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Tufts University joined the growing list of universities that have passed divestment resolutions targeting organizations with ties to human rights violations, particularly in Palestine. Students in colleges around the country are increasing their divestment efforts, by pushing for student resolutions and beyond.
Capitol Hill police arrested Herzallah and El-Hosseiny and four white, Jewish activists from Code Pink and IfNotNow in February during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing for David Friedman, who has since been approved as U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Six protesters were arrested for demanding the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reject the nomination ofDavid Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel on Feb. 16.
Destiny Frasqueri, known as Princess Nokia, canceled her performance at the Israeli Kalamazoo Festival. Advocates for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement had previously called on Frasqueri to cancel her show as part of the cultural boycott against Israel.
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) held their National Membership Meeting in Chicago this past weekend at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place.
Two Palestinian-American business students at Northeastern Illinois University launched a new clothing company to increase awareness of global issues.
This year’s protest against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was marked by two rallies, one organized by the Jewish-Americans against settlements group “IfNotNow” and the other organized by Abbas Hamideh of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right To Return Coalition which was co-sponsored by ANSWER Coalition. Both protests ended in front of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, where the AIPAC conference is held.
Today marks an abominable juncture in Palestinian national history, one that forces our hand to write of the betrayal of our national leadership instead of the violence of our occupier. We, Palestinian youth of the Diaspora, feel compelled to register in the historical record our anger, pain and distress caused by both our occupier and by you as its gatekeeper.
To my Palestinian women
You are beautiful
You are kind
And you are strong
You are everything of Palestine
You are Palestine in her own very human form
Palestinian community leader, activist, and torture survivor Rasmea Odeh announced through the Rasmea Defense Committee that she would accept a plea deal on her immigration charges, bringing her years-long fight with the U.S. justice system to an end.
Noam Chomsky, famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, is one of the most prominent and outspoken figures in the Israeli-Palestinian debate and he continues to voice his criticisms against the unfathomable relationship between Israel and the US.
This is an open letter written by Izzy Mustafa to a family member in reaction to the Palestinian Authority/PLO betrayal of our people and in reaction to those in the West Bank rising up against the PA’s collaboration with the Israel’s occupation forces.
The literary association PEN America will hold their annual World Voices literary festival this year without funding from the Israeli government.
This February, pro-Israel advocacy group AMCHA released an online inventory of campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) throughout the United States in an effort to connect Palestine solidarity activism to real and perceived anti-Semitism on campus.
Two teachers were suspended indefinitely from Friends’ Central School in Philadelphia for supervising a club that invited a Palestinian speaker to campus.
Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh’s defense team recently filed a motion to dismiss the U.S. Attorney’s new indictment brought against her last December. Odeh was originally indicted in 2013, and the prosecutors won the conviction in 2014 before it was overturned in 2016.
More than half of the NFL players invited to Israel did not attend the trip which began on Feb.14.
