Month: June 2009

This branch / Region / District notes: Israel’s latest massacres of Palestinians in Gaza Israel’s ongoing bulldozing of Palestinian homes and killings of peaceful demonstrators Desmond Tutu’s description of Israel’s long-term treatment of the Palestinian people […]

Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 6 October 2008 Israeli employers have found ways of evading the high court ruling by for instance issuing pay slips with false attendance reports. The normal practice is to register […]

B’tselem: West Bank sewage runs amuck By Dan Izenberg, Jerusalem Post 27th June 2009   Jewish settlements are…built on the top of hills…[so]…"the sewage flowed down towards the olive orchards of Azmut village and then, […]

  Israeli soldiers poured dirt, stones and toxic chemicals in the only well in the hamlet of Khirbat Makehl near the village of Ya’bad in the northern West Bank overnight on Saturday, according to Palestinians […]

Palestinian academic union urges colleagues to back boycott in support of ‘struggle for justice’  Dr Amjad Barham (President of the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees )   While we value academic […]

The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) today (Wednesday 24 June) rejected the Foreign Office’s “dismay” at trade union’s supporting boycotts of Israel, and suggested this is an indication that the UK Government is out of […]