Land Day, March 30, honors the Palestinian people’s relentless resistance of Israeli settler colonialism, military occupation, and apartheid. It commemorates the day in 1976 when Palestinian people resisted Israeli takeover of thousands of donums (about 1,500 acres) of their land in the Galilee – and the six Palestinian protesters who were shot dead by Israeli […]
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March 30: Palestine Land Day Webinars!
On Land Day, March 30 Palestinians emphasize their relentless and ongoing struggle against Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and military occupation. It commemorates the day in 1976 when Palestinian people resisted Israeli takeover of thousands of donums (about 1,500 acres) of their land in the Galilee—and the six Palestinian protesters who were shot dead by Israeli […]
#StopWaterApartheid Campaign
On February 10, 2022, 14 young activists from the Jordan Valley and the South Hebron Hills (SHH) launched the #StopWaterApartheid Campaign. Through this ongoing campaign the young activists seek to cast some light on the Israeli occupation’s restrictions on their communities’ access to water in the Jordan Valley and the SHH. They contend that Israeli […]
Stop the Wall highlights during 2021
2021 was yet another year, during which Palestinians had to endure more of Israel’s vicious apartheid and colonial practices to erase our existence on our land. As one of the deadliest years, more than 300 Palestinians were lost to Israeli violence during 2021. Only in the first half of 2021, over 5,426 Palestinians were arrested […]
Jan 28-30: Global Days of Action events across the world
From January 28-30, 2022- the Global Days of Action for Palestine, Palestinians will intensify protests against Israel’s dramatic escalation of violence and ethnic cleansing across Historic Palestine. So far, seventy-three solidarity groups and organizations across continents have endorsed our statement for the Global Days of Action. Different events are scheduled to take place across continents […]
The Jewish National Fund is Ethnically Cleansing the Naqab
At dawn today, January 12, 2022, Israeli bulldozers and combat-ready soldiers raided the Palestinian village of Al-Atrash in the Naqab desert in southern 1948 Palestine [present-day Israel]. For the third day in a row, Israeli bulldozers have been bulldozing large swathes of land belonging to Palestinians from the village. The escalated ethnic cleansing of Palestinians […]
Israeli bulldozers demolish homes in Khirbet Ibziq
For Palestinian residents of Khirbet Ibziq, the Jordan Valley, the end of 2021 was a tragic one. Eleven families cannot help but recall the moment when Israeli soldiers invaded their community, announced it a closed military zone and demolished their property on December 28. Forty structures- residntial tents and animal shacks were razed to the […]
Seeing Glasgow’s COP26 through Palestine
Glasgow’s UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) finished on November 12 with promises that are void of the binding commitments required to save our ever-heating planet. Like previous conferences, COP26 was another failure to acknowledge that to tackle climate change, capitalism, colonialism, militarization and other forms of oppression and injustices must be eradicated. […]
Denial of education: An Israeli apartheid tool to annex the Jordan Valley
In many countries around the world, schools have resumed in September. Millions of students are unable to access their schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Palestine, particularly in the Jordan Valley, thousands of students face other challenges than the pandemic that hamper their access to proper education: Israeli apartheid regime. In the Jordan Valley, […]
Film release: #UNInvestigateApartheid
The first day of the high-level General Debate of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) kicks off today. It comes amidst an intensified Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign of Palestinians in Jerusalem and other parts of Palestine. To bring to light the urgency of taking concrete steps by the United Nations to hold Israel accountable for […]