A social media campaign highlighting the plight of more than 1,500 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has gone viral, with people from across the world posting videos of themselves on social media drinking salt water in solidarity. Similar to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral in[…]
By Nawaal Adams The lived reality of Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation is explored in a new project, which takes the form of a visual calendar. The much anticipated launch of the 2017 Shamsaan Palestine’s Children Commemorative Calendar took place at the Palestine Museum on Sunday and was attended[…]
An invitation to participate in the inaugural Nablus Festival, coordinated by Project Hope and the Municipality of Nablus in April / May 2016, resulted in the conceptualisation of a collaborative project to benefit Palestinian children and to advance solidarity with Palestine internationally. Through extended engagement with over 200 Palestinian children,[…]
An Israeli human rights group has vowed to continue its battle against Israel’s settlements built on occupied lands sought by the Palestinians, rejecting a harsh rebuke by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli leader accused B’tselem of joining a “chorus of slander” against Israel, after the rights group urged the[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat As the noose of resistance begins to take a firm grip around the neck of Israel’s apartheid regime, Netanyahu’s bewilderment must not be construed as an expression of ignorance. Equally, displaying shock and anger as his entire cabinet has been doing, is merely putting on a mask[…]
Fourteen students at the University of Cape Town have thus far been suspended for occupying Avenue house, an administrative building that forms part of the student housing system at UCT. These students form part of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement (RMFM). This movement was founded in the early stages of[…]
President Barack Obama says the United States is “taking a hard look” at its approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, telling an Arabic language news source Wednesday that Palestinians “deserve an end to occupation.” Talking to the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, President Obama said that he would never give up hope[…]
UCT students who were involved in an occupation of the universitys administrative building have vacated the premises, with one student saying the group wanted to avoid litigation processes after being served a court order. On Friday, News24 reported that a group of between 50-70 University of Cape Town (UCT) students[…]
UCT students involved in the occupation of UCT’s administrative building want to continue their stay at the Bremner building, despite being ordered by university management to vacate the premises on Friday. UCT student Mbali Matandela told News24 on Thursday that the approximately 70 students involved in the occupation movement want[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat- Citing Iran as an existential threat is to don a mask which conceals what many Israelis perceive to be the real danger arising from internal Israeli policies that Netanyahu refuses to acknowledge. Now that all the hype is over following his controversial grandstanding at a joint[…]
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