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#PayPal4Palestine campaign urges PayPal to serve Palestinians, not just Israelis
PayPal refuses to do business with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but allows Israelis and Israeli settlers to use their digital payment service. After PayPal ignored their….
The Malevolence of Occupation
Boycott is, as many proudly recall, an Irish invention. The first boycott targeted a notorious land agent, the eponymous Captain Charles Boycott, for attempting to evict tenants. Inspired by the….
Israeli army commander: I will make all the youth of Al-Duheisha camp disabled
An Israeli army commander has repeatedly threatened to make “all youth in the [Al-Duheisha] camp disabled”, reports have said. BADIL, the Resource Centre for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, reported….
After Israeli military clears soldiers of killing families in Gaza, Palestinians call on Hague to investigate
Israel’s military cleared soldiers of criminal wrongdoing in alleged human rights violations committed during the 2014 summer war in Gaza, according to [an army report published yesterday PDF]. Investigations closed….
‘Why do you have Arabic in this notebook?’: 17-year-old American student strip searched and interrogated in Ben Gurion airport
I am a 17-year-old American girl. I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts. My mother is from the U.S. and my father is a U.S. citizen born in….
Israel’s war on open discourse: State censorship now reaches into international news sources and social media
Since the beginning of this year, Israel’s attempts to control what people can read and write within the country and in occupied Palestinian territories have increased, reaching into new areas….
A French, a Palestinian, and a black woman all wade into a pool
Simone Manuel’s gold medal win in the Rio Olympics is no minor feat, and not just in the athletic sense. As Manuel herself acknowledges, her achievement is a slap in….
Arab students in Jerusalem get less than half the funding of Jewish counterparts
Municipality transfers less to East Jerusalem schools than the budget provided by the Education Ministry.
Samidoun international coordinator denied entry to Palestine, interrogated about BDS and prisoner solidarity
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network international coordinator Charlotte Kates was denied entry to Palestine at the King Hussein Bridge crossing from Jordan to occupied Palestine on Monday, 15 August, as….