5 March 2010 For immediate release: On March 9th 2010, The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, a registered 501-(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that provides support and services to members of Israel’s national army, will be holding a gala $1,000 a ...
Read More »Unbreakable in Cairo
Dana Elborno | The Electronic Intifada 4 January 2010 Though I have lived most of my life in and around Chicago, it has never been my complete home. My sisters and I were born as first-generation Palestinian-Americans coming from Kuwait ...
Read More »Fanning the Flames of Freedom from Cairo to Gaza and Beyond
Emily Ratner | Dissident Voice January 3 2010 “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class–it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of freedom.” –Anna Julia Cooper, ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom Marchers issue the ‘Cairo Declaration’ to end Israeli Apartheid
1 January 2010 Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to ...
Read More »Palestinian citizens of Israel protest outside of Erez Crossing: End Israeli blockade of Gaza
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) 31 December 2009 Over 1,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel and several dozen Jewish Israelis demonstrated this morning outside of the Erez Crossing, demanding an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Organised by ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom March activists target Egypt’s complicity
Sayed Dhansay | The Electronic Intifada 31 December 2009 It was another eventful day here in Cairo at the inaugural Gaza Freedom March (GFM). On Tuesday night, organizers informed the 1,362-strong delegation that only 100 of them had been selected ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom March activists refuse to be silent!
Action for Peace 31 December 2009 The Italian delegation of Action for Peace at the Gaza Freedom March walked today in the streets of Cairo with all other delegations in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to call for an end ...
Read More »Thousands protesting the Siege of Gaza face repression from local authorities
31 December 2009 Thousands of people in Egypt, the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel, and the occupied West Bank rallied on New Year’s Eve Day to call for an end to the international blockade and siege of Gaza, but the protests ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom March: On the March at Last
Ellen Davidson and Judith Mahoney Pasternak | The Indypendent 31 December 2009 At 9:50 this morning, hundreds of Egyptian Museum-bound tourists milled around Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. Camouflaged among them were several hundred Gaza Freedom marchers, their “Free Gaza” ...
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