by Dr. Sarah Marusek | reposted from the Middle East Monitor American universities and college campuses have long served as a vibrant front in the struggle for social justice and today they are increasingly providing critical spaces of resistance in the fight against Israeli apartheid and the occupation of Palestine.
Support Commitment to Abide by International Law reposted from Human Rights Watch (Jerusalem) – The US government should support rather than oppose Palestinian actions to join international treaties that promote respect for human rights.
Friday, April 4 2014 – In response to the call from the Popular Committees of Palestine, protests against US military aid to the Israeli occupation will be held in cities across the US and around the world on America’s Tax Day: Tuesday, April 15th.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Greta Berlin, Iristulip@gmail.com Audrey Bomse, audreybomse@hotmail.com 0033 607 374 512 Istanbul, Turkey, March 25, 2014, “If they (Israeli officials) are not free to travel, if they can’t go to their kid’s graduations outside Israel, if they worry constantly about being arrested when they go to the UK or Spain or Argentina,…
By Stephanie Nebehay | reposted from Yahoo! News GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights investigator accused Israel on Friday of “ethnic cleansing” in pushing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem and cast doubt that the Israeli government could accept a Palestinian state in the current climate.
by Roger Waters | reposted from Salon Seventy years ago, my father – 2nd Lt. Eric Fletcher Waters – died in Italy fighting the Nazis. He was a committed pacifist, and a conscientious objector at the start of the war, but as Hitler’s crimes spread across Europe, he swapped the ambulance he had driven through the London…
reposted from Al Arabiya AFP, Cairo Wednesday, 5 March 2014 Egypt detained and deported Northern Irish Nobel Laureate and peace activist Mairead Maguire on Wednesday after she tried to enter the country, she and airport officials said. She had intended to join a delegation of activists going to the neighboring Palestinian Gaza Strip on Thursday.
The Peace People, 224 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 6GE, Northern Ireland Phone: 0044 (0) 28 9066 346 Email: info@peacepeople.com www.peacepeople.com 3rd March, 2014 Press release PEACE PEOPLE Joins International Delegation of…
By Elena Popina | reposted from BloombergBusinessweek SodaStream International Ltd., the Israeli maker of home soda machines with a factory in the West Bank, sank to the lowest since 2012 in New York amid growing criticism for businesses operating in a territory that Palestinians seek for an independent state.
by Ramah Kudaimi, Membership & Outreach Coordinator | reposted from US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Urge Oxfam Global Ambassador to End Support for Settlements On January 10, 2014, occupation profiteer SodaStream announced that Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson had become their first-ever Global Brand Ambassador and will be starring in SodaStream’s Super Bowl ad on February 2.