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The organizers of the 2006 Locarno International Film Festival have dropped the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a festival sponsor pursuant to a call for action from Palestinian film makers. The Israeli Ministry was listed as a co-sponsor of one of the festival’s programmes, called “Leopards of Tomorrow.” News of the sponsorship provoked a […]

On August 1st, the administrative council of the Greek Cinematography Center (GCC) decided to withdraw all the Greek movies they planned to participate in Haifa’s Cinema Festival this October, with the notion that “under the current circumstances the specific cultural event has lost its meaning”. The GCC has further expressed its belief that “people of […]

As Apartheid Israel’s crimes are escalating in Palestine and Lebanon, Brazilian solidarity activists have geared up to raise awareness, rally support and create the organizational structures for sustained solidarity against the Zionist regime. Some 80 civil society organizations and movements have gathered in São Paulo to form the “Committee for Solidarity with the Arab Peoples”. […]

***image2***Walls, settlements and apartheid by-pass roads. Security zones, checkpoints and military camps. For the past 58 years, the Occupation has built-up such infrastructure throughout Palestine. A lot of “reasons” have been deployed by the Occupation Forces to justify their actions, but they have all been motivated by the same aim: land theft. The resulting ghettoization […]

The occupation bulldozers started uprooting land located to the east of Abu Dis in their efforts to continue construction of the Wall. In Eizariya, already last month bulldozers had started their destruction. The aim of this part of the Apartheid Wall – running from north to the west – is to isolate the villages of […]

The settlers of Har Homa, in south Jerusalem, burned thousands of dunums next to their settlement in Abu Ghneim hill. Since 2003 the Apartheid Wall has blocked access to 3000 dunum of Beit Sahour, Bethlehem and Beit Jala in order to facilitate the expansion of Har Homa. Palestinians stuck on either side of the Wall […]

In Ramadin (south west Hebron) the Occupation bulldozers are presently completing the final sections of the Wall in the north-western part of the village. This part of the Wall will cut deep into the village lands and annex some 1700 dunums of land behind it to guarantee the expansion of the Askalot colony. This land […]

The Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL) strongly condemns the continuation of the criminal actions carried out by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip and the unjustified attack against Lebanon under the vulgar pretext of liberating two of its soldiers captured by the Lebanese […]