According to a May 27 CBC news report, the Ontario section of Canada’s largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has voted overwhemingly to support a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. There are over 200,000… Read moreOntario labor union votes to support Israel boycott
From CNN, May 23: Wave of violence in Afghanistan Fighting this week in Afghanistan has been among the most intense since the U.S. invasion more than four years ago, with up to 300 people reported killed since last Wednesday. The… Read more300 killed in one week in Afghanistan —including civilians
From the Egyptian groups Institute for Freedom of Thought and Expression, Arab Institute for Civil Society, Legal Aid Society for Human Rights, and The Civil Monitor for Human Rights, on May 21: On Thursday, May 18 activist Asmaa Mohammed Hassan… Read moreAction call: protest crackdown on Egyptian civil rights
From the JTA, May 20: Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC A congresswoman says AIPAC is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) said the supporter of the American… Read moreCongresswoman boycotts AIPAC
More pendulum swings. Douglas Feith, former no. 3 at the Pentagon, Richard Perle, who served on a Pentagon Advisory board, and former undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz have all been the subject of investigations for their ties to Israel, according… Read moreAIPAC spy-trial backlash: Pentagon security clearances revoked
Ten Palestinians have been shot and killed in the last two years while protesting Israel’s separation wall non-violently. Hundreds of protestors have been injured, including internationals and Israelis. From the ISM media office, May 14: Non-Violent Demonstration Against the Wall… Read moreIsraeli army attacks protest, girls’ school
From Ha’aretz, May 11: Fear and loathing in Petah Tikva / Neo-Nazi gangs assaulting ultra-Orthodox Jews A week after the desecration of the Great Synagogue in Petah Tikva, nothing remains of the horror the worshipers encountered there last Thursday when… Read moreIsraeli neo-Nazis attack Jews
According to this decision, if he married her now and she was under 25, an Israeli parliamentarian’s wife wouldn’t be allowed to live with him in Israel. From Ha’aretz, May 14: MK Barakeh: High Court ruling supplies an ‘alibi for… Read moreIsraeli court upholds apartheid
The two were shot with rubber bullets at close range in the head. From the International Solidarity Movement: [photos at the link] May 12, Bi’lin, occupied West Bank “I saw blood gushing out of his head, and helped bandage it…. Read moreIsraeli troops shoot two foreigners
From the Egyptian NGO, Civil Monitors for Human Rights, in Cairo, May 11: Egyptian Authorities Continue Crackdown on Opposition Today Continuing in their policy of oppression, the Egyptian authorities are trying to prevent protests which the Egyptian opposition is organizing… Read moreEgypt: opposition crackdown continues
From the American Library Association, May 5: Brandeis Students Protest Removal of Palestinian Art Some 100 people, many of them students at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, marched May 4 to protest the removal a week earlier of “Voices from… Read moreBrandeis students protest removal of Palestinian art
An exhibition of artwork at Brandeis University featuring 17 paintings by Palestinian youths from the al-Rowwad cultural center at the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, was removed by the university last week, after several… Read moreCensorship at Brandeis
