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West Bank protests mark 6th anniversary of ICJ’s ruling on Israel’s illegal Apartheid Wall

10 July 2010 Al-Ma’sara: tearing down the wall The Popular Committee of Al Mas’ara supported by a number of Internationals and Israelis constructed and then demolished a symbolic wall to mark the sixth anniversary of the decision by the International Court of Justice that Israel’s Apartheid Wall is illegal. After afternoon prayers the villagers and internationals gathered to march towards the the illegal Israeli settlements that encroach on Palestinian land, while chanting “The wall must fall”.…

July 10, 2010

Israelis and internationals demonstrate outside Barakat’s house in west Jerusalem

Wadi Hilweh Information Center 6 July 2010 Dozens of international and Israeli solidarity activists protested in solidarity with Silwan in front of the west Jerusalem house of Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat. Demonstrators stated that they were opposing his racist policy in Silwan, which follows an agenda of promoting illegal settlements. The demonstrators condemned the intention of the Jerusalem Municipality to demolish houses in Silwan in order to build a biblical garden which will be linked to…

July 7, 2010

‘We Are The Accusers, Not The Accused’ : EDO Decomissioners victorious in court

Chloe Marsh | Palestine Monitor 3 July 2010 On 16th January 2009 seven U.K. peace activists broke into the premises of EDO MBM, suppliers of weapons components and in the words of one of them, Elijah Smith ’set out to smash it up to the best of our abilities’. It was an entirely accountable action which was always intended to end in a trial and each decommissioner had pre-recorded a video in which they stated the…

July 6, 2010