Category: In the Media

  • ICC may try IDF officer in wake of Goldstone Gaza report

    Yotam Feldman | Ha’aretz 24 September 2009 A senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague said Monday that he is considering opening an investigation into whether Lt. Col. David Benjamin, an Israel Defense Forces reserve officer, allowed war crimes to be committed during the IDF’s three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip this…

  • Widows and Children Begin to Beg

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 21 September 2009 There are few parks and green spaces in Gaza, and those that exist are crowded with people hungry for nature. Day and night, people of all ages flock to the Joondi, or the park of the Unknown Soldier, in central Gaza City. Vendors set up, selling…

  • Spain excludes settlement university from academic competition

    Global BDS Movement 20 September 2009 The “University Center of Ariel in Samaria” (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, even though preliminary, steps to uphold international law by boycotting or divesting from institutions and…

  • Israel’s Gaza blockade crippling reconstruction

    Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 18 September 2009 A leaked UN report has warned that Israel’s continued economic blockade of Gaza and lengthy delays in delivering humanitarian aid are “devastating livelihoods” and causing gradual “de-development”. For more than two years, Gaza has been under severe Israeli restrictions, preventing all exports and confining imports to a…

  • Britain’s unions commit to a mass boycott movement of Israeli goods

    Global BDS Movement 17 September 2009 In a landmark decision, Britain’s trade unions have voted overwhelmingly to commit to build a mass boycott movement, disinvestment and sanctions on Israel for a negotiated settlement based on justice for Palestinians. The motion was passed at the 2009 TUC Annual Congress in Liverpool today (17 September), by unions…