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Awarding of the 2008 Carl von Ossietzky Medal to Anarchists Against the Wall and Bil'in Popular Committee
October 14, 2008
[International League for Human Rights] By honoring Anarchists Against the Wall and the Bil’in Popular Committee, the Board of Trustees of the International League for Human Rights highlights the organizations’ common conviction that helps them surmount great obstacles and dangers in their mutual ideal of a worthy - and shared - future. Their exemplary activities are – in the age of globalization - of great significance for the realization of the ideals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - well beyond Israel/Palestine.
Palestinian farmers separated from their olive groves
October 7, 2008
NI’LIN, WEST BANK, 7 October 2008 (IRIN) - As the olive harvest gets under way in the West Bank, residents of the Palestinian town of Ni’lin say much of their land, where their trees are, is off limits because of Israel’s Barrier.
The Palestinians: Warehousing a “Surplus People”
September 14, 2008
[ICAHD] So rapid is the pace of systemic change in that indivisible entity known as Palestine/Israel that it almost defies our ability to keep up with it. The deliberate and systematic campaign of driving Palestinians out of the country in 1948 was quickly forgotten, the plight of more than 700,000 refugees becoming an invisible “non-issue.” Instead, a plucky, European, “socialist” Israel arose as the darling of even the radical left, completely eclipsing the campaign of ethnic cleansing which enabled its creation.
Israeli forces open fire on nonviolent Palestinian demonstration, six shot
September 12, 2008
[PNN] Foreign and Israeli supporters joined the Palestinians in holding banners denouncing Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land for settlements. The People’s Committee against the Wall and Settlements condemned the latest Israeli decision to confiscate hundreds more dunams from Jayyous for the benefit of settlements, all of which contravene international law.
The wrong message to Israel
September 9, 2008
[The Guardian] When Britain’s prime minister, Gordon Brown, visited Ramallah in mid-July, he told the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas: "We want to see a freeze on settlements. Settlement expansion has made peace harder to achieve. It erodes trust, it heightens Palestinian suffering, it makes the compromises Israel needs to make for peace more difficult."
In that case, the decision by the British government to rent space for our new embassy in Tel Aviv from the Africa-Israel Investments company chaired by businessman Lev Leviev sends precisely the wrong message.
