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After arrests and injuries on Workers Day, Palestinian workers and activists call on trade unions around the globe to increase solidarity On May 1, people from the village of al-Ma’sara and the neighbouring villages in Bethlehem area commemorated Workers Day with a march in protest against the Apartheid Wall. The Wall continues to encroach on […]

***image1***Earlier this week, Occupation authorities announced their intentions to computerize the permit system that controls West Bank Palestinians’ access to ’48 Palestine. This move increases the control exercised over the Palestinian population, adding to the hardships faced by workers and further sealing off Jerusalem. These high-tech additions also create space for the growth of particular […]

The global upswing in BDS activity has spread to Canada, where Mountain Equipment Co-op, major outdoor equipment retailer, is set to consider a motion to boycott Israeli products at its next annual general meeting. Although it is unclear who will introduce the motion, the idea of the boycott has generated a significant amount of public […]

***image1***Throughout Latin America, activists, civil society groups, and community organizers came together on March 30th to commemorate Land Day and to participate in the first annual Global BDS Day of Action. From north to south, the entire continent was involved in launching boycott campaigns, lobbying governments and the UN, and engaging in wide-scale awareness raising […]

The Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) voted to take up the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign, joining South Africa and Ireland as the third national trade union federation to become part of the global movement. The decision to support BDS happened in a large part due to a report given by a STUC Delegation that […]

***image1***Hundreds of residents in the Beqa’ neighborhood in Hebron face the demolition of their homes and agricultural infrastructure in what they describe as an ongoing campaign to expand Occupation control in the area around the Kirya Arba settlement. Additionally, bulldozers are still clearing land for an electricity network that will power a number of settlements […]

***image1***Basem Ibrahim Abu Rahma was martyred this afternoon in Bil’in when he was shot at close range by a high velocity tear gas canister at the weekly demonstration against the Wall. This is the second time soldiers have fired on unarmed demonstrators from a lethal range in the past two months. Abu Rahma, a 31-year-old […]