Bristol sponsored walk for Palestine 2014
18th May 2014 An easy 5 mile walk from central Bristol to Ashton Court Estate and return via the Suspension Bridge and Clifton to the harbour. To get your sponsorship form electronically or by…
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The World is With Us
Cinema programme: May 16-18 The World is With Us opens with a weekend of screen events at London’s Barbican Cinema. The programme spans a diverse body of iconoclastic film – from early experiments by Palestinian militants…
Netanyahu pushes to define Israel as nation state of Jewish people only
PM proposes rare change to basic law in response to ‘constant and increasing assault’ on aspects of Israel’s legitimacy Binyamin Netanyahu, centre, at the weekly meeting of his cabinet. Photograph: Oliver Weiken/AFP/Getty Images Binyamin Netanyahu…
Is this not apartheid?
With friends like John Kerry, who retracted his true and well-meaning warning under pressure from the U.S. Jewish lobby, Israel doesn’t need enemies. Is Israel at risk of becoming an apartheid state, as John Kerry…
‘Poof’ — Kerry blames Israel for breakdown of talks
This is all over the wires, and it might be historic. John Kerry, Secretary of State, blamed the Israelis for the breakdown of peace talks during a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. Israel failed…
It’s the Palestinians’ fault, let them pay
This cynical and useless game, whose only purpose is to prove again that the occupied ones are to blame, will end in bloodshed. Occasionally the chutzpah of the Americans, and even of the Israelis, believe…
Who’s in charge?
The decline of Hamas may result in a new wave of chaos ARE the tables turning in Gaza? Whenever Egypt wanted to stop Israel and the Palestinian enclave fighting in the past, they would call…
Campaigning for Palestine – 5th April 2014
Member of a trade union? You may be interested in this! The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is organising a conference for delegates from trade unions, sponsored by the TUC, on Saturday 5 April. It will hear…
Statement by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on US Efforts to Curb Freedom of Speech
I am writing today to express grave concern about a wave of legislative measures in the United States aimed at punishing and intimidating those who speak their conscience and challenge…
The Israeli government needs understand that negotiations are a non-violent tool to achieve peace rather than a smoke screen behind which it can continue its violations of human rights, further its settlement enterprise, and make the two-state solution increasingly impossible.
Q&A: Palestine’s Accession to International Treaties On Tuesday 1st April, following a unanimous decision by the Palestinian leadership, including the PLO Executive Committee President Mahmoud Abbas signed letters of accession to 15 multilateral treaties and…
As Hamas declines and Islamic Jihad strengthens, chaos could ensue in Gaza
By squeezing Hamas, Israel may be handing the strip over to Iran’s proxies or, worse still, it may have to confront a territory with no government at all. The decline of Hamas and increasing strength…
The real story of the UN Human Rights Council: Europe slams Israeli crimes
Last week, Israel found itself isolated and condemned in Geneva, as the United Nations Human Rights Council passed four damning resolutions, each by 46-1. The resolutions testify to grave violations of international law, including the…
‘US denying visas for Israeli security personnel in West Bank’
Amid tensions over entry permits, Congressional sources say State Dept. rejecting those it believes violate Palestinian rights, TV report claims. The US State Department is denying visas to senior members of Israeli security forces whose…
The three truths the U.S. needs to accept about Gaza
Israel and its U.S. allies perpetuate a number of mistruths about Gaza, its role in the conflict and its centrality moving forward. If they are not challenged, violence will continue and the U.S. risks losing…
Don’t Forget Gaza
It is impossible not to be touched by the apocalyptic scenes emerging from the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus, besieged and cut off for months. The images are at once epic and personal.…