RSS Feeds
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil,    but because of the people who don't do anything about it    
Activism

TitleDescriptionDate
Why I Broke the SilenceNadav Weiman - Haaretz - The battalion intelligence officer explained to me that the aim of “mapping” is not actually to gather intelligence. He told me to throw away the maps that we had sketched, and to delete the images from the camera. At first I didn`t understand. If the information we collected was not important, why were we sent to wake families in the middle of the night? In the end I figured it out. As my commander explained to me, the aim of this operation, as with many others that I carried out throughout my service, was to create “a sense of persecution” among the Palestinian population. [bz]30/6/2015
...
Netanyahu to Gaza flotilla: Did you mean to sail to Syria?Mairav Zonszein - +972 - Netanyahu publishes letter to flotilla participants in which he states there is no blockade, while at the same time declaring that Israel will prevent them from reaching Gaza [ry]29/6/2015
...
Israelis Overtake, Board Siege Breaking VesselIMEMC News & Agencies - "Israel`s navy has boarded and taken over an activist ship seeking to break its Gaza blockade and was escorting it to port, Monday, in an operation that did not employ force, the military said" [ry]29/6/2015
...
Victory for hunger striking prisoner!Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network - AIC - Khader Adnan, Palestinian political prisoner and long-term hunger striker, has achieved victory for the second time via hunger strike [ry]29/6/2015
...
Hundreds march for Khader Adnan at Aqsa mosqueMa`an - Adnan has said he will continue his strike until Israel agrees either to release him or bring charges against him. [bz]27/6/2015
...
Jailed Palestinian lawmaker pleads innocenceHaggai Matar - +972 - "The trial was attended by Jarrar’s family members, a number of journalists, as well as a delegation of EU diplomats who expressed their concern over her detention." - id 24/6/2015
...
UK Actors, directors and writers demand immediate sanctions on IsraelPNN - Palestine News Network - "The film directors, Ken Loach and Peter Kosminsky, actors Maxine Peake, Samuel West and Miriam Margolyes, musician Brian Eno, poet Benjamin Zephaniah and the writers and academics, Tariq Ali and Karma Nabulsi, are among those who have put their name to the call." - id 24/6/2015
...
Israeli forces use live ammunition in Kafr Qaddum on the first Friday of RamadanAl Khalil Team - International Solidarity Movement - "Israeli forces also used skunk spray (chemically treated sewage water) and tear gas as well as rubber coated steel bullets." - id24/6/2015
...
Israeli Navy set to intercept dangerous flotilla carrying medical supplies and solar panelsTimes of Israel - The Marianne of Gothenburg, a Scandinavian fishing boat, has left Messina, Sicily en route to Crete, Greece - their final destination being Gaza, with a humanitarian cargo of medical supplies and solar panels. On board are among others Swedish journalist Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Swedish-Israeli composer Dror Feiler, and Spanish Member of the European Parliament Ana Maria Miranda Paza. If intercepted by the Israeli Navy, they are committed to strict non-violence. ak23/6/2015
...
MK Bassel Ghattas threatened over Gaza flotillaMoran Azulay - Y-net - Joint Arab List MK Bassel Ghattas` decision to participate in the upcoming Gaza flotilla has caused an uproar in the Knesset, with various right-wingers making shrill calls for his "suspension". Ghattas himself remains adamant; stating: "I am performing my duty as a publicly elected representative. I am not doing anything illegal or illegitimate. My participation in the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza is my right and duty. The issue is not the flotilla but the humanitarian crisis that exists for a million Palestinians, as a result of Israel`s blockade. I want to remind the hypocrites who are trying to make headlines at my expense that Israel apologized over the Marmara affair." ak 23/6/2015
...
Palestinians make urgent plea to save Khader Adnan as more join hunger strikeAli Abunimah - EI - "Palestinians are calling for urgent international intervention to save the life of Khader Adnan who has been on total hunger strike for almost 50 days to protest his detention without charge or trial by Israel[...] Meanwhile, at least three more Palestinians jailed by Israel have started open-ended hunger strikes" [ry]22/6/2015
...
Has G4S really been cleared of aiding Israel’s abuses?Adri Nieuwhof - EI - "We have to keep boycotting G4S until it is has no option than to stop aiding Israeli apartheid." - id 12/6/2015
...
Freedom Flotilla: `This time we will reach Gaza`Anna Kokko - IMEMC - "If the Israeli forces attack Marianne, which is sailing under the Swedish flag, it could lead to diplomatic repercussions between Israel and the European country." - id 12/6/2015
...
Israel passes bill to force-feed prisonersAlJazeera - The bill will likely target Palestinian prisoners observing hunger strike against their administrative detention [ry]15/6/2015
...
