January 1, 2010 Sign the Cairo Declaration Follow this link for the Arabic translation: {phocadownload view=file|id=23|target=s} (Cairo) Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to join…
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This week Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, told UN Radio: “Obviously Israel does not respond to language of diplomacy, which has encouraged the lifting of the blockade and so what I am suggesting is that it has to be reinforced by a…
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Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign — Media Release Tue 29th December 2009 Holocaust survivor starts hunger strike to protest blockade of Gaza An 85 year-old Holocaust survivor began a hunger strike in Cairo yesterday in an attempt to pressure Egyptian authorities to stop cooperating with Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Hedy Epstein is part of an international…
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Contact the Egyptian Embassy: Egyptian Embassy (Diplomatic Mission)E-Mail: eg.emb_london@mfa.gov.eg Tel.: 020 7499 3304 Egyptian Tourist OfficeTel.: 020 7493 5283 Egyptian Press and Information OfficeTel.: 020 7409 2236 Contact your MP: http://www.writetothem.com/ David Miliband (Foreign Secretary/Labour MP for South Shields) milibandd@parliament.uk (0191) 456 8910 British Embassy in Egypt Tel: +(20)(2)27916000 information.cairo@fco.gov.uk …
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign — Media Release Thursday 24th December 2009 Scots group heads to Palestine to break the Gaza siege. A Scottish group is set to join around two thousand internationals in a bid to break Israel’s siege of Gaza at the end of the year. Twelve members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign…
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by Bob Williamson and John Goss (International Solidarity Movement London)Indymedia, 15 December 2009 Last Sunday we (two members of the Inetrnational Solidarity Movement London) obtained tickets to the JNF conference, which Israeli war criminal Tzipi Livni was due to address. She didnt show up and we heckled the Israeli ambassador instead but in the meantime…
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