Lectures

As G4S management and shareholders prepare to participate in the G4S AGM on Thursday, we call on G4S management and shareholders to end the corporation’s participation in Israel’s brutal occupation. G4S operates and maintains security systems at the Ofer prison, located in the occupied West Bank, and for the Kishon and Moskobiyyeh detention/interrogation …

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has concluded that footage capturing the moment two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead by Israeli soldiers despite posing no risk to them is “genuine and consistent”, contradicting Israeli army claims that the footage is likely to have been forged. A short section of edited CCTV footage …

Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the Israeli president’s conference has gone viral. Over 100,000 Facebook shares of the Guardian report at last count. Whatever the subsequent fuss, Hawking’s letter is unequivocal. His refusal was made because of requests from Palestinian academics. Witness the speed with which the pro-Israel lobby seized …

This week on The Electronic Intifada podcast: Cindy and Craig Corrie, the parents of American human rights activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in Gaza in 2003 as she attempted to defend a Palestinian family’s home from demolition by the Israeli army, talk to us on their way to Jerusalem as the Israeli high court plans to hear the appeal in …

Arab leaders in Occupied Palestine have reacted with fury to plans by Benjamin Netanyahu, to spearhead legislation defining Israel as “the nation state of the Jewish people”. Arab Israelis say the law will pave the way for discrimination against them to be entrenched in law. Liberal Israeli Jews are also …

Naser Abu Shammala had quit smoking a few years ago. But the stress of waiting to travel from Gaza led him to resume. A Canadian citizen, Abu Shammala had been living outside his native Gaza for fifteen years. Two months ago, he returned to visit relatives. When The Electronic Intifada met him, …

Palestinian administrative prisoners inside Israeli jails who have now been on hunger strike for five days announced on Sunday that they will continue the open-ended battle of the “empty stomachs” until they regain their freedom. The prisoners also called upon the Palestinian people and all the different factions to continue …

The backlash over US Secretary of State John Kerry’s use of the word “apartheid” to describe what would become of Israel if there is no “two-state solution” continues. Leading anti-Palestinian group the Anti-Defamation League, for instance, welcomed Kerry’s craven apology:   “We welcome Secretary @JohnKerry’s clear affirmation that #Israel is not an #apartheid state” …

If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday. Senior American officials have rarely, if ever, used the term “apartheid” in reference to Israel, and President …

FIFA has threatened to expel Israel over its treatment of Palestinian football players and officials in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip. The Inside World Football website said in a report on Monday that FIFA gave Israel until summer to improve playing conditions and travel for the …