Catholic church in Israel badly damaged by suspected arson attackAssociated Press in Tabgha - The Guardian - In recent years, mosques and churches have been targeted by vandals in similar attacks. They are often attributed to extremist Jews from West Bank settlements. Such attacks have been widely condemned across the political spectrum in Israel, though few arrests have been made.-rh24/6/2015
...
No garbage disposal at Shuafat Refugee Camp! Protest rally Fri. June 12 11/6/2015
The Cultural Boycott: Israel vs. South AfricaOmar Barghouti - Hyperallergic - Cultural boycott initiatives against Israel, which come in response to the 2004 call by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and to the 2005 Palestinian civil-society initiated BDS Call, more often than not cite the boycott of apartheid South Africa as a key reference.-rh10/6/2015
Diplomats, activists rally to save Palestinian village from `forced transfer`Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - +972 - Officials from the EU and the UN joined the Palestinian prime minister in the West Bank village of Susya, where 340 Palestinians are at risk of being pushed out of their homes. ak 9/6/2015
...
Let them studyGisha - Gaza Gateway - We sent to the Coordinator of Government Activities (COGAT) yesterday a letter, asking that students be allowed to travel through Israel to the Allenby Bridge border crossing and continue to their destinations via Jordan. The most recent version of the regulations published this week, also states that, in addition to medical patients and individuals participating in special conferences, “students enrolled in advanced degree programs abroad” may travel (Sec G.5, p. 16). So what is the problem? Too little, too slow. [bz] 9/6/2015
...
Israeli rights groups join battle to save symbol of Arab resistance to evictions Peter Beaumont - The Guardian - The fate of the West Bank Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya has attracted worldwide attention. Now bulldozers are set to displace its residents yet again [ry]8/6/2015
...
Khader Adnan in `critical condition` as hunger strike continuesMa`an News Agency - "The health of prisoner Khader Adnan has reached critical condition as he enters his 35th day of hunger strike, head of the Palestinian Authority Prisoner`s Affairs Committee said Saturday" [ry]8/6/2015
...
Palestinian popular resistance in HebronAIC - The southern West Bank city of Hebron is a microcosm of the Israeli occupation with its five settlements and 600 settlers, massive military presence, Separation Wall and institutionalised violation of human and national rights of the city`s 160 thousand residents. It is, however, also a microcosm of Palestinian resistance, as local activists struggle against the reality of Israeli colonialism [ry]8/6/2015
...
Now Israel wants to legalize force-feedingCharlotte Silver - EI - "Last year, the Israel Medical Association denounced the measure, saying that the union would not defend any doctor at the Hague for participating in force-feeding." - id 17/6/2015
...
Friday June 5, 4pm: Join the residents protest, meeting 4pm at Sheikh Jarrah Garden, J-lemagainst violent evictions from their homes; neighborhood take-over by the settlers; Judaization of East Jerusalem4/6/2015
Women in Black : June 5, at 1pm - On the 48th year of the occupation special protest vigilssimultaneously in Jerusalem, Gan Shmuel, Tel Aviv and Haifa Women AND men invited to join the protest!!4/6/2015
WATCH: 48 to 67 AIC - Youtube (with English subtitles) - Hundreds of Israelis marched on May 30 in Jerusalem to commemorate and protest 48 years of occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. After the march, form West Jerusalem`s Zion Square to the East Jerusalem Old City Wall some speeches. [bz]2/6/2015
...
Success and pitfalls of Palestinian anti-normalization Seth Frantzman - Jerusalem Post - On May 28 Palestinian activists, acting in the name of “anti-normalization”, attacked Palestinian, Israeli and international participants in the annual "Jerusalem Hug" event near the Old City`s Damascus Gate. The "Jerusalem Hug", with its aim of promoting coexistence without dealing directly with political issues, was regarded as in practice accepting the situation of Israeli rule. Seth Frantzman, who was himself among those assaulted, analyses the ten years of “anti-normalization”, what it achieved and and what it can`t achieve. ak 2/6/2015
...
Barghouti Begins Hunger Strike in Solitary ConfinementIMEMC News & Agencies - "Palestinian detainee Abdullah Barghouti began, on Sunday, an open-ended hunger strike to protest his solitary confinement, Chairman of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee, Issa Qaraqe, reported. The Israeli prison administration placed the senior Hamas official in solitary confinement after he made a phone call from prison with the Hamas-affiliated al-Ray radio, in which he asked Hamas not to be too hasty in reaching a prisoner exchange deal with Israel" [ry]1/6/2015
...
