by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon 24 Oct 2011 In a new article made available today by the journal Jerusalem Quarterly, activist and The Electronic Intifada contributor Hannah Mermelstein discusses a lesser known part of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine — the attempted annihilation of the Palestinian nation through cultural theft and destruction. In “Overdue…
Rory McCarthy, Jerusalem, Guardian, May 24th 2009 Shortly before the opening event was due to begin, a squad of around a dozen Israeli border police walked into the Palestinian National Theatre, in East Jerusalem, and ordered it to be closed. Police brought a letter from the Israeli minister of internal security which said the event…
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The global movement for a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights was initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005, and is coordinated by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), established in 2007. BDS is a strategy that allows people of conscience to play…
The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign started in autumn 2000 in response to the Palestinian second uprising against Israeli occupation (intifada). The SPSC has branches and groups of supporters in several Scottish cities and universities, as well as individual members across Scotland. We are all volunteers, independent of all political formations, and wholly dependent on donations…
The spokespersons for the Israeli Embassy in London, the Israeli Information Office in Giffnock and Scottish Friends of Israel may sometimes appear deranged but they have a sense of where some of the campaign in Scotland for Palestine is coming from:According to the website of the Israeli Embassy in London, Since “There is a need to counter…
By Occupied Palestine and Syrian Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative (OPGAI) END THE ISRAELI MILITARY OCCUPATIONWe, the undersigned civil society organizations, are part of the Palestinian and Arab people who have struggled for decades against colonization and a military occupation imposed upon us by Jewish settlers via the Zionist Movement and the state of Israel.We are…
Continue Reading Joint Statement and Call for Action Presented to the 2005 World Social Forum