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London Academic Board Urges University Council to Drop IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism

February 12, 2021

University College London’s Academic Board has today voted in favor of urging the university council to retract its adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism as it “is not for purpose within a university setting […]

Canada: B’nai B’rith Smears Leading Palestine Solidarity Activist

January 25, 2021

Recently Israel’s largest human rights organization concluded the country was run based on a “regime of Jewish supremacy”. B’Tselem wasn’t only referring to the occupied West Bank but an “apartheid” system in place from the Jordan […]

Palestine Activist Exonerated after Name Wrongly Placed on ‘Terror Category’

January 12, 2021

British-Palestinian Zaher Birawi has agreed to accept a settlement after the World-Check site wrongly listed him on its terrorism categorization. Refinitiv Ltd, which owns World-Check – which describes itself as a database of Politically Exposed […]

New Zealand MPs Take a Pledge for Palestine (VIDEO)

December 7, 2020

At an event to mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people three New Zealand MPs took a pledge to form a new parliamentary Palestine friendship group and to “…raise the voices of Palestinian […]

PA President Abbas Awards Late US Activist Rachel Corrie ‘Freedom Star’ Award

November 30, 2020

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday awarded late American activist Rachel Corrie the “Freedom Star” accolade, honoring her sacrifices for the sake of the Palestinian people, Quds Net News reported. During a call with […]

Israel Lobby Will Face Blowback, Eventually

October 2, 2020

How much is too much? When will Israeli nationalists in North America completely discredit themselves by overusing their power to crush those defending Palestinians? The recent ruthlessness of the Israel lobby is remarkable. Recently they’ve […]

Round Midnight: International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

October 1, 2020

September 26th was the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. In Chicago, where Voices for Creative Nonviolence is based, activists held the third of three COVID-era “Car Caravans” for nuclear disarmament, traveling […]

Protests in US as Israel Signs ‘Peace Deals’ with UAE, Bahrain (VIDEO)

September 16, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was met by dozens of anti-corruption Israeli protesters and pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the White House yesterday, the Times of Israel reported. Israeli protesters gathered at the entrance to the […]

Palestine Action Activists Arrested at Mass Protest against Israel’s Arms Trade

September 8, 2020

Four members of Palestine Action activists were arrested on Saturday at the mass protest to shut down Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, at their London office. They were released on Sunday, pending investigation. During […]

Israel to Revoke Residency Rights of Former Palestinian Prisoner

September 3, 2020

The Israeli occupation authorities today handed a former Palestinian prisoner from occupied East Jerusalem a notice informing him of their intention to revoke his residency rights in the holy city, according to a local source. […]

Former Israeli Soldier Sues Pro-Palestinian Toronto Restaurant

August 11, 2020

As part of a well-organized, multilayered, Israel nationalist lobby bid to bankrupt a small left-wing restaurant a prominent Toronto interior designer sued Kimberly Hawkins for $800,000. Shai DeLuca is claiming the Foodbenders owner libeled him. […]

The High Price of a Seat at the Table

August 4, 2020

“Bill Clinton has a penchant for overstepping,” writes Barbara Ransby, “for going too far and for being too cocky, especially when it comes to Black people.” In particular, his presumption of “insider posture” at the […]

Luton Town FC Heeds BDS’ Call, Drops Puma Sponsorship

July 29, 2020

Luton Town FC, an English Football League Championship team, has decided to drop Puma as their first-team kit supplier, switching to the UMBRO brand for the upcoming 2020/21 season, Palestine News Network PNN reported on […]

Human Rights Defenders: Palestinian Eyewitness Testimony of the Execution of Abdul Fattah al-Sharif by Israeli Soldier, Elor Azaria

July 28, 2020

As illegal Jewish settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the occupied city of Al Khalil (Hebron), the people of the Palestinian city continue to mount a campaign of popular resistance. One of the […]

Popular Front Calls on Palestinian Authority to ‘Stop Bullying’ Palestinians

July 23, 2020

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) yesterday called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to immediately release activists who are fighting against corruption, Quds Press reported. The activists, the PFLP said in a statement, […]

