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***image2***Occupation forces entered Jayyus in the early hours of Wednesday morning, where they broke into homes and arrested three university students. According to witnesses at least 10 military jeeps and 65 soldiers entered the village of Jayyus at 3am. Groups of soldiers surrounded a number of areas and broke into family homes without warning. After […]

In June and May, Occupation forces destroyed more homes in Jerusalem and issued orders promising many more demolitions in the coming months. The old city and surrounding areas were especially hard hit. At least 60 people, 31 of them children, lost either part or their entire home, while hundreds more face a similar fate. June […]

On July 4th, dozens of activists took part in actions at an outlet of the retailing giant Carrefour in the Parisian suburb of Evry II. The demonstration aimed at promoting a boycott of Israeli goods. Demonstrators marched around the shopping centre, seizing Israeli products and chanting, before proceeding to hold a brief sit-in, discussing the […]

A wave of house demolition orders has been distributed across the West Bank. The houses threatened are being issued the orders on the pretext that they are in Area C, in which Palestinians are not allowed to build. Inhabited and under-construction homes, storage structures and other infrastructure face destruction in the districts of Salfit, Hebron […]

***image3***This weekend saw demonstrations in Palestine and across the globe to mark the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s advisory verdict on the construction of the Apartheid Wall. At Bil’in the weekly protest began with a march, with two hundred demonstrators proceeding to the Wall and successfully opening the first set of gates. […]

Canada again became a focal point of the trade union BDS movement yesterday, as the third largest Québécois union – the CSQ – passed a motion in support of the Palestinian people’s struggle. The union had earlier spoken out, along with numerous other Québécois organizations, over Occupation forces’ blockade and bombardment of Gaza, denouncing the […]

The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) stepped up its campaign against Chapters/Indigo bookstores on 25 June, as activists disrupted the Annual Shareholders Meeting in downtown Toronto. In addition to passing out flyers and engaging shareholders, journalists, and passersby in discussion and debate, one of the most exciting developments came from inside the shareholders meeting, when […]