Activities & Support
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How to help Bil'in
01/11/2006
Since February 2005, Bil’in has resisted against the Israeli occupation and the construction of the Wall. From the beginning, the village committee chose non-violent actions, which endowed Bil’in inhabitants with the image of pacific resistants. Numerous Palestinian and Israeli organizations, but also organizations from the entire world, have taken up the cause for this village. On a daily basis, Bil’in inhabitants need Israeli and international activists on the ground. Organizations from many countries are setting up "civil missions" in Palestine.
Get informed, go on the ground to observe, to support the villagers, and act as witnesses when you come back. Make as much noise about it as possible.
You can participate in a civil mission with:
Call to Sanctions and Boycott against Israel
01/11/2006
By not respecting international law nor its own commitments regarding the building of settlements (which, let us remember, are all illegal), the State of Israel has ostracized itself from other nations.
Only hard-nosed action from the international community, from heads of State to the basic citizen, can induce Israel to compliance.
The Apartheid regime in South Africa fell thanks to actions by Black resistants supported by far-reaching global boycott.
Support Palestinian non-violent resistance - Help release Bil’in youth
21/10/2006
Leith Yassin (19), a university student, and Mohammed Barakat (17), still in high-school, were arrested two months ago for cutting the annexation barrier that separates their village from more than 50% of its farmland. Both of the boys’ family lands have been lost behind the barrier, their olive trees uprooted and their land earmarked for the expansion of the Israeli settlement of Modi’in Illit.
Have you signed the petition?
17/09/2006
Stop the Palestinian’s land annexation via the construction of the Separation Wall in Bil’in.
The real objective of the Wall’s route in this area, as in others, is the expansion of the massive settlement of Upper Modi’in illit. This settlement has already 35,000 residents, and according to the plans of the Ministry of Housing, will number, in 2020 150,000 people. The expansion of Modi’in Illit has and is being done at the expense of the seized lands of Bil’in and neighboring villages.
Call to action from Gush Shalom
01/09/2006
Why have Bil’in people not the right to nonviolent protest when their lands are taken?
