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BDS Victory: IGLYO moves out of Israel!
The following statement was released on July 29, 2011 by al-Qaws and Palestinian Queers for BDS: Palestinian queer groups welcome the decision by the board of IGLYO to withdraw their annual General Assembly conference from Tel Aviv, Israel. Since June 1st, a campaign to get “IGLYO Out of Israel” was launched by Palestinian Queer Groups to protest […]
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Asian left: `Lift the siege on Gaza! Support boycott, divestment and sanctions on apartheid Israel’
Statement by Asian left organisations [To add your organisation”s endorsement, please email: international[at]socialist-alliance.org.] June 25, 2010 — As Israel stands increasingly isolated following its manufactured confrontation on May 31, 2010, with the peace flotilla in which nine Turkish activists on the Mavi Marmara were murdered, now is the time to increase the pressure on Israel […]
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JI urges Muslim states to boycott Israel
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan on Thursday urged the Muslim states to boycott Israel in all fields and start an immediate relief move for Gaza Strip via the Rafah border between Egypt and Palestine. Presiding over a high-level meeting of the party held at Mansoora, the JI chief called the Israeli attack on the […]
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Pakistanis for Palestine condemns Israel’s attack on the International Freedom Flotilla
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 31-May-2010 Press Statement Pakistanis for Palestine condemns the naked aggression of the Israeli Defence Forces against the international “Freedom Flotilla”, the convoy of ships attempting to carry humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip that has been unilaterally blockaded by Israel since June 2007. The ships were in international waters, about 150 […]
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Solidarity campaign with Palestinian people launched
By Madiha Luqman A campaign of solidarity with the Palestinian people was launched in Lahore earlier this year which is now gathering momentum. Campaign founders, including Amanullah Kariapper, Qalandar Memon, and Dr Magid Shihade, a Palestinian scholar teaching at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), discussed the initiative “Pakistanis for Palestine” at the Lahore […]
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Drive for Palestinians starts
Published: January 25, 2010 LAHORE – A campaign to express solidarity with the Palestinian people was launched here in Lahore on Sunday. It would work under the name of “Pakistanis for Palestine” initiative. Campaign coordinators and members, Amanullah Kariapper, Magid Shihade and Qalandar Memon announced this while addressing a joint news conference at Lahore Press […]
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Pakistanis for Palestine
A Pakistani campaign of solidarity with the Palestinian people has just been launched in Lahore. As its first action of solidarity, the campaign calls on Pakistani academics and cultural workers–artists, poets, writers, singers and filmmakers–to join the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel that is spreading around the world. We are focusing initially […]
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