Category: Press Releases

  • UK: Carmel Agrexco blockaders in court

    23 October 2009 On October 26 – 29, 2009 two women will be put on trial in the United Kingdom for taking part in a blockade of Carmel Agrexco’s produce warehouse during the Bloody Valentine Week of Action. They are accused of obstructing police officers and assaulting a police officer during the women only action.…

  • Bil’in to welcome members of Shministim at Friday demonstration

    For Immediate Release: The West Bank village of Bil’in will hold a demonstration this Friday, 23 October 2009 at 12pm. Members of Shministim (Hebrew for high school seniors), the Israeli organization of teenagers who refuse to serve in the Israeli Army, will join the weekly Bil’in demonstration this Friday. According to members of the Shministim,…

  • Israeli Soldier indicted for beating Palestinian grassroots leader Mohammed Khatib in Bil’in

    Yesh Din 19 October 2009 On October 15, an indictment was filed against an Israeli soldier accused of beating up well-known nonviolent protester and secretary of Bil’in’s Regional Council Mohammed Khatib one month ago (September 15) during a night raid on the village. The organization Yesh Din filed a complaint and demanded that an investigation…

  • New York protest against detention without trial of Palestinian BDS activist

    Adalah NY 17 October 2009 On Saturday forty New York human rights advocates rallied on a cold fall day at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli settlement mogul Lev Leviev to demand that Israel release jailed Palestinian boycott activist Mohammad Othman. Othman, held without charges and in solitary confinement since September 22nd, is from…

  • Tree-planting action to re-claim Iraq Burin’s land, Sunday 18 October

    17 October 2009 For immediate release: Iraq Burin has achieved the first success of its kind, in which the District Co-ordination Office has entered in to an agreement with the village to return 30 dunums of contested farmland to its rightful owners. It comes on the heels of four fiery weekly demonstrations, where local protesters…