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Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 17 August 2017 Rasmea Odeh embraces Angela Davis at a farewell event attended by more than 1,200 people in Chicago on 12 August. (sarah-ji) Rasmea Odeh stood in a US federal courtroom in Detroit packed with her supporters, law enforcement officials and journalists on Thursday and recounted her treatment at the […]
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Surrounded by supporters, Rasmea Odeh pleads guilty
April 26th, 2017 
Awake Goy Charlotte Silver Rights and Accountability 25 April 2017 Rasmea Odeh, second from right, with supporters outside the federal courthouse in Detroit, before a hearing in which she entered a guilty plea on immigration charges, 25 April. Ali Abunimah Accompanied by dozens of her friends and supporters, Rasmea Odeh travelled to Detroit on Tuesday for one […]
Video: Soldier appears to kick knife closer to accused Hebron attacker before his death
June 14th, 2016 Awake Goy There is new video out from the March 24 killings in Hebron, in which two Palestinians accused of attacking an Israeli soldier were shot dead, in what a human rights group called a double execution. The video shows outright tampering of the crime scene: an Israeli soldier kicking what is said to be a knife […]
Israel imprisons Palestinian tour guide
February 26th, 2016 Awake Goy Ryan Rodrick Beiler Rights and Accountability 25 February 2016 Daoud al-Ghoul stands outside a Palestinian home taken over by Israeli settlers in the Old City of Jerusalem in October 2013. Ryan Rodrick Beiler ActiveStills Palestinian tour guide and youth organizer Daoud al-Ghoul was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week. An Israeli court convicted […]
US trade union undeterred by legal assault over Israel boycott
October 16th, 2015 Awake Goy Ali Abunimah Activism and BDS Beat 16 October 2015 The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) says it is unfazed by an Israeli group’s legal attack over its vote last summer to back the Palestinian call to boycott Israel. In August, the 30,000-strong UE became only the second national trade union in […]
Steven Salaita in NYC: ‘It’s not just Israel and Palestine that get people in trouble – it’s challenging power’
October 16th, 2015 Awake Goy Humility is not generally a word associated with iconoclasts. Yet Professor Steven Salaita, speaking in the dimly-lit basement of an East Village bar last week, was nothing if not humble. He spoke little of his own career difficulties, of which most of the small audience was no doubt already familiar. His new gig – as […]
