Activism News
The Activism News section of EI reports on Palestinian and Palestine-related activism around the world, including the work of the International Solidarity Movement and other groups. Quality submissions are welcomed.
US churches seeking justice in Palestine-Israel (Part 2)
David Wildman, The Electronic Intifada, 5 September 2008
The General Conference of the United Methodist Church meets once every four years and is the only body that speaks on behalf of the whole church. The United Methodist Church is a global church with some 25 to 30 percent of its membership in countries of Africa, Europe and in the Philippines. General Conference adopts broad policies and principles designed to guide church actions. The work of implementing such principles goes to agencies and local churches. David Wildman, in the second of a two-part article, discusses how churches are taking action to confront injustice in Israel-Palestine. [MORE]
US churches seeking justice in Palestine-Israel (Part 1)
David Wildman, The Electronic Intifada, 5 September 2008
For decades, United Methodists have worked with other churches, human rights groups and the broader international community to uphold UN resolutions, human rights conventions and international law as the basis for just and lasting peace for all. Given this human rights-based approach, ending Israel's military occupation constitutes a necessary first step for establishing equality and mutual security for Palestinians and Israel is alike. David Wildman writes about the growing church movement to divest from companies profiting from the Israeli occupation. [MORE]
Jeff Halper in Gaza: "We are the oppressors"
Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 1 September 2008
In an interview with The Electronic Intifada, Jeff Halper, the Israeli-American director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, discussed the ongoing Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip and the Free Gaza Movement (FGM). Halper was one of 46 members to take part in FGM's action to challenge Israel 14-month siege on Gaza.
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"We refuse to serve in the Israeli occupation"
Statement, Shministim 2008, 28 August 2008
We, high school-graduate teens, declare that we shall work against the Israeli occupation and oppression policy in the occupied territories and the territories of Israel. Therefore we will refuse to take part of these actions, which are being done under our name as part of the IDF [Israeli army]. [MORE]
Palestinian rights group commends international activists
Statement, Al-Haq, 26 August 2008
As a Palestinian human rights organization, Al-Haq would like to send its warmest commendations to the human rights defenders involved in the feat of the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty breaking the blockade of the Gaza Strip. The crews made the 370-kilometer voyage from Larnaca port, Cyprus, in a symbolic gesture to highlight the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip. [MORE]
Swiss bank excludes company involved with illegal tramway
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 19 August 2008
Palestine solidarity activists based in Basel, Switzerland demanded Bank Sarasin to divest from Veolia Environnement in early June, because of its involvement in the illegal tramway being built by Israel that runs through occupied East Jerusalem. Within a month Bank Sarasin replied with a five-page response, to explain its longstanding practice of assessing its sustainable investments. Adri Nieuwhof reports. [MORE]
Palestine student society and striking workers picket Starbucks
LSE Students Union Palestine Society, The Electronic Intifada, 31 July 2008
Students and striking local government workers united to picket a London School of Economics (LSE) event in Starbucks on Kingsway, Holborn last week, in opposition to their support for the state of Israel's occupation of Palestine. The LSE Annual Fund and Alumni Relations departments had teamed up with Starbucks to offer an "afternoon of free coffee and cake tasting for Postgraduates," in a clear attempt by the global coffee chain to undermine the role of the LSE Students' Union as the primary supplier of refreshments on LSE's campus. [MORE]
Scottish couple barred from delivering medical supplies to Gaza
Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 29 July 2008
Ten days after setting out from Edinburgh, and five days past their projected 15 July arrival, Scottish humanitarian Khalil al-Niss and his wife Linda Willis finally arrived in the afternoon of 20 July to the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border only to be denied entry to Gaza. Eva Bartlett reports from Egypt. [MORE]
Boycott group: Israeli-British academic project politically motivated
Press release, PACBI, 22 July 2008
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel deplores the unabashed pro-Israel bias of UK officialdom displayed during Prime Minister Gordon Brown's visit to occupied Jerusalem. Brown's pro-forma criticism of Israeli colonizing activities notwithstanding, the visit became an occasion to underline the UK government's prejudice in favor of Israeli policies of apartheid, dispossession and colonial expansionism. [MORE]
Celebrated Latin diva urged to cancel Tel Aviv concert
Open letter, PACBI, 21 July 2008
The following is an open letter to Latin musician Mercedes Sosa sent on 21 July 2008 by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel: How can Mercedes Sosa, the quintessentially progressive diva of freedom songs in Latin America, sing in Israel, a colonial and apartheid state whose war crimes have reached new lows, systematically and deliberately destroying Palestinian society and engendering a process of slow ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Palestine? [MORE]
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