Category: In the Media

  • URGENT APPEAL from Al-Aqaba Village

    To the embassies, consulates, and international, Arab, and Islamic representative offices; To domestic and international humanitarian and human rights organizations; To all domestic and international media outlets that have visited the steadfast village of Aqaba, and to those that have not visited; To Israeli humanitarian and human rights organizations; Al-Salam (Peace) Street remains closed before…

  • Israel refuses to investigate death of slain Palestinian protester from Bil’in

    18 July 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the West Bank village of Bil’in village, died of cardiac arrest caused by inhalation of excessive amounts of tear gas. The Israeli High Court laid the onus of collecting evidence to justify an investigation on the family, instead of police. Israeli High Court…

  • Akram Rikhawi and the Saga of Palestinian Hunger Strikes

    By Richard Falk 9 July 2012 | Richard Falk WordPress The persistence of Palestinian hunger strikes shocks me for two reasons: that these extreme expressions of moral freedom alert all who choose to expose their consciousness to such realities of the severely abusive arrest, detention, and interrogation procedures that many Palestinians living under Israeli occupation…

  • BDS at 7! – Celebrating, reflecting and further mainstreaming

    9 July 2012 | Palestinian BDS National Committee, Occupied Palestine Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and certainly more diverse than ever—a true cause for celebration by all those groups and conscientious…

  • Israel treats every Palestinian child as “potential terrorist”: government-backed UK study

    By Asa Winstanley 28 June 2012 | Electronic Intifada, London A new report funded and supported by the UK government that accuses Israel of violating international law with its treatment of Palestinian child detainees was launched in London by a high-profile group of human rights lawyers on Tuesday. The report says Israel is in violation…