On December 17, 2011, 33-year-old Khader Adnan Mohammad Mousa was arrested by Israeli forces in the village of Arraba, near Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. The baker and MA candidate in economics at Birzeit University was detained at his home at 3:30am. Adnan has been on hunger strike since the first day of his detention, for a total of 58 days. He is believed to be the longest hunger-striking Palestinian detainee. 

Once again, the subject of Palestine and the Palestinians took center stage at the Republican presidential debate in Florida last night. In response to a question from a Palestinian-American Republican in the audience, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich made a number of false and defamatory assertions about Palestinians and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The following is a fact check of their statements. 

Texas Governor Rick Perry sparked controversy when he implied that Turkey "is being ruled by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists" during Monday night's Republican presidential candidates' debate in South Carolina.

Perry's remark came in response to a question from moderator and Fox News anchor Bret Baier during the January 16 debate. But Perry's assertion, made in response to a misleading question, has no basis in fact. 

On December 27, 2008, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, a massive, 22-day military assault on the Gaza Strip. The ferocity of the attack was unprecedented in the more than six-decade-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, killing some 1,400 Palestinians, most of them civilians. In the aftermath of the offensive, a UN-appointed fact finding mission found strong evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by both the Israeli military and Palestinian militias. Investigations by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch came to the same conclusion. 

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict featured prominently in last night's Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa. However, much of what was said by the candidates had little or no basis in fact. The following is a review of some of those statements. 

Following Tuesday's Palestinian Freedom Rides, the IMEU offers the following quotes for publication from veterans of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and members of Palestinian civil society. 

As the PLO petitions to be admitted to the United Nations as a member state (of Palestine), there are many myths surrounding their initiative. The IMEU offers this factsheet to bring light to those myths and address them with actual facts. 

On October 31 the member nations of UNESCO voted 107-14 to admit Palestine to the organization. This move triggered the implementation of two pre-existing U.S. laws resulting in Washington cutting all funding for the organization. Palestinian officials say they are studying whether they can join 16 additional U.N. organizations. As a result, the U.S. could be forced to pull out of a number of important international organizations.