Palestinians

Support The Grassroots Movement In Jerusalem

June 2, 2016 Grassroots Jerusalem, www.indiegogo.com Organize! Activism, Apartheid, Israel, Palestinians

By Grassroots Jerusalem. Since the Oslo agreement, the world through international aid has supported the imported “peace process." This international aid primarily designs, coordinates and implements actions as if Palestine was a humanitarian crisis, a 67 year old emergency humanitarian crisis! Most of the civil services are provided by these unrepresentative entities to help the Palestinians merely survive under this occupation. While Palestinians expect the international community to focus on ending the occupation, this approach stifles the genuine grassroots movement organising to resist it.

Palestinians Nakba Day: Defiant, Undeterred and Organizing

May 15, 2016 Nada Elia, mondoweiss.net Resist! Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Palestinians

By Nada Elia for Mondoweiss. May 15 is observed annually as “Al Nakba Day,” and groups all around the globe hold actions and events to commemorate the fateful months of 1947-48. We name the villages that were destroyed, erased of the map, to allow for Israel to become a “Jewish homeland” in historic Palestine. We speak of the refugees, still in exile. But Al Nakba is not a memory, it is an ongoing daily reality. Sixty-eight years into our catastrophe, Palestinians in the West Bank are still losing towns, homes, land, olive groves, to the Zionist settlers. And still we persist, maintaining our right to freedom, dignity, self-determination. Our strategy, BDS, is so effective that Israel is trying desperately to stem it by threatening prominent activists with civilian assassination and/or exile. Ww get empowering reports of campaign successes, a growing number of allies joining our struggle, more voices speaking out. We know ours is a just cause, a moral cause, and that knowledge, that certainly, sustains us.

Report: US Takes Tougher Stance On Israeli Settlements

May 8, 2016 Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper, www.bigstory.ap.org Educate! International Law, Israel, Israeli settlements, Palestinians

By Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper for AP. WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will endorse a tougher tone with Israel in an upcoming international report that takes the Jewish state to task over settlements, demolitions and property seizures on land the Palestinians claim for a future state, diplomats told The Associated Press. The U.S. and its fellow Mideast mediators also will chastise Palestinian leaders for failing to rein in anti-Israeli violence. But the diplomats involved in drafting the document said its primary focus will be a surge of construction in Jewish housing in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The U.S. approval of the harsh language marks a subtle shift. Washington has traditionally tempered statements by the so-called "Quartet" of mediators with careful diplomatic language, but the diplomats said the U.S. in this case will align itself closer to the positions of the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, who emphasize Israel's role in the Mideast impasse.

Gaza Project Launched On International Women’s Day

March 9, 2016 Women's Boat to Gaza, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Gaza, Israel, Palestinians

By Women's Boat to Gaza. Messina, Italy - On March 8, 2016, International Women's Day, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition formally launches its latest challenge to the Israeli blockade of Gaza-the Women's Boat to Gaza. With boats crewed by women from across the world, we plan to underline the contribution of Palestinian women in their people's struggle, by challenging the Israeli blockade and bringing a message of hope to the Palestinian people. The newly launched Women's Boat to Gaza website is www.womensboattogaza.org Gaza has been under blockade for a decade. During this time its besieged people have suffered innumerable attacks and their life has become a nightmare of ongoing struggle. Our flotillas and other seaborne missions expose the inaction of the international community in the face of this suffering, while we simultaneously call for civil society solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.

Israeli Labor Party Adopts The Apartheid Mantra

February 13, 2016 Neve Gordon, www.aljazeera.com Educate! Apartheid, Israel, Palestinians

By Neve Gordon for Aljazeera - On Sunday night, Israel's Labor Party unanimously approved their leader's diplomatic plan. Labor's premier Isaac Herzog laid out his vision a few weeks earlier at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, telling the audience that he "wish[es] to separate from as many Palestinians as possible, as quickly as possible." Herzog continued by explaining that "we'll erect a big wall between us. That is the kind of co-existence that is possible right now [...] Ariel Sharon […] didn't finish the job. We want to finish it, to complete the barrier that separates us."

