Category: In the Media

  • Akram Rikhawi and the Saga of Palestinian Hunger Strikes

    By Richard Falk 9 July 2012 | Richard Falk WordPress The persistence of Palestinian hunger strikes shocks me for two reasons: that these extreme expressions of moral freedom alert all who choose to expose their consciousness to such realities of the severely abusive arrest, detention, and interrogation procedures that many Palestinians living under Israeli occupation…

  • BDS at 7! – Celebrating, reflecting and further mainstreaming

    9 July 2012 | Palestinian BDS National Committee, Occupied Palestine Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and certainly more diverse than ever—a true cause for celebration by all those groups and conscientious…

  • Israel treats every Palestinian child as “potential terrorist”: government-backed UK study

    By Asa Winstanley 28 June 2012 | Electronic Intifada, London A new report funded and supported by the UK government that accuses Israel of violating international law with its treatment of Palestinian child detainees was launched in London by a high-profile group of human rights lawyers on Tuesday. The report says Israel is in violation…