Sanctions Against The Palestinians

heather on February 22nd, 2007

Wednesday February 21, 2007 The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2017677,00.html On February 8, Fatah and Hamas issued the Mecca agreement. Palestinians are now working to create a national-unity government to rebuild Palestinian society, which has faced systematic destruction under Israeli occupation (Leaders, February 20). Given the international Quartet is meeting today, the British government must seize this opportunity…

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Stop Arming Israel Update – February 2007

heather on February 13th, 2007

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE CALLS FOR SANCTIONS ON ISRAEL The House of Commons has, with the publication of a new report on the Occupation of the Palestinian Territories, called for the international community to impose sanctions on Israel. Read more in this article by War on Want’s John Hilary http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_hilary/2007/01/mps_back_sanctions_on_israel.html Also see Stop Arming Israel at www.stoparmingisrael.org

Just Like Life Under Pinochet

heather on February 11th, 2007

11/02/2007 By Nir Hasson “The Palestinians’ lives under the occupation are reminiscent of the lives of Chile’s citizens under the dictatorship,” says Chilean Judge Juan Guzman, who is visiting Israel, last week. “There, too, people who thought differently were considered enemies: They were imprisoned, tortured and killed. There, too, people couldn’t move from place to…

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Oxford, Cambridge & London Students Hosting Israeli Apartheid Week

heather on February 8th, 2007

Recalling the UN International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the crime of Apartheid, students at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London (SOAS) will concurrently hold Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) events in their respective campuses between Monday the 12th and Friday the 16th of February. In hosting this week, Oxford, Cambridge and University…

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Impact of Occupation and Globalization on the Agricultural Sector in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

heather on February 5th, 2007

Palestinian Agricultural Association (PARC), Ramallah, Palestine World Social Forum- Nairobi/ Kenya (20-25/01/2007) To read this press release issued by PARC please click here