Early Wednesday morning on August 30 Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Occupation company Carmel Agrexcoâs UK headquarters. This was part of an ongoing campaign against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in Palestine. Carmel is complicit in war crimes under the International Criminal Court Act 2001 (ICC Act). They import fresh produce originating […]
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Malaysians boycott US companies
Malaysians launched a boycott of 3 US companies on Friday in protest over Washingtonâs âsupport of Israelâs military actionsâ against Palestine and Lebanon. The Muslim Consumer Association of Malaysia is calling on people to stop boycott three high-profile US companies â Starbucks, Coca Cola and Colgate-Palmolive. Starbucks is notorious for its support of the Zionist […]
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Occupation bulldozers escalate destruction for Wall
Occupation bulldozers have intensified the destruction of agricultural land for the Wall in Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, between Halhoul and Beit Omar, and in Aboud northwest of Ramallah. The fresh wave of demolition work in these areas comes after popular resistance had earlier managed to halt work. In Walaja (population 3,000) Occupation bulldozers started […]
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Ken Loach backs boycott
Ken Loach, the acclaimed British director and winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival has declared in a personal statement his support of âthe call by Palestinian film-makers, artists and others to boycott state sponsored Israeli cultural institutions and urge[s] others to join their campaignâ. He announced that he would not […]
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Anti-Apartheid Wall protesters beaten in Bil’in
***image2***At Fridayâs weekly demo against the Apartheid Wall being built on Bilâinâs land Occupation forces violently attacked protesters and shot at them. The protesters carried Palestinian and Lebanese flags and posters of activists shot at previous demos as they marched towards the Wall. On the edge of the village soldiers stormed the demonstrators and lashed […]
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US campaigns put administration and Apartheid Israel on trial
On August 30th the International Campaign to demand accountability for US/Israeli war crimes is to hold a tribunal outside the United Nations building in New York. Witnesses to Occupation war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza will be speaking and campaigners, including former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, will be presenting a body of evidence. The […]
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New fortified checkpoints isolate Jerusalem
Occupation forces have confiscated 9 dunums of land from Shufat north of Jerusalem to expand the military checkpoint located on the western entrance to Shufat refugee camp. This checkpoint links Shufat Refugee Camp and Anata town with Jerusalem. Locals confirmed that the Occupation wants to develop this checkpoint into a “border terminal”. Further land around […]
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More land theft from Azzun and Kfur Laqif
Occupation bulldozers last week began again uprooting olive trees in Kfur Laqif and Azzun villages east of Qalqiliya to prepare the footprint of a second part of the Ariel Settlement Block Apartheid Wall. The Wall is to be built to the southwest of Kfur Laqif and east of Azzun. This lies to the northeast of […]
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International delegation in Lebanon congratulates the victory of the Resistance
The International Civil Society and Parliamentary Peace Mission condemned the Zionist regimeâs âcollective punishmentâ of Lebanon which destroyed civilian infrastructure including residential complexes, entire villages in south Lebanon, bridges, roads, power stations, and petrol stations that will require billions of dollars to reconstruct. The mission welcomed the ceasefire and called for the immediate and unconditional […]
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Bil’in Demo turns blue
***image2***In their latest illegal attempt to stifle protest, Occupation forces used a water cannon spraying a blue liquid at the weekly protest against the Wall at Bilâin on Friday. The white tank started spraying protesters with jets of the blue liquid on the edge of the village despite an Occupation Supreme Court ruling that protests […]