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 […]
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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 […]
Pregnant Palestinian prisoner released following international pressure!
Update, Friday, September, 3: Pregnant Palestinian prisoner Anhar Al-Deek, 25, was released from Israeli jails last night, September 2nd. Her release is on conditions to remain under house arrest and a financial bail of USD12, 500. Please watch a video showing the moment when Anhar was released here. The release of Anhar follows an international […]
#SaveSilwan – August 15 another 16 homes will be up for demolitions
UPDATE: Continued pressure works – now we need more! Israeli courts have stayed demolition orders for all but 16 homes in the collective lawsuit in #Silwan. The court’s decision to delay demolition of the remaining homes until February 2022 aims to fragment grief and dilute resistance to expulsion. None of the 97 homes under demolition […]
August 2nd: #RaiseYourVoice for Sheikh Jarrah
Israel’s Supreme Court is set to decide on the imminent forcible ethnic displacement of Al-Askafi, Al-Ja’ouni, Al-Qasem and Al-Kurd families from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on August 2nd. As we are well aware that Israeli courts are nothing more than institutions to enforce and consolidate apartheid and settler colonial policies against our people, […]
Beita: A fortress of sumud in the face of Israeli land seizure and brutality
Since months, Palestinians across Historic Palestine have been rising up against decades of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid. In the village of Beita, south of Nablus city, Palestinians have not only been protesting decades of Israeli oppression, but also intensified Israeli pillaging of their land. The ongoing protests since over a month come as a […]