• Israeli Arab committee slams ‘racist, fascist’ bills

    Jack Khoury | Ha’aretz 28 May 2009 The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee has scheduled an emergency meeting on Saturday in light of recent law proposals submitted by right wing Knesset members, in particular a bill proposing to outlaw the marking of the Nakba, or catastrophe, on Israel’s Independence Day. The Nakba is observed by Israeli…

  • Never Before Campaign: Palestine, what it’s all about

    Never Before Campaign The Never Before Campaign has created videos as part of a larger communications campaign which was launched during the Gaza war. The campaign is based in Beirut and is expected to grow to encompass interested people and groups all over the world. The campaign is a promotion of the ideas that: Never…

  • Gaza siege also hits disabled people

    Luisa Morgantini | Liberazione 15 May 2009 They worked for years for Israeli companies. For years, they paid their taxes and social insurance contributions in Israel in compliance with Israeli labour and fiscal law. But they also had accidents at work suffering serious and invalidating injuries in Israel’s factories, building sites or fields. Until the…

  • Israelis accused of settlement by stealth

    Dominic Waghorn | Sky News 24 May 2009 The Israeli Government is being accused of a plot to transform East Jerusalem with Jewish settlements and drive out Palestinians by stealth. Ir Amim, a Jerusalem based NGO specialising in Israeli Palestinian issues, claims Israeli authorities in collusion with radical Jewish settlers are cementing their hold on…

  • The Palestinian village of hope

    Matt Kennard and Wilson Dizard | The Guardian 27 May 2009 Ramallah is tired. The feeling you get walking around the streets here is that the Palestinians are weary of the struggle against the incremental destruction of their homeland, happening right now while the world looks the other way. You hear things like, “Our struggle…