Occupation forces are to confiscate more Palestinian land in order to build a continuation of the Apartheid Wall that will completely encircle the West Bank village of Azzoun Atme in south Qalqilya district. Confiscation orders have been issued to farmers in the village. The wall’s footprint will destroy 16 dunums and isolate a further 500 […]
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UN Meeting Sparks Protest and Condemnation of Apartheid Israel
On the 19th of September, American groups took to the streets of New York during the meeting of the UN General Assembly to protest about Apartheid Israel’s massacre of 28 people Lebanese town of Qana in an air strike on July 30th. The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (Justice ME) has been organising […]
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Irish Academics Demand Boycott of Israeli Universities
Irish academics have condemned research institutions who fund Israeli research and called for a moratorium on collaborations with Israeli Universities. The group, Academics for Justice, made the call in a letter to the Irish Times on 16th September, the anniversary of the start of the massacre in Sabra and Shatila, Ireland’s Boycott Israel day. Many […]
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British Trade Unions: “Tear down the Apartheid Wall”
Britain’s largest trade union body, the TUC, has passed a motion calling on Israel to tear down its ‘apartheid wall’. The Trade Union Council, which represents 66 affiliated unions and nearly seven million workers, passed the motion at its annual conference in Brighton, UK, calling for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from all occupied territories, […]
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Cape Town Anti-War Coalition calls for sanctions on Israel
The Cape Town Anti-War Coalition is to hold two protests at the Africa Aerospace and Defence Weapons Fair (AADWF) from 20th – 24th September at the Air Force Base in Ysterplaat, Cape Town. The Coalition is demanding that the SA Department of Trade and Industry explain why its website says it is supplying helicopter and […]
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Eight Palestinians injured as Occupation raids houses at the Bil’in weekly demonstration
***image2***Eight Palestinians were injured yesterday during clashes between demonstrators and Israeli occupation forces yesterday at the weekly demonstration in the West Bank town of Bil’in. After violently dispersing the demonstration with clubs, tear-gas, rubber bullets and experimental weapons, Israeli occupation fighters pursued demonstrators into the village and went from house to house searching for them. […]
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Occupation confiscates more Land in West Bank and announces Apartheid Road
The Occupation is to isolate over 7000 dunums of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem and Hebron areas in preparation for the continuation of the Wall and the construction of an apartheid road which will carve through the south of West Bank. The new ‘Jews-only’ road will run virtually parallel to the existing road, linking the […]
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Join the Free Palestine Contingent, Manchester, UK 23rd September
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK is organising a mass demonstration against the ongoing occupation of Palestine, to be held in Manchester. The demonstration will meet at 12:30 by the ‘Peace Garden’ in St Peter’s Square, about 200yds away from Albert Squareâ in front of Library/by the metro stop. A specially hired train will […]
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SOCIAL FORUM OF THE AMERICAS CONDEMNS ‘GENOCIDE’ AND CALLS FOR SANCTIONS ON ISRAEL
The Hemispheric Council of the Social Forum of the Americas (SFA) has released a strongly-worded statement condemning Israel’s âgenocidal campaignâ in Palestine and Lebanon and calling for a boycott of Israel and sanctions. The statement, released on August 4th in the wake of Israel’s assault on Lebanon, is scathing in its denunciation of the United […]