Palestine
US activist loses eye after being shot in face with tear gas canister while protesting Israel’s attack on Gaza flotilla
An American solidarity activist was shot in the face with a tear gas canister during a demonstration in Qalandiya on May 31. Emily Henochowicz is currently in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem undergoing surgery to remove her left eye, following the demonstration that was held in protest to Israel’s murder of at least 10 civilians aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters this morning.
Divesting from Israel gains ground on the campus front
What could bring together Desmond Tutu, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, and UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk at a single university campus in the US? Israel, of course! Or more specifically, a divestment bill to end complicity in Israeli war crimes and occupation.
How to lie and libel for the CPJ
Why did the Cooper Point Journal knowingly publish a fake quote by Martin Luther King? Why will it not publish a correction to its reference to a nonexistent anti-Semitic Jordanian law? Why does it allow personal attacks against individuals and not allow the attacked to respond? These questions must be posed in light of the CPJ’s mishandling of a “controversial” subject.
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Evergreen under military occupation?
or...Criminal charges and lawsuit threatened against street theater performance
Campus police have suggested criminal charges and an Evergreen staff is threatening civil action against a street theater performance that occurred on Red Square on May 13.