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On the 9th of July, 2006 – the second anniversary of the ICJ decision that deemed the apartheid wall illegal – War on Want presented its new report about corporate responsibility in the occupation of Palestine at a one-day conference in London entitled “Profiting from the Occupation: A people’s tribunal to expose the corporations behind […]

The Indonesian women’s tennis team, scheduled to play a Fed Cup play-off in Israel on the 15th and 16th of July, have pulled out of the tie in an act of solidarity with Palestinians. The Indonesian Tennis Federation (PELTI) and government officials from the foreign and sports ministries decided to boycott the games after the […]

***image2***Resistance against the Apartheid Wall continued two years after the ICJ ruled the structure illegal, as the popular Anti-Apartheid Wall committees organized a series of demonstrations across the West Bank. Palestinians challenged the Occupation, and denounced its onslaught against people besieged in Gaza, as the struggle against the racist Wall and Israeli Apartheid continued. Protests […]

This year the 9th of July is a bitter day for Palestinians. The Occupation Army besieges Gaza, massacres its people and attacks its infrastructure. The ghettos of the West Bank take shape as the Apartheid Wall edges closer to completion and the Palestinian exodus from Jerusalem has begun. Over 9000 Palestinians rot in Israeli prison […]

As part of the campaign to isolate Apartheid Israel, Swiss activists have successfully stopped the “First International Convention on Public Security” from taking place on the 29th of June in Paudex. They staged protests and lobbied against the conference after learning that the event featured amongst the speakers Dani Arditi, ex-general of the Occupation Army […]

Out of a press conference hosted by the Palestinian Embassy in Chile, Chilean parliamentarians and politicians of all backgrounds have united to request the recall of the Chilean Ambassador from Tel Aviv as a reaction to the Occupation’s latest war crimes. The press conference held on Friday, 30th of June in Santiago was attended by […]

***image2***From the south to the north of the West Bank, popular committees against the Apartheid Wall staged demonstrations against their ghettoization and the latest Occupation attacks on Gaza. On Friday 31 June, demonstrations were joined by marches organized by the National and Islamic Forces. They united to condemn the Occupation policies and arrests of important […]

Aengus Ó Snodaigh, International Affairs and Human Rights spokesperson of Sinn Féin and MP, has described Apartheid Israel as “one of the most abhorrent and despicable regimes on the planet”. Coming at a time of increased attacks by Occupation Forces upon Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, Snodaigh called upon links between Israel and […]

On his visit to Austria, US President George Bush faced massive protests from Austrians in Vienna as they condemned the Middle East policies of the US administration in Iraq as well as Palestine. A series of protests began on the 19th of June with a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall. In Stephansplatz, in the centre […]