The EU continues to fund Israeli companies and institutions that are directly involved in the maintenance of the Israeli regime of apartheid, colonialism and occupation. ECCP has worked on new research, Stop the Wall prepared new resources, a new campaign targets a shocking EU funded project aimed at unifying methodology of interrogation between Israeli police […]
Category: In Solidarity
International Trade Union Solidarity
For Resistance, Dignity, and a Better Life Trade Unions are an important part of the civil resistance against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and international solidarity is a crucial part of it. Israeli control Palestine suffers from Israeli restrictions on production, transport, and export and unemployment is a major problem. Textile workers in a […]
‘The Story of Hurry’—a Children’s Book that Brings Gaza to Life
In this uncommon book by Emma Williams, Jean Stein and Ibrahim Quraishi, a donkey tries to cheer Gaza’s traumatized children—by becoming a zebra. The book is called The Story of Hurry, and, unlike its sugarcoated peers, it eschews princess fantasies, Elmo tie-ins and beeping garbage trucks in favor of a sweet-and-searing tale of life inside […]
City of Terrassa, Barcelona, joins the BDS movement
The City of Terrassa, a city of more than 215,000 inhabitants in the province of Barcelona, has agreed to join the BDS Movement approving an initiative of Initiative for Catalonia Greens – United and Alternative Left, which received support from the Catalan Socialist Party and Convergence and Unity Party. The text of the agreement denounces […]
Denied Jamal Juma Permission To Enter Jordan
With this statement the organizations Paz con Dignidad and Biladi wish to show our deepest and most heartfelt solidarity with our colleague Jamal Jumá, coordinator of Stop the Wall, in the light of the events occurred on 11th October when the Jordanian authorities on the border with the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) denied him permission […]
Solidarity from the South: The World Social Forum declares its support to BDS and to the Palestinian people
In January, the Brazilian cities of Porto Alegre and Canoas received the Thematic Social Forum whose theme chosen was “Capitalist Crisis, Democracy, Social and Environmental Justice". The event, an icon of the altermundism and of the anti-neoliberal, anti-colonialist and anti – imperialist struggle, is a space for global civil society to organize itself and to […]
BDS INDIA book over Indian and Palestinian-Israeli political relations
Since 2010, The Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (InCACBI) stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for their right to live in dignity and exercise its sovereignty over their homeland. Now, the group calls for the divulgation of “From India to Palestine”, a compilation of fourteen essays […]
The spirit of the struggle against apartheid lives on!
With the passing away of Nelson Mandela, South Africa has lost a truly inspirational leader of their struggle against apartheid. The world has lost a symbol of the human quest for justice and equality. Palestine has lost a comrade in the struggle that never forgot the natural bond between two people fighting apartheid. The Palestinian […]
Palestinian NGO statement on the World Bank-sponsored Red-Dead Sea Canal
The undersigned Palestinian NGOs call on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to halt all forms of cooperation with the World Bank-sponsored Red Sea – Dead Sea Conveyance Project (RSDSCP) and to take an unequivocal public stance of rejection to the project. It has become clear beyond doubt that the project […]
Press Statement : South African Officials Must Reject Israeli Blood Diamonds
South African Officials Must Reject Israeli Blood Diamonds and Secure Jobs in Diamond Beneficiation South African civil society and organised labour call on South African officials to show leadership by demanding change to the shamefully discredited “Kimberley Process Certification Scheme” which facilitates trade in diamonds that fund gross human rights violations by rogue […]