Official Release: “The New Black” by The Mavrix – Music Video

13 March 2012 | Palestine Solidarity Alliance and PACBI | ISM Palestine In a first ever musical collaboration between South Africa and Palestine, South African band, The Mavrix, and Palestinian Oud player, Mohammed Omar, have released a music video called “The New Black”. The song is taken from The Mavrix’ upcoming album,”Pura Vida”, due for […]

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End Cornell University Collaboration with Technion

Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman looks through a microscope in the Technion Institute of Technology in the northern port city of Haifa on 5 October 2011. (Photo: AFP – Jack Guez) By: PACBI Published Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Al Akhbar The Palestinian academic community was deeply disturbed by the recently revealed plan […]

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Gaza gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week

Rana Baker and Joe Catron The Electronic Intifada Gaza Strip 1 March 2012 Israeli Apartheid Week in Gaza aims to strengthen Palestinian activism. (Ashraf Amra / APA images) For the third consecutive year, students in Gaza are holding a series of events to mark Israeli Apartheid Week. Gaza’s contribution to this international on-campus initiative is […]

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Israeli International Festivals: Whitewashing Oppression or Resisting it?

  Palestinian supporters show a banner reading ” Boycott Israel” during a demonstration in Rome. (Photo: AFP – Vincenzo Pinto) By: PACBI  | Al Akhbar |  Thursday, October 6, 2011 [While cultural talks go on] in the nice cinematheques of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, it is hell on earth in Gaza and I would […]

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