Israel’s Weaponization of Sexual Violence to Uproot Palestinians and Deter All Who Resist Since October 7, 2023, Israel has escalated its use of sexual violence against Palestinians. Rape, forced nudity, sexual humiliation, sexual torture, and genital violence — in detention, at checkpoints, and during home raids — are forms of a systematic policy Israel pursues […]
Category: From Palestine
The Nakba Never Ended
In the occupied West Bank, Israel is uprooting the Palestinian Ka’abneh Bedouin from their land — community after community. An Outpost 50 Meters Away Since the third of May, settlers have intensified their daily attacks, day and night, on the families of the Arab Abu Faza’a al-Ka’abneh community, east of al-Taybeh, east of Ramallah. The […]
Ongoing Nakba, Ongoing Return
How Have the Marches of Return Resisted the Ongoing Nakba? Every year on May 15, Palestinians mark Nakba Day. The Nakba (Arabic: catastrophe) marks the start of the mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 to create the state of Israel as a settler colonial project on Palestinian land. The Nakba is not a memory […]
Weaponizing Water For Israel’s Genocide, Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing
Denial of access to water is a long-standing Israeli policy of water pillage and apartheid. The explicit aim is to ethnically cleanse or destroy the Palestinian population anywhere under Israeli control in order to colonize their land.
#FreeThemAll – The story of Sumoud
April 17, Palestinians have marked once again Prisoners Day. This year, as the genocide in Gaza continues, with a record number of over 11000 Palestinians detained, facing unprecedented brutality and sadistic treatment. We have built a Special Page with facts, calls to action and the story of Sumoud, a dynamic activist with Stop the Wall, […]
Free Palestine 101 for tech workers
A four-part info session for tech workers and activists who don’t want to be complicit in – and instead contribute to ending – Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people. Workers in the tech industry have a long history of organizing and standing up against apartheid and oppression. This spans from the early days when tech […]
Testimony of Mohammed Huraini in Israeli detention
On August 5, 2023, Israeli occupation forces arrested Mohammed Huraini from the village of Al-Twani, Masafer Yatta. Aged only 19 years old, Mohammed was was arrested several times by the Israeli military in the last couple of years. The recent detention of Mohammed comes as part of constant Israeli attempts to clamp down on activists […]
South American Black and Indigenous movements visit in Palestine
Seven delegates from Black, Indigenous and Favela movements from Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador visited Palestine to learn about the reality of Israeli apartheid, settler-colonialism and military occupation. For a week they have met with Palestinian communities in struggle and share experiences of organizing and mobilizing. The movements represented in the delegation include the United Black […]
Educators of Masafer Yatta about schools under threat of demolition
Israeli denial of Palestinians’ right to education in Masafer Yatta is a central element of its efforts to ethnically cleanse Palestinian communities from their land. For years and despite Israeli restrictions on Palestinian construction in the area, Palestinians have been determined to defend their right to education by building schools in various communities in Masafer […]
#EndEthnicCleansing: The struggle of the Sob Laban family for their home in Jerusalem
In the Old City of Jerusalem, Nora Gaith (68) and Mostafa Sub Laban (72) are awaiting the enforcement of a recent Israeli court decision to forcibly expel them from their home. June 11 was the date the Israeli authorities gave to the family to voluntarily leave their home, the latter refuse and continue to stay […]