Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today.
A judge in the northern Israeli city of Haifa was due to be presented with evidence that 23-year-old Corrie was killed ...
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
The beginning of March saw the opening of the first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in Barcelona. The question referred to by the Organising Committee in the first session of the RTP was whether the nature of relations between EU member states and Israel are unlawful within the ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Alternatives is a Montreal-based NGO that has been campaigning for human rights, international development, peace, and justice for 15 years, in over 30 countries. They are under threat from the current Canadian government, which is targeting any organization that dares to speak up for Palestinian human rights.
Alternatives unequivocally defends the ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
It is well known that fisherman in Gaza are among the worst affected by the Israeli blockade. Il Manifesto correspondant Michele Giorgio met with a former Israeli Navy officer, now working with Breaking The Silence, who gave a first hand account of how they were trained to police fishermen.
It's an ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD – March 2 2010 – The Israeli army invaded our neighborhood at 1:30 AM Tuesday morning waking up my mother, wife and sister. Heavily-armed soldiers blocked roads during "the operation". When my family opened the door, they demanded to see me. They were ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Yesterday, the first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) was held in Barcelona, Spain. Its mandate is to examine the complicity of the European Union and its member states with the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories, as well as in Israel's violations of Palestinians' human rights.
What is ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Europe's highest court ruled on Thursday that Israeli products manufactured in settlements in occupied Palestinian territories are not exempt from paying EU customs duties. Though nominally a finding on a trade-related matter, the decision has much wider political implications. It would seem like little more than a minor customs dispute ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
On Thursday morning over 250 Palestinian protesters, joined by dozens of Israeli and international activists, braved foul weather conditions to demonstrate in Hebron against the closure of Ash'Shuhada, the street which, since Baruch Goldstein's massacre of 29 worshippers in the Ibrahimi Mosque in 1994 has been progressively “sterilised” by closing ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's decision to add two holy sites in the occupied Palestinian territories to a list of national heritage sites was met with immediate condemnation from Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative.
Deploring the act as provocative and aggressive, Barghouti stated "the Israeli decision to ...
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Last week, American and Israeli human rights activists interrupted a performance by the Israel Ballet at the Flynn Theater in Burlington, Vermont, holding banners which read "Sponsored by Apartheid Israel" and "No tutu is big enough to cover War Crimes".
The Israel Ballet is currently touring the U.S. as part of ...
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