13 March 2012
In a first ever musical collaboration between South Africa and Palestine, South African band, The Mavrix and Palestinian Oud player, Mohammed Omar, have released a music video called “The New Black.” Read more about South African-Palestinian music video celebrates common struggle against racial intolerance
7 March 2012
Students at the University of Ottawa say that the campus administration threatened to cancel an 8 March panel discussion they are scheduled to hold as part of Ottawa’s Israeli Apartheid. Meanwhile, at Carleton University, also in Ottawa, students found their posters defaced with slogans such as “This is where the Holocaust began.” Read more about Students react to University of Ottawa threat to cancel Israel Apartheid Week event
6 March 2012
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) loudly condemned Israeli Apartheid Week events, and last weekend’s One State Conference at Harvard. With its latest smears, it is trying to conceal the fact that its fearmongering is failing to intimidate students, including Jewish students who attended and participated with open minds: Read more about Why won't the ADL trust Jewish students and community media?
Gaza Strip 1 March 2012
Students across the occupied Gaza strip prepare for the third consecutive year of Israeli Apartheid Week events, structured around strengthening the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and bridging global struggles for liberation. Read more about Gaza gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week
London 1 March 2012
Mourad Jadallah discusses the case of Khader Adnan, the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoner who made administrative detention an international issue. Read more about Interview with Addameer's Mourad Jadallah: hunger strikes reignite prisoner movement
1 March 2012
Student solidarity groups from more than twenty UK universities held Israeli Apartheid Week events last week, raising awareness of the apartheid analysis and building boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on campus Read more about UK student movement takes huge step forward during Israeli Apartheid Week
25 February 2012
A ten-minute speech by Mbuyiseni Ndlozi powerfully relates the South African struggle for freedom to the Palestinian one. Read more about Watch: Speech by Mbuyiseni Ndlozi at the Israeli Apartheid Week, London
20 February 2012
A student street theatre put on by the Palestine Society at the London School of Economics was attacked by members of the Israel Society today. Part of Israeli Apartheid Week, the peaceful mock checkpoint was attacked with water bombs, knocking down some of the set. LSE Palestine Society member Jen Izaakson said they shouted “Hamas” and “death to Israel” as they threw the water bombs. Read more about Israel student society attacks peaceful Palestine protest with water bombs at LSE
20 February 2012
The Palestine Society at London School of Economics inaugurated Israeli Apartheid Week with an incredibly massive and successful stunt held at the LSE campus on Houghton Street, outside St. Clements House, which displayed a huge banner bearing a quotation by Nelson Mandela: “Our Freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” Read more about LSE Palestine Society stages an Israeli mock checkpoint on campus, gets attacked with water bombs
17 February 2012
CRIF, the leading Israel lobby group in France, is once again seeking to deny the right to free speech. Read more about Paris university pulls plug on "Israeli apartheid" talk