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BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, AND SANCTIONS (BDS) -FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSwww.pacbi.org/faqs.htm What is the underlying principle of calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)? It is no longer denied that Israel has oppressed the Palestinian people for decades […]

BRICUP | Press Release | October 20, 2008 The British Committee for Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) today denounced the effort by unnamed members of the University and College Union (UCU) to prevent free debate of […]

by Omar Barghouti, October 21, 2008www.counterpunch.org/barghouti10212008.html  Since the launch of the Palestinian boycott movement a few years ago, we have experienced an awkward phenomenon that demands urgent comment. Several organizations known for years — in […]

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Israeli forces confiscated a large piece of construction equipment from Zidan Issa Shawahi while he was working the fields near Umm Lasafa a village south of Hebron. Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces assaulted Zidan before confiscating […]

Lawyers for Mr Al-Shami filed a case in the Dutch court of appeal at The Hague on Monday, requesting an order for Dutch prosecution to begin criminal investigations into Ayalon and an extradition order to […]

The Occupation has confiscated 180 dunums of agricultural land from the villages of Deir Sharaf and Qusin, northwest of Nablus, for use as a trash dump – the official sanctioning of a practice that has […]

"It  is not taught in Israeli schools but most of the early Zionist leaders, including David Ben Gurion [Israel’s first prime minister], believed that the Palestinians were the descendants of the area’s original Jews. They […]

The general promised “disproportionate” force to destroy entire villages identified as sources of Hizbullah rocket fire, the reasoning being that they are “not civilian villages” but rather “military bases” – the kind of reasoning that […]

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: ‘The shocking truth is that Israeli soldiers kill civilians in Gaza with near-total impunity, week in week out. Tom Hurndall’s family have fought hard to achieve justice over […]