Tag: Jerusalem

  • YNet: “Pro-Palestinian French group appeals to stop Jerusalem tram”

    by Ali Waked, March 16th Organization tries to obtain legal injunction stopping 2 French companies from building Jerusalem tram claiming project violates interests of Palestinians in ‘occupied Jerusalem’ A French-Palestinian organization is taking two French companies involved in the light-rail project in Jerusalem to court, claiming that “the project is aimed at connecting between occupied…

  • The Independent: “Art from Gaza and the West Bank: Gallery of a troubled nation”

    by Donald Macintyre, March 13th The Palestinian answer to Charles Saatchi pursues the elusive dream of a permanent home for his unique but unheralded collection Mazen Qupty had always planned to study film – the seventh art as he calls it. Yet the irony is that if he hadn’t reluctantly taken a friend’s advice to…

  • Trials against Connex/Veolia and Alstom in Egypt and France

    by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign The Egyptian public was outraged to learn from Le Monde Diplomatique February edition that Alstom company (which currently constructs Apartheid Railway in Jerusalem) won a $23 million tender from the Egyptian government for the new Cairo metro line. An Egyptian engineer decided to bring the Egyptian ministry of…