Activism
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Thousands block highway, attack banks in J14 protest | | Haggai Matar - Some 4,000 demonstrators clashed with police for more than four hours last night in the streets of Tel Aviv, blocking roads, smashing a few bank windows and besieging the local municipality. More than 80 were arrested in the most energetic and enraged J14 protest yet.-rh | 27/6/2012 |
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Report of the demonstration in Susiya 22.6.2012 | | David Shulman - The Villages Group - Within a few minutes, as the buses disgorge their passengers, we are marching with the Susyans toward the archaeological park that was once the original village, where many lived in caves. They were driven out of it in 1986, three years after the Israeli settlement of Susya was established over the hill. If the bulldozers arrive next week or the week after, it will be the fourth large-scale expulsion of these people from their lands. | 26/6/2012 |
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Writers Scrap Tel Aviv Events To Protest Arrests | | Forward/Haaretz - “Following the violence of the police against demonstrators for social justice, and many other violent acts over the last week, we have decided to cancel our participation in the White Nights events scheduled to take place this Thursday, under the sponsorship of the Tel Aviv municipality.” | 26/6/2012 |
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Letter to Presbyterians: Investing in Palestine without divesting from occupation only underwrites the status quo | | Sam Bahour - Mondoweiss - In a perfected Orwellian move, pro-Israeli lobbyists publicly promote investment in Palestine, but simultaneously turn a blind eye to the systematic Israeli polices that strangle the Palestinian economy.-rh | 21/6/2012 |
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Israel to free footballer Mahmoud Sarsak after epic 3-month hunger strike, lawyer says | | Ali Abunimah - The Electronic Intifada - A lawyer for an imprisoned Palestinian soccer player who has been on a hunger strike for more than three months says his client has agreed to resume eating and will be released July 10 in a deal with Israel.-rh
| 21/6/2012 |
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Solidarity vigil with imprisoned reservist `occupation refuser` Yaniv Mazor in Atlit | | Saturday 23/6 at 17:00 near military prison no. 6 - transportation from Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv | 19/6/2012 |
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Letter from Alice Walker to Publishers at Yediot Books | | Alice Walker - It isn’t possible for me to permit publishing my novel THE COLOR PURPLE at this time. (...) The testimony we heard at last year`s Russell Tribunal on Palestine, both from Israelis and Palestinians (I was a jurist) was devastating. I grew up under American apartheid and this was far worse. Indeed, many South Africans who attended felt the Israeli version of these crimes is worse even than what they suffered.
| 19/6/2012 |
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Lawyer: Al-Sarsak ends hunger strike in release deal | | Ma`an - Mahmoud al-Sarsak, on hunger strike in an Israeli jail for 92 days, agreed to start eating on Monday in a deal that will see him released on July 10, his lawyer said.
The 25-year-old well-known football player from the Gaza Strip has been imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial since July 2009.
| 19/6/2012 |
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David Shulman`s Appeal on Behalf of Palestinian Susya | | David Shulman - On Friday, June 22 we will stand side by side with the residents of Palestinian Susya in a protest and support vigil and will call: No to the fifth demolition of Susya! No to the expulsion of people from their homes and tents! No to the silent transfer of the Palestinian population out of area C! | 18/6/2012 |
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Video: They`re Useless Without Guns - Scottish activists during Israeli women`s match | | | 18/6/2012 |
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Palestinian nonviolent protest leader arrested en route abroad | | The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee - +972 - "Issa Amro was released on Sunday evening from Israeli prison after being held since Thursday. He had to pay NIS 1,500 upon being freed, and his terms of release include a guarantee of NIS 5,000. He is prohibited from engaging in demonstrations for the next 3 months" | 18/6/2012 |
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shops/garages are planned to be demolished on June 20, 2012, in the village of Hizme | | | 18/6/2012 |
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Calls to strip Israel of hosting the European Under-21 Championships grow over detention of Palestinian footballer Mahmoud Sarsak | | David Childs - The Independent - "The Palestinian Football Federation is putting pressure on Uefa to remove Israel as hosts of next years European Under-21 Championships for jailing a Palestine national team player without trial" | 18/6/2012 |
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American Widow seeks justice for slain husband on Monday | | We will gather at the Educational Bookstore, Monday June 18, 19-22 Salah aDin Street in East Jerusalem | 18/6/2012 |
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Israeli soldier goes on hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian prisoner | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - "I decided to start a hunger strike in solidarity [with the Palestinians], and in order to raise awareness on the issue of administrative detention - not to prompt my own release. I have done something for which I understand I must pay a price. The hunger strike is in protest of administrative detentions" says 31-yr old reservist Yaniv Mazor, a tour guide in profession, who serves a prison term for refusing to do reserve service in occupied territory. [N.B.: In order to enter full text, non-subscribers would have to google/search for the article`s headline. bz] | 17/6/2012 |
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No to the demolition of Susya, Friday June 22 | | No to the silent transfer of the Palestinian population out of area C!
