Two days ago the Occupation forces started works at Beit Jala to complete a new phase of the Wall on the village land. The bulldozers are currently working near the âtunnel roadâ – the apartheid road that connects the settlement blocks in the southern part of the West Bank with Jerusalem. ***image2***According to the representative […]
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The Transport and General Workers Union, UK, joins the Boycott Campaign
On July 4th, the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) has passed a motion at its biennial conference in support of a customer boycott against Apartheid Israel. Following in the footsteps of other unions around the world who have taken up the boycott, the biggest general union in the UK, with over 800,000 members, also […]
Petition demands ‘Kick Apartheid Israel Out of Football’ ahead of Euro Qualifiers.
Kick Apartheid Israel out of Football is the message that campaigners in the UK want to send to football fans around the world ahead of Englandâs Euro 2008 qualifying clash with Israel in September. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is asking supporters to sign a petition on their website demanding that the English FA, UEFA and […]
“Act Together for Another World!” – Global Day of Action, 26th January 2008
The World Social Forum has announced a Global Day of Action for 26th January 2008. Organisations, movements and networks involved in the world social forum process, invite all the social actors working for another world to build up a Week of Mobilization culminating in a Global Action Day in January 26th, 2008. This provides space […]
Further destruction wrought by the Occupation as the Apartheid Wall-building continues and settlements expand
Bulldozers have begun to destroy farmland around Al Jeeb village, north-west of Jerusalem as the Israeli occupation begins the construction of another section of the Apartheid Wall to the west of the village. ***image2***The bulldozers came under army protection and the area was designated a military closed zone. The villagers were prevented from accessing the […]
Australians moved by films and art showing Palestinian suffering and strength
The State Library of Victoria saw over 1000 visitors attend an exhibition and film festival highlighting the humanity of the Palestinian people in struggle under an inhuman occupation. âPalestine Uncut: the â67 Occupation Exhibition and Palestinian Film Festivalâ marked 40 years of Israeli occupation of the remaining Palestinian lands, that is the West Bank and […]
Hebron district: more Palestinian land burnt and stolen by the Occupation
The Israeli army burnt hundreds of square kilometers of land belonging to Palestinian farmers in order to expand the Tal Zeâev settlement, south of Hebron city. Over 2000 ancient olive trees, along with citrus and almonds trees were left to burn last week as the Israeli army refused to let the fire brigade attend the […]
Pensioners and children are not spared as Apartheid Israel continues ethnically cleansing Jerusalem
An old man was hospitalized for two weeks after being attacked by setters in Beit Safafa as the occupation continues its attempts to ethnically cleanse the Jerusalem district. ***image2***In their almost daily attacks, the settlers also injured a 78 year old woman when they broke into her house, threw empty bottles at her and beat […]
Twenty companies blacklisted by US Methodists for complicity with the Occupation
The New England Conference of the United Methodist Church has recommended its churches divest from twenty companies which support the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and other Israeli breaches of Human Rights. The recommendations came in a report by the Conferenceâs Divestment Task Force, published in June, after two years of […]
News from the South: Palestinian lands burned by the Occupation
Hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land have been burned in the last days to expand the Zionist colonization of our land. Ancient olive trees, harvests and grazing lands have been set ablaze to ruin the livelihoods of the population and prepare the further expansion of settlements. On June 23, Zionist settlers from the settlement of […]