The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to unite in your different capacities and struggles for a Global BDS Day of Action on 30 March 2010 in solidarity with the Palestinian people and for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The BNC calls on people of conscience and their organizations around the […]
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al-Ma’sara marches through the cold
Despite the freezing temperatures and rainy weather, villagers and international supporters marched through the village toward their threatened lands yesterday. At the entrance of the village, protestors found soldiers had not only blocked the path with barbed wire, but also were stationed on the roofs of homes. As they do every week, soldiers barred the […]
Volunteers detained planting trees in Bethlehem
Early this month, Occupation forces stopped a group of volunteers southeast of Bethlehem, where they had gone to plant almond trees on land threatened with confiscation. The lands are near the settlements Teqoa and Noqedim, where Foreign Minister Lieberman lives. More than 20 soldiers, along with more than 25 settlers and police dogs, came down […]
One arrested during Ni’lin protest
***image2***Occupation forces continued to employ the same tactics in Ni’lin, firing on and arresting demonstrators this Friday. More than 150 people from the village, supported by several foreign activists who had to enter the village through on foot after Occupation forces declared the village a closed military area. Soldiers were stationed at the two main […]
SAIA to Carleton: Divest from the occupation!
This week, Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) Carleton launched a divestment campaign targeting firms supporting the Israeli military and settlement operations. The Carleton University Pension Fund is invested in five companies that are complicit in human rights violations and crimes under international law in the West Bank and Gaza – Motorola, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, […]
Burin residents mobilize against demolitions
Hundreds of Palestinians participated in a crowded demonstration in Burin yesterday. The march was organized in protest of the Occupation forcesâ decision to demolish the Suleiman al Farsi mosque in the village, along with a group of storage structures close by. This was done on the pretext that the structures fall in Area C, with […]
Further arrests in Bil’in and Ni’lin
Occupation forces raided the villages of Bilâin and Niâlin, arresting a resident from each village. In Bilâin Mohammed al-Khatib, a member of the Bil’in Popular Committee, was taken from him his home early Thursday morning. At 1:30 AM, soldiers entered his home where they confiscated materials as a crowd gathered outside. Occupation forces also invaded […]
Diplomats hear testimony of Ni’lin repression
Fifteen European diplomats carried out a fact-finding visit to the village of Nilâin yesterday to listen to the testimonies of residents targeted for arrest by Occupation forces. Many human rights defenders in the village have been subject to a campaign of arrests for their involvement in activities in protest of the Wall. As the visit […]
Two Danish funds exclude Wall building companies
Two Danish investment funds divested from Wall and settlement building companies, marking another victory in the BDS campaigns against Africa Israel and Elbit, two companies that have been targeted by BDS activists. In particular, this a critical step in the BDS campaign against companies building the Wall, opened by the Norwegian divestment last year. Danish […]