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Gaza: Inspiring new forms of resistance? Gaza`s `war artists` adapt to occupation by using technology to create and share.Pam Bailey - Aljazeera - During what will likely become known as the "Third Great War On Gaza", whitewashed by Israel with its own name, "Operation Protective Edge", there was literally a field of resilient blades of grass - artists fighting back against injustice with their creativity. And in their own way, they are continuing a time-honoured tradition, following in the footsteps of other "war artists" around the world, from Francisco Goya to Pablo Picasso.-rh24/9/2014
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Tampa activists protest ZIM cargo lines to showcase Israeli civil rights violationsDezerey Lyn - The Arab Daily News - "Our message to ZIM and to Israel is that we do not accept Israeli apartheid on our shores." - id 24/9/2014
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Writers, editors protest Israeli sponsorship at Brooklyn Book FestivalUri Blau - Haaretz - Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz was one of hundreds who criticized New York festival for its `endorsement` of Israel following Gaza war [ry]22/9/2014
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Other Voice: We call upon the government to immediately initiate a political processMonday, 22.9.2014, between 17.00 and 20.00 demo in front of PM residence21/9/2014
Victory for BDS campaign as UEFA decides against Jerusalem tournament bidCampaigners are now planning to intensify the pressure on Platini to live up to his promises and suspend the Israeli Football Association. [bz]20/9/2014
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Israeli forces disperse West Bank protests with rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas and stun grenades.Ma`an - **Nabi Saleh is the site of weekly protests against the Israeli occupation, with residents demanding that lands confiscated for settlement building be returned to them. **In Bilin Israeli forces fired at protesters as they neared Israel’s wall, raising Palestinian flags, chanting a song for unity and calling for the release of prisoners. **In Masara, near Bethlehem, Israeli forces blocked dozens of Palestinian and internationals marching in the village to protest against Israel`s confiscation of land in the area. [bz]20/9/2014
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Israeli refuseniks expose Occupation’s dark underbellyJonathan Cook - Mondoweiss - A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite Israeli military intelligence unit declaring their refusal to continue serving the occupation has sent shockwaves through Israeli society. But not in the way the soldiers may have hoped.-rh25/9/2014
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‘Any Palestinian is exposed to monitoring by the Israeli Big Brother’ : Testimonies from people who worked in the Israeli Intelligence Corps tell of a system where there were no boundariesThe Guardian - On the one hand, I felt solidarity with the victims, with the oppressed people who were denied such basic rights as I take for granted to be mine. On the other hand, I realised that the job I had done during my military service was that of the oppressor.-rh18/9/2014
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Victory for Khalida Jarrar!Samidoun - With steadfastness and resistance, and the campaign of thousands in Palestine and around the world who have stood with Khalida Jarrar, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Jarrar today achieved victory and the end of the expulsion order to Jericho placed upon her by Israeli occupation authorities.-rh18/9/2014
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The Haifa MobNoam Chayut - Boston Review - Many innocent people have lost their lives in Gaza. I lost only the freedom to express my thoughts in my neighborhood streets.-rh18/9/2014
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Israel’s N.S.A. ScandalJAMES BAMFORD -The New York Times - It should trouble the American public that some or much of the information in question — intended not for national security purposes but simply to pursue political agendas — may have come directly from the N.S.A.’s domestic dragnet. According to documents leaked by Mr. Snowden and reported by the British newspaper The Guardian, the N.S.A. has been sending intelligence to Israel since at least March 2009.-rh 17/9/2014
Campaign gives new choices to Druze youth facing Israeli conscriptionPatrick O. Strickland - The Electronic Intifada - "The campaigning group `Refuse — Your People Will Protect You` was founded in March 2013 to provide legal and moral support to Druze conscientious objectors." - id 17/9/2014
