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Deported!

Kathleen Kern
5 November 2002

Peace activist Kathy Kern was recently deported from Ben Gurion airport after arriving for her 11th term of service with the Hebron-based Christian Peacemaker Teams. In this article about the experience, Kathy asks why the Israeli government is afraid of people reporting what it is doing in the Occupied Territories?

Sustained Malicious E-Mail Campaign of Disinformation and Lies Being Perpetrated Against ADC

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
28 October 2002

As in common with many other Middle East-related organisations, including EI, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has been targeted by a malicious campaign of disinformation and lies being perpetrated through e-mail attacks. The following press release is typical of the reaction ot this digital harassment.

South African speaker says Israel is apartheid state

MMN
20 October 2002

Anti-apartheid activist Na’eem Jeenah presented a lecture at McGill University in Montreal entitled “The African Apartheid and the Palestinian Plight.” During his lecture Jeenah made mention of various practices of the South African government during apartheid and showed how these practices share commonalities with the current Israeli government’s treatment of the Palestinian people.

Israeli activists fly kites over military prison in support of Israeli conscientious objectors

Forum in Support of Conscientious Objectors
1 October 2002

Israeli activists from the Forum in Support of Conscientious Objectors flew kites over Military Prison #6 in support of Israeli conscientious objectors imprisoned for refusing to serve in the army. This Forum press release describes the events on 28 September 2002.

Prominent Dutch citizens: 'End the occupation'

Arjan El Fassed
23 September 2002

’Israel must unconditionally withdraw from the territories it occupied since 1967 and implement all relevant UN resolutions’. This petition has been signed by two hundred prominent Dutch citizens, including politicians, writers, and artists and will be published in an advertisement in the Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant. EI’s Arjan El Fassed reports.

Gaslight boycotts Israeli film festival

Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
20 September 2002

Derry based Gaslight Productions, the driving force behind Channel 4’s drama documentary film ‘SUNDAY’ about the events of Bloody Sunday, is the latest cultural organisation to join the international boycott of Israel. Read the press release from the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Caterpillar Executives "Arrested" For War Crimes

Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now
17 September 2002

SUSTAIN activists served arrest warrants to Caterpillar executives in Washington DC today, in protest against the company’s sales of armored bulldozers to Israeli army for the demolition of Palestinian homes. Read the SUSTAIN press release.

Spat upon, threatened, we stood for Palestine

Ali Abunimah
Chicago
6 May 2001

“ ‘Arafat is filthy swine, there is no Palestine,’ and ‘Thank you for killing my cousins in Israel,’ were some of the more polite slogans shouted at Al-Awda activist Benjamin Doherty and me as we protested silently at the annual “Walk With Israel” on Chicago’s lakefront,” writes Ali Abunimah after a not so pleasant walk in Chicago’s beautiful lakefront park.

Day of broken glass

Jaggi Singh
13 September 2002

The police and Concordia University left us no choice in how we confronted Benjamin Netanyahu, writes social justice activist Jaggi Singh.

World Council of Churches calls for end to illegal occupation

World Council of Churches
1 September 2002

On September 2, the World Council of Churches called for ‘the immediate withdrawal of the Israeli occupying forces from Palestinian territories’ and an end to its illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.

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