At first the government gave no reason, then pointed to Ramadan's small donations to a couple of pro-Palestinian organizations that were suspected of funnelling money to Hamas.
For this reason, the German company Deutsche Bahn, which advised Israel Railways on the project, withdrew from it under pressure of pro-Palestinian organizations.
He is also head of Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bil'in, a pro-Palestinian organization with the stated aims of building a "wide network of people from all over the globe who support Freedom and Justice for all"
In 1992, as part of President Clinton's transition team, she was criticized for her association with pro-Palestinian and pro-Cuban organizations a decade earlier.
Dan Halutz and other six other senior Israeli political and military officials by pro-Palestinian organizations, who sought to prosecute them in Spain under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
In recent years, concerns of a more institutionalized form of antisemitism have been expressed in relation to the activities of pro-Palestinian organizations on university campuses.
In May 2007, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a pro-Palestinian organization, paid for a poster campaign in the Washington, D.C. subway system.
Jewish and pro-Israel student groups still outnumber the pro-Palestinian organizations on most campuses.
Some pro-Palestinian organizations including Australians for Palestine have distanced themselves from the protests but have publicly defended the choice of Max Brenner as a boycott target.
Her conviction that people can try to understand has been tested lately as she has come under attack from Jewish groups and conservatives as well as centrist Democrats for her contacts with pro-Palestinian and pro-Cuban organizations.