UK food retailer boycotts settlement exports

The British Co-operative Group has become the first major European supermarket group to end trade with firms that export produce from settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. “The Guardian” reported, the retail and insurance giant has taken its boycott one step further by “no longer engaging with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing…

Thousands demonstrated in Nazareth and Haifa to celebrate Mayday

Thousands participated in the worker’s solidarity march in Nazareth on Saturday (April 28) and called for social justice, peace, and equality. Members of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and activists in Hadash participated, amongst them Knesset members Dov Khenin, Mohammed Barakeh, Hannah Sweid, and Afu Agbaria Thousands participated in the worker’s solidarity march in…

More Palestinian prisoners join hunger strike

The number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails has grown to 2,000, with more preparing to join the protest next week, according to human rights groups in the West Bank. The Israeli prison service is taking punitive measures against hunger strikers, including solitary confinement, the confiscation of personal belongings, transfers and denial…

Israel punishes Palestinian hunger-strikers

Israel has taken measures against some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners on a hunger strike, denying them family visits and separating them from inmates not taking part in the protest, prison authorities said on Monday. The open-ended strike, dubbed the “battle of empty stomachs” by organizers, began last Tuesday. The prisoners are demanding better jail conditions and…

Safed Student Union causes uproar with racist regulation

Leftists and Arab students at the Safed Academic College are furious over a plan to change the Student Union’s protocol and establish military or national service as a prerequisite for students applying for the position of union chairman. “It’s unacceptable that an entire sector be disqualified in advance simply for being Arabs who don’t serve…