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On December 2nd, two hundred people from a host of community organizations braved the first snowstorm of the winter to protest the Jewish National Fund (JNF) annual Negev Dinner held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Toronto. This year’s JNF dinner aimed to raise 7 million dollars for the refurbishment of the illegal “Canada Park”. […]

The Week Against the Apartheid Wall has once again sent up a rallying cry for Palestinian resistance and world solidarity. Running from the ninth to sixteenth of November 2007, the week of action featured film screenings, conferences, lobbying, demonstrations and pickets in countries around the world. Now in its fifth year, the week saw the […]

***All demonstrators arrested in the protests in Ramallah have been released.*** ***image2***200 demonstrators were arrested and 30 injured today in Ramallah when PA forces attempted to prevent demonstrations demanding that the PA fully uphold Palestinian national rights and against the Annapolis conference. The Palestinian Grassroots Anti Apartheid Wall Campaign has released a statement demanding the […]

The Palestinian Grassroots Anti Apartheid Wall Campaign has issued a joint declaration with representatives of civil society, refugees and Islamic and national forces, calling on the Palestinian Authority to boycott the Annapolis Conference. The declaration will be presented in a press conference in Ramallah on Sunday 25 November. A mass demonstration will take in place […]

***image2***The occupation has torn up a stretch of road built to allow the children of Al Walajeh to attend their new school. Bulldozers arrived under military escort on Sunday and uprooted the one kilometre stretch of road built to serve the primary school, which opened in September. The Occupation also demolished a large poultry shed […]

The proceedings from the international conference in London, organized by the PSC UK have been published. The two day conference, attended by some 70 activists from Palestine, Europe, North America and Africa was held on October 6-7 2007 at the University of London Union. The purpose of the conference was to explore methods of coordinating […]

First Palestinian Conference for the Boycott of Israel (BDS) 22 November 2007 Al-Bireh, Ramallah Summary Report “The Campaign for the Boycott of Israel will re-vitalize popular resistance and restore dignity to the Palestinian people” An important mile-stone in building the global BDS campaign was achieved in Ramallah on 22 November 2007. Some 300 activists, members […]

***image2***Occupation forces attacked the West Bank village of Budrus on Sunday, after they found a hole in the Apartheid Wall near the village. A unit of Occupation forces arrived in the morning and began shooting rounds of live ammunition between the houses and firing teargas. One youth, Khalaf Sudqi Khalaf, was injured by flying shrapnel […]

The Lalit party in Mauritius has joined forces with former President Cassam Uteem to urge the Mauritian government to join the growing movement against apartheid Israel. In a letter sent to the Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, they describe the Occupation’s abuses as having ‘reached the scale of genocide’, and call for diplomatic and economic […]