Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Up and down the country, protestors ignored the tropical humidity to voice their opposition to Israeli aggression, which was displayed once again. Here's what happened. All Photos courtesy of FLV.
Nil'in Hundreds of people from the town and surrounding villages of Ni'lin gathered on the threatened land, where they affirmed the ...
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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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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Palestinian, Israeli and international activists joined demonstrations in villages up and down the West Bank yesterday, marking the Global Week Against racism.
A Palestinian boy was seriously wounded during An Nebi Saleh protest.
Here is what happened.
Bi'lin Once again, creativity distinguished Bi'lin protest. Activists dressed as figures representing Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther ...
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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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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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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Once again, a peaceful demonstration through Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, ended with army brutality. Around 80 people marched on Sunday in Oush Grab, in protest of the re-opening of a former military base. Israeli Army fired sound grenades, tear-gas canisters and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.
All photos were taken ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Heavy rain prevented popular resistance marches scaling the peaks of Bi'lin last week, but up and down the country demonstrators made their feelings known.
BILIN Dozens of protesters suffered teargas inhalation in a demonstration against the Wall and settlements in Bil'in which was joined by Israeli and international activists. Despite the ...
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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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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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