Israeli Apartheid Week 2009 took place in more than 40 cities across the globe. First held in Toronto in 2005, it has spread rapidly around the world. This year, in addition to the regular participating locations, a number of new cities in Europe, North America and South Africa joined, along with every major city and […]
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Wadi Rasha protest halts uprooting for several hours
Villagers from Wadi Rasha, Ras Tira, and Dabaâa held a protest against the destruction of their olive droves and managed to block Occupation machinery for much of the morning. Every day, Occupation forces uproot as many as 40 mature olives trees in their efforts to clear a path for the Wall on village land. ***image1***This […]
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Dozens of injuries in West Bank anti-Wall protests
Dozens of people in various West Bank villages were injured this Friday, and one American activist has been seriously wounded in Niâlin and currently lies in a coma at a Tel Aviv hospital. In addition to Niâlin, there were actions in Jayyous, Biâlin, Maâsara and Burin, with a demonstration planned for tomorrow in Wadi Rasha. […]
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Australian activists launch campaign to derail Veolia/Connex
When the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) launched its campaign against the Veolia and Connex companies, all of Melbourne took notice. Australian visual artist (and PSC member) Van Thanh Rudd contributed a simple yet powerful work to the Melbourne exhibition, “Resisting Subversion of Subversion Resistance: Propositions towards urban (r)evolution exhibition.” Titled “Economy of Movement (a Piece […]
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Activists set up checkpoint at AIPAC fundraiser
Dozens of Los Angeles-area Jews, Palestinians and other allies erected a mock checkpoint at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual Valley Fundraiser in protest of AIPAC’s attempt to steer US policy makers to ignore recent war crimes in Gaza and the occupation of Palestinian land. Cars were confronted by people dressed as Occupation […]
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7,000 protest Israeli apartheid in Sweden
In the latest in a string of sports protests, some 7,000 people protested in Sweden against Israeli participation in the Davis Cup. The action forced the match to proceed without spectators, while thousands of Palestine-supporters demonstrated outside the stadium. ***image2***On March 7, thousands of people marched to the Baltic Hall in Malmö, Sweden, where a […]
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Resistance against the Wall widens in the north
The protests against the Wall expanded this week, as villagers in the isolated communities of Wadi Rasha and Ras Tira turned out to fight the re-rerouting of the Wall in Qalqilya. Weekly protests against the Wall were also held in Jayyous, Niâlin, Bilâin and al-Maâsara. In Niâlin, the demonstration was fired upon shortly after the […]
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2,000 Palestinians to be displaced, 73,000 settlement units planned
Since the beginning of this year, Occupation forces have escalated Jewish-only settlement construction in parallel with demolitions of Palestinian homes. 73,000 new settlement-housing units are planned – many of them in Jerusalem â while the Palestinian capital faces ever more virulent ethnic cleansing policies. Demolition campaigns have increased tremendously in the Jerusalem, and the Occupation […]
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Palestinian students push BDS in universities and cities
IAW events for the past several days in the West Bank focused on strengthening the internal BDS movement and promoting Palestinian products. Considerable progress was made from March 4 â 5 in moving the boycott forward in Palestinian universities. Students are not only working to institutionalize a boycott of Israeli goods inside the university, but […]