Jewish groups have called on America's Chief Medical Adviser to the President, Dr Anthony Fauci, not to legitimise "apartheid" Israel by accepting a prominent prize from the Zionist state....
Members of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP) have voted overwhelmingly to endorse sanctions on Israel during the party's 2021 convention. NDP members voted over the weekend in favour of...
Amid growing concern over the weaponising of anti-Semitism by staunch advocates of the state of Israel, Jewish faculty members in Canadian universities are opposing the adoption of the highly...
In the latest opposition to the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, favoured by staunch advocates of the state of Israel, a group of over 200...
The candidate for Virginia Governor Lee Carter on Tuesday said he backs Palestinian calls to boycott the Israeli occupation. During a virtual session for the Virginia People's Debates series,...
Join music legends Brian Eno and Roger Waters discussing the concept of apartheid when it comes to Israel as well as the attempts to criminalize the BDS movement both...
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Article
March 8, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley An Israeli soldier who launched a $6 million defamation action in America against a Palestinian Christian has seen her legal efforts backfire spectacularly. Although her lawyer urged the US...
East Sussex Pension Fund has divested from Israel's largest private arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, months after human rights activists lobbied the fund to bring an end to its ties...
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Interviews
February 8, 2021 |
Anjuman Rahman Israel's repression of its own Palestinian citizens, as well as Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and even African refugees, has become ever more brutal, despite...
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Article
February 2, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud The claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly The Forward, point to the prevailing ignorance that continues...
US President Joe Biden's nominee for America's ambassador to the UN has denounced the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Linda Thomas-Greenfield pledged to fight what...
Methodist Church leaders are today discussing a move intended to increase economic action against Israel, the Jewish Chronicle has reported. The church is said to have growing concerns over Jewish only...
The Provincial Court in Valencia, Spain, has definitively dismissed a criminal complaint against eight Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activists who had questioned the invitation for Jewish American singer Matisyahu...
The French Development Agency (AFD) has been targeted by a pro-Israel lobby group for donating almost $10 million last year to a Palestinian organisation to promote good government practice...
Bahrain has backtracked on a pledge to recognise goods made in illegal Israeli settlement, saying the Gulf State will refuse to import them, state news agency BNA reported on Saturday. The...

Article
November 24, 2020 |
Dr Essam Yousef As he counts down his final days in office, US President Donald Trump is continuing to reward human rights violations committed by Israel. Ignoring the apartheid state's crimes against...
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Article
November 23, 2020 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud In a few words, a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, summed up the logic behind the ongoing frenzy to expand illegal Jewish settlements in Israel. "These...
The BDS movement has condemned the statements of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in which he described the movement as 'anti-Semitic'
The US will brand the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today. Pompeo termed the movement, a non-violent Palestinian led global initiative...
Georgia's Legislator Deborah Silcox has said that an Israeli consulate asked her to introduce a bill against groups advocating a boycott of the Israeli occupation, news agencies reported yesterday....

Article
November 16, 2020 |
Bruno Beaklini From the moment that President-elect Joe Biden's victory in Pennsylvania was announced, giving him an absolute majority of Electoral College votes, the world breathed a sigh of relief. This...
Butler University is the latest American college to push back against the "vicious attempt to stifle Palestinian speech" by voting to strike down resolutions which condemned the BDS (Boycott,...
Facing ban for criticising Israel?
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Article
A Zionist-led war on a Palestinian cultural festival in Rome has exposed the fragility of the Italian political system when it comes to the conversation on Palestine and Israel....
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has recorded a double victory within the space of a week after two American universities passed resolutions calling for divestment from Israel....
Casting further light on the nexus between Zionism and the rise of the Islamophobia industry, the Israeli government has approved a grant to an American "anti-Muslim hate group". Documents...
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Article
August 27, 2020 |
Dr Adnan Abu Amer Israel is frustrated at its failure to tackle the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement despite the huge budget allocated to the task and the recruitment of pro-Israel...
An Israeli court yesterday released that Mahmoud Nawajaa, the general coordinator of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) in Palestine should be released. Addameer Prisoner Support and Human...
Scores of people demonstrated outside the Israeli Embassy in South Africa today in condemnation of the UAE's peace agreement with the occupation state and calling for the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Nawajaa
Israeli authorities extended the detention of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist Mahmoud Nawajaa for eight more days over the weekend, reported Wafa news agency. General coordinator of the Palestinian National...
Cori Bush, a Black Lives Matter activist and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli occupation, caused an historical upset yesterday in the US...
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Article
July 22, 2020 |
Asa Winstanley The global Black Lives Matter movement has become a major strategic threat to Israel. At least, that's how the pro-Israel lobby increasingly views it. One obscure lobby group recently...