Articles by martyn

Gazans told to boil water as chlorine runs low Siege enforcers blame  Gazans  GAZA, Feb 27 (Reuters) – The Palestinian water utility urged Gazans on Wednesday to boil their drinking water and said contamination was […]

Glasgow University Students Representative Council voted on January 17th "to campaign vigorously to secure Vanunu’s release from Israeli detention". Glasgow University students can now call on Glasgow City Council for assistance, after Scotland’s largest city council pledged […]

Palestine: Tel Aviv’s collective punishments Stories by witnesses from the village of Beit Ummar. By Luisa Morgantini, Vice-President of the European Parliament. Published in Liberazione, Italian newspaper on 19th February 2008 Friday 15th February: after […]

The farmers of Beit Ula spent two years preparing their new groves of fruit and nut and olive trees, clearing rocks, building stone terraces and digging deep cisterns to catch the scarce rainwater. It took […]

Mr Brown, how do you explain your uncritical support of a foreign government that practices apartheid? By Stuart Littlewood James Gordon Brown, you are a “son of the manse”, which means you were raised in […]

JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli army is preparing for a possible rush on the border fence around the Gaza Strip aimed at breaking a months-long economic blockade, local media reported on Sunday. According to a […]

The mayor of Sderot, an Israeli town repeatedly targeted by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, says in order to save Israeli lives he is ready to talk to Hamas – despite the international ban […]

The Green Party of England and Wales has adopted a radical policy in support of boycotting Israel. At its spring conference in Reading over the weekend, delegates agreed to back the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” […]

CAIRO (AFP) — Around 15 Egyptian trade unions — from doctors to writers — issued a protest on Thursday over a decision to make Israel a guest of honour at a major Paris book fair […]