Now that Iran’s off the table for a few months, Sullivan forces attention back to the central issue, Israeli expansion and ethnic cleansing
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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Fire and flowers at Erez
Thousands of Palestinians demonstrate at Gaza Israel border. Israelis shoot several, killing at least one
‘Judaizing’ Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem, with backing from Americans
Jeff Halper visits the Natche family home in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, which is under threat of eviction by vigilante settlers led by Arieh King and backed by the Israel Land Fund.
Head of Bill Kristol’s lobby group calls on Israeli army to use Palestinian protesters as ‘target practice’
Noah Pollak has also called for shooting released Palestinian prisoners and Judaizing Jerusalem
The Palestine National Orchestra: a view from the violin section
Violinist Tom Suarez recounts his March 2012 performances in Amman and Ramallah as a guest performer with the Palestine National Orchestra, a project of Edward Said National Conservatory of Music.
Jews utilize 85% of historical Palestine (and counting)
Israel’s Civil Administration is quietly gobbling up another 10 percent of the West Bank land and assigning it to settlements
Land Day in Pictures: Israel, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank
March 30th, the Palestinian Land Day in with pictures from the West Bank, to Gaza, to Israel, to Lebanon.
UPDATE: Mustafa Barghouti stable after being struck in head at Qalandiya; Palestinian protester reports Barghouti attacked by fellow protesters
Update, 6:30 pm Earlier today we reported: Mustafa Barghouti was among 150 Palestinians injured at a Land Day demonstration at Qalandiya checkpoint in occupied Palestine this morning. A leader of the nonviolent movement and former candidate for president, Barghouti said that he was struck in the head by a teargas canister fired by Israeli forces. […]
Land Day protest at Times Square, today at 4:30 PM
Sarah wears her Palestine hoody to her shift at Park Slope Food Coop, a day after the vote
Video: the Gaza onslaught
What does disproportionate and indiscriminate attack mean? And where do these attacks on Gaza originate?
BDS is endorsed by large Latino/a youth organization at Arizona conference
Movímíento Estudíantíl Chícan@ de Aztlán endorses Palestinian boycott call at Arizona conference
From Gaza to Sakhnin, we are united with Bil’in
In Beit Hanoun, Land Day came early, Palestinian flags flew high, music played over the megaphone, and we unfurled banners in memory of the martyrs of 1976
Live updates from the Global March to Jerusalem and Land Day protests
Follow live twitter updates from Global March to Jerusalem actions around the world.
Land Day in posters: a retrospective of the 1980s
A retrospective of Palestinian Land Day political posters from 1980 through 1989.
Video: Students in Palestine and the US mark Land Day by calling on TIAA-CREF to divest
A three minute video calls on TIAA-CREF to end its investments in corporations that profit from Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Global March to Jerusalem website blocked in Israel; decoy site directs to hasbara video
The Global March to Jerusalem website appears to be blocked in Israel, and a fake website set up directs visitors to a hasbara video.
What Park Slope BDS activists were up against: the full force of the Israel lobby
Deep-pocketed and influential organizations threw their weight against BDS efforts at the Park Slope Food Co-op. Advocates for BDS still managed to garner 40 percent of the vote.
The story of the land
On Land Day, Sarah Ali explains what land has meant to her father, and her family, living in Gaza.
Land Day vs. the ‘Jewish State’: an interview with Haneen Zoabi
Palestinians mark ‘Land Day’ on March 30th to commemorate the first widespread struggle of Palestinian citizens of Israeli against land confiscation and the Israeli policy of Judaization. Elsa Rassbach interviews Haneen Zoabi to discuss the enduring legacy of Land Day and issues currently facing Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Emma Thompson among group of prominent British actors calling on Globe theatre to withdraw invite to Israeli National Theatre
UK groups have for three months been pressing Shakespeare’s Globe to withdraw its festival invitation to Habima in response to the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli cultural institutions, and now a group of prominent actors, playwrights and directors have published a letter in the Guardian, ‘Dismay at Globe invitation to Israeli theatre’ We notice with […]
Israel stands by debunked story of Palestinian child’s death
Critics of Khulood Badawi, a Palestinian employee of the UN who tweeted a dated photo of a three-year-old girl who was killed as a result of Israeli missiles, are calling for the aid worker’s termination on the purported grounds the girl died from a playground accident, despite new information on Israel’s responsibility.
Bradley Burston dips his toes in one-state water
In his latest Haaretz column, Bradley Burston dares to go where he has never gone before, taking the first tentative steps toward consideration of the one-state solution.
Obama and Republicans have to support Iran war ‘because of funding from certain ethnic groups’
Harvey Eisen on Lou Dobbs says that ‘the bugaboo’ in the economy, Iran war policy, is paid for by the Israel lobby
Settlers take over house in Hebron, PA detains owner
Several dozen settlers move into property located near Cave of Patriarchs; say they have legal ownership. Palestinian owner detained by PA police.
Obama administration buys time on Iran–but what will happen after the elections?
The US has literally bought time on the question of an Israeli attack on Iran by increasing funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system. But all bets are off after the 2012 presidential election.