Activities & Support
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You are invited to participate in the Second Annual Conference in Bil'in, Palestine, 18 - 20 April 2007
26/02/2007
February 2007 marks the second anniversary of the weekly non-violent protests in opposition to the "work-site of shame" for the Apartheid Wall that has annexed almost 60% of the land of Bil’in village in the West Bank. Bil’in has become a symbol both of the theft of land across Palestine and of the power of non-violent grassroots movements in building local and international resistance to Occupation.
ISM 2007 USA Speaking Tour
28/01/2007
Mohammed Khatib and Feryal Abu Haikal both live in West Bank communities that are immediately threatened with destruction due to actions of the Israeli military and settlers. From February 1 – March 7, they will be speaking in 23 cities around the US about their personal experiences with Israeli efforts to seize Palestinian land and violently expel Palestinians from their homes and communities, as well as Palestinian efforts to mobilize to nonviolently resist those measures. Largely unreported by the media, thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israelis are waging a grassroots, nonviolent campaign of resistance to Israel’s apartheid system of military occupation and discrimination against Palestinians.
Call to action released from Gush Shalom
01/11/2006
Why have Bil’in people not the right to nonviolent protest when their lands are taken?
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.
