Category: In the Media

  • An Open Letter from Gaza to EU: Do not reward apartheid!

    19 August 2012 | Besieged Gaza, occupied Palestine We call on the European Union to challenge and not embrace Israel’s incessant land expropriation and racist subjugation against the Palestinian people. The European Union’s own reports document and supposedly lament Israel’s apartheid policies, yet continues to pursue policies that legitimize them, such as the scandalous upgrade…

  • In suspected Jerusalem lynch, dozens of Jewish youths attack 3 Palestinians

    By Nir Hasson 17 August 2012 | Haaretz One of the Palestinians was seriously wounded and hospitalized in intensive care; eyewitness: Today I saw a lynch with my own eyes. Dozens of Jewish youths attacked three young Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Zion Square early on Friday morning, in what one witness described as “a lynch” on…

  • Sheikh Jarrah: ‘My Neighbourhood’

    By Patrick Keddie 4 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement The Israeli authorities’ attempts to ethnically displace Palestinians from East Jerusalem have intensified greatly in recent years; in some areas, such as Sheikh Jarrah, eviction notices have been handed out to nearly every Palestinian family. My Neighbourhood, a recent short documentary film produced by Just…

  • Concern mounts for three remaining hunger strikers

    30 July 2012 | Addameer, Al Haq, PHR-Israel Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL) are gravely concerned for the life and health of the three remaining Palestinian hunger strikers held by Israel. Of utmost concern is the health and life of administrative detainees Samer Al-Barq, today on…

  • ‘Palestinians for Dignity’ rejects EU hypocrisy in upgrading its relations with the Israeli Occupation

    30 July 2012 | Palestinians for Dignity, Occupied Ramallah It has come to light over the last week that the European Union (EU) has decided to upgrade its trade and diplomatic relations with the state of Israel despite the latter’s intensification of its occupation, colonization and apartheid against the Palestinian people. The new deal will…