Belgium

Are diamonds Israel's best friend?

Submitted by david on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 16:05

About one-tenth of all EU trade with Israel may pass through the diamond center of Antwerp, so it’s no surprise that the West is keeping mum on how diamond sales finance crimes against the Palestinian people.

Bono must ditch Belgian maker of warplane parts for Israel

Submitted by david on Sun, 11/27/2011 - 12:28

The firm that installed screens and lightning on U2’s stage for its world tour also supplies components to Israel’s war industry.

Global week of action against Israel's wall in the West Bank

Submitted by nora on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 19:32

Palestinians and international solidarity activists around the world call for a week of action against Israel’s illegal wall in the West Bank. Activists from 18 countries on 5 continents are participating.

Belgium "bans" Free Palestine T-shirts, ignores torture of its citizen

Submitted by david on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:33

Please show solidarity with Ali Aarrass, a Belgian-Moroccan national who has been tortured.

UK rewrites war crimes law at Israel's request

Richard Irvine
1 October 2011

Legal mechanisms developed after the end of the Second World War to more easily prosecute war criminals are now being taken off the books to preserve Israeli impunity from accountability.

Without a government, Belgium buddies up to Israel

Submitted by david on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 18:29

Diamond trade with Belgium funds Israeli military.

Cuddly image of Israel projected at Brussels design fair

Submitted by david on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:09

“Happy material” chairs from Israel to be exhibited at a time when schools in Gaza lack seats for teachers.

Janan Abdu on the detention of her husband, political prisoner Ameer Makhoul

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 16:54

While Britain keeps Sheikh Raed Saleh as a political prisoner, another Palestinian citizen of Israel who has been persecuted for his work advocating for his community’s rights remains in Israeli prison.

Agrexco forum a milestone in Europe's BDS movement

Stephanie Westbrook
15 June 2011

Earlier this month in Montpellier, France, more than a hundred activists from nine countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant.

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