Video: 48 to 67Alternative Information Center (AIC) - Several hundred Israelis marched on May 30 in Jerusalem to commemorate and protest 48 years of occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights [ry]1/6/2015
...
Join us for a march in Palestinian Susya this Friday, 5.6.15 3/6/2015
Israelis, Palestinians march for West Bank town set for demolitionAFP - Ynet - Hundreds gather on `Naska Day` to avert destruction of Susya, which Human Rights Watch calls `a grave breach` of Israeli obligations. Members of Combatants for Peace, an NGO that brings together former Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants to promote peace, held signs reading "There is another way!". [bz]6/6/2015
...
Gaza border peace concertMenahem Kahana - gettyimages - Hundreds of Israelis and several Gazans attend peace concert on Israeli side of Gaza border in an attempt to `bring an end to the bloody conflict between Israel and Gaza and to set out on the path of a political solution`, say the organisers. [It made an impression on the Friday Prime Time Channel-1 TV News-bz] 6/6/2015
...
Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence meets Obama aides in Washington Barak Ravid - Haaretz - The meetings with representatives of the NGO came during a week in which the organization attracted harsh criticism from the Israeli government because of its exhibition in Zurich, partially funded by the Swiss government. Israel’s ambassador to Switzerland, Yigal Caspi, lodged a protest with the Swiss Foreign Ministry over it, and asked that donations and support for a group that deals with the “defamation of Israel” be halted. [bz]6/6/2015
...
When death was in everyone’s eyes: recalling Bethlehem’s siegeSarah Irving - The Electronic Intifada - " Based on interviews with fighters who experienced the siege and were expelled to Gaza and Europe, these scenarios are by turns heartbreaking, thought-provoking and challenging to both actors and audience." - id 3/6/2015
...
Articles Archive
Current Articles
1/2024
12/2023
11/2023
10/2023
9/2023
8/2023
7/2023
6/2023
5/2023
4/2023
3/2023
2/2023
1/2023
12/2022
11/2022
10/2022
9/2022
8/2022
7/2022
6/2022
5/2022
4/2022
3/2022
2/2022
1/2022
12/2021
11/2021
10/2021
9/2021
8/2021
7/2021
6/2021
5/2021
4/2021
3/2021
2/2021
1/2021
12/2020
11/2020
10/2020
9/2020
8/2020
7/2020
6/2020
5/2020
4/2020
3/2020
2/2020
1/2020
12/2019
11/2019
10/2019
9/2019
8/2019
7/2019
6/2019
5/2019
4/2019
3/2019
2/2019
1/2019
12/2018
11/2018
10/2018
9/2018
8/2018
7/2018
6/2018
5/2018
4/2018
3/2018
2/2018
1/2018
12/2017
11/2017
10/2017
9/2017
8/2017
7/2017
6/2017
5/2017
4/2017
3/2017
2/2017
1/2017
12/2016
11/2016
10/2016
9/2016
8/2016
7/2016
6/2016
5/2016
4/2016
3/2016
2/2016
1/2016
12/2015
11/2015
10/2015
9/2015
8/2015
7/2015
6/2015
5/2015
4/2015
3/2015
2/2015
1/2015
12/2014
11/2014
10/2014
9/2014
8/2014
7/2014
6/2014
5/2014
4/2014
3/2014
2/2014
1/2014
12/2013
11/2013
10/2013
9/2013
8/2013
7/2013
6/2013
5/2013
4/2013
3/2013
2/2013
1/2013
12/2012
11/2012
10/2012
9/2012
8/2012
7/2012
6/2012
5/2012
4/2012
3/2012
2/2012
1/2012
12/2011
11/2011
10/2011
9/2011
8/2011
7/2011
6/2011
5/2011
4/2011
3/2011
2/2011
1/2011
12/2010
11/2010
10/2010
9/2010
8/2010
7/2010
6/2010
5/2010
4/2010
3/2010
2/2010
1/2010
12/2009
11/2009
10/2009
9/2009
8/2009
7/2009
6/2009
5/2009
4/2009
3/2009
2/2009
1/2009
12/2008
11/2008
10/2008
9/2008
8/2008
7/2008
6/2008
5/2008
4/2008
3/2008
2/2008
1/2008
12/2007
11/2007
10/2007
9/2007
8/2007
7/2007
6/2007
5/2007
4/2007
3/2007
2/2007
1/2007
12/2006
11/2006
10/2006
9/2006
8/2006
7/2006
6/2006
5/2006
4/2006
3/2006
2/2006
1/2006
12/2005
11/2005
10/2005
9/2005
8/2005
7/2005
6/2005
5/2005
4/2005
3/2005
2/2005
1/2005
12/2004
11/2004
10/2004


Home page  back