Tag: BDS

  • Israel Plans House Demolitions in Al Jiftlik, Jordan Valley

    from brightonpalestine.org, October 16th I visited Al Jiftlik, a Palestinian town in the Jordan Valley last week in the hope of making connections between grassroots groups in the valley and in Brighton. Al Jiftlik is in the Israeli controlled area of the valley although it is part of occupied Palestine. The residents leased land from…

  • “Boycott Israeli Goods” UK National Day of Action

    Indymedia UK, 9th of October 2006 As the Lebanese people are reeling from Israel’s illegal bombing campaign, and the people of the West Bank and Gaza are suffering a continuous onslaught by the Israeli military, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and the Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign (BIG) activists joined a nationwide Boycott Day of Action…

  • Six-hundred people attend landmark conference in Toronto

    Coalition against Israeli Apartheid, October 9th Over 600 people attended the landmark conference, Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: The Struggle Continues, held from 6-8 October in Toronto, Canada. The conference represents a watershed moment in the Palestinian solidarity movement, with leading anti-apartheid activists from Palestine, South Africa, Canada and England addressing the way forward in the global…

  • Haaretz: “Dates of Infamy”

    from Haaretz, September 16th, by Gitit Ginat Imagine a person. He might be a man over 40 years old, married, with children. Or he might be a teenager, who until recently was in school. Now perch him on top of a date palm that soars to a height of 10 or even 12 meters –…

  • Israeli Company Refuses to Prosecute British Protesters Over Fear of Examination of the Lawfulness of its Business in Court

    Early Wednesday morning, Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli company Carmel Agrexco’s UK headquarters. This was part of a non-violent protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in the occupied territories of Palestine. Protesters locked themselves inside large metal cages in the entrance and exit of Agrexco’s UK depot causing serious disruption…