News Items
The following news items have been syndicated by the following sources:
- B'Tselem
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
- Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)
- The Mondoweiss Blog
- Health and Human Rights Project
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Jeff Halper to Pete Seeger: Ditch the JNF and honor the boycott
Dear Pete,
All the best from your friends in Israel/Palestine. In that spirit, I was surprised to hear of your planned participation in With Earth and Each Other: A Virtual Rally for a Better Middle East. While at first blush it might seem...
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Bibi wants a Palestinian state…by 2040
According to the Telegraph, Netanyahu hopes to kick the Palestinian state can down the road by as much as 30 years.
Mr Netanyahu is reportedly hoping that...
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I bring a guide to the Middle East
My wife knows I'm using her on this trip and she resents it. I wanted her to see the Middle East because she’s much more intuitive than I am. I wanted her eyes and ears because I'm clueless about people. I should never have admitted this to her.
She’s already held it over me several...
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Yale anti-Semitism conference continues to make waves
We've been following the ongoing debate over the disgraceful anti-Semitism conference held at Yale University that seemed more...
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The reasons the BDS movement is ‘gaining speed’
On September 5, 2010 the Israel newspaper Haaretz published an article the headline of which read "Anti-Israel Economic Boycotts are Gaining Speed." The subtitle went on to state...
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UN reports Israel displaced at least 50 Bedouin families, including 39 children, in August
And other news from Today in Palestine:
Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing
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CARE USA drops board member over ties to Lev Leviev’s settlement building empire
Having connections to the settlements is really becoming a scarlet letter, isn't it? Adalah-NY reports that the international humantarian organization CARE USA has dropped a member of its board of directors over their relationship to Lev Leviev's Africa Israel which builds homes in West Bank...
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Eyewitness to the Nakba
Ammon Neumann sharing his memory of the Nakba with Zochrot.
Public hearing at Zochrot, 61 Ibn Gvirol St., Tel-Aviv, June 17, 2010. The audience consisted of about twenty people....
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Kairos and Christian advocacy in the 'Holy Land' (Timothy Seidel, The Palestine Chronicle)
Much is said about Palestine-Israel. There is no shortage of reporting, analysis, and opinion. And there is no shortage of expressions of personal commitments to ‘peace’. One need only glance at recent headlines to discover this, especially with another push to reinvigorate the ‘peace process...
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Boycott grows as Stephen Sondheim, Mira Nair and Julianne Moore join call against settlement theater; Palestinian activists say keep focus on the big picture
Jewish Voice for Peace's campaign to support 60 leading Israeli actors and playwrights who are refusing to play a new theater in Ariel continues to grow. New...
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