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"We won't be silenced," say students arrested over Peres boycott call

Yara Sa'di
24 January 2012

Three Palestinian students at the College of Engineering in Jerusalem have been put under house arrest for a week after calling for a boycott of a speech by Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Judge dismisses claims of "anti-Semitic climate" at UC Berkeley

Dalia Almarina
Berkeley
6 January 2012

A lawsuit over anti-Semitism at the University of California Berkley has been dismissed after a judge determined that students alleging a hostile climate on campus failed to support their claims.

Interview: "Everyone can help Welcome to Palestine 2012"

Adri Nieuwhof
19 December 2011

Large numbers of international activists plan to Tel Aviv as part of the Welcome to Palestine 2012 initiative to assert the right of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to receive visitors.

West Bank village steps up protests against Israel's theft of land

Ben Lorber
13 December 2011

Palestinians in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddoum have been holding regular protests against the Israeli occupation and settlement encroachment.

Former prisoner, PFLP leader: hunger strike "made revolution in the prisons"

Ben Lorber
Hebron
7 December 2011

Abdel-Alim Da’na, a leader of the PFLP and a professor at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron, speaks to Ben Lorber about his experience in Israel’s prisons.

South African activist: "Palestine casts light on our own history"

Adri Nieuwhof
South Africa
5 December 2011

A South African activist working for the global boycott movement against Israeli apartheid connects the ongoing anti-colonialist struggles from Johannesburg to Palestine.

Boycott Israel campaign grows among UK unions, despite Zionist backlash

Asa Winstanley
London
30 November 2011

So many UK trade unions have now passed motions in support of the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement that even the often conservative Trades Union Congress has been compelled to change policy.

Attempts to break Gaza blockade won't stop, vows Freedom Waves activist

Michelle Gyeney
28 November 2011

As the Australian delegate on the Tahrir boat with the recent Freedom Waves initiative, Michael Coleman recently confronted all of the barriers that the government of Israel could muster.

Interview: Why is concert promoter suing Lebanon boycott activists?

Maureen Clare Murphy
18 November 2011

Lebanese concert promoter Jihad el-Murr has filed a lawsuit against four groups over a boycott campaign they organized against the band Placebo in June 2010.

Israel arrests "Freedom Riders" challenging apartheid road system

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
15 November 2011

Several activists were arrested by Israeli forces today while attempting to ride segregated buses serving illegal Israeli settlements.

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