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*** ACTION ALERT *** STOP APARTHEID ISRAEL FROM JOINING THE OECD! Israel is attempting to join the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).This organization offers its members significant economic benefits, closer trade links and greater financial stability. A first decision has already been made, yet Israel’s entry will not be finally ratified for at […]

Two days ago the Occupation forces started works at Beit Jala to complete a new phase of the Wall on the village land. The bulldozers are currently working near the “tunnel road” – the apartheid road that connects the settlement blocks in the southern part of the West Bank with Jerusalem. ***image2***According to the representative […]

On July 4th, the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) has passed a motion at its biennial conference in support of a customer boycott against Apartheid Israel. Following in the footsteps of other unions around the world who have taken up the boycott, the biggest general union in the UK, with over 800,000 members, also […]

Kick Apartheid Israel out of Football is the message that campaigners in the UK want to send to football fans around the world ahead of England’s Euro 2008 qualifying clash with Israel in September. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is asking supporters to sign a petition on their website demanding that the English FA, UEFA and […]

The World Social Forum has announced a Global Day of Action for 26th January 2008. Organisations, movements and networks involved in the world social forum process, invite all the social actors working for another world to build up a Week of Mobilization culminating in a Global Action Day in January 26th, 2008. This provides space […]

Bulldozers have begun to destroy farmland around Al Jeeb village, north-west of Jerusalem as the Israeli occupation begins the construction of another section of the Apartheid Wall to the west of the village. ***image2***The bulldozers came under army protection and the area was designated a military closed zone. The villagers were prevented from accessing the […]

The State Library of Victoria saw over 1000 visitors attend an exhibition and film festival highlighting the humanity of the Palestinian people in struggle under an inhuman occupation. “Palestine Uncut: the ’67 Occupation Exhibition and Palestinian Film Festival” marked 40 years of Israeli occupation of the remaining Palestinian lands, that is the West Bank and […]

An old man was hospitalized for two weeks after being attacked by setters in Beit Safafa as the occupation continues its attempts to ethnically cleanse the Jerusalem district. ***image2***In their almost daily attacks, the settlers also injured a 78 year old woman when they broke into her house, threw empty bottles at her and beat […]