Category: Press Releases

  • Gaza Freedom March is determined to break the siege

    Gaza Freedom March 21 December 2009 For immediate release: 1,360 International Delegates appeal to Egypt to let the March proceed Citing escalating tensions on the Gaza-Egypt border, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry informed us on December 20 that the Rafah border will be closed over the coming weeks, into January. We responded that there is always…

  • American citizen to be deported following his arrest in Sheikh Jarrah

    21 December 2009 Imprisoned American citizen and Minnesota resident Ryan Olander to be deported to the US after being arrested in Sheikh Jarrah, Occupied East Jerusalem, whilst visiting Palestinian family whose house has been taken over by Israeli settlers. Ryan was visiting the al-Kurds in the tent the Palestinian family built in their own backyard,…

  • Tell President Obama to demand that Israel free Bil’in nonviolent leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah

    Jewish Voice for Peace On December 10, 2009 at 2am, the Israeli military surrounded the Ramallah home of Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a high school teacher and the Coordinator of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, and arrested him. Abu Rahmah is among the leaders of the West Bank village of Bil’in’s nearly five-year…

  • New York carolers sing for boycott of Leviev while Israel jails protesters’ Palestinian allies

    Adalah-NY 19 December 2009 For immediate release: New York, NY, December 19, 2009 – On a snowy Saturday afternoon, forty-five human rights carolers serenaded Madison Avenue shoppers with familiar holiday tunes outside the storefront of Israeli diamond and settlement mogul Lev Leviev, but their lyrics called for the boycott of Leviev’s companies. The New York…

  • A call from Gaza

    20 December 2009 This week marks one year since Israel began its attack on the Gaza Strip: a year since phosphorus bombs, dime bombs and other weapons of death and destruction were unleashed on a defenseless civilian population. A year since the people of the world demanded that Israel end its attack on Gaza. In…