Tag: BDS
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Moving the Goalposts: Delaying Palestinian Football Justice
Originally published by Visualizing Palestine For many years, the Israeli football association has given membership status to six teams that play in illegal settlements built on Palestinian land in the West Bank. This is in direct violation of FIFA’s rules, which state that permission is needed to play matches on another member’s territory. Instead of…
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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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ISM Statement on Israel’s attempt at silencing Omar Barghouti
On March 19th Israeli authorities barged into the house of Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement; in an attempt to tarnish his image and reputation by claiming an alleged income outside of Israel. Omar and his wife Safa endured a first round of interrogation lasting 16 hours, Omar was subsequently…
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The fire under our feet: a journal piece
I’m OK. Actually, personally, my family and I are well, Alhamdililah! But I can feel the intensified fire under our feet. I know the feeling. And I know the explosion that comes after it. This week alone the Israeli apartheid government has escalated its actions, bombing Gaza daily while tightening the already lethal siege around…
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Kafr Qaddoum: Israeli forces shoot Palestinian journalist
3th of March, 2017 | Popular Resistance Committee of Kafr Qaddum | Occupied Palestine Today, at the weekly Friday protest in Kafr Qaddoum, a large number of Israeli Forces raided the village and fired large amounts of live ammunition, rubber coated steel bullets, stun grenades and teargas at Palestinian protesters. One journalist, from Palestine TV, was…