Israel Lobby Seeks to Bankrupt Progressive, Pro-Palestinian Restaurant

July 11, 2020

The pro-Israel community is engaged in a remarkable effort to bankrupt a small progressive Toronto restaurant. In their attack on Foodbenders, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B’nai B’rith have once again allied with […]

The Human Rights Defender – A Poem

July 5, 2020

It’s in the Charter, article one, afforded to all or else its undone To Self-Determine is a human right. For it we struggle, for it, we fight. The use of the name is not a […]

The Co-optation of the Black And Palestinian Movements for Liberation

June 15, 2020

In “Black-Outs, Black Lives Matter, and Black Power,” Erica Caines explains how “symbolic gestures of solidarity” have co-opted the power of the movement into “feel-good moments” for those who participate and shaming of those who […]

Hypocrisy on Campus: Decolonization Means Cutting Ties with Israeli Apartheid

June 14, 2020

Those of us who have the misfortune of following their universities on social media were recently exposed to a new wave of hypocrisy when these institutions which are directly complicit in apartheid against the Palestinian […]

European Court of Human Rights Delivers Major Blow to Israel’s War on BDS

June 11, 2020

In a major blow to Israel’s war on Palestine solidarity, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously today that the French highest court’s 2015 criminal conviction of activists with the Boycott, Divestment and […]

Palestine Solidarity Campaign Wins Historic Legal Victory against UK Government

April 30, 2020

The London-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has won a landmark legal victory against the British government, with the Supreme Court ruling that local pension schemes could divest from companies complicit in Israel’s military occupation of […]

My Friend Steve Kelly: Trident Program is the Crime

April 5, 2020

On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail. He turned 70 while in prison, and while he has served multiple prison sentences for […]

Solidarity between Palestinians and Indigenous Activists has Deep Roots

February 18, 2020

Palestinian solidarity with indigenous struggles here in Turtle Island was highlighted last week, with both local and international Palestinian support for the Wet’suwet’en nation’s struggle on unceded territory in British Columbia. The BDS National Committee […]

‘Oh No, My Free Speech is Being Attacked’: Going Beyond a Strategy of Rights to Boycott’s Endgame

February 2, 2020

Several months ago my friend Bob Anderson (a long-time anti-war activist here in Albuquerque and also co-founder, along with his wife Jeanne Pahls, of Stop the War Machine) and I posted a Facebook page (No […]

GoFundMe Closes down US-based Palestinian Group’s Account

January 31, 2020

The popular online fundraising platform GoFundMe has closed down the account of Palestinian advocacy organization Al-Awda without providing any reason. Based in the US, Al-Awda is a non-profit organization of activists and students who are […]

In Seattle, Local Movement Championed Palestine, Defeated Veolia

January 20, 2020

A 7-year campaign led by disabled riders and anti-imperial, anti-privatization, disability justice, and labor solidarity activists has pushed King County in Washington State to cut ties with a corporation that was subcontracting Metro’s Access transit […]

Refusing to be Silenced: How Rima Najjar’s Suit Against Quora Could Change the Space of Social Media

January 7, 2020

On December 31, 2019, attorneys for Dr. Rima Najjar filed a suit against Quora in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Her complaint, filed by Daniel Siegel of Siegel, Yee, […]

Undercover Police Arrest Israeli Anti-occupation Activist

January 7, 2020

Undercover Israeli police officers arrested prominent Israeli anti-occupation activist Jonathan Pollak at his workplace yesterday morning, reported +972 Magazine, “after he repeatedly refused to appear in court over a private prosecution filed against him by a […]

Embracing Palestine: How to Combat Israel’s Misuse of ‘Anti-Semitism’

January 3, 2020

At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations of anti-Semitism, which are often lobbed against pro-Palestinian communities and intellectuals everywhere, is to draw […]

I’m Waiting: Possible Scenarios for the New Decade

January 1, 2020

Perhaps I read too many alternative articles on too many internet sites, but with all the counter-perspective information (counter to the main stream media), my information addled brain is waiting for one of several events […]

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