Category: In the Media

  • Ha’aretz: “Collateral Damage: An Entire Gaza Family”

    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 Gaza a week and a half ago. Aman’s 7-year-old son Muhand was killed; Naima, his…

  • 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 do not publicly dissociate themselves from Israel’s “apartheid policies”. Delegates at the annual conference of…

  • 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 convention in voted overwhelmingly Saturday to support the campaign until Israel recognizes the Palestinian right…

  • 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 Peter Goldsmith have downplayed suggestions that the UK would seek compensation from the Israeli government…

  • 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 the same family, were killed when their home was hit by artillery shells and caught…