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Karameh Campaign launched to defend Palestinian solidarity organizing

The Karameh Campaign (Concordia University) 7 May 2003

“The Karameh Campaign has been launched in Montreal, Canada to respond to the ongoing attempt to criminalize Palestinian solidarity organizing at Concordia University, other universities and communities, throughout Montreal and around the world. The campaign is endorsed by individuals and members of other community groups committed to issues of social justice. The word Karameh means Dignity in Arabic.” 

Committee members express cautious optimism over recently released 'road map' for Israeli-Palestinian peace

United Nations General Assembly 6 May 2003

Echoing the views expressed by several members of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People this morning, the Permanent Observer for Palestine expressed cautious optimism over the recently released “road map” to Israeli-Palestinian peace. 

The Evil Wall

Uri Avnery 6 May 2003


“For a fraction of a second, I was panic-stricken. The terrible monster coming towards me was not more than five meters away and continued to move as if I weren’t there. The giant bulldozer pushed a great heap of dirt and boulders before it. The driver, two meters above me, seemed a part of the machine. It was clear that nothing would stop him. I jumped aside at the last moment. Some weeks ago, in a similar situation, the American peace activist Rachel Corrie expected the driver to stop. He did not, and she was crushed to death.” Israeli activist Uri Avnery reports on the progress of Israel’s apartheid wall. 

My friend James

Cassian Harrison 6 May 2003

“Late on Friday night, I received a phone call: Reuters was reporting that a man had been shot dead in Rafah, on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. That the man was a cameraman and director called James Miller. The sense of shock and fury with which I put the phone down has still not faded: James was a man with whom I spent some of the most extraordinary times of my life, a man of talent, intelligence and integrity. A man I was plotting to go down the pub with in a few weeks’ time.” Cassian Harrison remembers her friend James in the pages of The Guardian — and joins a growing call for a complete investigation into his murder by the IDF.