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Israel’s Danny Danon to Clinton: Declare Turkey a terror-supporting state

Today’s Zaman |  Sept 2, 2011 A hawkish Israeli politician reportedly wrote a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday, asking the US to declare Turkey a terror-supporting state, the Jerusalem Post reported early on Friday. Danny Danon, who is also deputy Knesset speaker, wrote a letter to Clinton after Foreign Minister […]

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July 15, 2011| Israelis, Palestinians to march in joint call for Palestinian statehood

By Eitan Grossman | +972 Magazine ‘Only Free Men Can Negotiate’ – Nelson Mandela   Palestinians, Israelis and internationals at a protest in Sheikh Jarrah (Photo: Anne Paq / activestills.org) This Friday (July 15, 2011), thousands of Palestinians and Israelis will march together in Jerusalem to express their support for international recognition of the unilateral […]

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We Will Not be Silent: Statement in Regard to Israeli Anti-Boycott Law

Wednesday, 13 July 2011 07:45 | AIC |  Multiple Signatories “We’re going to arrest you, but it’s difficult with you because all you do is talk.” – Israeli soldier to Palestinian organizer Mohammad Othman, 2009 [1] We, Israeli citizens, members of Boycott![2], hereby reiterate our support and promotion of the Palestinian Call for Boycott, Divestment […]

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Israeli groups to challenge boycott law in court

July 12, 2011 JERUSALEM – A coalition of Israeli human rights groups said Tuesday it would ask the country’s Supreme Court to overturn a new law that bans boycotting Jewish West Bank settlements — legislation critics see as the government’s latest attempt to muzzle dissent. A spokeswoman for the rights groups, Tamara Traubmann, said the […]

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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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WE ARE ALL RAED SALAH | Demo London – in pictures

There’s No Room Anymore For Zionism…. We Are All Raed Salah! It’s time the world awakens from the myths of “Israel” and the zionist plans of annihilation, expulsion, eviction, arrests or elsewhise ethnic cleansing of Palestinians or anyone supporting the Palestinian Cause. While UK is hosting free entry to Israeli warcriminals, Islamic sheikh Raed Salah […]

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Statement | Israeli Organisations Support for the Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla

  Sunday, 03 July 2011 14:06 Various Organisations| AIC We, Israeli organizations, Palestinians and Jews, declare our support for the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla and its declared goals: to break the Israeli siege on Gaza – both on the sea and land – which represents part of the ongoing Israeli occupation. We denounce the slanderous campaign […]

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A Zionist Fights for Palestinian Rights

  by Mel Frykberg, June 29, 2011| Antiwar.com JERUSALEM — To many people, Rabbi Arik Ascherman would appear to be a contradiction in terms. He is an ardent Zionist and religious Jew who believes that God made a covenant with the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. But the core of Ascherman’s Zionist ideology […]

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#Flotilla2 | Message to American Jews: ‘Support peace, true peace’ – Video

Haitham Sabbah | June 27, 2011 | Sabbah Report   “May your village burn.” “Death to leftists.” “Slaughter the Arabs.” This is what Israelis sang on Jerusalem Day, to the horror of many including Hagit Borer, an Israeli Jewish American, born in Israel, when Jerusalem was a very different place. In her Op-Ed, she recalls […]

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Joseph Dana speaks to Al Jazeera about taking part in the latest #flotilla2 to Gaza – video

AlJazeera | June 26, 2011 Jospeh Dana, an Israeli-American journalist with the Nation, will be on board a US ship as part of the Freedom Flotilla which is to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip. He says he will go ahead with his decision despite Israel’s warning that journalists on board the flotilla could be […]

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Humans against Strangulation of Gaza

by Jane Hirschmann | June 20th, 2011 | Dissident Voice People often ask me why I am part of a team to organize a U.S. Boat to Gaza that will be sailing this month with the next International Flotilla to break the siege of Gaza. They often make clear they are asking because I am […]

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Palestinian civil society and Israeli citizens of conscience condemn France’s suppression of human rights

June 16, 2011 |   BDSmovement.net Palestinian civil society and Israeli citizens of conscience condemn France’s suppression of human rights The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broadest Palestinian civil society coalition and the Palestinian leadership of the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, and Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call From […]

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Top ten myths about Israeli policy

Thursday, June 16 2011| Roi Maor | +972 Magazine In the next few weeks, I will write a separate post about each of the top ten myths about Israeli policy, tackling the obfuscation and confusion that often characterize discussions of official Israeli positions and actions, at home and abroad. My top ten list appears below […]

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Stop Greenwashing Apartheid Makes a Breakthrough

PNN – Palestine News Network -13.06.11 – 09:19 By Alessandra Bajec – On the occasion of Palestinian Land Day and the Global BDS Day of Action last March, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) officially launched an international campaign to Stop the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The call to revoke the JNF’s […]

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