Category: Press Releases
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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…
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Nobel Peace Laureate Calls for Global Condemnation of Israeli Army Actions against Orphans in Hebron
“This behavior is immoral, unethical and illegal” “What are the UK and Tony Blair dong about this?” Mairead Maguire, Irish Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, recently visited the Orphanages of Hebron while on a visit to the Occupied Territories to support non violent resistance there. Despite her experience with many suffering peoples, she said that she…