Organize a protest in your city against the Prawer Plan!

We call on international solidarity activists to organize demonstrations on 1 August in their own cities, and to spread awareness of the biggest impending ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians by Israel since 1948 through writing petitions, sharing information on the Naqab and Prawer Plan, or by any other show of activism. On Monday, July 15, […]

List of Palestinians shot by IOF in Gaza Strip after the November 21 ceasefire

Since November 22, 2012, 5 Palestinians have been killed and 107 Palestinians, including 23 children, have been wounded by IOF fire in Gaza Strip. One of the above mentioned Palestinians has been wounded twice, in 2 different incidents. Four of the wounded are fishermen who were shot in the sea, while the others are protesters, […]

He was just playing: apartheid in occupied Hebron

By: Saeda On the evening of Sunday, July 14, three young boys played in the old city of occupied Hebron.  None of them attracted particular attention at first, but before the sun set each boy would shed light on a very different face of the Israeli occupation in Hebron.  One would be arrested but released […]

UC Board of Regents appoints Sadia Saifuddin as student regent-designate

Reposted from the Daily Californian By Simon Greenhill and Mary Zhou The UC Board of Regents appointed UC Berkeley senior Sadia Saifuddin as student regent-designate at its meeting Wednesday, despite some controversy over her selection. Saifuddin’s appointment was met with controversy during the meeting’s public comment session when some raised concerns about her support of […]

EU orders member states: Exclude West Bank settlements from any future deals with Israel

Jerusalem describes move as an ‘earthquake,’ says will makes it impossible to sign accords with Brussels. Reposted from Haaretz | By Barak Ravid | Jul.16, 2013 | 6:29 AM The European Union has published a binding directive to all 28 member states forbidding any funding, cooperation, awarding of scholarships, research funds or prizes to anyone […]

Another Attack on the Jaber Family by Israeli Settlers

by The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions For three hours on Friday, July 12, from 11 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon, dozens of settlers from Kiryat Arba invaded the land and gardens of the Jaber family – Atta, Rudina and their three children – in al-Baqaa, near Hebron. Accompanied by the Israeli […]

Alert: Save the Hares Boys: 5 Palestinian children face life imprisonment with no evidence for no documented crime

The following content is taken from The Hares Boys campaign website, a critical resource on an important case about the criminalization of Palestinian youth, the devastation of imprisonment, apartheid military courts, and occupation injustice. For additional information, updates and action alerts: http://haresboys.wordpress.com/ The website also contains an important analysis of racist Israeli media coverage and […]

The price of supporting Palestine on US campuses

Reposted from Mid East Monitor by: Dr. Sarah Marusek Thursday, 11 July 2013 12:25 Eight years ago this week, a coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations issued the global call for a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel in response to the international community’s continued failure to hold Israel accountable for denying Palestinians […]

We are ready to move on to the next stage

Dear friends and supporters of Gaza’s Ark, Thank you very much to the generous donors who have covered the cost of applying fiberglass to Gaza’s Ark. Now, thanks to the workers, this has been completed – see some recent photos (http://www.gazaark.org/category/ark-photo-album/). We are ready to move on to the next stage. Reinforcing the hull will […]