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Mohammed Khalid / PNN – After days of protest during which Palestinian flower growers in the Gaza Strip dumped their creations at the feet of the closed borders, those flowers that were intended for Valentine’s Day have become food for sheep and cows. The flowers could not be exported to Europe where they normally go…

Open letter from Montreal filmmaker Malcolm Guy to the Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québecois With this letter I would like to officially withdraw as a member of the jury for the 2008 Prize of the Alex and Ruth Dworkin Foundation for the Promotion of Tolerance through Cinema (2008 Prix annuel de la Fondation Alex et Ruth…

ISRAEL ESCALATED its air assault and campaign of strangulation against Gaza in the weeks after Palestinians tore down part of the Rafah border wall with Egypt. On February 9, several Israeli missile attacks killed a Palestinian policeman in Rafah and caused severe damage in al-Shaboura refugee camp, where several people were injured and a large…

On Valentine’s Day pickets and info stalls were held at London’s two major flower markets urging people not to buy flowers from apartheid Israel. The call to action was following a call by Palestinian Civil Society organisations for Boycott. Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against apartheid Israel. Carmel-Agrexco is the largest exporter of fresh produce from…

Boycott Committee – After 60 years of dispossession and ethnic cleansing, a “Palestinian Appeal to International Civil Society” is being issued as the memorial of Al Nakba, the Catastrophe, is upon us. How can you celebrate?  The establishment of the State of Israel sixty years ago was a settler-colonial project that systematically and violently uprooted more than…

The occupied Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip survive the harsh conditions and severe limitations on movement because of the humanitarian aid disbursed by the international community.  Israel relies on this assistance, because it prevents the Palestinian population from starving, preventing the full brunt of Israel’s occupation regime from being realized and thereby…