Palestine Blogs

Author and activist Anna Baltzer explains why the Israeli beauty company, Ahava, should be boycotted by citizens of conscience. Baltzer: What does it mean to try and find beauty out of this...

by M. Junaid Levesque-Alam A prominent Israeli rabbi whose party shares power in the Netanyahu government called for the extermination of Arabs in a recent sermon. The 89-year-old Ovadia Yosef urged...

The brilliant Palestinian-Canadian lawyer Diana Buttu speaking in May 2010 at the 8th annual Al-Awda International Convention on the topic of Palestinian refugee rights and the so-called ‘peace...

Israel announced weeks ago that it would ease its siege on Gaza, but students who want to travel to the West Bank to study are still banned – as they have been for 10 years. To publicise the...

A report with some of Levy’s comments can be found at Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

by Abbas Al Lawati On August 19, the Israeli consulate in New York tweeted: #BBC “Panorama” presents arguably the most complete & thorough account of the #Flotilla. The documentary...

Riz Khan speaks to the great Gideon Levy of Ha’aretz about the ‘peace talks’ that are set to resume between Israelis and Palestinians in Washington.

by Steven Salaita Israel has been subject to some bad publicity recently.  In 2008-09, it launched a brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed over 400 Palestinian children.  In May,...

Dear BBC Panorama Team I write to you regarding your programme of 16th August, 2010, about the Freedom Flotilla and particularly the killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli Navy Seals on the ship MV...

The wonderful Jody McIntryre (blogs here) from the movie Life On Wheels By Haitham al Katib (h/t NF) [link]

by Max Blumenthal Conservative columnist George Will was recently in Israel. His trip resulted in a series of laughably error-laden columns revealing not only a crude view of the Israel-Palestine...

TheRealNews — Renowned journalist Jonathan Cook and top Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard on apartheid & Israel.

Earlier this year in Lebanon, I paid a visit to Roumieh prison outside Beirut to see a Palestinian friend who had ended up there thanks to a business endeavor involving a series of fake checks and a...

Occupied Minds (2006) is the story of two journalists, Jamal Dajani, a Palestinian-American, and David Michaelis, an Israeli citizen, who journey to Jerusalem, their mutual birthplace, to explore...

Israeli land seizure and ethnic cleansing should be met with arrest warrants – not arms sales and diplomatic games. The Jordan Valley, stretching all the way down the West Bank’s eastern side,...

Most of the reports and information taken from the websites Friends of Freedom and Justice- Bilin, Anarchists Against the Wall and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Two Palestinians...

The Irish continue to put the world to shame with their fighting spirit and devotion to justice. From the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: On the afternoon of Thursday 12th August 2010, the...

Parody of Video Killed the Radio Star (the Buggles) by Minor Demographic Threat. Lyrics over the fold. [video link] Lyrics You had them on your wireless saying, ‘Death to Jews’ You sliced...

A short documentary about the Hampshire College campaign for divestment from the occupation of Palestine. Hampshire is often credited with being the first US college to divest for the occupation, and...