Palestine / Gaza / West Bank

Lawsuit alleges ban on Palestine group violates free expression.

Calls mount for world football body to finally act on Israel’s violations of Palestinian rights.

Two activists say they were singled out for criminal charges as the only Arabs.

Paper refuses to correct error about Israel’s wall in the West Bank.

Israeli minister vows to emulate Thatcher’s brutal approach to Irish hunger strikers.

Imprisoned leader Marwan Barghouti says there is “no choice but to resist” Israel’s abuses.

Palestinian joint force now deployed in Lebanon camp.

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Two political activist minority groups, have come forward apologizing for false deportation notices that were posted in dorms, that sent shock waves through the Harvard campus outraging students, prompting an apology, The Harvard Crimson reported.

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A recent release of documents in the CIA’s cache — codenamed Crest — totalling up to 13 million documents reveal the CIA’s plans to oust the Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad.

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Friends of Judea and Samaria in the European Parliament is a fan club for war crimes. 

Kamel Hawwash had been on annual trips to family in Jerusalem.

Israel blocks entry of head of Palestinian Federation of Chile, citing his support for boycott.

Pro-Israel groups fail to stop measure aimed at firms complicit in violating Palestinian rights.

Push for divestment at De Anza College is part of growing global student campaign.

Nir Barkat was due to speak at San Francisco State University, where he was protested last year.

Majority of Australians sees boycott as reasonable response to Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights.

Authorities told they are required to protect freedom of expression.

Lawyers hail “significant victory” against lawfare effort to reverse American Studies Association’s Israel boycott.

Under Netanyahu, Israel is living in a gilded age that barely conceals the racist rot below the surface.

Muslim female journalist attacked by Israel supporters as police watch.

Comedian rebuffed by Palestine Marathon for playing Tel Aviv.

Student leader previously arrested by PA now under prolonged interrogation by Israel.

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U.S. United Nations Ambassador Nicki Haley has proclaimed that the U.S. won’t allow former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to secure “one of the highest positions” at the UN.

Cousins from Hebron area are suspected of opening fire in busy square, killing four.

Yusif Sayigh’s wonderfully frank memoirs recall conflict with Arafat.

Anti-BDS conference portrayed BDS as an anti-Semitic global conspiracy with Nazi roots to justify outlawing it.

Civil liberties groups say executive order violates free speech protections.

The European Union has done nothing to stop Israel destroying infrastructure it has paid for in the occupied West Bank.

How Israel manipulates the press to portray itself as victim.

Human rights group said the PFLP leader had been jailed for her political activity.

Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate says providing platform to Avital Leibovich shows contempt for their lives.

Once again, no Israelis injured during incident that left alleged attacker dead.

Joseph Ayache and three Jewish Defense League accomplices sentenced for violent attacks on Palestine solidarity activists.

Palestinian rights groups condemn killings, renew calls for abolition of death penalty.

Imad Barghouthi was supposed to be freed on Sunday amid global outcry over the jailed scientist.

Hisham Ghalia has been ordered deported, but there’s nowhere for the US to send him.

Human rights groups warn that Hamas plan to implement death penalty would be illegal and harmful.

Israel lobby group welcomes decision to overturn democratic vote by US union

BDS vote a test of field’s complicated relationship with Middle East.

Activists urge boycott of vacation rentals in West Bank settlements.

Human rights groups suspect that a promised anti-torture law will contain major loopholes.

A boy and his mother were slain when a car carrying civilians was shelled.

Firm has long track record of breaking promises to end services to the Israeli military, police and prisons.

Christian denominations at summit with Jimmy Carter call for end to occupation.

Hunger strikers continue struggles against Israeli detention without charge.

His lawyer says 14-year-old Ahmad Manasra did not carry out stabbing that injured two Israelis.

Father Gabriel Naddaf has been a divisive figure who Palestinians say is helping Israel stoke Christian-Muslim tensions.

Israel started the latest round of deadly violence in Gaza, but you wouldn’t know it from the coverage.

Sami Janazreh is one of three prisoners refusing food to protest Israeli detention without charge or trial.

Anyone could be purged from Labour, says Jackie Walker, the latest casualty in the party’s witch hunt of critics of Israel.

“This is just the start,” say Palestine rights campaigners at the University of Chile.

The church’s investments will be probed so that firms profiting from Israel’s human rights abuses can be excluded.

“Roof-knocking” warning missiles led to civilian deaths in Gaza. Now US is using them in Iraq.

Apartheid South Africa tried and failed to use similar efforts to cover up its crimes and deflect pressure.

Dima al-Wawi, the youngest female detainee, has been released, but many children are still behind bars facing severe abuses.

Israel advocates turn to corporate law in latest effort to stifle free speech by academics.

BDS referendum proceeded despite effort by parent union to postpone it.

Hamas website praises bombing but does not explicitly claim responsibility.

PLO envoy says fighters beheaded and raped camp residents.

Democratic hopeful’s blistering indictment of Hillary Clinton’s pro-Israel orthodoxy signals political sea change.

Festival opens with The Idol, based on the true story of Gaza-born star Mohammad Assaf.

Watered down divestment measure passes in Minnesota.

Publishing giant under fire for destroying books containing maps depicting Zionist and Israeli land conquests.

Military probe into killing of 17-year-old Muhammad al-Kasbeh involved “whitewash,” says human rights group B’Tselem.

Civil rights attorney Jordan Kushner says accusations against him couldn’t stand up.

Only 3,000 out of 18,000 destroyed homes have been rebuilt.

On the Bride’s Side traverses across Europe and beyond the “refugee crisis” headlines.

Palestinians stage hunger strikes against solitary confinement, cruelty