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International Solidarity Movement 14 August 2010 The ongoing suppression of the Palestinian grassroots resistance has included targeting international solidarity activists. Numerous volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement have been arrested or deported in past months. A tactic of challenging the occupation and the Israeli authorities is via legal measures. As Israel’s crackdown on popular resistance…
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BDS court victory in London: ‘Ahava four’ found not guilty of trespass in Israeli store
11 August 2010 | ISM London Four campaigners against Israeli apartheid were acquitted yesterday (August 10th) of all charges related to two direct action protests against the Israeli cosmetics retailer Ahava in Covent Garden, London. The campaigners locked themselves onto concrete-filled oil drums inside the shop, closing it down for two days in September and…
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Israeli army close down shops opposite Shuhada street in Hebron
11 August 2010 | ISM Yesterday, August 10th, between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon, in response to peaceful Palestinian resistance to the military occupation of Hebron – and ongoing settler violence – the Israeli army decided to collectively punish Palestinian shopkeepers in the Old City. They had been threatening for weeks to close certain…
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Ethnic cleansing continues: Bedouin village Al Araqib demolished for the third time
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bedouin village of Al Araqib demolished for the third time 10 August 2010 Al Araqib, NEGEV The Bedouin village of Al Araqib in Southern Israel was destroyed for the third time in two weeks this morning, Tuesday August 10th, by Israeli civil administration forces. At approximately 5.45 this morning around 50 Israeli…
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To Know is Not Enough: How Hampshire became the First to Divest
Hampshire College is often credited with being the first US college to divest for the occupation, and this video attempts to understand the group and the campaign that made it happen. The video is constructed from interviews with over a dozen student activists from Hampshire College’s Students for Justice in Palestine. “To Know is Not…