• ADC Commends IRS Decision to Investigate Settlement Funding

    Posted on January 21, 2010

    Washington, D.C. | January 19, 2010 | www.adc.org |The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) commends the decision by Commissioner Douglas Shulman to publicly commit the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in tackling the issue of US charities that launder tax exempt US donations into illegal Israeli West Bank settlement activities. The construction of settlements in Occupied Palestinian […]

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  • Israel steps up arrests of grassroots activists

    Posted on January 21, 2010

    Press release, Adalah-NY, CodePink: Women for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, 20 January 2010 The following press release was issued by Adalah-NY, CodePink: Women for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation on 19 January 2010: Israel must end […]

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  • Minnesota should divest from Israel bonds

    Posted on January 21, 2010

    By Sylvia Schwarz | Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 The four Geneva conventions at the core of international humanitarian law were adopted in 1949 and ratified by 194 countries in the world. These conventions specify conduct that can be found criminally culpable if violated. The first three are specifically applicable to conduct against military personnel who […]

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  • BOYCOTT! Supporting the Cairo Declaration

    Posted on January 20, 2010

    To the Initiators of the Cairo Declaration, We, members of BOYCOTT!, would like to express our vote of support for the “Cairo Declaration”, issued by the Gaza Freedom Marchers on January 1st, 2010. We are proud to stand together with fellow responsible citizens of the world and reiterate our shared commitment to demanding human rights […]

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  • London rally targets UK supplier of Israeli arms

    Posted on January 19, 2010

    Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:24:52 GMT Demonstrators rally in southern England to protest against a British company that provided Israel with arms during its 2009 onslaught in Gaza. Protesters in Brighton surrounded the EDO MBM factory, a subsidiary of the American multi-national ITT corporation that supplies essential parts for the Israeli air force, marking the […]

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  • Victory! Release of Jamal Juma’ and Mohammad Othman demonstrates importance of international grassroots pressure

    Posted on January 14, 2010

    You have probably heard by now that Jamal Juma’ and Mohammad Othman, leaders of the Palestinian grassroots struggle against Israeli occupation and apartheid and proponents of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS), have been released from their imprisonment-without-charge in Israeli jail. Their freedom is a huge victory for the grassroots struggle for Palestinian self-determination and equality. […]

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  • The Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week 2010

    Posted on January 14, 2010

    [vodpod id=Groupvideo.4464903&w=425&h=350&fv=config%3D%7B] more about "The Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid We…", posted with vodpod Israeli Apartheid Week 2010 Poster Competition We are proud to announce the first international Israeli Apartheid Week poster competition. First launched in Toronto in 2005, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) has grown to become one of the most important global events in the […]

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  • For Israel, a reckoning

    Posted on January 14, 2010

    John Pilger Published 14 January 2010 A new global movement is challenging Israel’s violations of international law with the same strategies that were used against apartheid The farce of the climate summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never […]

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  • Ali Abunimah puts Noam Chomsky in his place on BDS

    Posted on January 14, 2010

    This week on Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, we”ll have a conversation with Ali Abu Nimah, co-Founder of Electronic Intifada and activist and Middle East expert Jeff Blankfort, in which they each comment on an interview Voices of the Middle East and North Africa first taped and aired last month with Professor […]

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  • Lessons from the Gaza Freedom March

    Posted on January 12, 2010

    by Joshua Brollier When I traveled to Cairo to participate in the Gaza Freedom March, I hoped to enter Gaza to contribute toward ending the siege and preventing future air assaults and invasions, such as the 22-day Operation Cast Lead that Israel launched against Gaza at the close of 2008. I was also keenly looking […]

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