Twenty-three-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that was preparing to demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip in 2003. Corrie has since become an icon of global solidarity with […]
Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib is backing a pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) move by an American university. The Council of Pitzer College in Southern California voted overwhelmingly to suspend its study abroad program in conjunction […]
Israeli soldiers held a Palestinian journalist and an activist in the al-Shuhada Street in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), on Wednesday, as they were documenting the soldiers’ violations against Palestinians. Palestinian […]
Three Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) activists have gone to trial Monday in Germany for protesting at an event featuring an Israeli political representative in the capital city of the country. The charges are related […]
Head of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has called for the UK government to condemn Israel’s killing of Palestinians as well as to freeze arms sales to the occupation state. His remarks came in […]
By Ronnie Barkan, Stavit Sinai & Majed Abusalama We are three human rights activists, two Jewish-Israeli dissidents and a Palestinian survivor of several Israeli onslaughts on Gaza, who will soon be facing trial in Berlin […]
The African National Congress Youth League has affirmed its support for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Speaking to Middle East Monitor on Monday, the Secretary-General of South Africa’s ruling party, Njabulo Nzuza, stressed that […]
In 1976, the late Shafik al-Hout sat in the living room of a house in Vancouver, Canada with local supporters and passionately tried to mobilize them to be active for Palestine. Give the Palestinian people […]
A legal battle is underway in the US state of Maryland to reverse an anti-Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) legislation denounced as “unconstitutional”. Syed Saqib Ali – a former Maryland state representative – today filed […]
Details of how pro-Israeli lobby groups have fabricated accusations of anti-Semitism on US college campuses in order to incite official crackdowns against Palestine solidarity activism were revealed earlier in the week during a political talk […]
Israel’s top court enables and validates the disposition of Palestinians and the demolition of their homes in the occupied West Bank, a new report has found. According to the report, which was released on Wednesday […]
Ireland has advanced a bill which will prevent the sale of goods from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The lower house of the Irish parliament – the Dail – yesterday voted in […]
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said that there is “no place for Israeli athletes in Malaysia,” refusing to issue entry visas for the Israeli swimming team. Mohamad stressed on Thursday that his country would not […]
Israel will deport the Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s regional office, Omar Shakir, refusing a Supreme Court petition. On Thursday the Israeli government submitted its response to a Supreme Court petition previously filed by […]
A prominent US civil rights activist has been denied a prestigious award apparently after the Jewish-American community protested against her support for the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS). Angela Davis, 74, has spent […]
Prominent Senator Diane Feinstein voiced concern Tuesday over legislation that seeks to counter the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Anadolu reports. The Combating BDS Act, introduced by Senator Marco Rubio, urges state and […]
Human rights groups have claimed a major victory after HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, confirmed that it fully divested from Israeli drone manufacturer Elbit Systems, which sells […]
Recent events in South Africa have had a profoundly positive impact on Palestine. It may not be music for this country’s pro-Israel lobby but certainly welcomed by the broad spectrum of solidarity movements active in […]
Prof. Cynthia Franklin (Facebook): “Ramzy Baroud, Kerry Kamakaoka’ilima, Joy Enomoto, and Ali H. Musleh being their brilliant selves at the roundtable, “The Last Earth: New Horizons in Inter/Nationalism, From Palestine to Hawai’i” at the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, November […]
The Chilean National Comptroller ruled this week that it is illegal for local municipalities in the South American country to boycott Israel, wading into an ongoing national debate over the BDS movement. Earlier this summer, […]
The New York University (NYU) Student Government Assembly passed a divestment resolution inspired by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) last night, in what campaigners hailed as “the first resolution of this nature ever […]
Two police departments in the New England region of the United States canceled their annual visit to Israeli police forces and engagement in training, amid pressure from organizations affiliated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) […]
Hundreds of students from over 30 UK universities protested against their institutions’ complicity in Israel’s violations of human rights yesterday. The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) called for the action to mark the International Day of […]
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Student societies at City University in London have welcomed the cancellation of Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev’s talk, a decision the students claim was made “in relation to wholly unreasonable demands made upon the university by […]
A scheduled talk by Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev at City University in London yesterday night was “shelved after concerns over security”, according to reports. In the lead up to Regev’s appearance, the university’s Palestinian Society […]
A Canadian student body has announced that it will endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) made the announcement at its general meeting in the Canadian capital Ottawa […]
A UK university has ended investment in companies involved in Israeli arms trade following a fierce student-led BDS campaign. The University of Leeds has ceased its dealings with Airbus, United Technologies and Keyence Corporation – […]
Baroud explains why reclaiming the Palestinian narrative should be the driving force behind the struggle for Palestinian rights. Other guests included Hanan Ashrawi, Cindy and Craig Corrie, Haidar Eid, Jeff Halper, Sam Bahour, Max Blumenthal, […]
A Palestinian activist and his son were assaulted by a group of Jewish settlers, on Saturday afternoon, in Hebron (Al-Khalil). Activist Imad Abu Shamsiyeh, from Defenders of Human Rights group, told Ma’an that Jewish settlers […]
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