Glasgow University Students Representative Council voted on January 17th “to campaign vigorously to secure Vanunu’s release from Israeli detention”. Glasgow University students can now call on Glasgow City Council for assistance, after Scotland’s largest city council pledged on February 21st to also support the campaign for Vanunu’s freedom. With both Glasgow students and the City Council singing…
Palestine: Tel Aviv’s collective punishments Stories by witnesses from the village of Beit Ummar. By Luisa Morgantini, Vice-President of the European Parliament. Published in Liberazione, Italian newspaper on 19th February 2008 Friday 15th February: after three days in a row of siege and curfew, Israeli tanks eventually leave and water and electricity can be restored…
EU helped farmers during the years they prepared their new groves of fruit and nut and olive trees..
The farmers of Beit Ula spent two years preparing their new groves of fruit and nut and olive trees, clearing rocks, building stone terraces and digging deep cisterns to catch the scarce rainwater. It took the Israeli Army less than a day to destroy it. “We heard they were here at 6.30 in the morning,…
John Berger January 2006 All this is clear; it is not happening in some remote, war-locked corner of the globe, every foreign office of every rich nation is watching and not one takes measures to discourage the illegalities. “For us,” a Palestinian mother says at a checkpoint after an IDF soldier has lobbed a tear…
Mr Brown, how do you explain your uncritical support of a foreign government that practices apartheid? By Stuart Littlewood James Gordon Brown, you are a “son of the manse”, which means you were raised in the household of a church minister. You’ll be quite big on Christian principles, then. So how do you explain your…
Continue Reading An open letter to Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister
JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli army is preparing for a possible rush on the border fence around the Gaza Strip aimed at breaking a months-long economic blockade, local media reported on Sunday. According to a report on army radio the Islamist Hamas movement which has ruled the Gaza Strip since June may stage a mass…
Continue Reading Israel on alert ahead of ‘human chain’ Gaza protest: report