Monthly Archives: April 2010

Nabil Sharaf Eddin’s column, “The Phobia of Normalization,” in the Arabic edition of Al-Masry Al-Youm on 12 April about the boycott by Egyptian intellectuals and artists of the recent film festival at the French Cultural Center because it included an [...]

Editor‘s Note: What follows is the text of a speech Professor Butler will give on Wednesday, April 13, to the students of the University of California, Berkeley. On March 18, Berkeley‘s Student Senate voted 16-to-4 to divest from General Electric [...]

A letter from Desmond Tutu to the divestment-sponsors at the University of California, circulated by Emily Schaeffer, human right lawyer in Israel/Palestine, who asked Archbishop Tutu to write the letter. Dear Student Leaders at the University of California – Berkeley [...]

Five Palestine campaigners who contested the relevancy of a “racially aggravated conduct” charge in relation to their protest against Israel’s blockade of Gaza had all charges against them dropped today.   The campaigners, all members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity [...]

CHARGES of racially aggravated conduct against five members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign have been thrown out by a Sheriff. Around 60 of their supporters burst into applause when Sheriff James Scott delivered his judgement at Edinburgh Sheriff Court [...]

Dear Mr Roussos, We are an association from Greece, which consists of people sensible to the drama of the Palestinians, to the repression and the ethnic cleansing that they suffer in their country and to the agony of the displaced [...]