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Opinion/Editorial

Transforming Finkelstein BDS attack into opportunity

David Letwin
28 February 2012

Norman Finkelstein’s attack on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is an opportunity — particularly for those of us who are Jewish — to affirm our unequivocal support for Palestinians’ fundamental rights.

Never mind Johnny Rotten, real punks boycott Israel

Alexander Billet
Chicago
20 February 2012

Working with the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, Punks Against Apartheid follows a firm tradition of anti-racism within the punk movement.

Standing in solidarity with Khader Adnan

Nehad Khader
Washington, DC
16 February 2012

Protests in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan made his plight impossible to ignore.

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Diaries: Live from Palestine

Asking Israel why it tortured my friend

Joy Ellison
Chicago
25 February 2012

When I heard that Israeli Sergeant Benjamin Anthony would be speaking at DePaul University in Chicago yesterday, I had one question for him: why did its army torture my friend?

Interview: Ex-prisoner reflects on friendship with Khader Adnan and his hunger strike for justice

Bekah Wolf
9 February 2012

Popular resistance leader Mousa Abu Maria shared an Israeli prison cell with Khader Adnan, now completing his 55th day of hunger strike. Abu Maria recalls Adnan’s leadership in organizing and educating prisoners in this interview for The Electronic Intifada.

Human Rights

Detaining Africans latest step in making Israel an ethnocracy

Sophie Crowe
Tel Aviv
2 March 2012

The African asylum-seekers have been greeted upon arrival in Israel with a hostile government that offers them no support or protection and wants them out.

Interview with Addameer's Mourad Jadallah: hunger strikes reignite prisoner movement

Asa Winstanley
London
1 March 2012

Mourad Jadallah discusses the case of Khader Adnan, the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoner who made administrative detention an international issue.

Activism News

Gaza gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week

Rana Baker and Joe Catron
Gaza Strip
1 March 2012

Students across the occupied Gaza strip prepare for the third consecutive year of Israeli Apartheid Week events, structured around strengthening the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and bridging global struggles for liberation.

Art, Music & Culture

Stealing a moment in a stolen land: the photography of Katie Ramadan

Jonathan Cook
Nazareth
5 March 2012

Katie Ramandan’s collection of photos currently on exhibition in Nazareth explores the meaning of home and the boundaries between private and public space.

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