U.S. Boat to Gaza FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2010 This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has mounted ...
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International Solidarity Movement 1 July 2010 Al Ma’asara The people of Al-Ma’asara’s again demonstrated peacefully last Friday, protesting against land seizures and settler harassment. Twenty villagers were joined by a handful of Israelis and internationals, marching from the village out ...
Read More »Spirit strong in weekend demonstrations
International Solidarity Movement 15 June 2010 Al Ma’asara Around 30 Palestinians, Israelis and internationals gathered for the weekly demonstration in Al Ma’asara on Friday June 11th. The participators called for the Israeli government to stop construction of the illegal apartheid ...
Read More »Activists disrupt Caterpillar shareholder meeting
Kristin Szremski | The Electronic Intifada 11 June 2010 While pro-Palestinian activists and supporters of Israel lined opposite sides of South LaSalle Street outside the Northern Trust Building in Chicago on 9 June, James Owens, the outgoing CEO and Chairman ...
Read More »Tribute to the people of Gaza
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate 25th May, 2010 I never cease to be amazed at the power of the human spirit to survive. During my last visit to Gaza in October 2008 I was amazed and deeply moved by the ...
Read More »May Is About Memories
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 25 May 2010 This is the month for Palestinians to remember their Nakba, or “catastrophe”, in which more than 700,000 women, men and children were pushed off their land and rendered homeless refugees by ...
Read More »General ‘tried to cover up truth about death of Rachel Corrie’
The Independent 7 May 2010 By Ben Lynfield Israeli war hero accused of suppressing testimony that could reveal what really happened to Gaza activist The peace activist Rachel Corrie died on 16 March 2003. Seven years after the American activist ...
Read More »Journalist and Two Protesters Hurt in Beit Jala Demo
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 3 May 2010 Over 150 people participated in the weekly anti-Wall demonstration organized by the local Popular Committee in Beit Jala on Sunday. The protest march, which set out towards the Wall’s construction site, was attacked ...
Read More »Demonstrators halt construction of the Wall in alWalaja
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 28th April 2010 UPDATE: Video of this action has been added below. Demonstrators managed to disrupt the construction of the Wall in alWalaja for the second time in a week . A 15 year old demonstrator ...
Read More »Bulldozers return to destroy children’s playground in Beit Jala. Six activists arrested.
International Solidarity Movement 22nd April 2010 Israeli bulldozers today destroyed a garden and children’s playground in Beit Jala, and 100 fruit and olive trees in Al Walaja and Beit Jala, both in the Bethlehem district, to make way for the ...
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