• (Part 2 of 2): A Hospitality Which Won’t Quit… Nor Submit to the Occupation

    Reportback from Daniel Part 2: the North: Agriculture, Theatre, a Cough to Kill for I took a 3 day, 2 night trip through the northern West Bank that started by going to Qalqilya, a fairly large Palestinian city that is almost completely surrounded by The Wall. The only way in and out is through a…

  • (Part 1 of 2): A Hospitality Which Won’t Quit… Nor Submit to the Occupation

    Reportback from Daniel Part 1: Checkpoints, and Violence Against Nonviolent Demos I’m back from my whirlwind trip to Palestine. The trip was hectic and crazy and shocking. I think I accomplished my goal of seeing first-hand some aspects of the all-encompassing system of Israeli apartheid. Among other things, my trip included participation in 2 very…

  • MEPs stand up for immediate release of 45 Palestinian MPs in Israeli Jail

    from Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of European Parliament 6 June 2007 Brussels– 45 Members of the European Parliament, from different political groups, have decided to express their solidarity towards the 45 Palestinian colleagues imprisoned by Israel, and called for their immediate and unconditional release. All the 45 MEPs stood up symbolically in the plenary, right…

  • Israeli Military Executes Elderly Palestinian Man in Hebron and Shoots at His Family Members

    Video from AlJazeera English Palestinian Ministry of Information Ramallah, 06-06-07: Israeli soldiers executed a 68-year-old Palestinian civilian in his home in Hebron city in the early hours of this morning, a willful killing which Minister of Information Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi said represented a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and which he therefore condemned…

  • AIC: In support of the economic and cultural boycott

    Written by Citizens of Israel, AIC, 5 June 2007 Citizens of Israel in support of the proposal for a UNISON Economic and Cultural Boycott of Israel We Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel strongly support the proposal for UNISON to implement an economic and cultural boycott of Israel. We commend this proposal, especially in the…