Solidarity with Palestine
: Mike Marqusee Something special took place when members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union refused to unload a ship carrying Israeli cargo.
March 17, 2009 It's crucial for Palestinian solidarity activists to have clarity on the question of the interests of Israeli workers in order to build a strong divestment movement.
March 17, 2009 Students delivered a letter to the University of Southern California's president demanding scholarships for Palestinian students.
March 13, 2009 At Hunter College, we were surprised to come across socialists who believe the movement to divest from Israel is counterproductive.
March 12, 2009 The emergence of an increasingly vocal movement here in the U.S. against Israel’s apartheid has led to a full-scale counter-attack aimed at discrediting our side.
March 12, 2009 Palestinian rights activists turned out to counter a pro-Israel rally called by the Student Alliance for Israel in the Amherst Common.
March 11, 2009 The horrors of Israel's war on Gaza were brought home to Rochester at a meeting featuring Ismail Mehr from the American Medical Mission to Gaza.
March 11, 2009 Pro-Palestinian activists at Columbia University kicked off their campaign for divestment from Israel with a teach-in and speak-out.
March 9, 2009 Students at Columbia University are taking up the fight for Palestinian rights and organizing to demand the university's divestment from Israel.
March 3, 2009 : Eric Ruder Israel's Gaza assault has stirred a commitment among people around the world that the time has come to do something about the war on Palestinians.
February 27, 2009 : Gary Lapon Activists aren't accepting Hampshire College's shameful attempt to wriggle out of a decision to divest from corporations that support Israel.
February 20, 2009 Labor activists are calling on workers to show solidarity with Palestinians by supporting boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
February 18, 2009 Several hundred students and community members marched from the University of Massachusetts through Amherst in solidarity with Palestinians.
February 16, 2009 A spirited march of 200 wound through downtown Providence as part of the "Rhode Island Stands with Palestine" demonstration.
February 13, 2009 Some 80 students attended an event titled "The Truth about Gaza: What We Can Do to Free Palestine" at New York's Hunter College.
February 13, 2009 : Gary Lapon Following a two-year campaign by activists, Hampshire College became the first institution of higher education in the U.S. to divest from Israel.
February 13, 2009 In Britain, where solidarity for Gaza brought upwards of 150,000 people on to the streets in early January, the movement is continuing with Viva Palestina.
February 12, 2009 There's a lot of rubbish about at the moment--from the BBC's explanation for banning an appeal on behalf of Gaza, to those who claim Obama is really a radical.
February 9, 2009 : Kyle Brown Students at the University of Rochester occupied a campus building in solidarity with Palestine--and won important concessions from the administration.
February 9, 2009 A successful counter-protest against a pro-Israel rally is spurring more activism in solidarity with Palestinians.
February 6, 2009 More than 200 people protested a $1,300-a-plate benefit in New York City for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
February 3, 2009 By refusing to broadcast an appeal for Gaza, the BBC decided to be biased not toward the impoverished, but toward the impoverishers.
January 30, 2009 Student activists in Britain are occupying their universities in solidarity with the people of Gaza, and antiwar forces are pressuring the BBC.
January 27, 2009 Even as Israel announced a "unilateral cease-fire" in its war on Gaza, hundreds turned out in several cities to show solidarity with the Palestinians.
January 22, 2009 : Shaun Joseph Juan Cole's proposal that supporters of Palestinian rights need to form a "peace" lobby to counteract the "Israel lobby" is wrong on a number of points.
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