What's New on EI?
This page offers an extended What's New? section that lists the latest additons to EI in reverse chronological order, with descriptive summaries and thumbnail images.
Lebanon :
Human Rights/Development:
Documentary: "Nahr al-Bared: Checkpoints and more"
Video, a-films, 16 March 2010
Nahr al-Bared refugee camp has still not recovered from the devastating war in 2007 during which it was destroyed. The Lebanese army has been keeping a tight grip on the camp and the 20,000 displaced Palestinians who have returned so far. This 30-minute film documents various consequences of the siege on Nahr al-Bared. Merchants and artisans explain their specific problems and a UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) project manager, a project coordinator of the Palestinian-Arab Women League, the president of Nahr al-Bared's Merchants' Committee and a researcher provide their views and thoughts on the issue. [MORE]
Palestine :
Human Rights:
Israel's actions on the ground proving difficult to spin
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 16 March 2010
JERSUSALEM (IPS) - Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50. Outside the walled Old City, where the al-Aqsa mosque is situated, and in several West Bank villages, clashes were reported. [MORE]
Palestine :
Opinion/Editorial:
European Union found guilty at first session of Russell Tribunal
Ewa Jasiewicz and Frank Barat, The Electronic Intifada, 15 March 2010
The first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) was heard in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month. The RTP is a peoples' legal initiative designed to systematically try key actors responsible for the perpetuation of human rights violations in Palestine. In the frame this time was the European Union (EU). Two days and 21 expert witness testimonies later, the RTP found individual states and the EU as a whole guilty of persistent violations and misconduct with regards to international and internal EU law. Ewa Jasiewicz and Frank Barat comment for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Palestine :
Art, Music & Culture:
Review: Finkelstein's transformation to victim hero in "American Radical"
Max Blumenthal, The Electronic Intifada, 15 March 2010
With unfettered access to Norman Finkelstein during the most dramatic stage of his career, American Radical: the trials of Norman Finkelstein directors David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier provide a compelling look at one of the most roundly vilified academics in recent American history. Max Blumenthal reviews the new documentary for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Palestine :
Opinion/Editorial:
Boycott or censorship?
Sami Hermez, The Electronic Intifada, 15 March 2010
Critics of the movement for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel -- including Israeli concert producer Shuki Weiss -- have claimed that calling on artists to cancel performances in Israel is a form of censorship. Is the cultural boycott a form of censorship or McCarthyism? Sami Hermez comments for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Palestine :
Opinion/Editorial:
PA's betrayal of human rights defenders the unkindest cut
Nadia Hijab, The Electronic Intifada, 14 March 2010
They hail from opposite parts of the globe, but they have much in common: Jewish; experts on and passionate defenders of international law; and pummeling bags for Israel and the Palestinian Authority. And the future of the law of war lies at the heart of the campaigns against them. Nadia Hijab comments how the undermining of Richard Goldstone and Richard Falk. [MORE]
Palestine :
Activism News:
Harvard students condemn center's defense of fellow's racist statements
Abdelnasser A. Rashid, Johnny F. Bowman, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, The Electronic Intifada, 12 March 2010
We students at Harvard University are disturbed by the racist and inhumane comments of Martin Kramer, Visiting Scholar at the National Security Studies Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. We have become even more alarmed that rather than taking a dissociating or even strictly neutral stance against such extremist and hateful statements, the Weatherhead Center issued a defensive response. [MORE]
Palestine :
Art, Music & Culture:
Interview: Education and resistance at the Ann Arbor Palestine film fest
Jimmy Johnson, The Electronic Intifada, 12 March 2010
The second annual Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival opened on Wednesday, 10 March with the feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh. Such festivals are a growing phenomenon with new ones popping up throughout the United States. The Electronic Intifada contributor Jimmy Johnson spoke with festival organizers Hena Ashraf, Ryah Aqel, Lauren Thams and Pomegranates and Myrhh director Najwa Najjar. [MORE]
Palestine :
Opinion/Editorial:
Flouting its own laws, EU accommodates "Made in Israel"
David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 12 March 2010
In 2008 Britain expressed concern about how goods originating from Israeli settlements in the West Bank may be benefiting illegally from European Union trade preferences that theoretically only apply to businesses within Israel's internationally-recognized borders. However, EU officials have not only failed to defend international law, they have accommodated Israel's abuse of it. David Cronin analyzes for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Palestine :
Diaries: Live from Palestine:
Sending a laptop to Gaza
Ahmed Moor, Live from Palestine, 12 March 2010
I sat outdoors at a cafe on the Mediterranean Sea in al-Arish, a dusty seaside town in Egypt's northern Sinai. I drank a tea and smoked a water pipe; it gave me something to do while I waited for Ismail -- that's not his real name -- an Egyptian Bedouin tunnel smuggler who was going to deliver a package for me into Gaza. Ahmed Moor writes from al-Arish. [MORE]
Palestine :
Art, Music & Culture:
Second annual Ann Arbor Palestine film fest opens with "Pomegranates and Myrrh"
Announcement, Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival, 11 March 2010
The second annual Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival opened on 10 March 2010 at the Michigan Theater with hundreds of attendees for Najwa Najjar's Pomegranates and Myrrh. The film festival showcases films about Palestine and by Palestinian directors. Educating through the screen arts, the film festival amplifies the voice of the Palestinian people as a nation and diaspora by bringing films to the fore that would not otherwise be seen. [MORE]
Palestine :
Opinion/Editorial:
PLO paper reveals leadership bereft of strategy, legitimacy
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 11 March 2010
As US-brokered "indirect" peace talks are set to resume, a paper authored by PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat reveals a Palestinian leadership ready to re-enter negotiations with Israel having already conceded fundamental Palestinian rights and demands. EI's Ali Abunimah analyzes a document he says provides insight into the thought processes of a leadership bereft of strategy and legitimacy. [MORE]
Palestine :
Diaries: Live from Palestine:
Homes and livelihoods gone in an instant
Eva Bartlett, Live from Palestine, 11 March 2010
Radia Abu Sbaih, 47, lives with her sister and one niece on family land roughly 700 meters from the "green line" boundary between Israel and Gaza. Until 18 February 2010, they had nearly 600 olive, fruit, date and nut trees, an agricultural cistern, a water well, various vegetables and a house. Theirs was one of three homes demolished by Israeli military bulldozers that day in al-Mossadar, eastern Gaza. Eva Bartlett reports for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Palestine :
Human Rights:
Rachel Corrie's family takes Israel to court
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2010
Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today. A judge in the northern Israeli city of Haifa was due to be presented with evidence that 23-year-old Corrie was killed unlawfully as she stood in the path of the bulldozer, trying to prevent it from demolishing Palestinian homes in Rafah. Jonathan Cook reports. [MORE]
Palestine :
Opinion/Editorial:
Truth in labeling: EU court challenges "Made in Israel"
Phon van den Biesen and Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 10 March 2010
On 25 February, the European Court of Justice ruled that imports manufactured in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank shouldn't benefit from a trade agreement between Israel and the European Union. The ruling follows protests of Israel's export of products from the illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) to the EU and Switzerland labeled as "Made in Israel." Products labeled as such benefit from favorable import taxes under the EU-Israel Association Agreement of 2000. Phon van den Biesen and Adri Nieuwhof comment for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
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