1 June 2011 | Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) Occupied Palestine, 1 June 2011 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) warmly salutes the Nakba commemoration mass Palestinian marches on 15 May which rekindled ...
Read More »Why June 5 matters
30 May 2011 | Palestine News Network – Joe Catron I gasped as the first bullet struck a young man standing a few paces ahead of me. Watching him crumple to the ground, I struggled for breath and fought my ...
Read More »Meeting senseless aggression face-to-face
25 May 2011 | Gershon Baskin, The Jerusalem Post A recent trip to the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh shed a new light on the IDF and its operations. For months I have been hearing about disproportionate use of force ...
Read More »Historian writes of ‘pleasure’ at murder of pro-Palestinian activist
18 May 2011 | Harriet Sherman Guardian I was sent a link this week to a piece published in the Jewish Chronicle by historian Geoffrey Alderman, the opening sentence of which I found pretty shocking. Under the headline This Was ...
Read More »Bloody Nakba Day; 16 killed, 400 injured as Israeli troops attack protesters
16 May 2011 | Palestine News Network As protests commemorating Nakba ended on Sunday night sources confirmed that Israeli military attacks on those protests left 16 killed and 400 injured. Israeli troops attacked Nakba protests in several parts of the ...
Read More »Stay Human convoy enters Gaza
12 May 2011 | Vik2Gaza After leaving Cairo this morning at dawn, the 80 activists of the ‘Restiamo Umani’ convoy have entered Gaza at 4pm after crossing five Egyptian check-points. The convoy will remain in the Gaza strip until the ...
Read More »Dr. Erakat deems Israeli’s canceling residency of Palestinians as ” war crime”
11 May 2011 | Palestine News Network Member of the PLO Executive Committee and Chief Palestinian Negotiator Dr. Saeb Erakat was reacting to a report appearing today in the Israeli online Haaretz confirming that Israel stripped almost 140,000 West Bank ...
Read More »BDS victory: German company pulls out of illegal Israeli railway project
10 May 2011 | Electronic Intifada In a substantial victory for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, a major German rail transportation company — Deutsche Bahn, or DB — has pulled out of the $550 million illegal A1 train ...
Read More »Breaking the Gaza embargo and Israeli piracy
10 May 2011 | Huwaida Arraf, Noam Chomsky and Gabriel Schivone A year ago this month, Israel shocked the world when it attacked a humanitarian convoy on its way to Gaza in international waters, killing 9 civilians, injuring dozens more, ...
Read More »UN Special Rapporteur on torture to give expert opinion on the arrest of minors in Israeli military court
10 May 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The Special Rapporteur’s expert opinion will be filed to the Ofer Military Court by the defense next Monday in a pre-trial hearing in the case of 14 year-old Islam Dar Ayyoub who ...
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