Palestine / Gaza / West Bank

Chair says anti-Muslim sentiment behind suspected hate crime under investigation by campus police.

French crackdown disproportionately targeting Muslims, letfists, says Amnesty.

Palestinian workers say they support BDS, even if it costs jobs in the short term.

Anti-BDS efforts pushed by legislators advance in New York and Illinois.

Speed Sisters follows Palestinian women’s rally-car racing team and the challenges that come with pursuing their sport.

Pro-Israel groups have pushed for policy that conflates anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.

Latest arrests provide additional reasons why Israel should be kicked out of sporting competitions.

Palestinians and Black residents of Michigan both have to cope with dangerous levels of water pollution. 

Award for Hanan al-Hroub should help dispel myths about Palestinian education but comes at a time of dissent over PA treatment of teachers.

Israeli army kills three men in Hebron, two children in Gaza.

Academic organizers to challenge the decision in court.

Fight for divestment continues at University of Minnesota, student funds threatened over divestment at Vassar and a Zionist group seeks to ban SJPs in New York City.

Occupation forces arrest journalists, forcibly close Palestinian TV station.

Mounis Hammouda spent 480 days in an Arizona detention center; his friend Hisham Ghalia is still there.

Maps that show the reality of Israel’s land theft have angered right-wing bigots.

Palestinians welcome major win, but warn that the security and incarceration firm’s role in Israel’s abuses continues

CEO now blames Israel — not BDS — for loss of Palestinian jobs.

Israel has criminalized the renowned lawyer and her brother Medhat Issawi for representing Palestinian prisoners.

Recent events have left Arab and Muslim students wondering if the prestigious New York university is safe for them.

Group running ads featuring Mahmoud Darwish’s poems has faced censorship in the past.

Eleven ambulance drivers and civil defense workers were killed during Israel’s 2014 attack.

Professors at US universities form Faculty for Justice in Palestine to support student activism and protect academic freedom.

Omar Nayef Zayed had sought shelter at Palestinian embassy where he was found dead.

Israel has agreed to release the Palestinian journalist a month early from administrative detention, which will not be renewed.

Palestinians locked in coackroach-infested, grave-like cells and fed rotten food at Israeli torture center.

Palestine activists put up posters designed to look like real advertisements condemning Israel’s rights violations.

Israel may be preparing for the death of Muhammad al-Qiq.

Parce que ...
Parce que je ne suis pas antisémite
Parce que j'ai une sainte horreur des hypocrites
Parce que je n'ai aucun mérite
De croire que la justice n'est pas un mythe.

La Palestine
C'est cette terre engloutie par les flots d'une puissance assassine

d'une mauvaise foi cristalline...

D'une volonté inhumaine et non divine.

B’Tselem says Israel is holding Muhammad al-Qiq with no lawful authority and must release him immediately.

Palestinians said inclusion of Israel-government funded luxury trip aimed to whitewash war crimes.

Amnesty International calls on Israel to urgently facilitate transfer of Muhammad al-Qiq to Ramallah hospital.

Public bodies boycotting Israel could be fined.

Florida students bypass veto of divestment resolution as student-led campaign grows.

Israel is eliminating one of the only means of self-defense and survival for Palestinians in Gaza while priming the Israeli public for the next war.

Law firm’s withdrawal of funds from Harvard is latest example of growing anti-Palestinian censorship.

PA claimed photo of police officer “incited” against them.

Tuesday hearing likely marked a last chance for Muhammad al-Qiq, who is now too weak to receive visitors.

Woman slain and 14-year-old girl critically wounded in Hebron.

Muhammad al-Qiq refuses transfer to Jerusalem hospital, and will continue his strike until he is freed.

Pro-Israel bills would seek to authorize violations of US constitutional rights.

Israeli court stays eviction of Sub Laban family from house they’ve lived in since 1953

Jerusalem teen Muhammad al-Hashlamoun, 17, has been ordered held without charge by Israel’s defense minister.

En visite sur la frontière avec la Jordanie où Israël met en place un nouveau mur de séparation, le premier Ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu a annoncé que l’intégralité des frontières israéliennes sera clôturée pour se protéger contre « les animaux sauvages qui l’entourent ». Source : Euronews (english)

Israel hopes luxury trip for Hollywood stars will improve its blood-soaked image.

Knesset also moves forward bills that penalize dissent.

Abdelsalam Abunada has been campaigning against a law that would give the Palestinian Authority greater powers of censorship.

The Palestinian journalist, who has refused food for 74 days to protest his detention without charge by Israel, is at imminent risk of death.

Muhammad al-Qiq, who has been on hunger strike for 72 days, rejects decision.

Abdel Bari Atwan was set to chair a meeting with Palestinian students and MPs.

In a written statement from his hospital bed Muhammad al-Qiq says he’s “paying the toll of a racist Israeli policy.”

Israel’s army has relied on PA security forces to suppress resistance.

Mohammad Abu Sakha has been in administrative detention since December.

The five known as the Hares boys say they were tortured by Israeli forces.

Local authorities are angry at attempts to prevent them taking investment decisions which clash with UK foreign policy. 

Contrary to army propaganda, critically ill patients seeking medical care outside Gaza face tighter restriction than ever.

“Illegal” protests resume at supermarkets, as thousands sign call to boycott Israeli goods.

Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon was hosted by Israel society.

Black Lives Matter adds voice to protests over invitation of Israel pinkwashing group A Wider Bridge to The National LGBTQ Task Force’s Chicago conference.

Students demand administration stop meddling in student government affairs.

How are Palestinians supposed to speak with their gullets compressed by the gun butts of the Israeli army?

Damning legal opinion and secret text of Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism revealed.

Israeli forces used extreme violence against US citizens, lawsuit alleges.

Irish construction material group CHR has divested from Israel’s main cement provider after a decade-long campaign by Irish activists.

Faced with prospect of mass boycott, French multinational had “no choice” but to end its complicity with Israeli abuses.

First days of 2016 see no let up as five Palestinians and three Israelis are slain.

Video suggests US citizens are providing direct material support for Israeli war crimes.

Two new books examine the connections between Black activism in the US and the struggle for Palestine’s freedom.

Shortage of classrooms has dire effect on tens of thousands of Palestinian students in the occupied city.