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BDS conference in Australia: end complicity with Israeli apartheid
7th August 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, support group Australia | Australia Multi-award winning poet and playwright Samah Sabawi began Australia’s second and biggest national conference on Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions last week in Sydney, with words from the diaspora: “In 2005, after decades of failed negotiations, Palestinian civil society lit a candle in […]
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Israeli forces repress Friday demonstration in Kafr Qaddum
6th August 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, Huwwara team | Kafr Qaddum, occupied Palestine On Friday 4th of August residents of Kafr Quaddum held their weekly demonstration against the closure of a road, once the main transport route from the community to Nablus. The weekly Friday demonstrations began on 1st July 2011. The closing of […]
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Palestinian schoolchildren celebrate graduation in al-Khalil
5th August 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Palestinian children celebrated graduation yesterday in the occupied city of al-Khalil (Hebron). The occasion was marked by a cultural festival, organised by the Palestinian National Initiative. The event was lively, with singing, dancing and comedy, as well as a rousing speech by […]