Yesterday, Sunday, 26 April, thousands of Palestinians rejoiced at Damascus Gate, Occupied Jerusalem, following the Israeli soldiers backdown and removal of the iron barriers set in the area since the start of the holy month of Ramadan. This victory comes after 13 days of protesting the Israeli attempts to restrict Palestinian access to and presence […]
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Stop the Wall endorses a letter calling on the ICC to Save Sheikh Jarrah
Stop the Wall has recently joined 190 Palestinian and non-Palestinian human rights organizations in signing a letter sent by Sheikh Jarrah families to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The letter, which was sent to Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the ICC, calls on her to urgently include the looming ethnic cleansing of 28 Palestinian families […]
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Join us at the ‘Decolonizing the Climate Crisis’ COP26 event!
The Jewish National Fund operates through colonialist strategies of greenwashing, land grab and suppression. Join long-standing Palestinian activists and anti-colonial environmentalists in exposing these abuses and shedding light on the urgency of supporting grassroots struggles in decolonizing the climate emergency. This event which takes place on Friday, April 23rd at 18.00-19.30.00 [Palestine Time] is Part […]
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#SaveHumsa: Water Apartheid intensifies to ethnically cleanse Humsa
During last February, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished Humsa, a Bedouin community in Northern Jordan Valley, five times as part of the Israeli attempts to ethnically cleanse the community. Now they try to force people to leave by cutting off water supply. The cruel policies to expel the people from their lands are implemented under […]
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UN under pressure to #SaveHumsa and end Israeli apartheid
Today the UN Human Rights Council has discussed the situation in Palestine and has done so under pressure from hundreds of civil society organizations and people of conscience from across the globe. They have all appealed to #SaveHumsa, to recognize the attempts to destroy this and other Palestinian communities as policies of apartheid. They have […]
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Israel Is Sharpening the Knife for mass ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem
In addition to the fierce Israeli attack on Humsa, Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah and Al-Bustan neighborhoods in East Jerusalem face imminent Israeli ethnic cleansing actions. The looming expulsion of Palestinians from there is part of the Israeli coercive measures to empty Jerusalem from its Palestinian inhabitants and replace them with illegal Jewish settlers. According […]
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JOIN US AT THE WORLD WITHOUT WALLS – EUROPE ASSEMBLY
The World without Walls – Europe Assembly is a space where we build campaigns against EU-Israel ties that harm Palestinian rights, migrant rights or are deepening militarization policies.
Date: March 18 2021
Time: 1PM GMT / 2 PM CET / 3 PM EET
ZOOM ID: 889 5462 4364
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#Save Humsa: The United Nations Have to Act!
Since 3 November 2020, Humsa al-Fawqa, a Palestinian community in the Jordan Valley, has been targeted, raided, and demolished six times by the Israeli occupying authorities. Tell the UN Human Rights Council session on March 18 to #SaveHumsa by signing our petition jointly initiated by Stop the Wall and Al-Haq. Humsa al-Fawqa is but one example of […]
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March 8th: Take inspiration from the strength and struggle of the women in Humsa
“Women have been a footnote in a male-defined system. And if women are the footnote, then Aboriginal women are the footnote to the footnote.” This statement made by Mohawk author Patricia Monture holds very true to the situation of Palestinian women. The fact that Palestinian women are the footnote to the footnote is due to […]
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Remaining steadfast against Israeli expulsion
Read the following article published on the Morning Star, People’s Daily on March 2nd by Manal Shqair of Stop the Wall and popular activist Mahmoud Soliman. The authors shine a light on Humsa, the semi-nomadic community in the northern Jordan Valley that is facing a fierce Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign. Shqair and Soliman discuss how […]