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Heavy-handed Occupation troops sprayed demonstrators with rubber bullets and tear gas in the weekly demonstration at Bil’in village, leaving a young child requiring oxygen and at least one demonstrator needing medical attention for shot wounds. Another protest was held in Irtas, south of Bethlehem. ***image2***On 15th June, over 150 people in Bil’in marched towards the […]

Ten thousand people braved the rain on June 9th to march for Palestine in Cape Town under the banner ‘Free Palestine! End Israeli Occupation!’. The crowd was addressed by long standing Palestine and former anti-apartheid activists as well as Ministers Pallo Jordan and Ronnie Kasrils of the ANC, Moulana Hendricks, President of the Muslim Judicial […]

In Cuba, the Executive Secretariat of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL) called together a Tricontinental Platform in Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The meeting, held at OSPAAAL’s headquarters in Havanna on June 8th, commemorated 40 years of Israeli Occupation in Gaza, the West Bank and the […]

Almost a thousand people marched in Dublin on Saturday 9th June to protest at the 40 year of the Occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the remaining parts of Jerusalem. On a day of brilliant sunshine, marchers from various human rights groups, trade unions, political parties and Palestinian solidarity campaigns made their […]

***image2***Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of Ramallah this week to protest against 40 years of the Occupation in two national demonstrations. Over 400 people gathered today to demonstrate against the Occupation and the Wall. The lively demonstration drew people from all over the West bank – from the Salfit, Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah […]

In a series of villages torn apart and encircled by the Wall, on Friday 8th June, protests were staged to mark the 40th anniversary of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the remaining parts of Jerusalem. Um Salamoneh, which was designated the central protest for the southern area of the West Bank, saw severe […]

A powerful group of prominent British architects have demanded that apartheid Israel’s architects and planners ‘end their indifference and blindness to the political implications of their professional work and ethics’. In a petition presented to the Israeli Association of Architects (IAUA) leading names in British architecture, including RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) president Jack […]

On May 30, the British Academic Union, UCU, passed two motions supporting the rights of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. The UCU is a merger of the AUT (Association of University Teachers) and NATFHE (National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education)and represents over 120 000 academic […]