World Palestine Newswire Archive

We will be in Swansea to talk about the Summer of Resistance, Monday the 27th, 7.30 at Mozarts. Come along with ideas or just to learn more.

Ken's speech at the Israel Apartheid Meeting at Middlesex Uni on Thursday. The meeting was hosted by Middlesex University Free Palestine Society.

We have got quite a few things coming up, including some confirmed dates for the Summer of Resistance  http://smashedo.org.uk/1 so read on and get involved!

Target Barclays, Saturday 25th February, 1pm, 139-142 North Street, Brighton

For enquiries contact  brightontubas@gmail.com or  smashedo@riseup.net

The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) has learnt that Human Rights Defender Mr.Abdulhadi Alkhawaja (51 years) is determined to continue in his hungerstrike until he secures his release. Family members have informed the BYSHR that although Mr. Alkhawaja was in high spirits, he looked thin and weak and had obvious problems concentrating.

Mr.Alkhawaja also confirmed that he had collapsed last Wednesday and was transferred to the Bahrain Defense Force Hospital after a sharp drop in his sugar and blood pressure. He was first transferred to the Jaw Prison clinic but when medics saw his condition they quickly called for an ambulance. He was semi unconscious when he was transported via an ambulance to the hospital where he suffered from muscle spasms. He received treatment but refused to end his hungerstrike.

Target Barclays

Saturday 25th February, 1pm, 139-142 North Street, Brighton

For enquiries contact  brightontubas@gmail.com or  smashedo@riseup.net

I have heard of Israel’s “men of peace” and “democracy” from the news since I was a child. I, however, have never felt or seen anything that could relate to such false, and indeed, useless allegations. As I write this, Gaza drowns in darkness. I write as a frenzied power generator roars upstairs causing not only an irritating noise but further damage to the environment too.

One cannot but fear death. On his sixty fourth day of going on a hunger strike, Khader Adnan insists to look death in the eye and refuses to submit to an Apartheid regime that continues to find interest in upholding laws that blatantly contradict the internationally recognized humanitarian law.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday February 16th, 2012

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 4th to 10th 2012

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday February 8th, 2012.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday February 7th, 2012.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday February 6th, 2012.

In January the Israeli Government published the memorandum of a Bill - 'Regulation of the Bedouin settlement in the Negev' which provides steps to be implemented to relocate the overwhelming majority of residents of the unrecognized villages & confiscate about 2/3s of the land remaining in their possession. Due to anticipated resistance, the Bill also provides violent measures to ensure its implementation & this bill will soon will become law.

Here is a list of Smash EDO related stuff coming up.

Get in touch with your ideas for the Summer of Resistance.

This morning a group of BDS activists visited B&Q on the Lewes Road in Brighton to speak to them about their sale of Keter Plastic products.

Ilan Pappe, a Professor of history discussed ‘Memorcide: Crime, Closure & Reconciliation in Palestine’ at 'Genocide Memorial Day 2012' in London, hosted by the Islamic Commission for Human Rights at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Monday January 23rd, 2012.

As the AGM of Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) approaches, the drive to control, fragment, agitate and to steer away PSC from its fundamental core issues is at all times high.

The crusade against PSC was ignited by Zionists from outside the movement beginning in September, following an article published on the Zionist hate-website Harry's Place (HP), and a letter from the Board of Deputies of British Jews” (BODBJ), accusing PSC and its branches of publishing anti-Semitic articles and linking to Holocaust denial websites, which arguably is a crude lie. However, the crusade was sustained, promoted and amplified by insiders with questionable loyalty, who roam freely within the Palestine solidarity movement.

Time for action: Target Israeli Apartheid

Talk and discussion to launch the new Corporate Watch book Targeting Israeli Apartheid: A Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Handbook

7.30pm Thurs 19th January, Friends Meeting House, Brighton

Tom was 21 years old when he was shot. A photography student, he had left the UK to volunteer as a ‘human shield’ in Iraq. Here he heard about the ISM, one of whose volunteers, Rachel Corrie, had just been killed by a bulldozer whilst protesting house demolitions in Rafah. He headed there himself, arriving on the 6th April.

On the day of his shooting, Tom was with other ISM activists walking through Rafah when Israeli sniper fire started. Almost everyone ran for safety, but Tom noticed that three children, aged between four and seven, had remained motionless, paralysed with fear. Tom went back for them. He got the little boy to safety, and then went back for the two girls. He was wearing a fluorescent vest, and was clearly unarmed. An Israeli sniper shot him in the head.

There was a two hour delay at the border of the Gaza Strip before an ambulance was able to take him to a hospital in Be’er Sheva. In a coma, he was transferred to a hospital in the UK, where he died the following year.