Category: News

From November 20th to the 22nd, hundreds of students from across the United States and Canada converged at Hampshire College for the 2009 Campus Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Conference, their presence sending a clear message about the surging strength of the BDS movement on campuses throughout the two countries. The conference was hosted by […]

On 23 November 2009, after 61 days of detention for the purpose of interrogation by Israeli Security Agency officers, human rights defender Mohammad Othman received his first administrative detention order. The administrative detention order is set for a three month period, during which time Mohammad will be held without charge or trial. The judicial review […]

Military incursions into Jayyus continued this past week, as many as three times daily. Clashes and curfews have characterized village life, and undercover units have attempted to trap local youth. Although there has of yet been no serious injuries among the villagers, a group of young men were arrested several days ago. The severity and […]

***image2***Around 200 people participated yesterday in the protest in Ni’lin against the Apartheid Wall, including a delegation of Scandinavian students. Two Palestinian demonstrators were shot with live ammunition. Last week, the popular committee of Ni’lin received information that the Israeli army would ‘step up’ their operations against Ni’lin’s resistance against the illegal Apartheid Wall. This […]

***image1***For the past weeks, the village of Jayyus has been subjected to daily military raids. In response to residents’ ongoing resistance to the Wall, soldiers have threatened individuals, destroyed property, set curfews and engaged in shooting on a near daily basis. Collective punishment has feature strongly into this campaign, with Occupation forces targeting house owners, […]

On November 18th, some fifty New Yorkers gathered outside of Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig’s Office, protesting Major League Baseball’s connection with the Hebron Fund. That event followed a letter-writing campaign that generated over 2600 letters to the New York Mets, asking them to cancel the dinner with the settler organization. The New York Mets are […]

58 days since his arrest, Mohammad remains imprisoned and under interrogation. He has not been charged, and the military courts continue to renew his period of detention. Following a two-week ban on any lawyer visits, which serve as Mohammed’s only contact with the outside world, contact has been reinstated. Today, Mohammed was finally been allowed […]

Since Occupation forces launched the devastating invasion of Gaza in December in 2008, the world stage has seen a wave of increased demand for justice. The release of the Goldstone Report has strengthened the case of the European lawyers, with human rights lawyers and pro-Palestinian activists in a number of European countries preparing lists with […]

***image2***More than 200 people participated in the protest that the Ni’lin popular committee organizes every week on Friday. The people of Ni’lin performed the Friday prayer on the land next to the Ni’lin health clinic, where Imam Salah Mohammad Tayeh praised late Palestinian leader and symbol Yasser Arafat and the martyrs of Ni’lin and said […]