The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has issued a call to the Rolling Stones in response to media reports on their plans to perform for the Israeli music circus in autumn. The concert is one of the biggest events scheduled for Israel this year and is to compensate producer […]
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Jerusalem: A further 4 Apartments Demolished by the Occupation Authorities
The Occupation authority in Jerusalem and its bulldozers demolished 4 apartments yesterday under construction in Sur Baher, south of Jerusalem city. The houses belong to Salem el Bakhit and Ayman Hammad. Even the spontaneous resistance of the people in the neighbourhood was unable to stop the destruction. ***image2***When the bulldozers moved into the area, the […]
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Mass Demonstration Commemorates Nakba Day in Ramallah
***image2***Contingents from the refugee camps all over the West Bank took the lead in yesterday’s events celebrating the 59th anniversary of the Nakba in Ramallah on May 15. They came from Hebron (Arroub and Fawwar camps), Bethlehem (Deheisheh and Aida camps) Jenin camp, Tulkarem (Nur ash Shams and Tulkarem camps), Jericho (Aqbe Jaber camp) Ramallah […]
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Al Aqaba To Be Turned Into A Ghetto
The village of al Aqaba in the Jordan Valley and the Bedouin families connected with it are to be confined on less than 0.1 percent of their original lands. Six homes have been given demolition orders and the villagers have been handed out a plan that allows them to reside on not more than 20 […]
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59 years of continuous Nakba: “There is no Substitute for the Return to our Homes”
This year marks the 59th anniversary of the Nakba, the expulsion of almost 1 million Palestinians from their homes on which the state of Israel has been established. Since then, the Nakba â the ethnic cleansing, dispossession and racist discrimination of the Palestinian people â is ongoing and has escalated in recent years via the […]
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Protests against the Wall continue at Um Salamuna
At noon on Friday May 11, the people from Um Salamuna (West Bethlehem) supported by students from Al-Quds Open University confronted Occupation Forces on the construction site of the Apartheid Wall which is destroying and confiscating their lands. ***image2***Assembling at the top of the valley overlooking the path of the wall, some 70 people marched […]
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Canadian Activists corner Bookstore owner for support to Israeli Apartheid
The Coalition against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) has launched a further action to press the majority shareholders of Chapters and Indigo bookstores to stop their support of the Israeli military. The activists have chosen Chapters and Indigo bookstores as a priority target as it exposes the critical support apartheid Israel receives from Canada and the ruthless […]
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Japanese activists call for boycott of the Occupation’s Philharmonic Orchestra!
***image1***On March 20, the Kansai Network for Peace in Palestine (KNPP) held a protest in front of the Symphonic Hall of Osaka to promote the cultural boycott of Israel. Members of the KNPP put up a Palestinian flag as well as a banner in front of the entrance to the Hall. The banner read “Boycott […]
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Stop the ethnic cleansing of al-Hadidiye: Save the Palestinian Jordan Valley!
Hadidiya, a 20,000 dunum expanse of fertile lands in the Jordan Valley, is to be cleansed from its Palestinian inhabitants. This is to mark the final step of Israeli colonization of the area and another move towards the ethnic cleansing and annexation of the Jordan Valley. Support the resistance of the Palestinian people and contribute […]
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New land confiscation in Bardala to seal the Jordan Valley
This week the Occupation confiscated an additional 238 dunums of land from Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley. Although the stated purpose of the confiscation is to create a buffer zone in front of the Apartheid Wall, it will further reduce the area of fertile land accessible to Palestinians. ***image2***Constructed in 2003, the Apartheid […]