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No to the silent transfer of the Palestinian population out of area C! | | Dolev Rahat - The demolition orders cover the most of Palestinian Susya. Not only dwelling structures but also animal pens, water cisterns, the solar-powered electricity system – everything. | 17/6/2012 |
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The football player who wouldn’t play ball with Israeli injustice | | Amnesty International delegates met family of Palestinian on hunger strike against his detention without trial in Israel - a report. bz | 16/6/2012 |
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Women challenge segregation of Hebron street in direct action; seven arrested | | Noa Shaindlinger - +972 - A group of Israeli and international female activists joined Palestinian women on Wednesday in a direct action in Hebron to protest the ongoing ban on Palestinian freedom of movement on Shuhada street. The street, which was once the lively commercial centre of Hebron, was closed off to Palestinian vehicular traffic after the 1994 massacre of 29 Muslims in the Ibrahimi Mosque by Baruch Goldstein. Since 2001, Palestinian pedestrians were barred from the street, turning it into a Jewish-only zone.
bz | 16/6/2012 |
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URGENT: Act now for Mahmoud Sarsak on 84th day of hunger strike; Palestinian soccer star at risk of death | | | 11/6/2012 |
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URGENT: Act now for Mahmoud Sarsak on 84th day of hunger strike; Palestinian soccer star at risk of death | | | 11/6/2012 |
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Demonstration organized by the Sudan refugees community in Israel | | Yigal Shtayim - We, Israeli citizens who live in south TLV, will join the demonstration and show that despite political efforts to separate us, we are united against the government. | 10/6/2012 |
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Leftists protest against occupation in Tel Aviv | | Gilad Morag - Ynet - "Social justice is not possible in this country as long as millions are oppressed and as long as inflated funds are being spent on settlements and security." [NB: after first belittling the number of protesters to "hundreds", this article then speaks about "some 1000", but the organizers` estimate of 2000 doesn`t seem inflated to somebody who was there. bz] | 10/6/2012 |
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PA: Prisoners to launch solidarity hunger strike | | Ma`an - ***Mahmoud al-Sarsak, 25, from Rafah in southern Gaza, has been on hunger strike for 83 days. A soccer player on Palestine`s national team, he has been detained by Israel for nearly three years without charge and is demanding his release. ***Al-Rekhawi, 38, has been held at Ramle prison clinic since his arrest in 2004 and suffers chronic illnesses including diabetes and asthma. He has refused food for 59 days.
| 9/6/2012 |
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Demo in the displaced village of Beit Nuba to mark 45 years of Occupation this Saturday | | | 7/6/2012 |
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PLEASE SUPPORT WOMEN IN BLACK at their silent vigil to mark the 45 years of occupation | | Friday, June 8 - Jerusalem | 7/6/2012 |
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War rages on Palestinian soccer - Free Mahmoud Sarsak (81 days on hunger strike) | | Ramzy Baroud - The Palestine Chronicle - On June 4, Palestinian national soccer team member Mahmoud Sarsak completed
81 days of a grueling hunger strike. He had sustained the strike despite the fact that nearly 2,000 Palestinian inmates had called off their own 28-day hunger strike weeks ago.-rh
| 7/6/2012 |
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Campaigners strategize refugee return during South Africa visit | | Nora Barrows-Friedman -
The Electronic Intifada -
"Israeli apartheid is used as a means of continuing the forced displacement of Palestinians, with the ultimate goal of ensuring that the maximum of Palestinian land is under exclusive Jewish-Zionist control, and that the minimum of Palestinians remain on that land." - id
| 6/6/2012 |
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Student-Run Cafe at The Evergreen State College Announces Boycott of Israeli Products | | Press Release -
IMEMC -
"we feel it is important to uphold the desire for boycott and divestment as voted for by the students at The Evergreen State College." - id
| 6/6/2012 |
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NO SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHOUT ENDING OCCUPATION! [updated with transportation details] | | Sat, June 9: March + Rally to mark 45 years of occupation; transportation > J`lem, Haifa, Be`er Sheva
| 5/6/2012 |
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Owner of dairy factory hit by Israel urges world action | | Ma`an - The owner of the Dalloul dairy factory in the Gaza Strip, which was flattened by an Israeli airstrike before dawn Monday, called for an international committee to prove his business does not store weapons.
