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Giving it another go, Fatah and Hamas struck a deal to form a unity government to prepare for elections in the West Bank and Gaza. As problems with the agreement already begin to emerge, it has been met with much scepticism by Palestinians who’ve witnessed previous attempts fail.

In this episode of The Stream, we talk to Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, and Ali Abunimah, founder of the Electronic Intifada.

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Robin D.G. Kelley, Bill V. Mullen, Nikhil Pal Singh and Neferti Tadiar

The Electronic Intifada 13 February 2012

Today the systematic dispossession of the Palestinian people continues unabated and largely unchallenged by the United States and the European Union. Barriers to Palestinian mobility, social and political development are visible everywhere.

While Jewish-Israeli citizens pass freely, more than 500 police and military checkpoints regulate Palestinian movement between the occupied West Bank and Israel. Passing through these checkpoints on a recent fact-finding tour organized by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, we witnessed Palestinians endure a daily ritual of subordination, humiliation and suspicion.

Click here to continue reading “Educators can’t stay silent about Israeli apartheid”.

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‘A level of racist violence I have never seen’: UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement by Alex Kane.

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In this episode of Palestine Studies TV, we talk to Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the Palestine Center, about their new report, “When Settlers Attack.” It looks at patterns of Israeli settler violence since 2007, finding an upward trend.

The report is available at http://thejerusalemfund.org/

Palestine Studies TV is a project of the Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington, DC.

Upon reading the news that a bus carrying Palestinian children had overturned, caught on fire, and that most of the children had died and the survivors are hanging on to life, Israeli racists celebrate the catastrophe on Twitter.

Yet another horrid illustration why societies built for the sole benefit of a special people are destined to implode.

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Click here to read “Israelis celebrate death of Palestinian children killed in accident”.

[ 15/02/2012 – 05:53 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)— Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at demonstrators who rallied in front of the Ofer jail to protest the continued detention of Islamic Jihad leader Sheikh Khader Adnan.

Dozens of Palestinian demonstrators suffered breathing difficulty while ten were hit with rubber bullets, two of whom suffered serious injuries in the head.

Click here to continue reading “Dozens injured in IOF quelling of rally at Ofer”.

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