Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 14:29
Video and report about my Penn BDS conference keynote, and my account of how an anti-Palestinian filmmaker misrepresented himself as a CBC journalist in a dirty trick.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 16:32
Despite all attempts to bully BDS activists at UPenn into cancelling their historic conference, they have prevailed. Omar Barghouti, a human rights activist and founding member of the Palestinian civil society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in this video salutes PennBDS and all US activists who have adopted BDS as the most effective form of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 19:14
Leading Palestinian figures including prominent human rights advocates Dr. Eyad Sarraj, and Raji Sourani have boycotted a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Gaza today over the latter’s refusal to meet with the families of Palestinian prisoners.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 15:12
Unchecked inflammatory rhetoric by opponents of the Penn BDS conference, and the University of Pennsylvania’s failure to act, is making students feel unsafe.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 16:07
In the latest shot against the upcoming boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) conference at the University of Pennsylvania next weekend, the movement is being openly compared to Nazism.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 15:11
Israel has announced it plans to deport thousands of refugees from South Sudan. The reasoning behind the move suggests it could be a rehearsal for the expulsion of Palestinian citizens of Israel if an independent Palestinian state is ever established.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 21:52
Khader Adnan, 34, a Palestinian being held without charge or trial, is at grave risk of death after 45 days of continuous hunger strike, according to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR), whose doctors examined him.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 13:29
The relentless drumbeat for war against Iran got a little bit louder last night with comments by US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on CBS’ 60 Minutes that Iran is only a year from making a nuclear bomb.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 14:22
The Phildelphia Inquirer today publishes opposing op-eds on the upcoming boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) conference one by Ali Abunimah and the other by former CIA chief James Woolsey and Jonathan Schanzer of the pro-Israel neocon group Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 17:37
Cindy Corrie is among several people appearing in a short video calling for solidarity with the Olympia Food Co-op in Olympia, Washington and condemning a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Co-op’s boycott of Israeli goods.
