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Mobilising Youth: A Conversation with Israel and Palestine launches in Trinity College Dublin
Tonight, Tuesday March 16th, marked the beginning of the "Mobilising Youth: A Conversation with Israel and Palestine" tour which runs nationwide until March 25th. The speakers on this tour are two strong, articulate young women Deema Darawshy and Sahar Vardi. Both speakers spoke strongly in favour of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. more >>
A New Intifada?
Israel notorious decisions to just keep on building in East Jerusalem and the occupied territories returned Palestinians to the streets all acro... more >>
Documentary: "Nahr al-Bared: Checkpoints and more"
Nahr al-Bared refugee camp has still not recovered from the devastating war in 2007 during which it was destroyed. The Lebanese army has been keeping a tight grip on the camp and the 20,000 displaced Palestinians who have returned so far. This 30-minute film documents various consequences of the siege on Nahr al-Bared. Merchants and artisans explain their specific problems and a UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) project manager, a project coordinator of the Palestinian-Arab Women League, the president of Nahr al-Bared's Merchants' Committee and a researcher provide their views and thoughts on the issue. more >>
Israel's actions on the ground proving difficult to spin
JERSUSALEM (IPS) - Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50. Outside the walled Old City, where the al-Aqsa mosque is situated, and in several West Bank villages, clashes were reported. more >>
Eye Witness Testifies: Israeli Military Investigator Tried to Influence My Statement
On March 15 2010, the Haifa District Court saw the third day of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. Rachel was crushed to death on March 16, 2003 by a Caterpillar D9R bulldozer. She had been nonviolently demonstrating against Palestinian home demolitions with fellow members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct action methods and principles. Today’s only testimony came from British citizen Alice Coy, a nurse, who was an eyewitness to the killing. http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/2010/03/954 more >>
European Union found guilty at first session of Russell Tribunal
Written by: Ewa Jasiewicz, a freelance journalist, union organizer and coordinator for the Free Gaza Movement. She was one of the witness for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Frank Barat is coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. The first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) was heard in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month. The RTP is a peoples' legal initiative designed to systematically try key actors responsible for the perpetuation of human rights violations in Palestine.In the frame this time was the European Union (EU). Two days and 21 expert witness testimonies later, the RTP found individual states and the EU as a whole guilty of persistent violations and misconduct with regards to international and internal EU law. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11135.shtml more >>
Palestine-Israel: Bil'in, Na'alin declared closed military areas
The Israel Defense Forces yesterday designated Bil'in and Na'alin as closed military areas every Friday until mid-August, in a bid to halt the w... more >>
Post Election -Mission Acomplished in Iraq ??
One regeime changed for a possible coalition of Iranian and Iraqi Shia communities Both Shia communities In Iran and Iraq can see that ‘’ the enemy of my enemy is also my friend ‘’ and in this regard they will find common ground in their distrust of the West and Israel with possibly dreadful consequences . So while it suited the US to have Iran and Iraq locked in a decade of war , the tables are perversely reversed now . Mission Accomplished ? The world is in a more parlous state after G.W Bush's military folly more >>
Case of Tristan Anderson may be reopened, adding to Israeli PR 'nightmare'
Add this development to what Mel Frykberg at Inter Press Service calls Israel’s growing “public relations nightmare”: renewed attention to the near-fatal shooting of American activist Tristan Anderson. Just as the media spotlight is glaring down on Israel because of a civil trial in the killing of American peace activist Rachel Corrie comes a decision by Israel’s Justice Ministry to reinvestigate the shooting of Anderson. more >>
Autopsy doctor admits to violating court order in Rachel Corrie autopsy
Rachel Corrie Foundation 14 March 2010 For Immediate Release: Today 14 March 2010 the Haifa District Court saw the second full day of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. Rachel Corrie, an American human rights defender from Olympia, [...] more >>
(en) Palestine-Israel, Bil'in, Na'alin declared closed military areas [for Israelis* and internationa] each Friday for months
The Israel Defense Forces yesterday designated Bil'in and Na'alin as closed military areas every Friday until mid-August, in a bid to halt the weekly demonstrations against the separation fence in those West Bank villages. ---- On Sunday night dozens of troops, some wearing masks, entered the villages and plastered storefronts and home windows with notices announcing the closure order signed by the GOC Central Command, Maj. Gen. Avi Mizrahi. ---- The order officially runs from February 18 to August 17. The 12-hour closure will apply to the area stretching from the separation fence to the edge of the villages' built-up areas. ---- Weekly demonstrations against the fence have been held in Bil'in for the past five years. Over the last three years the villages of Na'alin and Al-Ma'sara have also become weekly protest spots, attracting not only Palestinians but activists from ... more >>
New Palestinian terror campaign imminent
In the Gaza Strip, Halil al Haya, speaking for the ruling Hamas said "rivers of blood must be caused to flow," while the radical Muslim leaders of the Israeli Arab communities threatened to descend on Jerusalem in force. Abu Ala, former Palestinian prime minister and peace negotiator with the Olmert government, and Hatem Abdul Qader, head of the Jerusalem desk in the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, said the Day of Rage must be the opening shot for a fresh uprising (intifada) against Israel. more >>
European Union found guilty at first session of Russell Tribunal
The first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) was heard in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month. The RTP is a peoples' legal initiative designed to systematically try key actors responsible for the perpetuation of human rights violations in Palestine. In the frame this time was the European Union (EU). Two days and 21 expert witness testimonies later, the RTP found individual states and the EU as a whole guilty of persistent violations and misconduct with regards to international and internal EU law. Ewa Jasiewicz and Frank Barat comment for The Electronic Intifada. more >>
Israel's Apartheid
By Murray Dobbin - 8 March 2010 ...[T]here is absolutely no doubt that the system of separation of Arabs and Jews can be compared with the apartheid system in South Africa. Indeed, many experts on how the apartheid system was run claim that Israel's system of hafrada, or separation, is far more brutal and deliberately humiliating than anything devised by the racist regimes of Pretoria. read more more >>
Evidence of British company Lee Cooper trading in illegal Israeli settlement
The other day we took a trip to to the settlement Ma'ale Adumim in search of signs of dodgy business dealings -and, for the first time, we found a British company trading directly in a settlement. Lee Cooper, a British denim company established in 1908, were joined by the international businesses Western Union, Dr Fischer and a Tower Records franchise in their willingness to make a profit out of the occupation. more >>
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Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009
from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more
Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"
from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more
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