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Midwest Campus Activists Vow To Keep Struggling For Palestine Despite Threats
The Minnesota chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, along with other pro-peace groups, demonstrate on the University of Minnesota campus. (Photo: SJP MN Facebook)
November 3, 2015
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Midwest Campus Activists Vow To Keep Struggling For Palestine Despite Threats

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As tensions increase in the West Bank and Gaza, activists for Palestine on American college campuses are also facing threats of violence and oppression.

Students for Justice in Palestine, a group with chapters on college campuses throughout North America, opposes the oppression of Palestinians. Last month, as Muslims throughout the Midwest faced increasing violence, three chapters received disturbing threats after publicly expressing their support for the cause.

In early October, when a video went viral that showed Fadi Alon, a Palestinian teen, being hunted and killed by Israeli settlers, the SJP chapter at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities took to their Facebook page to express solidarity with the slain youth. (MintPress News founder and editor-in-chief Mnar Muhawesh serves as an advisor to SJP UMN chapter.)

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MSNBC Opts To Apologize After Airing Map Of Disappearing Palestine
A map showing Palestine's disappearing territory since the beginning of Israeli occupation. (MSNBC screenshot)
October 26, 2015
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MSNBC Opts To Apologize After Airing Map Of Disappearing Palestine

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Earlier this month, MSNBC aired a well-known, but controversial graphic that illustrates how Israel has taken over Palestine as the occupation of the region has grown over time.

The graphic, which appeared during an Oct. 15 discussion between MSNBC anchor Kate Snow and Martin Fletcher, a Middle East correspondent, shows a series of four maps dating from 1946 to the present that depict the loss of Palestinian territory to Israel.

During the segment, Fletcher discussed the ways that Israel’s provocative behavior at Al-Aqsa Mosque is a major trigger for the latest violence in Gaza and the West Bank, then Snow introduced the graphic as it appeared on screen, saying: “What does that show you, Martin, that the area Palestinians are living, has it grown increasingly smaller?”

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Mainstream Media Focuses On Israeli Deaths While Ignoring Israeli Violence
Palestine 2009. Israel's Wall in Bethlehem, West Bank with graffiti which reads "Free Palestine." (Flickr / Montecruz Photo)
October 23, 2015
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Mainstream Media Focuses On Israeli Deaths While Ignoring Israeli Violence

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Despite widespread criticism over the ways Israel has provoked the latest wave of violence engulfing the West Bank and Gaza, the media in the West mostly focuses on attacks by Palestinians on Israeli settlers and soldiers, ignoring the context that led to the current tensions.

Electronic Intifada, a site that advocates for Palestinian freedom, noted that a prominent BBC radio programon Monday attempted to imply that all of the dead in recent violence were Israelis:

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Anti-BDS Website Seeks To Ruin Careers, Reputations Of Those Who Support Palestine
Canary Mission aims to ruin the careers and reputations of supporters of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement. (Screenshot, 2015)
September 22, 2015
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Anti-BDS Website Seeks To Ruin Careers, Reputations Of Those Who Support Palestine

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A website that profiles activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement with the goal of ruining their careers is coming under fire, with some comparing it to McCarthyism.

The Canary Mission features profiles of dozens of activists, students, college professors and journalists which the site’s authors accuse of anti-Semitism and even having ties to terrorism. Among the alphabetical listings on the site is a profile of this journalist, along with over 100 others.

The organization’s goals are clear: It seeks to ruin the careers or future job prospects of its targets, especially students associated with the growth of BDS on American college campuses. “By shining a light on hate group members and their activities, the public will become better informed about those involved in hate movements in their communities,” the Canary Mission explains on its About page. A video on the site warns: “It is your duty to ensure that today’s radicals are not tomorrow’s employees.”

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Take The Boycott Home: 5 Household Products That Support Israeli Apartheid
An image of Scarlett Johansson drinking sodastream fizzy water in front of imprisoned Palestinians. SodaStream has been criticized for participating in Israeli occupation and displacement of Palestinians.
September 21, 2015
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Take The Boycott Home: 5 Household Products That Support Israeli Apartheid

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A growing number of people worldwide support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to bring an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, and it’s already forced major corporations to change their practices.

Earlier this month, MintPress News offered six grocery products to avoid to support BDS, but companies whose products support Zionist war crimes aren’t limited to grocery store shelves.

Here are five products and companies to avoid in support of a free Palestine, starting with one of the most well-known product boycotts:

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13M Children Forced Out Of School By Western Destabilization Efforts In Middle East
A trio of children play soccer amid the stone walls and cobblestone streets of Palestine. March 28, 2014. (Flickr / Miriam Mezzera)
September 16, 2015
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13M Children Forced Out Of School By Western Destabilization Efforts In Middle East

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Years of war and unrest devastated education in the Middle East and North Africa, leaving more than 13 million children without safe or reliable schools across the region, according to a new report from UNICEF.

The report, “Education Under Fire,” which was released on Sept. 3, details the bitter cost of war on the future of millions of children. The report focuses on nine countries where millions have been displaced by near constant conflict and bombing since 2011.

More than 8,850 schools in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen are unusable “because they have been damaged, destroyed, are sheltering displaced families or are occupied by parties to the conflicts,” the authors noted. Just in 2014, 214 schools were attacked in the region.

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