November 30, 2010
Israel’s measures to 'ease’ the illegal blockade of Gaza in the face of significant international pressure have done little to change the plight of Gaza’s civilians, says a report published today by an international coalition of development, human rights and peace-building organisations. They are calling for renewed international action to ensure an immediate, unconditional and complete lifting of the ...
By Mazin Qumsiyeh, November 30, 2010
http://www.qumsiyeh.org/thoughtsongermanyandpalestine/
The conference in Stuttgart about Palestine was themed "Separated in the past, together in the future", was sold-out, and had some high powered speakers and lots of energy [1]. We listened, spoke, networked, bought each others' books, ate, hugged, cried, and laughed. I mostly spent lots of time in thinking; maybe because waiting at ...
http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/786
Occupied Palestine, 30 November 2010 - "May this tribunal prevent the crime of silence‟, pleaded intellectual Bertrand Russell at the first meeting of the citizens' War Crimes Tribunal that investigated US war crimes during its war on Vietnam.1 At a time when little was known in the wider public about US conduct in Vietnam, the tribunal exposed and brought to the fore of public discourse the ...
by PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity),# 511 Nov 26th 2010
"For those of us who live here, it is something we take for granted. But visitors from abroad cannot believe their eyes."
Under the guise of the deceptively mundane name "Amendment to the Cooperative Associations Bill," the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) has finalized a bill intended to bypass previous rulings of the Israeli High ...
PCHR- Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Press Release, 25. November 2010
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Let our Motto be: No to Silence on Violence against Palestinian Women
On 25 November of every year, the world celebrates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which was adopted by the UN on 17 December 1999 to eliminate violence against women around the ...
by Jeff Halper
Struggling as I have for the past decades to grasp the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and find ways to get out of this interminable and absolutely superfluous conflict, I have been two-thirds successful. After many years of activism and analysis, I think I have put my finger on the first third of the equation: What is the problem? My answer, which has withstood the test of time and today is so evident that it elicits the ...
