscience arrested for their human rights activism have been released within the last 24 hours. This is joyous news but we must continue...
View ArticlePalestinians Rather Than Palestine
Palestinian organizations inside Israel, in the West Bank and Gaza and among the refugee populations in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, issued a call in 2005 to compel Israel to abide by international law...
View ArticleUdi Aloni: Israelis Must Join Non-violent Palestinian Struggle
Exciting alliances are being built among Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel. You wouldn't know this watching Bibi at the AIPAC conference ranting about the exclusively Jewish nature of Jerusalem....
View ArticleUC Berkeley students make history
Students at the University of California, Berkeley made history earlier this year by voting 16-4 to divest from two companies directly implicated in Israel's occupation.
View ArticleMichigan Coalition for Human Rights Presents: An Evening With Jeff Halper,...
This Monday, the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights, a diverse coalition of human rights activists, will present "An Evening With Jeff Halper." Jeff Halper cofounded the Israeli Committee against...
View ArticleIrresistible Forces & Immovable Objects: Peace or Apartheid in Israel? An...
Last night I attended an event sponsored by the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights. Jeff Halper, an American-Israeli peace activist, anthropologist and founder of the Israeli Committee Against House...
View ArticleTwo Types of Activism
Let me show you two videos. They both are about activism against the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
View ArticleMore Activism on Israel/Palestine
Here are three videos involving activism on Israel/Palestine. The first is calling on Elton John to cancel his June Tel Aviv concert. HEY ELTON from John Greyson on Vimeo.
View ArticleEATEN, Israel, Palestine, & Flotilla news
In honor of the holiday weekend . . . (WARNING: Graphic violence) The story is based on a recurring nightmare Netanyahu has.
View ArticleBDS Israel II - Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
I first wrote about BDS 18 months ago, towards the end of Operation Cast Lead. Time for Action - BDS Israel Many may be wondering whether actions of this kind have any effect. Well, look at South...
View Article'God helps those who help themselves' - my interview with Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein is one of the world’s foremost public intellectuals writing about the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is the author of many books on the topic, most recently Beyond Chutzpah, an...
View ArticleIsrael/Palestine News
First we will have flotilla news. The Libyan aid ship at the last minute went to the Egyptian port of al-Arish instead of the Port of Gaza. Wimps.
View ArticleThe Jig is Up: Americans Not Buying What Israel's Selling
Two days ago, Newsweek Magazine published an online article entitled, "Don't Boycott Israel. They Very Idea is Repellent," authored by Jacob Weisberg, an editor at Slate. The article itself isn't...
View ArticlePalestine News
We have several stories: a movie theater opens in Jenin; the UN organizes the largest kite flying event in Gaza; Hamas organizes a 450 couple wedding; Shir Hever, an economist, talks more about the BDS...
View ArticleIsrael/Palestine news
Israel has twice demolished the West Bank village of Al Farasiya in the Jordan Valley. Under the Oslo Accords, all of the Jordan Valley except for Jericho was designated as Area C or an IDF military...
View ArticleCreative Activism: We Won't Buy Israeli Apartheid
On December 4th, 2010, more than forty members and friends of the St Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee gathered at Best Buy and AT&T for a flash mob urging holiday shoppers to Boycott Israeli...
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