Greek neighborhood committees take up BDS

Neighborhood committees created to oppose price rises in Greece joined the call for a boycott of Israeli products. The decision to support the boycott movement, taken in response to the attack on the Gaza Strip, illustrates the global linkages that can and should be made between struggles against oppression in different parts of the world. […]

Israeli Apartheid Week 2009

Israeli Apartheid Week 2009 took place in more than 40 cities across the globe. First held in Toronto in 2005, it has spread rapidly around the world. This year, in addition to the regular participating locations, a number of new cities in Europe, North America and South Africa joined, along with every major city and […]

Australian activists launch campaign to derail Veolia/Connex

When the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) launched its campaign against the Veolia and Connex companies, all of Melbourne took notice. Australian visual artist (and PSC member) Van Thanh Rudd contributed a simple yet powerful work to the Melbourne exhibition, “Resisting Subversion of Subversion Resistance: Propositions towards urban (r)evolution exhibition.” Titled “Economy of Movement (a Piece […]

Activists set up checkpoint at AIPAC fundraiser

Dozens of Los Angeles-area Jews, Palestinians and other allies erected a mock checkpoint at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual Valley Fundraiser in protest of AIPAC’s attempt to steer US policy makers to ignore recent war crimes in Gaza and the occupation of Palestinian land. Cars were confronted by people dressed as Occupation […]

7,000 protest Israeli apartheid in Sweden

In the latest in a string of sports protests, some 7,000 people protested in Sweden against Israeli participation in the Davis Cup. The action forced the match to proceed without spectators, while thousands of Palestine-supporters demonstrated outside the stadium. ***image2***On March 7, thousands of people marched to the Baltic Hall in Malmö, Sweden, where a […]

Resistance against the Wall widens in the north

The protests against the Wall expanded this week, as villagers in the isolated communities of Wadi Rasha and Ras Tira turned out to fight the re-rerouting of the Wall in Qalqilya. Weekly protests against the Wall were also held in Jayyous, Ni’lin, Bil’in and al-Ma’sara. In Ni’lin, the demonstration was fired upon shortly after the […]