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Israel intelligence hits back over refuseniks` letterMa`an News Agency - "’We wish to express shock, disgust and complete disassociation from the regrettable letter that was written by our comrades from the unit,’ they wrote in the letter, excerpts of which were published in Yediot Aharonot newspaper. ‘Political refusal to serve has no place anywhere, and particularly so in Unit 8200. The moment we, as soldiers in the reserves, are called to the flag, we set aside our political inclinations and opinions, and come to serve the state’" [ry]15/9/2014
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B`Tselem awarded the 2014 Stockholm Human Rights AwardB`Tselem, press release - "The International Legal Assistance Consortium, the Swedish Bar Association and the International Bar Association announced today that the 2014 Stockholm Human Rights Award will be presented to the Israeli human rights organization B´Tselem" [ry]15/9/2014
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BDS Victory as Vancouver Blocks Israeli ShipAlternative Information Center - IMEMC - "Hopefully this is just the beginning of a world-wide campaign against Zim and all other Israeli shipping, until Israel reconsiders its policy of blocking all shipping to and from Gaza." - id 14/9/2014
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Intel soldiers respond to critics: Unit`s activities go well beyond self defenseElior Levy - Ynet - "Some of us tried to bring up the issues noted in the letter with our superior commanders, and tried asking questions, but sadly they were met with silence." - id 14/9/2014
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H.E. Dr. Hanan Ashrawi to Receive the 2014 HCEF Path of Peace AwardRay Hanania - The Arab Daily News - "As one of the most articulate and compelling voices in Middle East politics, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi’s service and work has greatly advanced the Palestinian cause." - id14/9/2014
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Israeli intelligence veterans` letter to Netanyahu and military chiefs - in full The Guardian - Translation of the full text. [bz]13/9/2014
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Please support my friend Hiba Reziq to fulfill her dream of service to her people as a pediatrician. Gershon Baskin - She will return to Palestine and be a great addition to the badly needed medical services of Palestine. 13/9/2014
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Veterans of Elite Israeli Unit Refuse Reserve Duty, Citing Treatment of Palestinians Jodi Rudoren - NYT - In a letter sent Thursday night to their commanders as well as Israel’s prime minister and army chief, 43 veterans of the clandestine Unit 8200 complained that Israel made “no distinction between Palestinians who are and are not involved in violence” and that information collected “harms innocent people.” Intelligence “is used for political persecution,” they wrote, which “does not allow for people to lead normal lives, and fuels more violence, further distancing us from the end of the conflict.” [bz]13/9/2014
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Israeli reservists refuse to serveAl-Jazeera - "We veterans of Unit 8200, reservists past and present, declare that we refuse to take part in activity against Palestinians and refuse to be tools to deepen the military control in the occupied territories," the soldiers wrote. [bz]13/9/2014
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`We`ve been there, and we`ve done it, and we can`t go on` (Letter of refusal by 43 officers, soldiers of elite intelligence unit)Elior Levy - Ynet - "(...)we are refusing only because from a moral perspective we are unable to be a tool to intensify the military control in the territories." (...) "We will agree to return to serve in the unit if we know that the purpose for which we are there is self-defense, and not to perpetuate the military regime." [bz]13/9/2014
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Pro-Palestinian group publishes ads challenging Israeli Apartheid practicesManaging Editor - The Arab Daily News - "This advertisement highlighting Israel’s recent land grab will run in the Boston Metro newspaper on the 9th and 10th of September." - id 10/9/2014
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Tsunami managementAdam Keller - Crazy Country - "For the moment, residents of the South and of the Gaza Border perimeter enjoy a kind of privileged position in the public opinion, due to the price they paid. They have a kind of immunity from criticism which might enable them to take in the coming weeks a leading position in a campaign of civil grassroots pressure on the government of Israel, to take “a bold political initiative”." - id 10/9/2014
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Petition: protest the firing of Dr. Steven Salaita 9/9/2014
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Professor Salaita to defiantly speak out on campus Christine Des Garennes and Julie Wurth - Chicago Tribune/News Gazette - The Palestinian-American Professor Steven Salaita, whose speaking out during the recent Gaza War caused the University of Illinois to revoke his job weeks before he was to start at the Urbana- Champaign Campus. His public comments on campus this afternoon (Sept.9) are expected to be followed with a classroom walkout by his supporters. ak9/9/2014
