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Aljazeera English As a Libyan backed aid ship sails for the Gaza Strip, another group of international activists has been defying the blockade, but this time on the land. Foreigners acting as human shields have been helping farmers in Gaza ...
Read More »Israelis and internationals demonstrate outside Barakat’s house in west Jerusalem
Wadi Hilweh Information Center 6 July 2010 Dozens of international and Israeli solidarity activists protested in solidarity with Silwan in front of the west Jerusalem house of Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat. Demonstrators stated that they were opposing his racist policy ...
Read More »‘We Are The Accusers, Not The Accused’ : EDO Decomissioners victorious in court
Chloe Marsh | Palestine Monitor 3 July 2010 On 16th January 2009 seven U.K. peace activists broke into the premises of EDO MBM, suppliers of weapons components and in the words of one of them, Elijah Smith ’set out to ...
Read More »Israel to Reinvestigate the Shooting of US Activist Tristan Anderson
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 30 June 2010 The Israeli District Attorney announced last week that the police will revisit its investigation into the shooting of American activist, Tristan Anderson, who was critically injured by a high velocity tear gas projectile ...
Read More »SF Chronicle: Protesters prevent unloading of Israeli ship
David Baker | San Francisco Chronicle Hundreds of demonstrators, gathering at the Port of Oakland before dawn, prevented the unloading of an Israeli cargo ship. The demonstrators, demanding an end to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, picketed at Berth ...
Read More »Palestinian activist faces prison sentence
Amnesty International 13 June 2010 Amnesty International has urged an Israeli military court not to convict a Palestinian non-violent activist who has been detained since last July, after he took part in a protest against the Israeli built fence/wall on ...
Read More »Activists disrupt Caterpillar shareholder meeting
Kristin Szremski | The Electronic Intifada 11 June 2010 While pro-Palestinian activists and supporters of Israel lined opposite sides of South LaSalle Street outside the Northern Trust Building in Chicago on 9 June, James Owens, the outgoing CEO and Chairman ...
Read More »Activists to demonstrate outside of European Commission Delegation in Barcelona
NOVA 8 June 2010 The European Union must put an end to the shameful and illegal siege that Israel imposes on Gaza. For 4 years, 1.5 million people have been living in inhumane conditions for having democratically elected a party ...
Read More »Israeli military forcibly stops aid boat to Gaza — again
Free Gaza Movement 5 June 2010 (Off the Gaza coast, 5 JUNE) – Just before 9am this morning, the Israeli military forcibly siezed the Irish-owned humanitarian relief ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, from delivering over 1000 tons of medical and ...
Read More »Palestine: Israeli crackdown exposes its aims
Bridget Chappell | GreenLeft 27 May 2010 Israel has exposed the extent of its crackdown on resistance to its occupation in an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on April 29. It claimed the Israeli Shin Bet intelligence agency has ...
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