A group of artists and writers has accused one of the UK’s leading Israel lobby groups of attempting to censor a Palestinian film showing at the Barbican arts center in London. Artists for Palestine UK wrote an open letter on Wednesday asking “how many other galleries, theaters, universities or community …
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(By Peter Beaumont) Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has referred to the situation in the Palestinian territories as “an alleged occupation”, in an apparent break from US foreign policy and mainstream international opinion. Talking to the Jerusalem Post in his first major interview with the Israeli media, Friedman …
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(By Gabriel San Roman) Students for Justice in Palestine filed an appeal with UC Irvine yesterday after administrators sanctioned the group for disrupting a speaking event with Israeli soldiers in May. Back then, activists built a mock apartheid wall on campus to raise awareness during “Anti-Zionism Week.” Pro-Palestinians students complained …
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An Israeli mayor stormed into a mosque in the town of Lod on Friday in a bid to stop its broadcasting the call to prayer and Eid al-Adha prayers through its speakers. Video footage showed Yair Revivo being accompanied by Israeli police into a mosque in Lod, where the mayor …
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(By Ahmad Kabariti) Selena Gomez’s “Kill Em With Kindness” played on an acoustic guitar blares out of an open window from a high-rise in Gaza City, the sound reaching the street nine floors below. Passers-by look up stunned, not because the tune is a pop song, but because of the …
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(By Ali Abunimah) Despite his name being on the list of cosponsors, Representative Bobby Rush is not supporting the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, his office has confirmed. The bill, backed by the powerful Israel lobby group AIPAC, has been condemned by the American Civil Liberties Union for violating constitutional free speech …
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Israeli police forces on Friday raided a mosque in the central Israeli city of Lod, or Lydda, and attempted to stop the Eid al-Adha prayers and the call to prayer — also known as the adhan — that were being transmitted through the mosque’s speakers, citing noise violations. Yaffa 48 …
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Israeli forces injured a 14-year-old Palestinian with a rubber-coated steel bullet on Friday while suppressing a weekly march in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya. Coordinator for the village’s popular committee Murad Shteiwi said that Yousif Amer, 14, was injured with a …
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Thousands of Palestinians performed prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday, marking the first day of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, or “Feast of Sacrifice.” Palestinian Muslims arrived early on Friday to Al-Aqsa from across occupied East Jerusalem and Israel to perform prayers, while Muslims from other …
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Israeli authorities on Thursday decided to ban the Secretary of the Fatah movement in the al-Thawri neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem from entering Jerusalem City for four months over alleged accusations of “incitement.” The head of the Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners, Amjad Abu Asab, told Ma’an that Israeli …
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