“It’s important to go to Rochester to not allow bigots to intimidate us…the truth cannot be crushed through violence.” These are the words of Rev. Graylan Hagler, a social justice and Palestinian human rights activist
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“It’s important to go to Rochester to not allow bigots to intimidate us…the truth cannot be crushed through violence.” These are the words of Rev. Graylan Hagler, a social justice and Palestinian human rights activist
Former Berkeley City Commissioner Cheryl Davila lost her seat after pushing a resolution calling on the city to divest funds from companies associated with the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
While it is no surprise that more U.S taxpayer money goes to Israel than any other country—in the form of military aid—it is surprising that the U.S. has authorized tax exempt charity donations to go towards Israeli groups that financially support Zionist terrorists in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Approximately 200 people gathered in the rain outside of the Israeli Consulate in Chicago last Friday to voice their opposition to the recent attacks at Al Aqsa Mosque by Israeli security forces last week.
A U.S. petition has begun circulating the Internet for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes committed during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip when he arrives in New York next month to address the United Nations General Assembly.
Fifteen American officials from the higher levels of the police and security forces of the United States visited Israel earlier this month.
Earlier this month, Palestinian human rights organizations renewed a demand to United Nations’ Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, urging the UN to terminate their contracts with the security company G4S, this time accompanied by over 220 trade unions, human rights organizations, and migrant groups in solidarity with the call.
In his latest collection of poems, Before the Next Bomb Drops Rising up: From Brooklyn to Palestine, spoken word artist and activist, Remi Kanazi speaks powerful truths to solidarity, justice, and resistance.
Shurat Hadin, Israel’s Law Center (ILC), sent a letter to the President of General Electric (GE) Jeffrey R. Immelt, which demanded the company breach its labor deal with United Electrical (UE), and Radio and Machine Workers of America after the union endorsed the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Midwest will attend the fifth annual National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) conference. SJP Midwest wants to send delegates from each SJP chapter in the region to the national conference from October 9th-11th, so it is fundraising to be able to afford the costs.
In May 2015, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) unanimously voted to mandate instruction in Arabic and Vietnamese for students who speak the languages at home.
Fifteen percent of Jewish settlers are American Jews who migrated to Israel in big numbers in the 1960’s and 1970’s even though the U.S. State Department’s official position is that under international law, Israeli settlements are illegal.
This Labor day weekend, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Midwest will host its 2nd annual conference in Chicago.
In the wake of Michael Brown’s shooting and the subsequent popular protests that rocked Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, many Palestinians at home and abroad witnessed something familiar —a capricious and racist regime that employed overwhelming force to quench calls for equality.
During its national convention on August 20 in Baltimore, the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers became the first national union in the United States to endorse BDS.
In spite of many United States Churches proposing to divest from the Israeli occupation of Palestine, many US Christian charities are donating millions to fund illegal settlement expansion.
American Airlines’ Philadelphia-Tel Aviv route will see its final flight on January 5, 2016, following the private airline’s announcement to bring the route’s six years of operation to an end. According to the Israeli Airport Authority, American’s Philadelphia-Tel Aviv route has seen 95,000 passengers this year , a 2.7 percent increase from the same time last year.
U.S. activists and government officials are on high alert as the threat of demolition looms over Susiya, a Palestinian village located in the south Hebron hills. In May, the Israeli High Court denied a Palestinian request for an injunction to stop Israel’s plans to destroy their homes, even though a legal appeal is due to be heard on Aug. 3.
“I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names, which meet and part… I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.” Mahmoud Darwish wrote these lines in a tribute to Edward Said. Perhaps Edward Said would forget which language he dreamt in because it does not matter. All humans have dreams, and all in exile dream of home.
On June 22nd New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman spent ten days of the Patriots’ offseason on a trip to Israel with fifteen others, sponsored by Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston (CJP).