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Europe's airlines enforce Israeli travel ban on activists hoping to repair Palestinian schools

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
16 April 2012
Thousands of international solidarity activists were set to fly to Tel Aviv in a coordinated effort to volunteer with Palestinian initiatives in the occupied West Bank. However, Israel coordinated with European airlines to cancel many activists’ tickets.

Two Belgians file war crimes complaint against Israeli leaders over "flytilla" abuse

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 13:57

Two activists have filed a war crimes complaint with federal prosecutors in Belgium, against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials.

Hajar Moumni and Muhammad Najar allege they were detained, mistreated, beaten and harshly interrogated when they took part in the “Welcome to Palestine” solidarity fly-in last summer, Belgian media have reported.

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.

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.

Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar wants to stamp your passport

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 22:59
Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar, from the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, has been stamping people’s passports with a seal of a “State of Palestine” to send “a strong political message about our existence as human beings.”

Israel's war on nonviolent protest

Jonathan Cook
Nazareth
19 July 2011
The newly-passed boycott law is the latest in a series of ever-more draconian laws being introduced by Israel’s far right. The legislation’s goal is to intimidate those Israeli citizens, Jews and Palestinians, who have yet to bow down before the majority-rule mob.

Where are the Palestinians?

Mairav Zonszein
Tel Aviv
15 July 2011
Amid all the sensational scenes of recent confrontation between Israeli authorities and Western “pro-Palestinian” activists (including Israelis), what became apparent was that Palestinians themselves could not be seen or heard.

"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.

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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