Category: Press Releases
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UNICEF Rejects Support From Israeli Billionaire Known for Constructing Settlements on Palestinian Lands
Diamond Mogul, Lev Leviev, Facing Increasing Pressure for Human Rights Violations By Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East Media Contact: media@adalahny.org New York, NY, June 19, 2008 – A senior advisor to UNICEF’s Director said in a letter today that UNICEF will reject all partnerships with, or financial support from, Israeli billionaire…
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Israeli forces assault and forcibly deport New Zealand peace activist once kidnapped in Iraq.
Harmeet Sooden. Picture taken in January 2005 on a farm outside Jenin where he was helping to plant olive trees. Harmeet Sooden, a peace activist from New Zealand, was forcibly deported from Israel on the 18th of June at 1 am, after four days in jail. Sooden was told he was being deported because he…
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ei: Quebec Student Federation Joins International Boycott Movement
To view original article, published in Electronic Intifada, click here Press release, Tadamon, 9 June 2008 Across the world grassroots movements struggling in opposition to Israeli apartheid are marking the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe”) — 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and exile for Palestinians resulting from the creation of the state…