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Dutch-Palestinian Sues Benny Gantz in Hague for War Crimes in 2014 Gaza Operation
In civil suit before Dutch district court, complainant blames the former IDF chief and then-air force commander of killing six family members in bombardment of their Gaza house
The BBC should press for Eurovision to be moved from Israel
On 8 February, the BBC will screen You Decide, to ‘deliver the UK the artist it deserves to fly the flag out in Tel Aviv in May’. For any artist of conscience, this would be a dubious honour, say 50 figures from the creative industries.
Amnesty : Tourism companies driving settlement expansion, profiting from war crimes
Online booking giants Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor are fuelling human rights violations against Palestinians by listing hundreds of rooms and activities in Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land, including….
Netanyahu ends mandate for international observers presence in Hebron
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to allow international observers to continue their mission in Hebron, where they have been present since a spike in Israeli-Palestinian tensions in the 1990s…..
Palestinian genetics doctor wins medical research award in Switzerland
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Lina Osama Quteineh, a doctor in genetics from occupied East Jerusalem, won the second prize in Switzerland for best published research in organ transplant in 2018. In….
Academic Institutions Must Defend Free Speech
Statement issued by the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity: We, the undersigned, oppose the coordinated campaign to deny academics their free speech rights due to their defense of….
Nobel laureate George P. Smith speaks about BDS for Palestinian Rights
Prof. George P. Smith, 2018 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, spoke about BDS during his trip to Stockholm, Sweden, Dec 2018. Thank you, Prof. Smith, for your principled support! “People of….
Palestinian Is Shot in the Head by Israeli Police on His Way to School, and Lives to Tell the Tale
Somehow, 16-year-old Fawaz Abed wasn’t killed. Border Police shot him in the head at short range near his home in El Bireh, and may also have kicked him, eyewitnesses say. Emergency surgery saved his life
Time to Break the Silence on Palestine
Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke out about the Vietnam War. We must do the same when it comes to this grave injustice of our time.