Solidarity with Palestine
The Equality Forum's plans to honor Israel for its purported advancement of LGBT civil rights amounts to pinkwashing.
February 6, 2012 : Bill Mullen A delegation of U.S. academics traveled to Palestine last year to learn about the challenges of education under Israeli occupation.
January 24, 2012 : Bob Kosuth Activists from the Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign is suing the State Board of Investment to divest from Israel.
January 4, 2012 Freedom rides organized by Palestinians are harkening back to a tactic used by the U.S. civil rights movement.
November 17, 2011 A spirited march on the United Nations in New York insisted that basic rights needed for Palestine's self-determination must not be neglected.
September 19, 2011 : Socialist Alternative The arrest of pro-Palestinian activists in Australia represents a ramping up of the campaign to protect the image of Israel.
August 16, 2011 : Jesse Hagopian A delegation of veterans of the Black freedom struggle in the U.S. is traveling to Palestine to show their solidarity.
August 4, 2011 : Jesse Hagopian A delegation of veterans of the Black freedom struggle in the U.S. is traveling to Palestine to show their solidarity.
July 21, 2011 : Laura Durkay Activists with the Welcome to Palestine mission experienced firsthand the repression that a mass challenge to Israel can spark.
July 19, 2011 : Jonathan Corin The Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2 is stalled in Mediterranean ports after an Israeli pressure campaign--and U.S. activists are mobilizing in protest.
July 8, 2011 : Eric Ruder Israel is reaching deep into its arsenal of dirty tricks to try to delay or derail this year's Freedom Flotilla from breaking the siege of Gaza.
June 30, 2011 To defend the ongoing repression of Palestinians, Israel supporters are hurling every false accusation they can think of.
June 29, 2011 Activists participated in a picket of an Israel Bonds "celebration" dinner in New York City that honored a local labor official.
June 28, 2011 : Laura Durkay A week of nonviolent resistance against Israeli apartheid this July will open with a simple action at Israel's Ben Gurion airport.
June 27, 2011 Most Americans are still confused about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict--but increasingly sympathetic to Palestinian demands.
June 22, 2011 New York City activists are marching under the Queers Against Israeli Apartheid banner in Pride parades to protest the "pinkwashing" of Israel.
June 22, 2011 Punk fans have come together to urge legendary musician Jello Biafra not to play in Israel in defiance of the artistic boycott.
June 21, 2011 Shoppers at New Seasons Market in Portland, Ore., were greeted by a flash mob of activists supporting Palestinian rights.
June 20, 2011 Palestinian civil society groups have issued a call for international solidarity with the second Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
June 16, 2011 Some 40 people gathered in the lobby of New York City's LGBT Center to protest a ban on groups supporting Palestinian rights.
June 13, 2011 : Sherry Cronin A Bay Area activist who will sail with the freedom flotilla to Gaza talks about the solidarity struggles she's participated in.
May 25, 2011 In June, a new freedom flotilla ais to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, sending a message to the world that human rights will be protected.
May 19, 2011 : Kevin Ovenden A second, larger aid flotilla is due to sail to Gaza at the end of May, and the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu is desperate to stop it.
May 4, 2011 The SJP divestment campaign at New York University has received an overwhelmingly positive response.
April 19, 2011 : Vittorio Arrigoni Supporters of Palestinian rights around the world reacted with shock and sorrow at the news that Vittorio Arrigoni had been killed.
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