Israel pushes out its own people Netanyahu’s insistence on the term ‘Jewish state’ signals a rejection of Israeli Palestinians as rightful citizens Dimi Reider guardian.co.uk 10 June 2009 Are we facing the prospect of an ethnic cleansing? To a degree, ethnic cleansing has always been part and parcel of Israeli political life. Despite its bloody…
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The Carmel Academic Center in Haifa Closes Academic Track As Too Many Palestinian Students Registered Alternative Information Center (AIC) The Carmel Academic Center in Haifa shut down the concentration in accounting within its Department of Business Administration because a majority of the students applying were Palestinian citizens of Israel. This was revealed in a news…
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A history of discrimination By Yitzhak Laor in Haaretz 28th May, 2009 Every year since Israel’s independence, cinema newsreels, and later television news, have reported to the public on “the heads of Muslim, Christian and Druze communities congratulating the president in honor of Independence Day.” It was the age of patriotic innocence, coupled with national…
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Palestinian Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) 9 July 2005 | We, representatives of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era. We appeal…
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[RAMALLAH, 11 June 2009] – Today, DCI-Palestine is releasing a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force – Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities. The release of the report comes just…
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Over 300,000 people under threat of house demolition in occupied Palestinian territory Source: Save the Children Alliance, 15 Jun 2009 Up to three houses are being demolished every day, and in some cases entire villages have been given blanket demolition orders by the Israeli authorities. The demolition orders leave more than 300,000 Palestinians under threat…