Monthly Archives: June 2011

British DJ and trip hop duo follows in Coldplay‘s footsteps, posts ‘Freedom for Palestine‘ song on its Facebook page  English rock band Coldplay created an uproar on the Web after posting on its Facebook page a new song called "Freedom [...]

After weeks of sustained protest and outcry from punk rock supporters, Palestinian solidarity activists, and boycott campaigners, punk rock icon Jello Biafra has agreed to cancel his upcoming show in Tel Aviv, planned for next week.  Biafra had announced his decision [...]

Contact: organizer@endtheoccupation.org, 202-332-0994 The Jerusalem Film Festival foreign office has confirmed that legendary basketball star and actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reversed plans to visit Israel due to concerns arising “after the Nakba Day violence.” Abdul-Jabbar was slated to present his film, [...]

The organizers of philosopher Slavoj Zizek‘s events in Israel/Palestine issued the following press release: World-renowned philosopher, Slavoj Zizek of Slovenia, had yesterday concluded a week-long visit to the region. During his week‘s visit, Zizek delivered a three-day seminar in Ramallah [...]

Definition:   1. In this bill, "a boycott against the State of Israel" – deliberately avoiding economic, cultural or academic ties with another person or another factor only because of his ties with the State of Israel, one of its [...]

Wikimania, the annual conference of the Wikimedia community to be held in the Israeli city of Haifa this August, is to be partially sponsored by the East Jerusalem Development Company (EJDC), an Israeli government-owned company responsible for “the development and [...]