Media Release; Sunday November 29th 2009: Football fans to fly the flag for Palestine Celtic fans are set to show solidarity with Palestine when their team takes on Israel’s Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Europa League on Wednesday. Campaigners aim to issue ten thousand Palestine flags to fans entering the Parkhead venue, as an…
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Jews and Arabs in a Negev rally:”Stop the land robbery, stop the denial of flowing water, stop the discrimination!” by Negev Coexistence Forum The JNF is creating a fait accompli, aiming to turn the judicial process meaningless by taking over the land and planting trees. Hundreds of Negev residents, Jews and Arabs, as well as…
“We do not wish to fund companies that so directly contribute to violations of international humanitarian law,” Ms Halvorsen said at the time… significant high point in a campaign that is followed attentively, and with some concern, in Israel Tobias Bruck in Financial Times 19 November 2009 Norwegian finance ministers do not normally have the…
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What does Israel have against a Palestinian stadium? By Amira Hass A friendly game between an Arab soccer team and a Palestinian team was supposed to inaugurate the new stadium being built in the eastern part of Al-Bireh, near Ramallah, at the end of the year. “Supposed to” because the Civil Administration, an arm of…
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Can we talk? The Middle East “peace industry” by Faris Giacamanin The Electronic Intifada20 August 2009 Upon finding out that I am Palestinian, many people I meet at college in the United States are eager to inform me of various activities that they have participated in that promote “coexistence” and “dialogue” between both sides of…
by Adri Nieuwhof in The Electronic Intifada 2 June 2009 Of course it is positive that parts of the Jewish population of Israel try to see Palestinians as human beings and as their equals. However, it disturbs me how paper-thin the number is that protests and is truly anti-Zionist. We get worked up by what…
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