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The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during World War 2. In 1933 approximately nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during the war. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed. The European Jews…

Source: Occupations website This page is just for university responses that have been made public and that we have access to – there have been many responses to the occupations and we have tried to summerise that process on the more pages. We wanted a specific page for public statements – so we could keep…

This branch / Region / District notes: Israel’s latest massacres of Palestinians in Gaza Israel’s ongoing bulldozing of Palestinian homes and killings of peaceful demonstrators Desmond Tutu’s description of Israel’s long-term treatment of the Palestinian people as “an abomination”. Ex-President Jimmy Carter’s statement that Palestinians ‘are treated like animals’  and his description of the Israel occupation…

Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 6 October 2008 Israeli employers have found ways of evading the high court ruling by for instance issuing pay slips with false attendance reports. The normal practice is to register fewer working days than those actually worked, so it appears that the minimum wage is being paid.” According to the…

B’tselem: West Bank sewage runs amuck By Dan Izenberg, Jerusalem Post 27th June 2009   Jewish settlements are…built on the top of hills…[so]…”the sewage flowed down towards the olive orchards of Azmut village and then, along an open channel to the center of the village, a few meters from the houses and adjacent to a…