Category: In the Media

  • Before and after September: The struggle for Palestinian rights must intensify

    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 a unique spirit of resistance, real hope and heroic initiative in the struggle for the…

  • 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 natural urge to run. “Allahu Akbar!”, the crowd roared around me. “Yalla, Shebab!” A half-dozen…

  • 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 by the army against weekly demonstrations in Nabi Saleh – a small pastoral Palestinian village…

  • 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 No Peace Activist, Alderman wrote: “Few events – not even the execution of Osama bin…

  • 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 West Bank, Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, in addition to the Lebanese and Syrian borders. Maroun…