Activisim & BDS

Israeli soldiers escort blindfolded Palestinian women to the Kissufim Israeli army base,after they were detained  during a military operation in the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Yehuda Lahiani)
 
 
by Amena Saleem                                   The Electronic Intifada
 

Image: Author Jeff Halper

Palestinian children walk past Israeli forces at a checkpoint in Jerusalem in November.Mahfouz Abu Turk APA images-  (Courtesy EI)
 

SodaStream closing down its factory| Mishor Adumim Industrial Zone in the West Bank| Dec 1st 2015| Who Profits Research Center.

Vacy Vlazna
Uri Avnery is widely regarded as an Israeli peacemaker with a balanced view of what he calls the ‘Israeli-Palestinian conflict’.  But under the surface of dissent (often well-founded criticism of Israel), Avnery is a hard core zionist: a fantasy friend of Palestine;
“I have read a lot of Uri Avnery over the years and have always found him insightful and informative. But as time passed I began to regard him as complex, ambivalent and insidiously useful to Israel in the underlying message he conveys.” Allen Jasson

IllustrationNetalie credit Ron-Raz

Mutaz Zawahra was having the time of his life in France on a youth program with two other friends when he got the news that his oldest brother had fallen dangerously ill. His brother, Ghassan, was on hunger strike in Israeli prison protesting his internment without trial or charge, and family members told Mutaz that his older brother may not make it through his strike alive.