Between 24-27 November 2011, the Government of Israel held “Israeli Film Days” at Filmbase in Temple Bar, Dublin’s “cultural quarter”.In advance of this event, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) requested Filmbase to reconsider its decision to host the festival:
“At a time when Irish peace activists have been illegally imprisoned in Israel after their humanitarian [...]

Emergency Demonstration - Support the #FreedomWaves ships to Gaza - End the Siege of Gaza

Friday 4th November
6pm, The Spire
O’Connell Street
Dublin 1
At 7.30pm on Thursday the Irish Ship To Gaza shore team were informed that Israeli warships were seen 6 miles from the Irish (MV Saoirse) and Canadian (Tahrir) ships attempting to break the siege [...]

Recently the popular Israeli internet news service Ynet published an article by Itamar Eichner called Foreign Ministry beats Israel boycotts (7 October 2011).
The article tells us that ‘Pro-Palestinian groups calling for a cultural boycott against Israel have experienced several failures recently thanks to the Foreign Ministry’s work.’
Note that this ‘work’ is deemed important enough to [...]

Note from IPSC: There will be a final action in the IPSC’s series of ongoing protests at the Gaiety Theatre before Riverdance heads off to perform for Israeli Apartheid - so please make the effort to come along on Thursday 18th June at 18:30, (Gaiety Theatre, South King St, off Grafton St, Dublin 2. More [...]

Gideon Levy is a veteran journalist and columnist with the liberal Israeli daily, Ha’aretz. Along with Amira Hass, he is one of the few Israeli journalists - one of the few Western journalists - to take a long term interest in the Gaza Strip. His book The Punishment of Gaza is a valuable collection [...]

This interview with the late Juliano Mer-Khamis was originally published on South/South on the 5th of April, after a shorter version appeared on Electronic Intifada. Many thanks to Maryam Monalisa Gharavi for allowing us to publish it here.
Art cannot free you from your chains, but art can generate and mobilize [a] discourse of freedom. [...]

IPSC Open Letter to Bob Geldof: Do not choose the side of the Israeli oppressor
Issued: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Dear Bob Geldof,
Your decision to accept an honorary doctorate from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) has come as a shock to many of those who respect your humanitarian activities. Before you travel to Israel, there are a number [...]

Originally published in Electronic Intafada on the 29th of January. It’s being republished here with Ali Abunimah’s permission.
We are in the middle of a political earthquake in the Arab world and the ground has still not stopped shaking. To make predictions when events are so fluid is risky, but there is no [...]

Book Review: Europe’s Alliance with Israel - by David Cronin - PlutoPress, London and New York, 2011 ISBN: 9780745330655 - £16 in the UK
By its own account, the European Union “sees human rights as universal and indivisible. It actively promotes and defends them both within its borders and when engaging in relations with non-EU countries.” [...]