Israeli academia and security officials to Netanyahu: adopt the Arab Peace InitiativeYaser Okbi - Ma`ariv (English summary by APN`s news review) - Israeli former security officials and academics write letter calling on Prime Minister to embrace the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002, which, they write, has support of most Israelis and Palestinians.9/9/2014
Palestinians march across West Bank against Israeli occupationMa`an - In Wadi Fukin protesters headed toward lands in the eastern part of the village that are under threat of confiscation [under the latest 4000 dunam land grab] and started planting olive tree saplings, but were subsequently assaulted by Israeli soldiers. [bz]6/9/2014
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Bringing the boycott back home: Palestinian stores drop Israeli goodsYael Marom and Jessica Devaney - +972 "A website launched under the title “Alternative Palestinian Products,” enables shoppers to find Palestinian alternatives to the Israeli-made products they are used to buying." ca5/9/2014
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Demonstration to support imprisoned CO`s Udi Segal and Uriel Ferera 4/9/2014
ACTION ALERT: Take action for the immediate release of Dr. Yousef Abdul HaqSamidoun - Dr. Yousef was taken from his home at approximately 02:30am and transferred to Huwwara Military Camp, just south of Nablus city. 7 days later Dr. Yousef appeared before an Israeli Military Court where a Judge consented to Dr. Yousef’s detention, without charge, for 4 months.-rh4/9/2014
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Israeli, Palestinian boys pitch up for football friendlyDaphne Rousseau - Yahoo News - "The Israeli children came from villages surrounding the besieged Palestinian enclave while the Palestinians were bused in from Yatta in the southern West Bank." - id 3/9/2014
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Children want to liveAdam Keller - Crazy Ountry - "Throughout these fifty terrible days, it was the Coalition of Women for Peace which assumed the task of keeping alight the flame of opposition to the war." - id3/9/2014
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Block the Boat: The Inside Story, part twoBDS Marin-- Having been delayed for four days, the Israeli ship, the Zim Piraeus, finally left for Russia on Wednesday, August 20th. The block the boat action was a huge success. Contrary to what the mainstream media and Zionist press reported, much of the cargo was NOT unloaded at Oakland. This information was given to us by the dock workers themselves. It has since been verified by many of the Zim customers whom we have been phoning over the last two weeks. Several of them have confirmed that they never received their cargo, that Zim has told them it was going to the Far East, and that they would not get it back again “for some months”. dn7/9/2014
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Palestinian schools educate students to buy localAbdullah H. Erakat, The Media Line - Ynet - In bid to support local economy, fight Israel, more and more Palestinians heeding call to buy local and use non-Israeli products: `With our money, we were putting bullets in their guns` [ry]2/9/2014
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Petition: Stop persecution of Conscientious Objectors! 1/9/2014
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Three Members of US Congress call for end to the Gaza blockade Just Foreign Policy - Rep. Danny Davis from Chicago became the third Member of Congress to call for an end to the blockade of Gaza, joining Reps. Keith Ellison and Barbara Lee. The Davis statement came as a result of grassroots engagement led by the Chicago-based Committee for Just Peace in Israel and Palestine (CJPIP).ak30/9/2014
Pro-Palestine protesters again thwart Israeli cargo ship in OaklandEd Pilkington - The Guardian - New picketing effort at Port of Oakland prevents Israeli-owned cargo ship from unloading after similar incident last month [ry]29/9/2014
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ACT! Volunteer with Jordan Valley`s besieged communities Jordan Valley Solidarity Campaign - (AIC) - The Jordan Valley needs your help. The Jordan Valley Solidarity (JVS) Campaign, a network of Palestinian grassroots community groups from all over the Jordan Valley, established in 2003, is making an appeal to international volunteers to go and help the communities in Area C [ry]29/9/2014
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Israeli Reservists “Operate” In US CollegesSaed Bannoura - IMEMC "Many reserve soldiers, especially those who graduated from American Universities, have been asked to “go back to school” in order to operate on preventing any move that calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions, and to try to encourage students’ support to Israel." ca 26/9/2014
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