Tag: Cast Lead

  • Towards Ending our Ongoing Nakba: Statement by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)

    International Solidarity Movement 20 May 2010 17 May 2010 — For sixty-two years, Palestinians have been denied their dignity and fundamental human rights. The creation and “international” acceptance of Israel in 1948 marked the culmination of a new kind of politics in the region that continues to have devastating consequences. The acceptance of an ethnic…

  • Open Rafah for Ayman – a request for solidarity and a signature

    January 25, 2009 Together we can make a difference for Ayman, together we can make a difference for Palestine Please sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/salam123/petition.html Ayman Talal E. Quader is a Palestinian that was born on July 19, 1986 in Gaza and has lived in Gaza City for his entire life. As a young Palestinian student…

  • Amnesty: Israel’s Gaza blockade continues to suffocate daily life

    Amnesty International Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said one year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. Amnesty International’s briefing paper Suffocating: The Gaza Strip under Israeli…

  • ISM Gaza: Education under attack

    Bianca Zammit | ISM Gaza 14 January 2010 On December 28th 2008 mid-term examinations had been scheduled to take place at the University College of Applied Sciences (UCAS) in Gaza. When the day arrived, however, the University College’s rooms, which usually cater for 8000 students, were void of any life. This was the second day…

  • New Yorkers demand that Egypt and Israel open Gaza border

    Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East 31 December 2009 Sixty human rights advocates protested outside Egypt’s Mission to the United Nations today to demand that Egypt open its border with the Gaza Strip. The New York protest came as Egyptian riot police in Cairo surrounded and assaulted hundreds of international activists who…