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As Palestinian #DignityStrike Passes One-Month Mark, New York Artists Illuminate the Struggle

Poster of artist contributions to the Dignity Strike after 30 days, designed by Kyle Goen/Decolonize This Place, “Tadamoun” (2017) (all images courtesy Decolonize This Place unless otherwise noted)   By: Yates McKee Source: Hyperallergic Originally published by Hyperallergic on May 17, 2017.  Today, the historic hunger strike by 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails reaches its 31-day … Continued

First Palestine Prison Hunger Striker Dies in West Bank

Family members of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails demonstrate in the Old City of Jerusalem, on April 29, 2017, in support of the ongoing hunger strike. | Photo: AFP Source: teleSUR Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported that many prisoners on strike have lost as much as 22 pounds from the time they first started the … Continued

Artists Launch Initiative in Support of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike

Dignity Strike demand poster (by and courtesy Decolonize This Place)   By Decolonize This Place Hyperallergic  On April 17, Palestinian prisoners launched a mass hunger strike against the dehumanizing and apartheid-style conditions inside Israel’s detention facilities. The strike has reached its eighth day, and already it stands as an historic act of defiance that is shaking … Continued

Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike

“Like the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, a mass prisoners’ strike is an inherently non-violent protest.” (Image: Carlos Latuff for LobeLog) By James Zogby Common Dreams One thousand five hundred Palestinian prisoners have been on a hunger strike for almost a week now. They are refusing sustenance in an effort to improve the deplorable conditions … Continued

Will the NYT start noting the violent pasts of Israeli contributors, too?

A mural of Marwan Barghouti on the separation wall at Qalandiya checkpoint, West Bank, June 10, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org) By Lisa Goldman +972 Magazine On Sunday the New York Times published an op-ed by Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader who has been in an Israeli jail since 2002. In his article, Barghouti explains that over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners have … Continued

Op-Ed: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

By MARWAN BARGHOUTI The New York Times Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these … Continued

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