Americans Are Joining Flotilla to Protest Israeli Blockade

“When an international flotilla sails for Gaza this month to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, among the boats will be an American ship with 34 passengers, including the writer Alice Walker and an 86-year-old whose parents died in the Holocaust.”

Are Palestinian children less worthy? By Joseph Massad

Children are the future! Shimon Peres calls Palestinian children a "demographic bomb" that he wants to defuse & Golda Meir once revealed in the 70s that she could not sleep worrying about the number of Palestinian children being conceived every night.

Arabic version: HERE

Foreign Workers and Biopolitics in the Gulf

"For years, workers, predominantly South Asians, have been taking to the streets in the United Arab Emirates. What have these protests been about and why have they been ignored? How might they inform future scholarship on the Gulf?"

Ali Abunimah: Palestine’s Boycott National Committee speaks out on September "statehood" bid

"The only yardstick by which any initiative should be measured is not whether it produces a “state” recognized by other countries, but whether it addresses and actually helps move us toward the restoration of the rights of all Palestinians: those in the 1967 occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; those living as inferior citizens of Israel; and refugees denied their right to return home due to Israel’s racist policies. The 2005 Palestinian BDS Call remains the only platform with broad support that addresses the rights of all Palestinians."

Press Conference on "15 May 2011 Palestine March of Return" legal fallouts

A press conference was held on Friday, May 27, 2011 to elaborate on possible legal actions against the Israeli attack on the Nakba day commemorators in Maroun Al-Ras.

Omar Nashabeh (Arabic) and Salah El Dabagh (Arabic then English): Here

Madawi Al-Rasheed: Saudi Arabia and Western Hypocrisy

Stuart Littlewood: Why is Ban Ki-moon trying to scupper latest Flotilla plans?

"Blockade illegal… collective punishment illegal… interception illegal… The UN called for “unimpeded” humanitarian assistance for Gaza

So why is the Secretary-General trying to scupper latest Flotilla plans?"