On the 19th of September, American groups took to the streets of New York during the meeting of the UN General Assembly to protest about Apartheid Israel’s massacre of 28 people Lebanese town of Qana in an air strike on July 30th. The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (Justice ME) has been organising […]

Irish academics have condemned research institutions who fund Israeli research and called for a moratorium on collaborations with Israeli Universities. The group, Academics for Justice, made the call in a letter to the Irish Times on 16th September, the anniversary of the start of the massacre in Sabra and Shatila, Ireland’s Boycott Israel day. Many […]

The Cape Town Anti-War Coalition is to hold two protests at the Africa Aerospace and Defence Weapons Fair (AADWF) from 20th – 24th September at the Air Force Base in Ysterplaat, Cape Town. The Coalition is demanding that the SA Department of Trade and Industry explain why its website says it is supplying helicopter and […]

***image2***Eight Palestinians were injured yesterday during clashes between demonstrators and Israeli occupation forces yesterday at the weekly demonstration in the West Bank town of Bil’in. After violently dispersing the demonstration with clubs, tear-gas, rubber bullets and experimental weapons, Israeli occupation fighters pursued demonstrators into the village and went from house to house searching for them. […]

The Occupation is to isolate over 7000 dunums of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem and Hebron areas in preparation for the continuation of the Wall and the construction of an apartheid road which will carve through the south of West Bank. The new ‘Jews-only’ road will run virtually parallel to the existing road, linking the […]

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK is organising a mass demonstration against the ongoing occupation of Palestine, to be held in Manchester. The demonstration will meet at 12:30 by the ‘Peace Garden’ in St Peter’s Square, about 200yds away from Albert Square’ in front of Library/by the metro stop. A specially hired train will […]

The Hemispheric Council of the Social Forum of the Americas (SFA) has released a strongly-worded statement condemning Israel’s “genocidal campaign” in Palestine and Lebanon and calling for a boycott of Israel and sanctions. The statement, released on August 4th in the wake of Israel’s assault on Lebanon, is scathing in its denunciation of the United […]

A coalition of Jordanian opposition groups yesterday reiterated their calls for an international boycott of Israeli produce. In a statement, the the National Committee for Confronting Normalization (NCCN), which consists of opposition parties, trade unions and independent politicians, said: “We urge all Jordanian citizens to boycott fruit and all goods produced in the Zionist entity […]