Israel`s army said it had "targeted a weapon manufacturing facility". | 5/6/2012 |
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A Member of the settlement Yitzhar`s security squad aims his gun at youths from `Asira al-Qibliya in the presence of soldiers | | ...and more in the B`Tselem newsletter | 2/6/2012 |
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Video: An Nabi Saleh Fri 01-06-2012 | | Even without translation Israel Putermam`s video report shows beautifully how civil courage of prominently women is met by confusion [not the worst possibility!-bz] - and how after that the weekly protest, starting as a festive procession, is soon engulfed in clouds of teargas - and, yes, then stones are thrown, too. | 2/6/2012 |
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Hay Festival 2012: Michael Morpurgo: when will the killing in Gaza end? | | Anita Singh - The Telegraph - War Horse author Michael Morpurgo told an audience at the Telegraph Hay Festival about the moment he saw a Palestinian boy in Gaza picked off by an Israeli bullet in a scene like a video game.
| 2/6/2012 |
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Palestinian contractors demand UN exclude Israel firms from Gaza tender | | Rami Almeghari - Electronic Intifada - “It has been long agreed between international donors and the Palestinian Authority that any developmental projects should be assumed by local Palestinian companies.” | 1/6/2012 |
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June 16 demo at Wadi Rakhal village, marking 45 years of occupation pain and suffering for both sides | | | 12/6/2012 |
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Israel and Women`s Disobedience - a video | | Israel Social TV/The RealNews.com - ...breaking the law which makes inviting Palestinian children, and their mothers for a day at the seashore punishable. | 12/6/2012 |
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Israeli arrested for wanting to give up his citizenship and become a Palestinian | | Israel and Palestine Blog - Andre Pshenichnikov was born in Tajikistan, then part of the Soviet Union. He came to Israel at the age of 13, enlisted in the IDF Signal Corps, after completing three years of mandatory military service, served an additional year and a half under conditions of a career soldier. During the years there has been a complete turnover in his opinions. He decided to renounce his Israeli citizenship and ask for a Palestinian one instead and went to live in the Dheishe Refugee Camp. He was arrested and held by the Israeli army and police, and his release was made conditional on his not returning to Dheishe. | 12/6/2012 |
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Alleged illegal detainment of Palestine football players | | FIFA.com - FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter expressed today (12 June) grave concern and worry about the alleged illegal detention of Palestine football players.-rh
| 14/6/2012 |
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German debate on labeling settlement products continues | | Wiltrud Roesch-Metzler - Pax Christi (Germany) - "(...) We want everybody to have the chance not to support the settlements. This is why we advocate the obligatory identification of products originating from settlements in the way the UK already does. Until then I will abstain from buying products which carry the declaration of origin `Israel`, because there might be products stemming from settlements." | 5/6/2012 |
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HELP : SILENCE KILLS ! | | Olivia Zemor - email release - Since 11 am this Tuesday, activists have been occupying the headquarters of the French Football Federation in Paris - asking their leaders to support Mahmoud Sarsak, Palestinian footballer, who has been on hunger strike for 78 days and who is about to die.
| 5/6/2012 |
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Israel is new South Africa as boycott calls increase | | Jonathan Owen - The Independent - After Madonna began her world tour there last week, campaigners urge cutting of cultural ties | 4/6/2012 |
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Jailed Palestinians warn of new hunger strike | | AlJazeera - Prisoners claim Israel breached deal that ended recent mass hunger strike by continuing to use administrative detention | 4/6/2012 |
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New report: JCB complicit in Israels crimes against Palestinian people | | War on Want - AIC - "War on Want is calling for people to contact JCB to raise concerns over its activities in Palestine, and to demand that the company ends its arms sales to Israel and takes steps to ensure its equipment is not used by Israel to commit war crimes against the Palestinian people" | 4/6/2012 |
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