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Week against the Apartheid Wall kicks off in the streets of Melbourne!

The Stop the Wall rally organized by the Melbourne Palestine Solidarity Network kicked off the international Week against the Apartheid Wall as the 9th of November started in Australia. Australians for Palestine contributed to the mobilization with an amazing mock wall. The wall was assembled before the rally began and attracted many curious onlookers who […]

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Jurat ash-Shama defends its land from the Occupation

***image2***As Occupation bulldozers continue to devastate fields in South Bethlehem, the farmers in Jurat ash-Shama have stood up in defense of their livelihoods in spontaneous protests. Occupation bulldozers have recently started uprooting wide tracts of land planted with grapes and olive trees belonging to the inhabitants of Jurat ash-Shama. These lands are the key source […]

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Join the 4th National & International Week Against The Apartheid Wall!

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Settler gang injures five farmers in olive harvest raid

***image2***As the olive season begins, so too do settler attacks on Palestinians attempting to harvest their produce. In Farta village, east Qalqiliya, a gang of fifty settlers, mainly from the nearby settlement of Jilad, attacked farmers, first firing bullets into the air to intimidate them and then physically attacking them. When farmers refused to stop […]

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Anglican Parish takes grassroots divestment action

The Anglican Parish of Virginia Water, Guildford, UK, has set a principled example to Anglican church by announcing on 16th of October that the board has unanimously decided to divest its £140,000 stake in the Anglican investment fund. The parish, acting in response to the refusal of the church’s Central Board of Finance to divest […]

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The calls of the Arab world come on to the agenda of the global social movements

On September 28 – October 1 a seminar on the strategies of the social movements was held in Brussels to discuss the current political situation, the way forward for the social movements and global action. Social Continental Alliance (Americas), CADTM (Committee For the Abolition of Third World Debt, www.cadtm.org ), COMPA-Americas, Focus on the Global […]

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Occupation harasses children and mobile phone users in Jordan Valley harvest clampdown

***image2***New restrictions have come into force at the Tayaser checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, making movement even more difficult for Palestinians, and increasing the pressure on farmers who are already suffering hardship. Under the new restrictions, children over the age of one are not allowed to pass the Tayaser checkpoint without documentation to prove that […]