All in Palestine in America
Omar Kharroub wanted to continue playing football professionally after his collegiate career, so when the Boğaziçi Sultans’ head coach Bora Karsak contacted him, he was willing and ready to move across the globe to continue chasing his dreams.
On February 18, the Northwestern Community gathered to attend Reza Aslan’s talk entitled “Fear Inc.: The Industrialization of Islamophobia.” What ensued was a delicate dance of fallacies, faulty analogies, and criminal omissions, revolving around a weak interpretation of the title and concluding itself in the naïve thesis that Islamophobia ultimately solely exists because its perpetrators have not yet met enough Muslims.
The Milbank Tweed Student Conference Fund was created by Milbank Tweed LLC for student organizations at Harvard Law School (HLS) to use for events.
The Chicago Palestine Film Festival held a fundraiser at Masada restaurant in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood on Feb. 12. The event was sold out and was a “huge success” because it attracted newcomers, according to Jameeleh Shelo, Executive Director of the festival.
In the ninth episode of Zahra Haider’s series, Memoirs of a Stolen Land, “Responsibility of Palestinians in the Diaspora,” Dr. Manal Fakhoury shared a story about an experience that helped shaped her views on the responsibilities of Palestinians living in the diaspora.
A petition has been created to have a discussion about Apartheid Israel and Palestinian civil rights at the Netroots Nation convention next July.
Monday evening, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Undergraduate Student Government (USG) passed a divestment resolution unanimously.
Jennifer Lopez’s scheduled performance in Tel Aviv this upcoming summer isn’t confirmed but if true it would be her first time doing so in the Apartheid State.
More than 20 Academy Award attendees—25 directing and acting nominees and host Chris Rock—will receive a VIP goodie bag that includes a free 10-day trip to Israel sponsored by the Israeli Tourism Ministry.
“The Son of Palestine,” Rami Ibrahim, took home the United States Kickboxing Alliance (U.S.K.A) Muay Thai Championship on Jan. 30th.
The United States has begun to enforce a long dormant policy which requires that all products sourced from occupied territories in Palestine be labeled as “West Bank” and or “Gaza Strip,” according to a message released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Jan. 23.
It’s ‘another one’ for DJ Khaled. The Palestinian-American artist and Snapchat phenomenon recently signed a deal with Apple Music, which consists of a weekly We The Best radio show and a bi-weekly TV series.
Student at Columbia University and Barnard College formed Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CAUD), which demands the university remove its investments from companies that are profiting from Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine.
Earlier this month, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, criticized Israel’s settlement policies and suggested Israel employs “two standards” of law in the West Bank, during his speech at the ninth annual International Conference of the Institute of National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
A memorandum released by Palestine Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York branch of the National Lawyers Guild, opposes two anti-boycott bills currently in the New York state legislature.
A joint resolution passed on January 19 by the student government at the University of South Florida calls for the Board of Trustees of the USF Foundation to divest from six companies which are complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians.
Airbnb is now the target of an activist campaign that seeks to pressure the online accommodations rental giant to stop listing illegal Israeli settlement homes on its website.
The American Muslims for Palestine, a national education and advocacy organization, protests the administrative detention of Palestinian journalist Mohammad Al-Qiq and calls for his immediate release without conditions.
The Rasmea Defense Committee released a statement calling on supporters to join a social media campaign to show support for Palestinian-American activist Rasmea Odeh, who is waiting on a decision on her appeal.
Last Friday, a groups of protesters at the Creating Change Conference in Chicago called for the organizers and the National LGBTQ Task Force to be accountable following their decision to allow a reception sponsored by a Zionist organization—A Wider Bridge.
