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Evergreen College Students Vote to Divest

The divestment vote won by a landslide 79.5%!

(OLYMPIA, Wash.) - The students at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, the alma mater of Rachel Corrie, announced that the whole student body voted overwhelmingly in favor of divestment from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation and in favor of making their campus Caterpillar-free.

Turks Curtail Nationalism, Decide they are Palestinian

The funeral ceremony for Cevdet Kılıçlar this afternoon, attended by thousands despite the heat, included ubiquitous green and black headbands reading “HEPİMİZ FİLİSTİNLİYİZ”—“We are all Palestinians.”

(ISTANBUL) - This afternoon at Istanbul’s Beyazıt Mosque, the funeral ceremony was held for Turkish humanitarian aid activist Cevdet Kılıçlar.

Turkish Prime Minister Violates Israeli Patent on Terrorist Terminology

The exploitation by Israel of the term “terrorist”—often employed to describe such things as entire Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon—is so painfully clichéd that it has even become painfully clichéd to talk about how clichéd it is.

(ISTANBUL) - Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon endeavored this week to convince the world that the massacre by IDF commandos of humanitarian aid activists, part of the Freedom Flotilla en route to Gaza—was in fact justifiable due to ties between ship passengers and global jihad, Al Qaeda, and Hamas.

A Nakba Commemoration at Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp in Beirut

Palestine Civil Rights Campaign-Lebanon: A PCRC update by Sarah Marusek, Board Member PCRC

(SHATILA CAMP, Beirut) - 22 May 2010—On this warm Saturday afternoon inside Beirut’s Shatila Camp, hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the Palestinian Youth Center to observe the annual commemorations of the 1948 Nakba or disaster, that forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland.

That number includes around 120,000 who found refuge in what were originally intended to be temporary camps in Lebanon.

Webinar Thursday with Dr. Franklin Lamb on Intifada-Palestine.com

Dr. Lamb is author of many articles, and that famous 'letter to Janet', which is a beautiful love story about Janet Lee stevens, who was an American; she died as a martyr for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

(BEIRUT) - Intifada Palestine is holding a special Webinar Thursday with Dr. Franklin Lamb, an international lawyer and director of the Sabra Shatila Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon.

The topic of the Webinar is Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon and Palestinian Right of Return. Dr. Lamb has spent the last 26 years of his life doing humanitarian work for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon.

LIBERTY means Freedom and `Never Give Up!`

“The attack was the easy part; the aftermath in not being able to get our government to address this cover up has been the bastard.”- Gary Brummett, USS LIBERTY survivor

(TAMPA, Fla.) - On a steamy evening in May, a social justice Methodist Church invited the community to dinner and a presentation intended to ignite a fire in all bellies.

Ernest A. Gallo, Chairman and Liberty Foundation President of the USS liberty Veterans Association, warned the crowd, “My intent is to tell you the truth and if I do a good job, you will leave here tonight with heart burn.

Wanted Posters Issued for Alleged Israeli War Criminals

A group in Israel is exposing members of its government charged with war crimes.

(JERUSALEM / SALEM) - By now many already know that a series of wanted posters have been issued to help identify and possibly some day bring to justice, a number of Israeli officials who are suspected of acts of genocide and illegal warfare.

The posters were created and posted by an Israeli human rights group that is maintaining a great deal of anonymity at this point.

Warehousing Palestinians

Ending the Hypocrisy of Lebanon's 'Voice for Palestine'.

(BEIRUT) - This year, the Merry Month of May in Lebanon includes Labor day, the May 15 anniversary of the Nakba, the month-long Lebanese municipal elections and the May 5 elevation of Lebanon to the presidency of the UN Security Council.

Yet, for most Palestinians whiling away their lives in Lebanon’s 12 fetid refugee camps and 27 gatherings, May will pass anything but Merry.

USS LIBERTY: The Fifth Fleet Sacrifice Why did it happen?

“Truth and America’s honor were ignominiously sacrificed to provide cover for Israel’s transparent lies and despicable act of perfidy.” -Phillip F. Tourney, Pres. USS LIBERTY Veterans Association

(MELBOURNE, Aust.) - We have long wondered, and conjectured, the “why” of the USS Liberty incident, as it has become known and referred to.

“Incident” in this case, being an easier event to push onto the back burner and forget while it simmers away harmlessly, unlikely to boil over and burn the stew.

A Letter to Janet About the Sabra-Shatila Massacre

Remembering a Martyr for Palestinian Refugees.

(BEIRUT, Lebanon) - Dr. Franklin Lamb is an American who has dedicated the best years of his life and more to the service of Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon.

This is a letter to his wife Janet on the anniversary of the Sabra & Shatila Massacre, on Sept. 14, 2007.