Ben Gurion airport

Interview: "Everyone can help Welcome to Palestine 2012"

Adri Nieuwhof
19 December 2011

Large numbers of international activists plan to Tel Aviv as part of the Welcome to Palestine 2012 initiative to assert the right of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to receive visitors.

"We must challenge Israeli mindset," says rugby star turned blockade buster

Submitted by david on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 12:49

Irish sports celebrity Trevor Hogan speaks of his week in Israeli custody.

Australian activists put Palestine travel ban on trial

Sarah Irving
Sydney
26 September 2011

How two 69-year-old women challenged Israel’s restrictions on Welcome to Palestine protest.

The most powerful weapon is our humanity

Dina Elmuti
13 July 2011

As she exits Palestine, Dina Elmuti reflects on the oppressive apparatus that surrounds her, and on the growing global struggle to break through it with something stronger, our humanity.

"Hysterical" Israeli reaction to Palestine solidarity fly-in

Mel Frykberg
Tel Aviv
11 July 2011

Hundreds of armed soldiers and police spread throughout Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on 8 July, arresting six Israeli activists for unfurling flags and chanting slogans in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Activists in "fly-in" action to Tel Aviv arrested, detained; Palestinian civil society orgs call for military embargo on Israel

Submitted by nora on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 21:52

Activists are detained and arrested while trying to enter Ben Gurion airport during the “fly-in” action; while Palestinian civil society groups officially call for a full military embargo against Israel.

Challenging Israeli apartheid -- by plane

Mazin Qumsiyeh
5 July 2011

This week, hundreds of activists plan on challenging Israel’s apartheid apartheid by flying in to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv as part of the “Welcome to Palestine” initiative. Heraclitis once stated that “There is nothing permanent except change,” and indeed human history is a chronicle of change — and the Welcome to Palestine project follows that tradition.

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