The demonstration in Edinburgh for Palestinian hunger strikers, Saturday 28th May 2012http://youtu.be/BVPS-Sy9TcAGravely ill Palestinian hunger striker faints in court as Israeli judges sentence him to slow death Two days after doctors warned that hunger strikers Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh are at immediate risk of death, and being denied necessary medical treatment, the Israeli high…
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Boycott Israel Network (BIN) media release Saturday 28 April 2012 Palestine human rights campaigners today welcomed news that the UK’s fifth biggest food retailer, The Co-operative Group, will “no longer engage with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements”. The Co-op’s decision, notified to campaigners in a statement, will immediately…
The delegates to the Annual Conference of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), the umbrella group for every trade union in Scotland, today voted unanimously and repeatedly against Israeli apartheid. The 450 delegates voted to: campaign to expose the role of the racist JNF (Jewish National Fund) in the Israeli apartheid system support the participants…
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JNF Spokesman attacks the (Jewish) community: ‘You don’t defend Israel properly’By Marcus Dysch, Jewish Chronicle, April 19, 2012A leading pro-Israel activist believes the mainstream Jewish community “cannot be trusted” to defend Israel and claims non-Jews are now leading the way in combating delegitimisation efforts…He said Jewish communal leaders “shied away” from discussing Israel whenever possible. The…
Israeli spokespersons are usually given an easy time on the UK media, but not in the discussion of Welcome to Palestine 2012 on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story on 17 April 2012. Click here “It has always been an axiom of the Israeli foreign policy to isolate Palestinians, while the bulldozers work, the olive trees are burnt,…
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TThe Israeli Interior Ministry is using Israel’s apartheid laws to control UK and other international airlines, and to prevent anyone trattempting to travel openly to Palestine. From today’s Haaretz (April 14, 2012): “In the letter, which was obtained by Haaretz, Amnon Shmueli of the Interior Ministry’s Population and Immigration Authority writes, “In light of statements…
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