US: CUNY’s law faculty becomes latest university department to endorse BDS
Law faculty at the City University of New York agrees to support the boycott of Israel in support of Palestinian rights
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FILM: Palestinians in ‘mixed cities’ recount the horrors of May 2021
In a series of testimonies, Palestinians from Jaffa and Lydd recount the terrifying days when settler and police violence overwhelmed their cities.
Israeli forces use Palestinian girl as a human shield in Jenin
Ramallah, May 19, 2022—Israeli soldiers used a 16-year-old Palestinian girl as a human shield in front of an Israeli military vehicle while deployed in the northern occupied West Bank city….
German court rules in favour of scholar Dr. Anna Younes in digital surveillance case
On 6 May 2022, the Berlin District Court upheld Dr. Younes’ claims and ordered VDK – the German state-funded organisation that legally represents RIAS Berlin and MBR – to give Anna Younes access to data that the two civil society organisations had gathered on her and passed on to others. The information released so far reveals that RIAS and MBR have been collecting people’s personal data based on their “positions on Israel and BDS.”
Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton, Mark Ruffalo Demand “Full Accountability” for Killing of Palestinian Journalist
The letter, signed by 126 artists, including Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Jim Jarmusch, also condemns the attack by Israeli police on mourners at the funeral for Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh.
The project bringing Palestinian refugees back home
What does the right of return mean to Palestinians, 72 years since the Nakba? Tarek Bakri’s visual documentation project offers a glimpse.
Shireen Abu Akleh: Al Jazeera reporter killed by Israeli gunfire
Israeli forces shot Abu Akleh in the head while she was on assignment in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Israeli forces have shot dead….
Another Phase of the Palestinian Nakba, With Israeli Court Approval
The Caterpillar D9 is a specific series of track-type tractor. A special Israeli license is required to drive such a bulldozer over a Palestinian home. The same is true for….
Bisan Lecture Series : How Cuba was able to successfully produce a Covid vaccine!
We are pleased to announce that the third Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 11th at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Estern time). We will have the pleasure to welcome Dr. Gertrudis Rojas (Center of Molecular Immunology, Havana, Cuba) who will speak on ” Soberana vaccines against SARS-CoV2: handling antigenic complexity in a versatile biotechnological process“.
High Court Justices Know Israel Won’t Face Sanctions Over Masafer Yatta Evictions
The decision was released on the eve of Independence Day, when the Jews celebrate the founding of the State of Israel and Palestinians grieve for the loss of their homeland