This year marks the 59th anniversary of the Nakba, the expulsion of almost 1 million Palestinians from their homes on which the state of Israel has been established. Since then, the Nakba â the ethnic cleansing, dispossession and racist discrimination of the Palestinian people â is ongoing and has escalated in recent years via the […]
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Protests against the Wall continue at Um Salamuna
At noon on Friday May 11, the people from Um Salamuna (West Bethlehem) supported by students from Al-Quds Open University confronted Occupation Forces on the construction site of the Apartheid Wall which is destroying and confiscating their lands. ***image2***Assembling at the top of the valley overlooking the path of the wall, some 70 people marched […]
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Canadian Activists corner Bookstore owner for support to Israeli Apartheid
The Coalition against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) has launched a further action to press the majority shareholders of Chapters and Indigo bookstores to stop their support of the Israeli military. The activists have chosen Chapters and Indigo bookstores as a priority target as it exposes the critical support apartheid Israel receives from Canada and the ruthless […]
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Japanese activists call for boycott of the Occupation’s Philharmonic Orchestra!
***image1***On March 20, the Kansai Network for Peace in Palestine (KNPP) held a protest in front of the Symphonic Hall of Osaka to promote the cultural boycott of Israel. Members of the KNPP put up a Palestinian flag as well as a banner in front of the entrance to the Hall. The banner read “Boycott […]
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Stop the ethnic cleansing of al-Hadidiye: Save the Palestinian Jordan Valley!
Hadidiya, a 20,000 dunum expanse of fertile lands in the Jordan Valley, is to be cleansed from its Palestinian inhabitants. This is to mark the final step of Israeli colonization of the area and another move towards the ethnic cleansing and annexation of the Jordan Valley. Support the resistance of the Palestinian people and contribute […]
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New land confiscation in Bardala to seal the Jordan Valley
This week the Occupation confiscated an additional 238 dunums of land from Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley. Although the stated purpose of the confiscation is to create a buffer zone in front of the Apartheid Wall, it will further reduce the area of fertile land accessible to Palestinians. ***image2***Constructed in 2003, the Apartheid […]
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130 UK doctors call for boycott of Israeli Medical Association
In response to the call for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association launched by 18 Palestinian health organizations, 130 UK doctors have published a letter in the Guardian newspaper endorsing the boycott appeal. (To see the Palestinian call for boycott, click here. The letter comes as a contribution to the ongoing debate on the […]
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Resistance against the Apartheid Wall continues
This Friday was another day of struggle against the Apartheid Wall. Demonstrations in Budrus, Bil’in and Um Solomoneh confronted the Occupation and its devastating wall. ***image2***In Budrus, the village youth led yet another protest against the Wall that is stealing their lands and livelihoods. After prayer, they marched towards the Wall and attacked parts of […]
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Norwegian Leftist government party renews support for BDS
The Socialist Left Party (SV), one of three parties in the Norwegian government, has renewed its support for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. The Party’s Congress adopted a resolution unanimously on March 25th named “Sanctions against the Occupier – not the Occupied.” The new resolution contains amongst other things, the condemnation of the Occupationââ¬â¢s […]
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Britain’s National Union of Journalists Votes for Boycott and Sanctions
On Friday, the Annual Delegates Meeting of Britainâs National Union of Journalists (NUJ) passed a motion calling for the government to sanction Israel and for union members to follow a boycott of Israeli goods. The resolution comes as a result of motions moved last summer in the wake of the Occupationâs “savage, pre-planned attack on […]