Palestine: The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and its popular committees have prepared in cooperation with Palestinian grassroots organizations and NGOs once again an impressive programme of resistance, featuring almost daily protests and the Third National Olive Festival, held this year in Asira al-Qibliya, Nablus district. City and Location: at-Taybeh, Jenin district Date:November 8th Type of initiative: […]

BDS NEWSLETTER Edition: 08 – October, 2008 CORPORATE NEWS Veolia, Bilbao and European BDS On October 29/30 2008, Spanish and Basque civil society organizations invited their Palestinian counterparts, along with Israeli activists and solidarity groups from Europe and around the globe to Bilbao to discuss the core elements against which the Palestinian people are struggling, […]

Today Occupation forces prevented farmers from the village of Jayyous from reaching their olive groves. Two youths, Fadi Abdul-Karim and Mohammed Maaz, were beaten and arrested when they tried to harvest their families’ olives. ***image2***This type of aggression from the Occupation is not uncommon in Jayyous, a village northeast of Qalqilya. Last week, Occupation forces […]

In Oslo on November 3, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a half-day seminar about business and research cooperation with Israel, inviting Norwegian and Israeli corporations, research institutions in The Research Council of Norway and other representatives of the two countries’ business and research sectors. The controversial seminar has gotten widespread attention in Norway […]

This report, detailing 33 attacks on farmers in October, shows that farmers have faced an average of more than one attack per day from either settlers or soldiers. The Occupation forces were directly involved in 52% of the incidents while in the remaining cases their absence at the scene ensured that settlers could continue their […]

While settlers this Friday were apparently taking a break from their continuous attacks, Occupation forces stepped into fill the gap. In Ni’lin and al-Ma’sra people were prevented from reaching the lands affected by the Apartheid Wall. ***image2***In Ni’lin over one hundred people were blocked from reaching their olive groves close to the Wall’s path. After […]

In the early morning of October 26 2008, Occupation forces prevented farmers from the village of Kafr Qadum from reaching their farmland. The farmers were attempting to reach their land to harvest their olives, but as has been the case throughout the olive harvest, the Occupation cited “security purposes” for its actions. ***image4***As the farmers […]

The Swedish Assa Abloy Company responded to pressure from a coalition of Swedish non-profit groups and the Church of Sweden by deciding to immediately remove its Mul-T-Lock factory in the Barkan settlement, located in the West Bank. A spokesperson for the company said that Assa Ablov will relocate its factory inside the Green Line, and […]