Why Israel’s Schools Merit A U.S. Boycott

January 15, 2016 Saree Makdisi, www.latimes.com Resist! Arabs, Education, Israel, Palestinians, Racism

By Saree Makdisi for Los Angeles Times. Austin, TX - At its annual convention this week, the Modern Language Assn., which represents 26,000 language and literature scholars, will become the latest academic body to consider the merits of adopting a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. This follows endorsements of such a boycott by the Assn. for Asian American Studies, the American Studies Assn. and, most recently, the American Anthropological Assn., which voted 1,040 to 136 to endorse a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions at its November annual meeting in Denver; the AAA's entire membership will soon vote on the resolution, which is expected to pass.

Arabs And Jews Protest Israeli ‘Book Ban’ With A Kiss

January 10, 2016 Renee Ghert-Zand, www.timesofisrael.com Resist! Arabs, Book ban, Israel, Jews, Palestinians

By Renee Ghert-Zand for Times of Israel. Time Out Tel Aviv responded to the Education Ministry’s barring from a reading list for high schoolers of a novel depicting an Israeli-Palestinian love story with a video showing Jews and Arabs locking lips. This new video is modeled on the “First Kiss” video released in March 2014, which went viral before people caught on that it was actually an advertisement for a fashion line starring models. The announcement of the book’s barring led to an exceptionally high demandat bookstores throughout the country, and to a subsequent concession by the ministry that the book can be taught in schools where teachers wish to do so. According to Time Out Tel Aviv, the pairs appearing in the video are either couples, friends or total strangers. In some cases the pairs are the same sex, and in others they are not. The magazine called the kissers “brave,” saying many of the people approached had refused to participate in the project given the charged climate and touchy subject. Each of the participants provided an explanation about why they decided to pucker up for the camera.

Newsletter – A People United Will Never Be Defeated

October 18, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Afghanistan, Climate Justice, Drones, Exxon, Food and Agriculture, Indigenous Peoples, Israel-Palestine, Kunduz, Mass Incarceration, Palestinians, Racism, TPP, War crimes, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. This week, hundreds of thousands rallied in Washington, DC for the Million Man March, more information became available regarding US war crimes, we celebrated the second annual People's Climate March and World Food Day and we are preparing a mass mobilization to protest the TransPacific Partnership. Popular Resistance is collaborating with a growing number of organizations and people to protest the TransPacific Partnership and other international treaties that will prevent us from achieving success in our struggles for racial, economic and environmental justice. We are planning a mass mobilization in Washington, DC this November to show the large and diverse opposition to agreements that force us to sacrifice the health and safety of our communities for corporate profits. There will be two days of action preparation followed by three full days of creative events. You are invited to participate in any way that you can.

Chancellor Resigns Over Her Firing Of Prof Over Gaza

August 8, 2015 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Resist! Academic Freedom, Gaza, Israel, Palestinians

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadowproof Press - The chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), who was involved in firing Professor Steven Salaita over tweets he sent about Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza, has announced her resignation yesterday. The announcement comes as a federal judge refused to dismiss Salaita’s lawsuit against the university for violating his free speech. An attorney representing Salaita, Anand Swaminathan of Loevy & Loevy, stated, “The university’s administration took a number of positions that showed contempt for its constitutional obligations, and raise serious doubts about the university’s commitment to academic freedom and its willingness to honor contractual commitments to its scholars. We are extremely pleased that the court has rejected the university’s dubious arguments.”

US Deports Professor For Criticsizing Israel

February 8, 2015 Hillary Mann Leverett and Flynt Leverett, www.truth-out.org Educate! Freedom of Speech, Israel, Palestinians

Earlier this week, the U.S. government deported our friend and colleague, Dr. Sami Al-Arian, from the United States. Turkey has granted him sanctuary. Since we first met Dr. Al-Arian a few years ago, he and his family have set standards for faithfulness, moral steadfastness, and commitment to truth to which we can only aspire. More broadly, the U.S. government’s treatment of Dr. al Arian underscores an urgent reality: how the West treats Muslims - in the Middle East, where they are the overwhelming majority, and in diaspora communities in the West itself - is the defining moral and political challenge of our time. The U.S. government’s actions against Sami Al-Arian and his family should remind all of us how badly the United States is failing that challenge.

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