by Gideon Levy. Ha’aretz, Wednesday, May 31 2006 The entire family of Hamdi Aman, a 28-year-old Palestinian from Gaza who spent his youth in Tel Aviv’s Carmel market, was hit in the assassination of Islamic Jihad operative Mohammed Dahdouh in ...
Read More »Guardian: “[British] Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics”
by Benjamin Joffe-Walt. Tuesday May 30 2006. The Guardian Critics of state policies exempt from sanction Narrow vote welcomed by Palestinian groups Britain’s largest lecturers’ union yesterday voted in favour of a boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who ...
Read More »Globe & Mail: “Canadian Union Supports Campaign Against Israel”
from the Globe and Mail, 27th of May 2006 OTTAWA — [The CUPE,] Ontario’s largest public sector union has voted to support an international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Delegates to the Canadian Union of Public Employees ...
Read More »JPost: “UK downplays Gaza damages bid”
by George Conger, London. Jerusalem Post, May 27, 2006 Anthony and Jocelyn Hurndall, parents of Tom Hurndall, arrive at St. Pancras coroner’s court, London for an inquest into their son’s death in Gaza. Photo: Associated Press Spokesmen for Britain’s Attorney-General ...
Read More »IMEMC: “Five Palestinians, including three teens, killed by Israeli artillery shells in the Gaza Strip”
Saed Bannoura, IMEMC & Agencies – Friday, 26 May 2006, 21:56 As the Israeli army continued its shelling of Palestinian neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday night, five Palestinians, including three teens – two of them members of ...
Read More »Arab American News: “Palestinian activist tours U.S., explains pain and suffering”
by Danielle Smith For the past month, Palestinian activist Fida Qesta has toured the United States speaking about Nonviolent Resistance and the occupation of Palestine. After her stops in Detroit, Port Huron, Grand Ledge, Lansing and Ann Arbor, she will ...
Read More »Ynet: “Lawyer who filed suit against Almog to be deported”
by Vered Luvitch, 25th May 2006 Thc State Prosecution bars Attorney Kate Maynard, who submitted war crimes lawsuit in Britain against former Southern Command chief, from entering Israel, despite court’s recommendation against deportation Going against a recommendation issued by the ...
Read More »IHT: “At the checkpoint, waiting for Palestine”
By Fareed Taamallah International Herald Tribune QIRA, West Bank As the line behind me grew, I read a novel. The drivers behind me leaned on their horns. I advanced a few meters and returned to reading “Memory in the Flesh,” ...
Read More »USA Today op-ed: “Israel’s new plan: A land grab”
by Jimmy Carter New Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that Israel will take unilateral steps to establish its own geographical boundaries during the next four years of his administration. His plan, as described during the recent Israeli election and ...
Read More »AP: “Church of Scotland: label settlement products”
AP article from Jerusalem Post, 24th May 2006. The Church of Scotland has called on European authorities and the World Council of Churches to clearly identify products from illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands, a church official said Wednesday. The ...
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