Category: Press Releases

  • Palestinian olive grove destroyed in the night

    15 January 2010 Christian Peacemaker Team For immediate release: In the afternoon of 14 January Palestinians discovered that a family owned olive grove in Khoruba valley had been recently destroyed. Twenty mature olive trees were broken at their trunks. The family believes that Israeli settlers from the Ma’on settlement and Havot Ma’on outpost are responsible…

  • Israeli authorities deny American journalist entry

    13 January 2010 For Immediate Release: The English Desk at Ma’an News Agency, the largest independent news network in the Palestinian territories, is deeply concerned that its chief editor, Jared Malsin, an American citizen [and graduate of Yale University], was detained on Tuesday afternoon upon arriving at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv.…

  • Open letter to Bono: entertaining apartheid Israel…U 2 Bono?

    Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) 13 January 2010 Dear Bono, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was deeply disturbed to learn that that you are scheduled to perform in Israel this coming summer. Two years ago, you were invited by Israeli President Shimon…