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New Israel Law Bars Foreign Critics From Entering the Country
“It’s going to be a giant sign up by the door of the Jewish state:…
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Banksy’s Murals Turn Up In The Gaza Strip
Krishnadev Calamur, NPR, February 26, 2015
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Israel Bulldozes Democracy
AYMAN ODEH, The New York Times, February 11, 2017 A Bedouin woman reacts to the…
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Israel as the Lights Go Out
In America there is always a domestic political reason for not doing the right thing…
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Diana Buttu & Gideon Levy on Israeli Settlements, Kerry, Military Aid & End of Two-State Solution
Democracy Now!, December 30, 2016
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The Two-State Solution: What It Is and Why It Hasn’t Happened
“The two-state solution has for decades been the primary focus of efforts to achieve peace…
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Why Israel Still Refuses to Choose
It’s easier to leave Palestinians in limbo waiting for a “peace process” that goes nowhere…
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2016.10.22 Update: Wisconsin Book Festival: The Way to the Spring
C-SPAN video link: c-span.org/video/?416995-3/ben-ehrenreich-discusses-way-spring Wisconsin Book Festival The Way to the Spring Ben Ehrenreich 10/22/2016…
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Black Lives Matter Benefit Is Canceled Over Stand on Israel
The owners of the club have canceled a concert, citing a platform of groups affiliated…
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Israeli Defense Minister Compares Beloved Palestinian Poet to Hitler
JAMES GLANZ, The New York Times, JULY 21, 2016 Avigdor Lieberman, an ultranationalist, said that…
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Ben Ehrenreich Writes a Love Letter to Palestine
“Next we meet Hani Amer, whose farm lay on the route of the infamous wall.…
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Poetry is not a Crime
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Are state boycotts of the anti-Israel BDS movement constitutional?
Aidan Quigley, The Christian Science Monitor, June 27, 2016
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Israel Adds $20 Million in Funding for Settlements in the West Bank
While strengthening the settlements, Israel has continued to demolish unlicensed Palestinian homes and livestock pens…
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Andrew Cuomo’s Anti-Free Speech Move on BDS
Alex Nabaum As a Jew who has lived in Israel and has many relatives there,…
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Michele Bahl: How can we be indifferent to suffering of children in Gaza?
Michele Bahl, Cap Times, Sep 20, 2014
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40 Holocaust survivors condemn ‘massacre’ of Palestinians, call for BDS against Israel
Alex Kane, Mondoweiss, August 26, 2014
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2014.03.07-13: Film Omar at Sundance Cinema
The Oscar-nominated Palestinian film Omar is showing at the Sundance Cinema 608 in Hilldale Mall.…
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Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal
I am not permitted to live with my wife in the country of my birth…
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Israel Frees Palestinian Detainee After Hunger Strike of Weeks
ABEL KERSHNER and FARES AKRAM, New York Times, April 1, 2012 The woman, Hana…
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New York Times

New Israel Law Bars Foreign Critics From Entering the Country

Banksy’s Murals Turn Up In The Gaza Strip

Israel Bulldozes Democracy

Israel as the Lights Go Out

Diana Buttu & Gideon Levy on Israeli Settlements, Kerry, Military Aid & End of Two-State Solution

The Two-State Solution: What It Is and Why It Hasn’t Happened

Why Israel Still Refuses to Choose

2016.10.22 Update: Wisconsin Book Festival: The Way to the Spring

Black Lives Matter Benefit Is Canceled Over Stand on Israel

Israeli Defense Minister Compares Beloved Palestinian Poet to Hitler

Ben Ehrenreich Writes a Love Letter to Palestine

Poetry is not a Crime

Are state boycotts of the anti-Israel BDS movement constitutional?

Israel Adds $20 Million in Funding for Settlements in the West Bank

Andrew Cuomo’s Anti-Free Speech Move on BDS

Michele Bahl: How can we be indifferent to suffering of children in Gaza?

40 Holocaust survivors condemn ‘massacre’ of Palestinians, call for BDS against Israel

2014.03.07-13: Film Omar at Sundance Cinema

Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal

Israel Frees Palestinian Detainee After Hunger Strike of Weeks