The Electronic Intifada

1 week ago | electronicintifada.net | William Johnson

Dozens of film and television workers picketed outside the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – the organization that runs the Oscars – in Los Angeles on 31 March, demanding the academy speak out in defense of Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal. In early March, Ballal won an Oscar for co-directing the documentary No Other Land.

1 month ago | electronicintifada.net | Ruwaida Amer

Amal Kassab lost her son Ahmad, 18, to an Israeli military attack on 19 January, the first day of the so-called ceasefire in January. Ahmad had set out from the al-Mawasi camp west of Khan Yunis where the family had sought shelter to check on their home in Rafah. “He said goodbye and told me that we would meet in Rafah and asked me to wait for his call to tell me how the house was, whether it was okay or destroyed,” Amal said during an interview in February. “I waited for him.”Ahmad never called.

1 month ago | electronicintifada.net | Roqayah Chamseddine

The sound of gunfire marked the funeral procession in Arabsalim, a small southern Lebanese town. A Hizballah fighter – killed by the Israeli military – was being laid to rest. Only a small part of the martyr’s body had been found. It was wrapped in cotton and prepared for burial on 20 January. Posters bearing the photographs of numerous martyrs can be seen on lamp posts and in people’s homes across Arabsalim. The posters are displayed alongside the flags of Hizballah and its ally, the Amal movement.

1 month ago | electronicintifada.net | Zena Al Tahhan

Feces, urine and used condoms – these are just some of the things that Israeli soldiers left behind in Palestinian homes during their 11-day assault on the al-Faraa refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley, south of Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank, last month. Fidaa Abu Zeina’s home was one of them. Abu Zeina, 46, his wife and three children were forced out at gunpoint on 2 February, the first day of the assault.

1 month ago | electronicintifada.net | William Johnson

Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company will perform this week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York. Batsheva is a dance company, dubbed by the Israeli foreign ministry as “perhaps the best known global ambassador of Israeli culture.” After more than a year of Israeli genocide in Palestine, BAM leaders’ decision to program Batsheva has sparked a wave of protest from the Palestine solidarity movement, particularly from solidarity activists in the arts.