Actress Scarlett Johansson has resigned her position as an Oxfam ambassador after she received criticism for her advert for SodaStream, which operates a factory in a controversial settlement in the West Bank.
Violence has returned to Palestine with an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killing a “jihadi”, whilst an Israeli settler was killed by a Palestinian in the West Bank, with settlers attacking a Palestinian school bus and nearby villages in retaliation.
An international fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements in Palestine commissioned by the UNHCR found that settlements constituted a violation of international human rights and humanitarian law and called on Israel to stop all expansions immediately and withdraw from settlements.
Israel has introduced separate bus lines for Jews and Arabs, traveling from the West Bank to Israel, starting today [March 4, 2013].…
In November 2012, VICE were invited to attend the first Palestinian National Youth Week – an elaborate PR event put…