The Civic Coalition to Defend Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem has reported that Occupation authorities aim to construct a new settlement in occupied East Jerusalem. From information obtained by the Mapping and GIS Department of the Arab Studies Society, it has been revealed that the new Ma’ale David settlement will be built on approximately 10 dunums […]

Norwegian Peoples’ Aid and the Norwegian Minister of Finance, Kristin Halvorsen, have called on the Council of Ethics in the Government Pension Fund to reopen the divestment case against the Israel Electric Company (IEC) on account of the recent power cuts to the population of Gaza. The Government Pension Fund has around $20 million invested […]

The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation delivered a letter signed by more than 300 US based organizations calling on the House Appropriations Subcommittee to cut off military aid to Israel on account of its repeated violations of the both the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act. The signatories came from […]

Almost unanimously, delegates at CUPW’s national convention held April 13-17 2008 voted to support a resolution calling for a boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel last week. CUPW is the first national union in North America to take this stance. The resolution takes up the Palestinian call for BDS issued in July 2005 by over […]

On 16 April, Occupation forces distributed military orders requiring the demolition of 15 commercial and residential structures in Nazlat ‘Isa, north of Tulkarm. These structures, which are in varying stages of construction and situated 60 meters from the Apartheid Wall, are threatened on the pretext that they lack the proper building permits. The villagers, who […]

On the 15th of April a gang of Zionist settlers from the Kedumim settlement uprooted and destroyed more than 1000 mature olive trees in the village of Jeet, located east of Qalqilya. The trees belonged to Zakariya as-Sadha and Dhafer Khalil, both residents of Jeet. This attack is part of larger series of assaults undertaken […]

BDS Newsletter Edition: 02 – March, 2008 CORPORATE NEWS Campaign against Leviev The campaign against diamond tycoon Lev Leviev continues to move forward. Leviev initially was targeted by the Adalah-NY coalition for his involvement in funding Israeli settlement on Palestinian land in Jayyous, Bil’in and Jerusalem. Activists have engaged in awareness raising and have staged […]

In Yafa, more than two thousands residents of the city, joined by other Palestinians, organized a mass protest to on the 29th, one day before Land Day. Yafa, also known as the bride of the sea, was occupied in 1948 by Zionist forces that expelled the majority of the original Palestinian residents from the city. […]