âBecause this land is sacred and represents history, civilization and humankind Because this earth holds our grandfathersâ history of thousands of yearsâ The Arab-American University and the organizing committee of the Week against the Apartheid Wall invite you to participate in the Weekâs events in the University in Jenin starting from Saturday 10 â Wednesday […]
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Global List of Actions – V Week against the Apartheid Wall (November 9-16, 2007)
This preliminary list shows the global actions held to join forces during the V Week against the Apartheid Wall. Almost sixty years after the Nakba began, the Palestinian people continues to struggle for the same principles of freedom, land and return. Join in to protest against the Wall and Israeli policies of apartheid, occupation and […]
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Another Bedouin family to be evicted as the round-up continues
Another Bedouin family is to be driven from their home as the Occupation continues its push to ethnically cleanse the areas around the Jerusalem-Jericho road to make way for settlement expansion. ***image5***Ibrahim Dufula Abu Dahuk and around thirty others live to the north of Al Jeeb village, North West Jerusalem. They have been ordered by […]
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Court hearing against Swiss anti-apartheid activists turns into further show of solidarity
A group of activists who interrupted an Israel-Switzerland World Cup qualifier with a protest against Israeli apartheid today used their court appearance in Basle to publicly denounce the occupation again. On September 3, 2005 the four activists ran onto the field with banners demanding âFree Palestine â Boycott Apartheidâ. The protest was witnessed by thousands […]
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Ethnic cleansing of Bedouins as Khirbet Qasa is bulldozed
Occupation forces have destroyed the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khirbet Qasa, West Idna, to the west of Hebron city, driving 263 people from their homes. ***image2***At 8.00 on Monday 29 October Occupation forces arrived at the small village, isolated on the western side of the Apartheid Wall, in a convoy of jeeps and diggers. The […]
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“NO! Paris does not support and does not wish to support this occupying army”
Solidarity activists in Paris, France, demonstrated on Saturday 27 October against a large public exhibit erected by the Mayor of Paris which proclaims Parisiansâ âsupportâ for the Israeli Occupation forces. The exhibit in Parc de Bercy in the 12th Arrondissement of Paris, shows three smiling Israeli members of the Occupation forces, dressed in civilian clothing, […]
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Palestinian strategies for unity and common agendas shaped in civil society meeting in Cyprus
“Toward the Establishment of a Palestinian Civil Society Defragmentation Strategy” was the title of a three days strategy meeting of Palestinian civil society from all over their homeland and the diaspora. The conference was held in Agros, Cyprus, between 16 and 18 October 2007 at the initiative of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community […]
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Canadian Students join BDS against Israeli Apartheid!
In early October the Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Ãtudiante (ASSÃ) passed an important motion joining in the global movement for BDS. In their motion they commit to an education campaign on Israeli apartheid and support for BDS, joining efforts with other Canadian organizations to stop their countryâs cooperation and support to Israel. The ASSE […]
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Mazra’: Settlers and Occupation forces attack land demonstration with live ammunition
***image2***On Friday 26 October, Palestinian demonstrators from the West Bank village of Mazraâ were shot at with live ammunition by Israeli Occupation Forces and settlers while protesting against the theft of their land. By order of the Occupation forces, 1,000 dunums of the villageâs land are being confiscated and given to the two nearby settlements […]
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French activists spectacularly protest Olmert’s Paris visit
***image2***Generation Palestine, a group of young European activists who took part in summer camps organized in Palestine with the General Union of Palestine Students, demonstrated their opposition Monday October 22 to the visit of Occupation Prime Minister and war criminal Ehud Olmert and his warm welcome by French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The activists released a […]