• Open Gaza’s Borders to Prevent a Humanitarian Crisis

    Urgent Appeal from Israeli Human Rights Groups to Israeli Defense Minister: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 June 2007 As we write these lines, hundreds of refugees are trapped between Erez crossing, which is sealed, and the Hamas military force preventing their return to Gaza. The sick and those injured from recent events are trapped in Gaza.…

  • (Video) Building Palestinian Economic Independence

    by George S. Rishmawi, footage by Kathy Kamp, AFSC George S. Rishmawi is a co-founder and coordinator of Siraj, the Palestinian Center for Holy Land Studies and one of the founders of the International Solidarity Movement. He is a board member of the Network of Christian Organizations in Bethlehem. Siraj is organizing a network of…

  • Counter Israel’s policy of Bedouin demolition (ACTION ALERT)

    Call for a letter-writing campaign from the Recognition Forum Photo from Negev Coexistence Forum For about two years now, the Israeli government has been carrying out an unwritten policy of wiping from the face of the earth entire villages of Bedouins in the Negev. This policy is well demonstrated by the repeated demolition of ‘Tawil…

  • The Time is Now

    by Colin Green, Guardian Unlimited Just as I campaigned for boycotts against apartheid in South Africa many years ago, now I shall do so against Israeli apartheid, says Colin Green The strong and hostile response from pro-Israeli groups, as well as the UK government fearful of offending Israel, to a recent motion carried by a…

  • Palestinians exit Friday prayers and enter mass detentions

    by TRP Hebron, 16 June 2007 At 1:00pm near the Ibrahimi Mosque three international human rights workers were waiting, with members of Christain Peacemaker Teams, for Palestinains to leave the Mosque following Friday prayers. Soldiers had been randomly taking Palestinian IDs (huwwiyas) of the young men as they entered the Mosque, and had large stacks…