What is the anti-boycott law? Who does it affect?

Monday, July 11 2011| Roi Maor | +972 Magazine Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, is set to pass (after some convoluted last minute wrangling) today one of the most anti-democratic measures in the country’s history, the so-called “Anti-Boycott Law.” A link to the full text’s translation can be found here. Simply put, the law seeks to […]

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Breaking: Knesset outlaws political boycott

Monday, July 11 2011| Dimi Reider | +972 Magazine The Knesset has just passed into law the anti-boycott initiative bill of MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), by a majority of 47 to 38. A lot of members, including Shas, top Likud members and all of Atzmaut (Ehud Barak’s faction) were absent. Netanyahu was absent from the […]

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Prison-prescribed medication worsens prisoner’s condition

[ 11/07/2011 – 04:56 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The family of Naeem Shahda Halaika, a Palestinian currently detained at the Israeli Negev prison, has called on the Red Cross and other rights groups to help see the prisoner gets medical attention after he was afflicted with a massive blood clot in his stomach after taking […]

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OIC demands release of Sheikh Salah in contacts with British officials

[ 11/07/2011 – 05:23 PM ] JEDDAH, (PIC)– Secretary General of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has made contacts with a number of British government officials asking for the release of Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine. An OIC press release on Monday said that Ihsanoglu […]

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IOF soldiers uproot 450 olive trees

[ 11/07/2011 – 05:39 PM ] SALFIT, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday uprooted 450 olive trees west of Salfit province, local sources reported. A Palestinian official in the district said that the IOF soldiers blocked farmers from heading to their land in the area after declaring it a closed military zone. He said […]

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Internationals demand access to Nabi Saleh

10 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Saturday 9th July, seventy people – including thirty internationals from Sweden, France, Britain, Australia, Mexico, the United States and Denmark – demonstrated at a military checkpoint outside Nabi Saleh, after the army denied them entry into the village. The demonstration was planned six months in […]

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2,500 US Jews aim to fill gaps in northern occupied territories

[ 11/07/2011 – 05:31 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– An Israeli organization has announced plans to bring more than 2,500 Jews from North America to the occupied Palestinian territories this summer, as it seeks to resettle the regiment in areas with high Palestinian populations. The organization, Nefesh B’nefesh, which encourages the migration of Jews from North […]

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Glenn Beck meeting the ex-chairman of a US department terror organization

Monday, July 11 2011| Noam Sheizaf |  +972 Magazine One of the visitors on the Knesset’s Committee discussion that hosted Glen Beck today was a settler named Baruch Marzel. Marzel, seen below meeting Beck, was the secretary of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Kach movement. After the murder of Kahane, Marzel, a resident of Hebron, chaired the […]

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Life as a Palestine refugee – storyful in video

From: UNRWA The United Nations agency which works with Palestine refugees has released films showing some of their daily lives. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East works with over 4.7 million people registered as refugees in several countries, addressing poverty and social marginalization.     ‘Peace starts here’ […]

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Archbishop Atallah Hanna calls for release of Sheikh Raed Salah

  Monday, 11 July 2011 13:00 | MEMO Archbishop of Sebastia demands that the British authorities release Sheikh Raed and enable him to continue his visit of Britain. The Archbishop of Sebastia from the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Atallah Hana, has expressed his sympathy and solidarity with Sheikh Raed Salah who is currently being detained […]

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Another Car run down: Settler runs down 6 year old boy, others vandalize farmlands in tense West Bank

[ 11/07/2011 – 03:25 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– A Jewish settler ran down and seriously injured a 6-year-old Palestinian boy on Sunday south of Bethlehem, while other settlers vandalized farmland in Safa village near Beit Ummar in northern Al-Khalil province on Sunday. The boy, Ismail Shahein, was transported to Haddasa hospital to be treated for […]

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Conference to discuss strengthening Israel’s control of West Bank

[ 11/07/2011 – 03:08 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Zionist organizations are gearing to help stage a conference to study options for strengthening Israeli control of the West Bank. The development comes as Zionist figures have begun to discuss plans to extend the boundaries of Israel’s Jerusalem municipality to the east. The conference, organized by Women […]

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The American mis-leader of those who want justice for Palestinians

July 11, 2011 | Jews for Justice for Palestinians The Oslo Accords are all but dead Settlement expansion persists as Israel’s right-wing government continues to ignore the terms agreed to in the accords close to two decades ago. ~ By Akiva Eldar 04.07.11 In October 1991 he came with U.S. President George H.W. Bush to […]

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Glenn Beck at Knesset: “The West and Israel are being set up”

+972 Magazine | July 11, 2011 The Glenn Beck circus at the Knesset today had it all: Ecstatic fans who pushed and shoved to meet him; a theatrical as ever Beck, pounding on the table and yelling “Amen”; MK Arieh Eldad saying the occupation must end (the Islamic occupation of Israel) and even some chit-chat […]

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What is the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement? by Joseph Dana

  Joseph Dana | July 11, 2011 The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement is in the news today. Israel is posed to pass a bill that will criminalize support for the nonviolent movement among Israeli citizens. Risking a criminal sentence, I am publishing some basic information about the BDS movement below as a means of dispelling rumors about BDS […]

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