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The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation delivered a letter signed by more than 300 US based organizations calling on the House Appropriations Subcommittee to cut off military aid to Israel on account of its repeated violations of the both the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act. The signatories came from […]

On 16 April, Occupation forces distributed military orders requiring the demolition of 15 commercial and residential structures in Nazlat ‘Isa, north of Tulkarm. These structures, which are in varying stages of construction and situated 60 meters from the Apartheid Wall, are threatened on the pretext that they lack the proper building permits. The villagers, who […]

On the 15th of April a gang of Zionist settlers from the Kedumim settlement uprooted and destroyed more than 1000 mature olive trees in the village of Jeet, located east of Qalqilya. The trees belonged to Zakariya as-Sadha and Dhafer Khalil, both residents of Jeet. This attack is part of larger series of assaults undertaken […]

Land Day was commemorated both across historic Palestine and internationally on the 30th of March. Protests in support of Palestinians where held in the Canary Islands, Brazil and New York, to single out a few locations. In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Palestine Community of the Canary Islands along with al-Zeitun and the Women […]

BDS Newsletter Edition: 02 – March, 2008 CORPORATE NEWS Campaign against Leviev The campaign against diamond tycoon Lev Leviev continues to move forward. Leviev initially was targeted by the Adalah-NY coalition for his involvement in funding Israeli settlement on Palestinian land in Jayyous, Bil’in and Jerusalem. Activists have engaged in awareness raising and have staged […]

In Yafa, more than two thousands residents of the city, joined by other Palestinians, organized a mass protest to on the 29th, one day before Land Day. Yafa, also known as the bride of the sea, was occupied in 1948 by Zionist forces that expelled the majority of the original Palestinian residents from the city. […]

In 1976, Palestinians protested a massive expropriation of land in the Galilee region. In 2008 the protests continue to mark March 30th, while Occupation forces continue to occupy land and expand the settlements that creep across Palestine. These settlement practices, which are official Occupation policy, come at a time when the military is intensifying a […]

The BDS National Committee has issued an appeal to international civil society, calling for a boycott of the “Israel at 60” celebrations. Adopted from a PACBI initiative and supported by 104 organizations, this appeal is the core call from Palestine for 2008. It is backed by a wide range of Palestinian civil society groups, trade […]

The focus of this year’s Land Day is the ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people. As we near the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing campaign initiated by the Occupation in 1948 continues. Land confiscations, home demolitions and settlement expansions move forward with alarming regularity. Both the tactics and the aims are the […]