In June and May, Occupation forces destroyed more homes in Jerusalem and issued orders promising many more demolitions in the coming months. The old city and surrounding areas were especially hard hit. At least 60 people, 31 of them children, lost either part or their entire home, while hundreds more face a similar fate. June […]
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Aux Supermarchés, Citoyens!: The BDS movement takes to the shops
On July 4th, dozens of activists took part in actions at an outlet of the retailing giant Carrefour in the Parisian suburb of Evry II. The demonstration aimed at promoting a boycott of Israeli goods. Demonstrators marched around the shopping centre, seizing Israeli products and chanting, before proceeding to hold a brief sit-in, discussing the […]
Goodbye, Moto!: New Yorkers picket Motorola and call for a boycott
***image1***Dozens of protestors took to the streets of New York yesterday in the second summer action of the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israelâs (NYCBI) city-wide boycott of Motorola. Activists distributed flyers, waved Palestinian flags and carried signs calling on passers-by not to buy from the firm. They also held a small-scale concert […]
Forced out and knocked down: house demolitions to hit the West Bank
A wave of house demolition orders has been distributed across the West Bank. The houses threatened are being issued the orders on the pretext that they are in Area C, in which Palestinians are not allowed to build. Inhabited and under-construction homes, storage structures and other infrastructure face destruction in the districts of Salfit, Hebron […]
This Wall is still illegal
***image3***This weekend saw demonstrations in Palestine and across the globe to mark the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justiceâs advisory verdict on the construction of the Apartheid Wall. At Bilâin the weekly protest began with a march, with two hundred demonstrators proceeding to the Wall and successfully opening the first set of gates. […]
CSQ latest union to take up BDS
Canada again became a focal point of the trade union BDS movement yesterday, as the third largest Québécois union â the CSQ â passed a motion in support of the Palestinian peopleâs struggle. The union had earlier spoken out, along with numerous other Québécois organizations, over Occupation forcesâ blockade and bombardment of Gaza, denouncing the […]
CAIA pickets Chapters/Indigo; challenges CEO
The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) stepped up its campaign against Chapters/Indigo bookstores on 25 June, as activists disrupted the Annual Shareholders Meeting in downtown Toronto. In addition to passing out flyers and engaging shareholders, journalists, and passersby in discussion and debate, one of the most exciting developments came from inside the shareholders meeting, when […]
Bil’in Targeted in Reprisal Attacks
Last Fridayâs protests saw a level of violence and repression that has become routine across the areas resisting the Apartheid Wall. In al-Maâsara dozens of protesters marched out towards the wall in protest at the construction of the Wall and the settlements in its shadow. They found the road to be blocked by soldiers, who […]