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In this digest :

a) Videos about the ongoing popular resistance including in Nabi Saleh, Sheikh Jarrah, Beit Jala, Italy etc.
b) Four actions you can take for this week including support for the Free Gaza movement,
c) several analytical articles that sheds light on what is going on in the land of apartheid including a critical article by Azmi Bishara on Salam Fayyad’s plans for a Palestinian statelet.

Videos about popular resistanceAt Bil'in conference, political leaders from all major Palestinian parties (Fateh, Hamas etc) endorse grassroots popular struggle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffx3nOekiJU

Video of Excellent boycott action in Italy: BDS Action - alla fiera del Farmaco e dei cosmetici TEVA, LOrèal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTaHfDBoDkQ

Nabi Saleh Protests 14 May 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL3MOCi5JRU Background Description at http://www.bilin-ffj.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=1

Arrests in Sheikh Jarrahhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY5-HdQKqok http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0-th3P1rpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEmt75Zp8c

An Irishman films popular resistance and reality in Palestine
In Nabi Saleh http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=planxtysumoud#p/u/0/OL3MOCi5JRU in Sheikh Jarrah http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=planxtysumoud#p/u/8/mlfFPtCUd-M in Beit Jala http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=planxtysumoud#p/u/6/xrDo5l9prlo

and in Hebron old city which is already a partial ghost town because of 600 racist colonial Settlers protected by an occupation army of thousands in a Palestinain city of 170,000 Palestinians http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=planxtysumoud#p/u/7/G_OERo9UGPU

Actions

1) Support the World Education Forum in Palestine http://www.wef-palestine.org

2) Support the Free Gaza movement that is taking a flotilla of ships .
See http://www.freegaza.org/ and the inspiring clip of the launch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkNmwohwSeE

3) Support United against Israeli apartheid and colonialism: The Second Haifa Conference for the Return of the Palestinian Refugees and for the Democratic Secular State in Historic Palestine 28-30 May 2010 http://www.ror1state.org/awda/

4) Support US Jews confronting racism and Israeli apartheid http://www.jewsconfrontapartheid.org/

Important articlesNurit Peled-Elhanan: I will mourn on Nakba Dayhttp://www.israeli-occupation.org/2010-03-18/nurit-peled-elhanan-i-will-mourn-on-nakba-day/

Victory for BDS: Elvis Costello cancels appearances in the apartheid statehttp://www.elviscostello.com/news/it-is-after-considerable-contemplation/44

USAID funding Israel's apartheid road construction, by Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11267.shtml

Protests of apartheid work: Israeli foreign ministry “considering stopping lectures in US and UK because of heckling”http://coteret.com/2010/05/06/maariv-foreign-ministry-considering-stopping-lectures-in-us-and-uk-because-of-heckling/

Shifting sands, a book by Jewish women confronting colonial occupation http://www.shiftingsands-book.com/

‘We want to live': Salam Fayyad's plans for Palestine and the Palestinians are nought but a contrived folk festival where the occupied bow to their oppressors, writes Azmi Bishara http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/998/op3.htm

Mazin Qumsiyeh,
PhDA Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home
http://www.qumsiyeh.org http://www.pcr.ps