Tadamon! February 25, 2010 A call from Montreal artists to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israeli apartheid. Today, a broad spectrum of Montreal artists are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and ...
Read More »Call for international day of action to re-open Shuhada street to Palestinians
Open Shuhada Street 29 January 2010 On 25 February 2010 activists and organizations from around the world will join together in solidarity with the Palestinian residents of Hebron, through local protests, and petitions to the Israeli Government. We will be ...
Read More »Open letter to Bono: entertaining apartheid Israel…U 2 Bono?
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) 13 January 2010 Dear Bono, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was deeply disturbed to learn that that you are scheduled to perform ...
Read More »Israeli Apartheid Video Contest
9 January 2010 Put your ideas and convictions on film! itISapartheid.org in partnership with Stop the Wall announce the first international Israeli Apartheid Video Contest As part of the colonial conflict in Palestine, Israel has instituted a policy of apartheid ...
Read More »Are Israel and apartheid South Africa really different?
Akiva Eldar | Haaretz 4 January 2010 The day after the murder of the settler Meir Hai about 10 days ago, Major General (res.) Amos Gilad was asked to comment on the claim by settlers that the attack was able ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom Marchers issue the ‘Cairo Declaration’ to end Israeli Apartheid
1 January 2010 Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom March activists target Egypt’s complicity
Sayed Dhansay | The Electronic Intifada 31 December 2009 It was another eventful day here in Cairo at the inaugural Gaza Freedom March (GFM). On Tuesday night, organizers informed the 1,362-strong delegation that only 100 of them had been selected ...
Read More »28 kilometers of distilled apartheid
Gideon Levy | Haaretz 29 December 2009 This highway has told the whole story. They pave a road, expropriate Palestinian land and the High Court of Justice approves the expropriation, in its words, “provided that it is done for the ...
Read More »From Hebron to Nablus
From Pork to Palestine Blog 27 December 2009 I’m banned from Sheikh Jarrah and occupied East Jerusalem so I spent the last two days in Hebron and recently arrived in Nablus. Hebron is one of the oldest inhabited cities in ...
Read More »Let’s Talk About Resistance
Natalie abu Shakra 27 November 2009 The choice of civil resistance in challenging the Israeli occupation is considered by some as a form of “surrender.” In an interview [in Arabic] on Al Aqsa, Palestinian activists Mazen Qumsiyeh and comrade Haidar ...
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