The Electronic Intifada

Muayad Alayan says his debut feature film Love, Theft and Other Entanglements attemps to "gives the stage to the characters and the story." (Photo: Still from the film, courtesy of http://www.lovetheftandotherentanglements.com/)

Two Jewish anti-Zionist activists are facing up to eighteen months in prison after they nonviolently protested a fundraiser for the Israeli army in May. More here: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-activists-charged-criminals-disrupting-israeli-army-fundraiser (Photo: An image posted by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces shows soldiers with their faces obscured holding up gift cards given to them by the organization. Via Facebook)

Brad Parker of Defence for Children International-Palestine and Jennifer Bing of the American Friends Service Committee talk about the recent Capitol Hill briefing on Israel's violations of Palestinian children's rights. The briefing included testimony by Palestinian American teenager Tariq Abukhdeir, who was brutally beaten by Israeli police last summer. (Photo: Screenshot of Brad Parker, Tariq Abukhdeir and Jennifer Bing from video of the briefing)

A team of Canada-based physicians has paired up with four major hospitals in the Gaza Strip to install solar panels and provide reliable energy 24 hours a day to emergency rooms, intensive care units and operating theaters. Dr. Tarek Loubani talks about the EmpowerGAZA project. More here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/listen-solar-panels-gaza-hospitals-aim-ease-healthcare-disaster (Photo: Screenshot from video of Loubani talking about al-Shifa hospital's solar panel success, which EmpowerGAZA is hoping to replicate in other Gaza hospitals)

Students at Marquette University in Wisconsin are organizing against a recent attempt to silence Palestine solidarity activism and the watering-down of a divestment resolution. More here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/wisconsin-student-government-censors-criticism-firms-abetting-israels (Photo from MU Divest campaign)

Approximately 130 members of faculty at NYU have joined a growing campaign to urge the university to divest from companies profiting from Israel's crimes. (Photo: NYU Students for Justice in Palestine members march in New York, from NYU-SJP Facebook page)

Durham County had joined the boycott of South African goods during the 1980s apartheid era, and current campaigners were able to "use that as precedent for them taking action on [private security firm] G4S." (Photo from Jewish Voice for Peace, part of the Durham Drop G4S campaign in North Carolina)

Filmmakers Malek Rasamny and Matt Peterson have begun producing short documentary films about the common struggles between Palestinian refugees and First Nations communities on reservations across the North American continent. In this interview, Rasamny told The Electronic Intifada that it's important to link the struggles together because of the "general historical similarities between the Palestinians and the native peoples here [in the US]." (Photo: Screenshot from "We Love Being Lakota," a film by Rasamny and Peterson.)