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Don’t Flirt with the Occupation – February 10th Mass Demonstration Against Carmel-Agrexco in London
by Boycott Israeli Goods Agrexco is Israel’s largest exporter of fresh agricultural produce. The company is 50% owned by the Israeli state. Agrexco accounts for 70% ofIsraeli fresh produce sold abroad with annual sales of $750 million in 2006. Agrexco boast of being able to get produce to European markets within 24 hours. The Valentines…
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Candlelight Vigils Outside the Israel Philharmonic Concerts in Los Angeles
a Women in Black vigil outside the Disney Hall on January 14th FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Local Peace and Human Rights Group to Hold Silent Candlelight Vigils Outside the Israel Philharmonic Concerts at Disney Hall Monday, Feb. 5th, and Tuesday, Feb. 6th in Downtown LA Women in Black-LA Join Launch of International Campaign Calling for Sanctions…
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Haaretz: “PM approves eastward move of section of separation barrier”
by Meron Rapoport, January 31st Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved the moving of the separation barrier at least five kilometers eastward from the Green Line in the area of Modi’in Ilit, in order to take in the settlements of Nili and Na’aleh, according to security sources and a brief submitted by the state to…
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Bedouins to be made homeless for fourth time
by the ISM media team, January 30th photo by AP Early this morning Israeli bulldozers accompanied by the IOF started demolishing Palestinian houses in two East Jerusalem neighbourhoods, Issawiya and Attur, and the village of Eizariya, east of Jerusalem. Eizariya is having its land stolen, houses demolished and olive trees uprooted for the expansion of…
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Teach-in at Hebron checkpoint
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday February 1st at 2:00pm, a teach-in will be held in front of the Tel Rumeida checkpoint in the city of Hebron. The theme of this week’s action is the non-violent resistance promoted by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement in…