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New wave of violence in the West Bank – 7 Palestinians killed by the IDF in 5 days

 7 people have been killed in the past five days in the Hebron province and in East Jerusalem. With the ending of the Aid celebration, the climate in the West Bank seems to raise up to level it reached last year in the same period. Since October 2015, 227 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli […]

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European groups urge EU to end support to Israeli water conference

Nearly 40 European trade unions, water and human rights networks and environmental groups from a dozen countries have written a letter to the European Commission urging withdrawal of patronage from Watec, the Israeli water conference and exhibition to be held for the first time in Europe, September 21-23 in Venice, Italy. (See letter and signatories) Endorsers […]

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Palestinian call to Italy: Don’t support Israeli WATEC

The Palestinian Farmers Union (PFU), Palestinian Environmental NGO Network (PENGON), and 12 other Palestinian agricultural and environmental organizations and networks have in the last weeks addressed the Italian Association of Farmers, Coldiretti Veneto, asking them to rethink their sponsorship and participation in Watec. 21 to 23 September the Israeli Watec conference, aimed at promoting Israeli technology in […]

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August: Israeli settlement expansion heats up

Israel has apparently taken advantage of the holiday season of Western diplomacy and at the UN headquarters in New York to speed up its settlement expansion, approving shocking colonial projects. While further penetrating the center of Hebron with settlements, a new plan to completely ghettoise Bethlehem has been presented. The Bedouin school in Khan al […]

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Portugal exits controversial project with Israeli police following BDS pressure

The Portuguese Ministry of Justice announced that it has withdrawn from a joint EU-funded project with the Israeli Ministry of Public Security, the Israeli National Police and Israel’s Bar Ilan university. The LAW TRAIN project, aimed at unifying police interrogation methodologies, has generated controversy in Portugal because of vocal opposition to Israel’s participation in the EU’s Horizon 2020 research framework […]

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Urgent Letter to the Canadian Government

URGENT LETTER TO THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DISMANTLE CORPORATE POWER To the attention of The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of Global Affairs Canada The Honourable John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Friday, August 5th, 2016 In less than a week, the first ever World […]

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Stop Mekorot Initiative Wins over Anti-BDS Bill

The Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine raised awareness about human rights violations perpetrated by the national Israeli water company, Mekorot, by hand delivering an open letter to the Israeli Consul in Boston.  Mekorot has been internationally denounced for implementing since its decades ‘water apartheid’ that is essential for Israeli efforts to colonize Palestinian lands […]