Category: Press Releases

  • Nobel Peace Laureate writes in support of West Bank village’s protests against annexation wall

    Mairead Corrigan Maguire, founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement and recipient of the Nobel peace prize, wrote a letter this week to the poeople of the West Bank village of Bil’in in support of their continued struggle against Israel’s illegal annexation wall. Dear Friends, To : Palestinian and Israeli Peace Activists – Support For…

  • Petition challenges Sharon’s address to the U.N. General Assembly

    From Al-Awdi Palestinians remember the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacres of September 16-19, 1982. On Sept 15, a day before the twenty-third anniversary of the killing of thousands of Palestinian refugees, Ariel Sharon will speak as an honored guest at the United Nations in New York City. Sharon began his murderous career in…

  • New Settlement Puts Pressure on Jerusalem Palestinians

    by Jon Elmer The New Standard Situated on a hill overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, the new Israeli housing development looks like it could be an upscale planned community in suburban North America: a billboard solicits buyers for “phase one” housing units; another shows the blueprint of the future community, complete with a daycare,…

  • Israeli troops say they were given shoot-to-kill order

    by Conal Urquhart The Guardian Israeli military prosecutors have opened criminal investigations following allegations by soldiers that they carried out illegal shoot-to-kill orders against unarmed Palestinians. The 17 separate investigations were prompted by the testimony of dozens of troops collected by Breaking the Silence, a pressure group of former Israeli soldiers committed to exposing human…

  • Apartheid and Agrexco in the Jordan Valley

    The fence that appears on no maps. by Lena In Israel and occupied Palestine the colour orange is symbolic of opposition to the Gaza ‘disengagement’. It can be seen on banners; t-shirts; propaganda material; protesters storming the old city in Jerusalem or the young people with petitions gathering signatures in Israeli bus stations. Orange streamers…