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The Wall in a Week – Continued popular resistance confronts the escalation of the Occupation’s crimes

During the period from 28 February to 17 March 2006, the Occupation’s onslaught of the Palestinian people has escalated not only in city-wide assaults and killings, but also via an acceleration of Palestinian ghettoization. Land confiscation for new parts of the Wall which further restrict the Palestinian ghettoes, house demolitions and closing of farmer gates […]

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Challenging Tramways of Apartheid – Swiss activists block Connex shuttle run

Swiss activists from Collectif Urgence Palestine stepped up their campaign against Connex, undertaking direct action against the company which supports the racist and Apartheid policies of the Occupation. Interrupting the operation of a Connex operated shuttle, protestors showed the way in boycotting Connex and challenging it’s profiteering from Israeli Apartheid. Connex successfully won a tender […]

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Beit Ummar claims confiscated village lands to resist the Occupation

Yesterday, dozens of people from Beit Ummar in north Hebron faced the Occupation’s brutality while demonstrating on their own land which is being confiscated for the Apartheid Wall’s construction. The protesters marched from Beit Ummar Municipality to their land in the North-west of the village, where settlement bloc Gush Etzion is expanding to annex village […]

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Trade Unions call for greater action and effective boycott against Apartheid Israel

“Why are all the things done to apartheid South Africa not being done to Israel?” demanded top South African trade unionist Willy Madisha as he addressed the national gathering of trade unions in London last week. Speaking at the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s trade union conference, held on March 11 in London, Madisha – the president […]

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Another brick in the Wall – Pink Floyd Star targeted for playing show in Apartheid Israel

Pink Floyd member Roger Waters reiterated this week his intent to take part in a concert in Apartheid Israel. Signalling a business as usual approach with the Occupation, Waters’ decision has sparked anger and outrage amongst Palestinians and their international supporters. News of the upcoming concert in Tel Aviv catalyzed a protest campaign that has […]

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A Series of Protests Organized in South Tulkarem District Against Checkpoints and Apartheid Wall Gates

***image2***District popular committees against the Apartheid Wall, in cooperation with Palestinian national political parties, organized a demonstration at Jubara military checkpoint and gate situated at the entrance of the village, south Tulkarem District. The demonstration emerged as a community protest against prolific land siege and daily gate and checkpoint closures that are strangulating villages throughout […]

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Budrus: a fortress of Palestinian resistance

***image2***The Occupation forces have stepped up their threats and retaliations against Budrus, western Ramallah, in a vain attempt to force the villagers to accept the ghettos of the Wall and to renounce the struggle for their land. On Sunday, the Occupation forces stormed the village before daylight to hang statements on the doors of houses […]

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Palestinians stand up against expulsion from Jordan Valley

***image2***The popular committee of the Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign – in coordination with Palestinian NGOs – mobilized this week holding a protest at Bardala terminal in the north of the Jordan Valley. The northern Jordan Valley is closed to all Palestinian “non-residents”. Bardala terminal which the farmers use to sell their crops to the 1948 […]