More than 60 leading Black and Palestinian artists and activists are featured in a video highlighting challenges that both communities are confronting, including militarized policing and the prison industry.
on October 14, 2015University campuses are the front line of Palestinian human-rights advocacy in the U.S., but a new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal documents hundreds of cases in which students and scholars have been punished for their free speech.
on October 2, 2015In July of 2014, during the height of Operation Protective Edge, the Israeli military launched a mid-day strike on one of the most popular beaches in the Gaza Strip. On the beach that day were many of the children of the Bakr family, killing four boys.
on September 18, 2015Watch IMEU’s video about the historic Palestine Cup Final; a soccer match that was 15 years in the making between Gaza's Shijaiyah United and Hebron's Al-Ahli.
on August 31, 2015Soccer teams from Gaza and the West Bank played against each other for the first time in 15 years for the Palestine Cup final.
on August 20, 2015Mohammed Al Saedi, a resident of Gaza's Al Zaytoun neighborhood, inspired a collective effort to beautify the area by adorning homes and alleyways with bright paint, murals, and potted plants. Mohammed believes colors and flowers will bring healing, declaring, "From the stones of the destruction we will build plant basins to grow flowers."
on August 5, 2015Journalist and filmmaker Jen Marlowe was in Duma reporting on the deadly arson attack by Israeli settlers that resulted in the death of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh. Neighbor Lina Dawabsheh, "We have children just like you, we want to live, we deserve to live."
on August 4, 2015BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel, has gained momentum across American college campuses. In response, anti-BDS efforts have also intensified. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing an “offensive” against boycott efforts, while American casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson convened an emergency summit in Las Vegas to raise money to fight BDS.
on June 9, 2015The border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip reopened for three days earlier this week at the request of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Only students, patients, and people holding foreign residency were permitted to leave Gaza.
on January 23, 2015