Category: Press Releases
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Adalah-NY: Norway Divests from Leviev Companies Due to Israeli Settlement Construction
Adalah-NY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY – In a major victory for the international movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, the Norwegian government announced today that it has divested from Lev Leviev’s company Africa Israel Investments and its construction subsidiary Danya Cebus due to their construction of Israeli settlements in the…
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Successful outcome in Swedish peace activist’s legal appeal against Israeli sentence banning him from Palestine
20 August 2010 On Thursday 12 August 2010 Swedish peace activist Marcus Regnander’s legal battle with the Police Department of Hebron ended successfully. His appeal against a sentence which banned him from the West Bank for six months, after being convicted – despite the absence of any evidence – of assaulting a soldier, was filed…
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Ethnic cleansing continues: Bedouin village Al Araqib demolished for the third time
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bedouin village of Al Araqib demolished for the third time 10 August 2010 Al Araqib, NEGEV The Bedouin village of Al Araqib in Southern Israel was destroyed for the third time in two weeks this morning, Tuesday August 10th, by Israeli civil administration forces. At approximately 5.45 this morning around 50 Israeli…
