Articles by martyn

How is Israel able to strangle the Gaza Strip when there is supposed to be an international crossing between Gaza and Egypt not controlled by Israelis? Certainly, free movement was the promise held out in […]

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have started enforcing stringent restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, which hasn’t witnessed such restrictions in years. It has become noticeable that movement between different West […]

Bethlehem / Najib Farraj – Minors are the latest target of Israeli arrest campaigns, as reported by the Palestinian Prisoner Society. On a daily basis school and universities students, and youth in general, are put […]

Mohammed Khalid / PNN – After days of protest during which Palestinian flower growers in the Gaza Strip dumped their creations at the feet of the closed borders, those flowers that were intended for Valentine’s […]

Open letter from Montreal filmmaker Malcolm Guy to the Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québecois With this letter I would like to officially withdraw as a member of the jury for the 2008 Prize of the Alex […]

ISRAEL ESCALATED its air assault and campaign of strangulation against Gaza in the weeks after Palestinians tore down part of the Rafah border wall with Egypt. On February 9, several Israeli missile attacks killed a […]

On Valentine’s Day pickets and info stalls were held at London’s two major flower markets urging people not to buy flowers from apartheid Israel. The call to action was following a call by Palestinian Civil […]

Boycott Committee – After 60 years of dispossession and ethnic cleansing, a “Palestinian Appeal to International Civil Society” is being issued as the memorial of Al Nakba, the Catastrophe, is upon us. How can you celebrate?  The […]

The occupied Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip survive the harsh conditions and severe limitations on movement because of the humanitarian aid disbursed by the international community.  Israel relies on this assistance, because […]