• Palestinians protest land confiscation in Hebron

    9 May 2009 The Youth Against Settlements group, with participation from international and Israeli solidarity activists, organized a protest in Bwaireh north east of Hebron on Friday. The protesters built a small booth in response to the recent construction of a settler outpost. A month ago, local settlers created a structure to de facto annex Palestinian land with a colonial outpost in the area. The Israeli settlers trespassed on to the Palestinian land owned by Issa…

  • Ban Ki-moon’s moral failure

    Hasan Abu Nimah | Electronic Intifada 6 May 2009 Late last week, according to the BBC Arabic news website, a report was submitted to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about the scale of destruction Israel inflicted on UN installations in Gaza. This was also mentioned on a BBC news bulletin on 1 May, but I could find little trace of this story anywhere else. The brief news item stated that the UN report contained secret…

  • An open letter to Leonard Cohen

    An Open Letter to Leonard Cohen | British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) Dear Leonard Cohen: Your songs have been part of the soundtrack of our lives — like breathing, some of them. But we can’t make sense of why you’ve decided to perform in Israel in September this year. If we understand anything about Buddhism – your practice of which is public knowledge – it’s that Buddhism advocates ‘right action’. We accept that…

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