Settlements are expanding in the Jordan Valley at an amazing speed. All along the Jordan Valley, colonizers are grabbing land and cementing the dispossession of the Palestinian people on the ground. A week ago, colonizers from Rotem settlement, east of Wadi al-Maleh, began putting fences around and isolating 350 dunums of land they stole last […]
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Scotland-wide Boycott Day Against Disney’s support for the Occupation
The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign has launched a Boycott Day on Saturday, 27th of May. From 12-4pm, in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, activists protested against Disneyâs investments in Apartheid Israel. The Disney Corporation through its subsidiary group Shamrock plans to invest $100 million in the racist Apartheid state of Israel. This is over and above […]
Funduq hit by house demolitions for path of Apartheid Wall
***image2***Occupation bulldozers and jeeps attacked the village of Funduq on Wednesday 24th of May destroying several properties. The demolitions are preparation for construction of the Apartheid Wall which will cut into the western part of the village. Other houses in the area were left under threat of imminent destruction as the Wall project is finalized […]
West Bethlehem in Final Stages of Ghettoization
***image2***In West Bethlehem, between al-Khader and the villages to be isolated in a ghetto on the west side of the Wall, the Occupation has begun building a tunnel under the settler-only road. This construction and the associated land devastation will finalize the isolation of the villages in an unbearable ghetto. Previously, on November 21, 2005, […]
Apartheid roads through Palestinian lands dissect communities and threaten livelihoods
Last week, the Occupation confiscated more Palestinian land to add to the Apartheid road system in the West Bank. The theft of the land in the district of Nablus comes as preparation for strengthening the Jewish-only road in the area to cement racist domination over Palestinians in the northern ghettos. On Sunday, 21st of May, […]
Academic and Cultural Boycott of Apartheid Israel: a Common Practice in UK Institutions
The movement for academic and cultural boycott is growing, particularly in the UK. One indication of this is that The National Association of Teachers in Higher and Further Education (NATHFE) is proposing another boycott motion on Israeli academic institutions in its upcoming annual assembly from May 27-29. NATFHE is active in England, Wales and Northern […]
London Protesters Rally for Free Palestine
Twenty-thousand people rallied in London’s Trafalgar Square on May the 22nd for a Free Palestine. Protestors converged in Trafalgar Square where speakers condemned the British government’s refusal to recognize Palestinian democracy and its complicity with the Occupationâs attempt to starve the Palestinian people via an economic blockade. Calls and cheers were made for the isolation […]
Gates of the Apartheid Wall – Securing Annexation and Imprisonment of the Palestinian people
The “gates” of the Apartheid Wall – promoted by the Occupation as a “humanitarian” initiative – are emerging as Zionismâs main tool to slowly expel farmers from their lands. One by one, Palestinians in the north of the West Bank are being denied access to their isolated lands under the Occupation permit system. Entire villages […]
The Occupation Systematically Deprives Jordan Valley Farmers of their Harvests
***image2***The Occupation forces have developed a series of repressive measures and isolation policies that ensure Palestinian farmers are not able to harvest their land in the area of Sahel Libqeye (Libqeye Valley), east of Tammoun. Sahel Libqeye comprises approximately 20,000 dunums whose crops are doomed to rotten in the sun. Since 1972, 60% of the […]
Jubara Villagers Challenge Occupation Order to Demolish their School
Wednesday, 10th of May, Occupation forces delivered a military order to the Jubara village council to halt construction of a primary school. The school is being built by the people of Jubara to be able to resist in their village despite the extreme isolation forced upon them by the Wall and Occupation. The school is […]