• Sunbula’s Journal: “Normalised Occupation”

    Saturday May 27th: I have returned to Ramallah. I feel a little worried I’m getting used to certain things I shouldn’t really be used to. When I was coming back in the taxi from al-Quds/Jerusalem, driving through Ar-Ram and Qalandia, the Wall is alongside us on our left, and separates people’s homes from stores and…

  • Villagers of Jabaa to Reclaim Their Land: Thursday and Friday

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The village of Jabaa will hold two non-violent direct actions against the theft of their land by Israeli settlers and soldiers this weekend. A month ago, close to a thousand of the village’s olive trees were uprooted to prepare for the construction of the Wall, which will confiscate 600 Dunams, or roughly…

  • Guardian: “[British] Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics”

    by Benjamin Joffe-Walt. Tuesday May 30 2006. The Guardian Critics of state policies exempt from sanction Narrow vote welcomed by Palestinian groups Britain’s largest lecturers’ union yesterday voted in favour of a boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who do not publicly dissociate themselves from Israel’s “apartheid policies”. Delegates at the annual conference of…

  • Tel Rumeida, Hebron: Recent Settler Attacks

    29th May 2006. Tel Rumeida, Hebron 5:30 pm, Shuhada St, near Bet Haddasah settlement Four settler children were throwing stones at a Palestinian home. The two youngest were less than four years old and the older two were between 7 and 8 years of age. A Danish Human Rights Worker (HRW) approached the Israeli soldier…

  • Globe & Mail: “Canadian Union Supports Campaign Against Israel”

    from the Globe and Mail, 27th of May 2006 OTTAWA — [The CUPE,] Ontario’s largest public sector union has voted to support an international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Delegates to the Canadian Union of Public Employees convention in voted overwhelmingly Saturday to support the campaign until Israel recognizes the Palestinian right…