‘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. Read more about Prominent Dutch citizens: 'End the occupation'
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign20 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. Read more about Gaslight boycotts Israeli film festival
Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now17 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. Read more about Caterpillar Executives "Arrested" For War Crimes
“ ‘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. Read more about Spat upon, threatened, we stood for Palestine
The police and Concordia University left us no choice in how we confronted Benjamin Netanyahu, writes social justice activist Jaggi Singh. Read more about Day of broken glass
A Palestinian woman living in Johannesburg, South Africa, today filed a lawsuit against former Israeli Prime Minister and current Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres.The plaintiff claims she was severely traumatised as a direct result of the Israeli occupation. Read more about J'burg: Palestinian woman sues former Israeli PM
A coalition working to end the “Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories” says the U.S.-based Caterpillar Corporation is facilitating war crimes by selling bulldozers to the Israeli Defense Forces. Read more about Pro-Palestinian Group Opposes Bulldozer Sales