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Israel: The Lie, the Truth and the Meme (of the Soldier and the Girl)

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Palestine: Freedom Riders Challenge Israeli Segregation

On November 15 a group of Palestinian activists were arrested while travelling on a bus carrying Israeli settlers. The activists called themselves the “Freedom Riders”, after the American civil rights campaigners of 1961.

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Israel: Whistleblower Anat Kamm Jailed for Exposing IDF Assassinations 9 November 2011
Palestine: Israeli Commandos Intercept Gaza-bound Flotilla and Arrest Activists 4 November 2011
Palestine: New Flotilla en Route to Break Gaza Siege 2 November 2011
Israel: Joy and Anger Continue Over Shalit Deal 20 October 2011
Israel: Netanyahu Rapped for Exploiting Shalit's Return 19 October 2011

Latest stories about Israel

20 December 2011

Palestine: Planning a Virtual Funeral

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Ideas, Human Rights

It is extremely difficult for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to visit Israel, and for political reasons it is impossible for most other Arabs to do so. At the same time, Palestinian citizens of Israel are unable to travel to much of the Arab world, because they have Israeli passports. Rasha Hilwi has been reflecting on how these restrictions on movement will affect her – after she dies.

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16 December 2011

Morocco: Singer's Performance in Tel Aviv Ignites Debate on Israel's Cultural Boycott

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture

Moroccan netizens are divided as to whether to support a call for a boycott of a Moroccan singer who performed in Tel Aviv despite calls for her to cancel the performance in Israel.

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13 December 2011

Palestine: Mourning Mustafa Tamimi

Written by Jillian C. York · Human Rights, Indigenous

For more than two years, protests have taken place in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh. This past Friday, activists experienced tragedy when demonstrator Mustafa Tamimi, 28, was killed by Israeli forces.

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26 November 2011

Video: Plural+ 2011 Awards Young Filmmakers

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Arts & Culture, Human Rights

Youth from around the globe were awarded in New York for their thought-provoking short films showing their proposals for making society more peaceful and multicultural by addressing the topics of diversity, migration and social inclusion.

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19 November 2011

Israel: Netanyahu Threatens to Replace Interns with Indian Doctors

Written by Carmel L. Vaisman · Health, Labor

After months of protests, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested replacing medical interns with foreign labor contractors from India if an agreement can not be reached with them. Interns react online, with humor and sarcasm.

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13 November 2011

Israel: Fury Over Legislation That Would Limit NGO Foreign Funding

Written by Elizabeth Tsurkov · Breaking News, Human Rights

The Israeli Twittersphere reacted strongly to the decision of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation in the Knesset, approving two bills that would heavily tax foreign donations of human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and would severely limit the amounts the organizations are allowed to receive funding.

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Updates about Israel

9 January 2012

English

Sibo Kanobana wrote in the blog Afro-Europe: “I visited Israel en Palestine during the Christmas holidays and saw many things I didn’t expect to see. One of these things is the striking presence of black people in urban Israel. They represent a diverse people of whom most are Ethiopian Jews who made aliya (i.e. the migration of the jewish diaspora back to Israel) and settled in Israel in the 80’s and early 90’s.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

3 January 2012

English

On Facebook, Elizabeth Tsurkov shares this set of photographs she took during a protest held against the deportation of the children of migrant workers in Tel Aviv, Israel, tonight.

• Amira Al Hussaini

14 December 2011

English

Crikey's NAJ Taylor gathers five of Australia's Middle East diaspora to write about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction of Israel campaign. How effective is it at “balancing the competing harms”? How “useful is [it] for members of the Israeli and Palestinian, as well as Jewish and Muslim, diaspora”?

• Kevin Rennie

23 September 2011

Hebrew

Israeli woman Lihi Yona, a Moroccan Jew descendent, reclaims her Arab roots and complicates local identity politics on a bus ride to Jordan to attend a Lebanese band performance. The Hebrew version is followed by an English one: I am an Arab Jew.

• Carmel L. Vaisman

8 September 2011

English

Eran Amir produced a stop motion video showing 500 people around Israel holding up more than 1500 developed pictures. You'll have to see it twice, once to focus on the story told through the black and white pictures the people hold, and the other to enjoy watching the people and scenery of Israel.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

11 August 2011

Hebrew

The hacker collective J14hackers put together an SMS-Twitter gateway which enables easy content publishing from a local phone to Twitter. Users in Israel can send an SMS from their phones to 052-5635053, and the content of their message will be posted on the @J14Mobile Twitter account.

• Gilad Lotan

14 June 2011

Arabic

Occupied Palestine shares the plight of Khaled Zawahre, who is detained in Ofer prison, allegedly for beating up an Israeli soldier and throwing rocks. Occupied Palestine maintains Khaled's innocence and shares photographs and videos.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Comments on "Israel"

Israel: The Lie, the Truth and the Meme (of the Soldier and the Girl)

"(even though that type of thing DOES happen in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict)" - it would be a miracle if someone,...
Hi, Yes , but do not be fooled by thinking that the Israeli army are innocent and that they are...
This is the problem now days that people go directly and circulate what they received without checking the story. Sometimes they...