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What is the Aim of the Gaza Freedom March? – Interview with Dr. Haidar Eid
By Bianca Zammit – Gaza As the days of December 2009 draw in, two events which each have a role to play in world peace draw closer. The first is on the 27th and is commemorating the start of the 22 day attacks on Gaza, an operation which targeted unarmed civilians, schools, hospitals, journalists and […]
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Long Live Gaza: Remembering one year since the massacre
One year ago, Israel launched ‘Operation Cast Lead’ – intense and unprecedented attacks on the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. The war crimes of this assault are part of a wider context: the continuing illegal blockade as well as Israel’s apartheid system of control of the Palestinians. Learn the facts – then act.
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Omar Barghouti: BDS as response to repression of Palestinian nonviolence
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 Many of you have already heard of the most recent arrest by Israel of a leader of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to occupation and apartheid. Our allies at Stop the Wall have information and action steps that you can take to demand the release of Jamal Juma’, who joins Mohammad Othman and […]
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Transcript: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (including Abbas on BDS)
DECEMBER 22, 2009 ‘We Are Open to All Possibilities’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke with The Wall Street Journal’s Charles Levinson at the Palestinian Authority embassy in Amman, Jordan, on Dec. 20. Read a transcript of the interview. A recent opinion poll shows that 57% of Palestinians support you over Hamas, which got just 37% […]
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TEN DAYS LEFT TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL FOR CHRISTMAS
As Americans are in the annual frenzy of Christmas shopping, they must be reminded of those less fortunate. They must be reminded of those actually living in the Land that Jesus called home and what has become of that land and its people. The Christmas season is supposed to be a time of love and […]
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Jerusalem Diary: Choir caught in disharmony
By Tim Franks BBC News, Jerusalem CHOIR FEELING FLAT OVER BOYCOTT ROW It should be a time of unalloyed joy for Tim Brown. The director of one of Britain’s most well-regarded choirs is beginning a six-concert tour of Israel this week. The choir of Clare College, Cambridge, will be singing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the […]
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Labor for Palestine: Response to Defamatory Attacks and Call to Action
Please post and forward widely Labor for Palestine”s Response to Defamatory Attacks and Call to Action December 21, 2009 Labor for Palestine”s December 14 “Open Letter from U.S. Trade Unionists to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Boycott Apartheid Israel” has met with an overwhelmingly positive response. Posted at, http://www.laborforpalestine.net/wp/2009/12/19/trumka-letter/, the Open Letter supports the growing international […]
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Carolers Sing for Boycott of Leviev while Israel Jails Palestinian Allies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, December 19, 2009 – On a snowy Saturday afternoon, forty-five human rights carolers serenaded Madison Avenue shoppers with familiar holiday tunes outside the storefront of Israeli diamond and settlement mogul Lev Leviev, but their lyrics called for the boycott of Leviev”s companies. The New York protest took place against […]
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Call for Action: Oppose Portuguese Water Deal with Mekorot! Defend Palestinian Water Rights! Uphold International Law!
Israel’s national water carrier Mekorot signed a “co-operative” venture with EPAL, the Portuguese water company that serves 2.5 million consumers in the country’s capital and the south. The agreement claims to safeguard the Portuguese water system against “terrorist threats”, building on Mekorot’s alleged “expertise” in the area. The Portuguese deal is in a reality a […]
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Palestinians destroy settler-made Dead Sea cosmetics
Wed Dec 16, 2:33 pm ET JERICHO, West Bank (AFP) – Palestinian customs officials on Wednesday dumped tens of thousands of dollars worth of Dead Sea beauty products into dumpsters as part of a boycott of goods made in Israeli settlements. “This destruction … is in keeping with the decision of the Palestinian leadership to […]
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