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Israel Ready to Deport Peace Activist Scot for Second Time
by Billy Briggs Originally published in The Herald A Scottish peace activist is facing deportation from Israel for the second time. Andrew MacDonald, 31, from Spean Bridge, Lochaber, near Fort William, is currently being held in a detention centre near the Gaza Strip, but is resisting his removal. He was arrested by Israeli police in…
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Human Rights Worker Refuses Deportation, Put in Solitary Confinement in Tzohar Detention Center, Israel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Andrew Macdonald, a Human Rights Worker from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), is still being held in solitary confinement at the Tzohar Detention Center in Israel. Even though he has been threatened by the Prison Commander, he maintains that “deporting people from Palestine is a matter for Palestinians to decide, not for…
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Palestinians to Hold Press Conference to Call for Release of the Four CPT Hostages in Iraq
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Harmeet Sooden. Picture taken in January on a farm outside Jenin where he was helping to plant olive trees. Tomorrow (Monday the 5th of December) Ikram al Sabri, the head Mufti of Palestine joined by personal Palestinian friends of Harmeet Sodeen, James Loney and Tom Fox, three of the four Christian Peacemaker…
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Resistance Continues in Aboud, Despite Israeli Violence
Accompanied by dozens of internationals, between 150 and 200 Palestinian demonstrators arrived at the construction site of the annexation barrier in Aboud which will illegally claim much of the village’s land. This is the third such demonstration against the illegal barrier in this Christian-Muslim village where the people have heroically resisted the theft of their…
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Human Rights Worker refuses deportation; Threatened by Police Officer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 01:15 on Thursday morning, Andrew Macdonald, a Human Rights Worker from the ISM, refused deportation from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. The refusal is a protest against the State of Israel’s policy of deporting Human Rights Workers from the Occupied Territories of Palestine. After the refusal, a police officer…
