Fourteen years ago this month, Tom Hurndall, a 22-year old student and photographer, was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in Gaza as he tried to rescue small Palestinian girls from Israeli gunfire.
![Ben & Jerry’s: Stop selling ice cream in illegal Israeli settlements! [ACTION ALERT]](https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/benjerrys-724x410.jpg "Ben & Jerry’s: Stop selling ice cream in illegal Israeli settlements! [ACTION ALERT]")
Phone Ben & Jerry’s Vermont headquarters this week at (802) 846-1500 (8:00 am to 4:00pm EDT) to demand an immediate stop to the marketing and sales of its “peace & love” ice cream in illegal, Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel by Thomas Suarez explains how violence and terror were used by Zionist militias against Arabs and the British to transform Arab Palestine into a Jewish state.
![Palestinian-American professor brutally attacked by Jewish Defense League members in D.C. [VIDEO]](https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/kamalnayfeh-656x410.jpg "Palestinian-American professor brutally attacked by Jewish Defense League members in D.C. [VIDEO]")
The attackers were not charged with hate crimes. The JDL has a history of plotting and executing acts of violence against Arabs and has been classified by the FBI as a “right-wing terrorist group.”
Dani Dayan, Israel’s consul general in New York, says that building relationships with the Latino community is his “number one non-Jewish priority” because “Israel will not be able to maintain the level of support it has in American society if it neglects a third of society.”
Just 42% of Gazans were allowed to travel to Israel for medical treatment last December. Cancer rates among Palestinian children have increased by 40% since 2008, but their parents are sometimes told by Israel to become informants if they want their children to cross the border for treatment. Appointment delays for Palestinian patients are the highest they’ve ever been recorded.
People from Palestine, Norway, Australia, France, Britain and Ireland joined activists from around the US to support Palestinian rights and protest AIPAC last weekend. The rally was organized by Al-Awda chapters and International Answer and included people of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions…
Ha’aretz reports: American actor Richard Gere, who visited Israel earlier this month to promote his new film, “Norman,” had one analogy to make after touring the West Bank city of Hebron… “It’s exactly what the Old South was in America. Blacks knew where they could go, they could drink from that fountain, they couldn’t go…
Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem reports: On 19 March 2017, around midday, eight-year-old Sufian Abu Hitah was wandering barefoot outside his house in Hebron looking for a toy he had lost, when a group of at least 15 soldiers seized him. Two soldiers grabbed the boy by the arms and dragged him to the al-Harika…
![Video shows Israeli policeman beating Palestinian truck driver [Video]](https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PolicemanBeats-431x410.jpg "Video shows Israeli policeman beating Palestinian truck driver [Video]")
The Jerusalem Post reports that a video shows an Israeli policeman beating an East Jerusalem truck driver…