MECA Congratulates Alice Walker on Her Courageous Stand
This week, celebrated author, poet and activist, Alice Walker, told an Israeli publisher that she will not grant them permission to translate her Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, into Hebrew—in a move to support the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel. In an open letter, Walker explained that she participated in the Russell Tribunal last fall in South Africa, which found that "Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories."
MECA Responds to UN Report on Children and Armed Conflict
The United Nations' report on Children and Armed Conflict
Every two minutes a child dies in armed conflict.1,456 Palestinian children shot dead by Israel since 2000
Terrible news about the condition of Palestinian children. - MECA
Water apartheid leaves Palestinian children ill
By Alex Abu Ata, Electronic Intifada
Faqua is one of many Palestinian villages not connected to a water network. A few kilometers east of Jenin, it is located right on the edge of the massive wall that Israel continues to build in the West Bank.
Jerusalem Day: Where’s the Unity?
Aramin family home demolished a few days before Jerusalem Day in 2011. Photo by The Palestinian Information Center
The 64th anniversary of Al Nakba: Palestinians remember and US students learn
May is the month when Palestinians all over the world commemorate the Nakba—the ethnic cleansing and dispossession of Palestinians, perpetuated by Zionist militias to create the state of Israel in 1948. This time of year, MECA gets many requests to speak about the history of Palestine to high school, junior high and college classes around the Bay Area and throughout the country. As we commemorate the 64th year since the Nakba, I, once again, find myself here in the United States, thousands of miles away from my homeland, talking to schoolchildren.
Top 10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About the #Nakba
1. Nakba is the Arabic word for catastrophe. It is used to describe the Palestinian loss of land and property during the depopulation of Palestine from 1947-1949 and does not refer simply to the declaration of a state of Israel. 
Israel closes Palestinian school to make way for West Bank military training zone
Civil Administration issues demolition order against the school, though residents have no access to any other.
By Akiva Eldar
A Palestinian elementary school was shut down last week after Israel's Civil Administration confiscated the vehicle used to transport teachers to it.
Teachers initially tried coming to the school, located in the Jinba cave village in the southern Hebron hills, by donkey, but this proved disruptive since they were often late.
Mother’s Day in Silwan
In the early morning of February 13th, Israeli forces bulldozed the cultural café and damaged the adjacent sports field that MECA supporters helped build in Silwan, East Jerusalem. Dozens of people responded to MECA’s emergency appeal and a temporary structure was built in just a few weeks.