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Palestinian civil society calls for sanctions to stop Israel’s annexation and apartheid

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council renews the call for targeted sanctions Palestinian Human Rights…

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Letter to Biden (and Trump) Campaigns Regarding Israel and Palestinian Rights

This letter, signed by more than 100 progressive, anti-war, and faith-based U.S. organizations, urges presumptive…

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Palestinian Scholar Noura Erakat: Israeli Forces Killed My Cousin on His Sister’s Wedding Day

Democracy Now!, JUNE 24, 2020 Israeli soldiers on Tuesday killed 27-year-old Ahmed Erekat at a…

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‘It’s a war crime’: Thousands rally in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu annexation bid

Meretz MK, Joint List leader says move would create ‘apartheid’; Sanders sends video message; police…

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Strangers in Our Homeland

Aida Touma-Sliman, JewishCurrents, February 6, 2020 LAST WEEK, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu announced a…

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Activists Reclaimed a Water Source for Palestinians, Showing Co-Resistance Works

Oren Kroll-Zeldin, Truthout, January 10, 2020

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To Prison, Again, for Protesting Against Israel’s Colonial Rule

Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack pens a powerful Op-Ed in Haaretz on his arrest, putting into…

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Netanyahu’s Real Crimes

Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, NOVEMBER 23, 2019 After years of investigation and…

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Israel Is Accused of Torturing a Prisoner Until His Ribs Were Broken

Alex Kane, Vice, October 8, 2019

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Noura Erakat: West Bank Annexation Is Logical End to Israel’s Apartheid Policy

Democracy Now!, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 GUESTS Noura Erakat Palestinian human rights attorney and an assistant…

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The Ecological War on Gaza

Rob Goyanes, Jewish Currents, September 9, 2019

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What Is Israel Trying to Hide?

Reps. Tlaib & Omar Blocked from Taking Official Trip to West Bank Democracy Now! August 16,…

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Israel Denies Entry to Omar and Tlaib After Trump’s Call to Block Them

Isabel Kershner, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Peter Baker, New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019 JERUSALEM…

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Why Americans Should Support BDS

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Democratic candidates on Israel/Palestine – a guide

If Americans Knew, June 26, 2019

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Apartheid Arms: Why Israel Sells Military Equipment to Human Rights Violators

Mohamed Mohamed, The Palestine Chronicle, May 21, 2019

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Landmark Ruling Strikes Down Ban of Israel Boycott

Arsalan Bukhari, Informed Comment, 04/26/2019

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2019.04.23-25: War Over Peace: Israel in the eyes of a Critical Sociologist

Uri Ben-Eliezer, Sociology, University of Haifa The Havens Center, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison…

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